Jae won 3rd place for her poster titled “Macrophage polarization impacts intercellular levels of RBP4” at the 2022 FSHN GSA Graduate Symposium
Ivan won 1st place at the Nutritional Symposium.
Annual Nutritional Symposium
Ivan won the 1st place award for his oral presentation titled “Retinoic acid exposure promotes phenotypic characteristics of alternative activation in macrophages”
International Seed Grant
Dr. Amengual was awarded an International Seed Grant from the ACES Office of International Programs. Seed grants are funded through the Arlys Conrad Endowment Fund to promote strong relationships between ACES faculty and International faculty. His project is titled “towards the development of a mouse model to study the implications of Lipin-2 in atherosclerosis” He will be working with faculty in Spain.
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Grace participated in the Undergraduate Research Symposium by giving her oral presentation titled “Diet Supplementation with Finasteride is Associated with Reduction in Atherosclerotic Plaque Size in Mice” Great job Grace!
Preliminary Exams
Congratulations to Johana and Ivan for passing their preliminary exams this semester!
Masters Degree
Congratulations to Patrick McQueen!
Patrick graduated with a Masters Degree from the Division of Nutritional Sciences this December.
International Carotenoids Society
Congratulations to Dr. Amengual! He was voted Secretary of the International Carotenoid Society. His term will run through June of 2023.
Johana Coronel – VICC award
PhD student Johana Coronel won an award for her outstanding presentation at the Virtual International Conference on Carotenoids this week. Her talk was entitled “Regulation of Plasma Cholesterol by β-Carotene and β-Carotene Oxygenase 1 in mice”
Award Winners
Emmanuel Kofi Addo Moran Eye Center, University of Utah ASSOCIATION OF PLACENTAL CAROTENOID STATUS WITH MATERNAL AND INFANTS’ CAROTENOID STATUS IN THE LUTEIN AND ZEAXANTHIN IN PREGNANCY (L-ZIP) STUDY
Johana Coronel University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign REGULATION OF PLASMA CHOLESTEROL BY β-CAROTENE AND β-CAROTENE OXYGENASE 1 IN MICE
Aya Darawshy Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel THE PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF CAROTENOIDS, POLYPHENOLS AND SEX HORMONES ON SKIN CELLS UNDER OXIDATIVE STRESS CONDITIONS
Jaime Zacarías García IATA-CSIC RED-FLESHED SWEET ORANGE MUTANTS: A NEW SOURCE OF LYCOPENE AND COLORLESS CAROTENES
Micaela Giani University of Alicante ENHANCING BACTERIORUBERIN BIOSYNTHESIS IN WILD-TYPE HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI R-4.
Nina Maryn UC Berkeley HARNESSING NATURAL VARIATION IN PHOTOPROTECTION: RAPID NON-PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING (NPQ) RELAXATION IN FERNS
Yusuke Otani Chiba University A NOVEL CAROTENOID BIOSYNTHETIC ROUTE VIA OXIDOSQUALENE
Soichiro Seki Osaka City University DISCOVERY OF A NEW SIPHONAXANTHIN BIOSYNTHETIC PRECURSOR: STRUCTURE AND ITS COUPLING TO PHOTOSYNTHETIC ANTENNA
Tatsuyoshi Takagi The University of Queensland AVOCADOES AS A SOURCE OF DIETARY LUTEIN: IMPORTANCE OF TOTAL CAROTENOID SYNTHESIS TO ELEVATED LUTEIN CONCENTRATIONS.
Linda Thomas Case Western Reserve University HUMAN b-CAROTENE OXYGENASE 2 DEMONSTRATES ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY TOWARDS CAROTENOIDS AND APOCAROTENOIDS
Dora Zurak University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture KERNEL HARDNESS AFFECTS CAROTENOID DIGESTIBILITY IN COMMERCIAL MAIZE HYBRIDS
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