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Federico Rey and Maggie Alexander headline UW’s Crossroads of Ideas 2025 series
N&M trainers Drs. Federico Rey and Maggie Alexander will be featured in the 2025 Crossroads of Ideas series, hosted by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Rey’s talk focuses on “Alzheimer’s and the Gut-Brain Superhighway”, while Alexander’s talk is about “Microbes, Addiction, and Immunity”. You can find all video archives and learn more about Crossroads of…
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2024 Joint T32 Retreat
On November 1–2, 2024, the University of Wisconsin–Madison hosted a dynamic and collaborative Joint T32 Retreat between its “Metabolism and Nutrition” T32 program and the University of Chicago’s “Digestive Health and Diseases” T32 program. The retreat brought together trainees, faculty, and distinguished guests for two days of scientific exchange, professional development, and community building. Day…
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N&M students present at 2024 Diabetes Research Day
Congratulations to our Nutrition and Metabolism (N&M) PhD students who participated in Diabetes Day 2024! Beth Poad (3rd year) presented a flash talk entitled, “Cobalamin Metabolism in Adipocyte Differentiation”. Crystal Qing (3rd year) presented a poster entitled, “Metabolic Reprogramming and Neutrophil Function in Hyperglycemia”. Faye Xiao (2nd year) presented a poster entitled, “Sex- and Strain-Specific…
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Eric McGregor awarded Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
N&M Ph.D. candidate Eric McGregor of the Anderson Lab has been awarded the Louis and Elsa Thomsen Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship for research excellence. Eric research studies the reversal of neuronal tau pathology via adiponectin receptor activation. Congratulations, Eric!
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Lauren Clark awarded F31 Fellowship
N&M graduate student Lauren Clark or the Attie Lab has been awarded the prestigious F31 Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. Lauren’s project will explore the genetic drivers that control insulin secretion. Her research hopes to build on our understanding of how insulin is controlled and how pathways can be manipulated to alter insulin…
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2023 Joint T32 Retreat
This weekend, The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s “Metabolism and Nutrition” T32 program and the University of Chicago’s “Digestive Health and Diseases” T32 training program joined forces to hold the first ever Joint T32 Retreat. The two leading institutions, renowned for their contributions to the fields of health, nutrition, and sciences, convened at the University of Chicago’s…
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N&M trainer discusses the value of diversity
N&M faculty trainer Judith Simcox discusses the importance of diversity in the latest issue of GROW magazine. In May, Simcox was was named a Freeman Hrabowski Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for her commitment to inclusion in STEM. Read the full article here.