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Welcoming new Bile Acid Addicts to the lab!

Posted on February 22, 2019 by jamestn2@illinois.edu

The Anakk research group would like to welcome Dr. Jian Liu, Ryan Shaw, and Angela Dean into our Bile Acid fiasco!

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Hot off the presses! New paper on IQGAP1 and long-term ketosis

Posted on November 5, 2018 by herick3@illinois.edu

We’re excited to announce that our latest paper “Identification of IQ motif–containing GTPase-activating protein 1 as a regulator of long-term ketosis” has been published by JCI Insight! Congrats to Hanna and Sayee!

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Hanna wins 1st place in MCB Rapid Fire Competition

Posted on March 26, 2018 by herick3@illinois.edu

The Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Student Association puts on an annual Rapid Fire competition, where graduate students are given 3 minutes and 1 slide to explain their research to a general audience. Hanna Erickson was our lab’s representative this…

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Anakk lab wins big at Research Day!

Posted on March 13, 2018 by herick3@illinois.edu

The Anakk lab finished up the University of Illinois College of Medicine – Urbana’s annual research day by a big win by our Research Technician, Megan Patton! Megan won 3rd Best Student Poster AND Best Basic Science Student Poster! CONGRATS!!! For…

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Students present at Fourth Annual 4th Floor Symposium

Posted on July 28, 2017 by herick3@illinois.edu

The Medical Sciences Building is highly interdisciplinary. On our floor, we have laboratories in the Departments on Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and we work on model systems from bacteria to mice. To know what’s…

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Summer Student Ryan Shaw presents at SROP Research Symposium

Posted on July 21, 2017 by herick3@illinois.edu

We are happy to have Ryan Shaw with us for a second summer! Ryan is an undergraduate student who participated in the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP). He presented his work this year on “Identifying the tissue-specific role for SHP…

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Hot off the presses! New paper on SHP/FXR and type 2 diabetes

Posted on June 7, 2017 by herick3@illinois.edu

We’re excited to announce that our latest paper “Shp deletion prevents hepatic steatosis and when combined with Fxr loss protects against type 2 diabetes” has been published by Hepatology! Congrats to our authors Oludemilade (Demi) Akinrotimi, Ryan Riessen, Philip VanDuyne!

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Sayee wins advisor of the year award!

Posted on August 26, 2016 by herick3@illinois.edu

Each year at the Medical Scholars Program (MSP)’s annual retreat, the MSP advisory committee awards at least one faculty member advising a MSP student with the Advisor of the Year Award. We are happy to announce that the winner this…

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Hanna wins poster award at ACP meeting!

Posted on May 8, 2016 by herick3@illinois.edu

Hanna attended the American College of Physician’s Leadership Day and Internal Medicine national meeting this past week in Washington, DC. The American College of Physicians is a national organization for internal medicine physicians and medical students and is largest medical…

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Anakk lab wins big at the MCB awards ceremony

Posted on May 6, 2016 by herick3@illinois.edu

Each year, the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology celebrates the achievements of its students in an award ceremony. This year, we had a number of award winners in the Anakk lab! Highest Distinction Demi Akinrotimi Megan Patton …

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