A new study identifies and maps how a natural chemical found in Indian winter cherry suppresses breast cancer cell growth.
Research across the Bay: New partnership between NST and UCSF Diabetes Center
NST's metabolic biology graduate students now have the opportunity to work with faculty at UCSF.
NST Lecturer Position Announcement
The Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a pool of full-time and part-time, non-tenure track lecturer positions (including summer sessions) to teach courses in Nutriti
NST Students Work with Cal Dining Chefs to Revamp Recipes
NST Instructor Kristen Rasmussen de Vasquez led students in the creation of healthy new recipes for Cal Dining.
NST 121 Students Present at National Scientific Meetings
NST 121, Computational Toxicology, has been a requirement for Toxicology majors, minors, and Specialization “majors” since the course inception by Dr. Dale Johnson in 2006.
Featured Social Marketing Campaign Projects from NST 166
On the first day of class, students in NST 166 Nutrition in the Community were asked to identify areas in which they would like to see a positive change in health behaviors/outcomes.
NST Instructor Mary Lesser Featured Speaker at University of Missouri
NST Instructor Mary Lesser presented a seminar on "Nutrition Metabolism in Late Pregnancy" at the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at the University of Missouri.
Thanking Li-Chiang Chu
Li-Chiang Chu, BA '64, MS '67, was an ardent and generous supporter of the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology. She passed away on January 25, 2017 after a courageous battle with cancer.
NST Position Announcement
The Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology seeks an associate or full professor (nine-month tenure-track) with an expected start of July 1, 2017.
Protein sialylation regulates a gene expression signature that promotes breast cancer cell pathogenicity
NST researchers (associate professor Dan Nomura, post-doc Rebecca Kohnz, grad student Lindsay Roberts, MCB undergrad researchers Peter Yan and Lara Bideyan) published a research letter in ACS Chemical Biology on the role of protein sialylation in
NST Dietetics Instructors Recognized for Excellence
The American Society for Nutrition awarded Lecturer Dr.
The Secreted Enzyme PM20D1 Regulates Lipidated Amino Acid Uncouplers of Mitochondria
NST professor Daniel Nomura, in collaboration with scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, published a research article in Cell on a calorie burning molecular pathway.
Bypassing the pentose phosphate pathway: Towards modular utilization of xylose
NST professor Dan Nomura and PMB graduate student Kulika Chomvong published a research article in PLOS One on a novel pathway that optimizes chemical conversion of pentose sugars.
Lauren Au: Child Nutrition Researcher
NST alum Lauren Au (B.S. '07) is profiled in Food & Nutrition Magazine's Nutrition Heroes series for her work in preventing childhood obesity through improving federal nutrition initiatives.
G6PC2 Modulates Fasting Blood Glucose In Male Mice in Response to Stress
NST associate professor Wally Wang published a research article in Endocrinology on a gene expression that influences fasting blood glucose (FBG), and may have evolved to modulate FBG in response to stress.
Imputing phenotypes for genome-wide association studies
NST adjunct professor Chris Vulpe published a research article in the American Journal of Human Genetics on how genome-wide association studies can leverage related phenotypes to detect variants correlated with phenotypes of clinical interest.
LSD1 Interacts with Zfp516 to Promote UCP1 Transcription and Brown Fat Program
NST researchers (Professors Hei Sook Sul and Andreas Stahl, former researcher Sarah Paul, grad students Kevin Tharp and Olga Gulyaeva, researchers Jon Dempersmier and Audrey Sambeat) published a research article in Cell Reports on brown fat tissue
AMPK phosphorylates desnutrin/ATGL and HSL to regulate lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation within adipose tissue
NST researchers (Professor Hei Sook Sul, post-docs Jose Viscarra, Yuhui Wang, Sun-Joong Kim and Marcia Abbott, alum Tianji Tang (Ph.D.
Food for Thought: Making a dent in the crisis of student hunger at UC Berkeley
NST 198 course "Cooking Healthy on a Budget," to be renamed "Personal Food Security and Wellness," is highlighted in this California magazine article on the student hunger crisis at UC Berkeley.
Triple-negative breast cancer target is found
“We were looking for targets that drive cancer metabolism in triple-negative breast cancer, and we found one that was very specific to this type of cancer,” said Daniel K.