Photo from Keystone Metabolic Control of Inflammation, Breckenridge, CO 2013 Ebru Erbay, currently at Bilkent University in Turkey (http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/index.html), and Liza trained together at Harvard School of Public Health in the lab of Gokhan Hotamisligil (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gsh-lab/). Pictured with Ebru’s family.
Congratulations to Amy R. Johnson, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Liza Makowski, for being chosen to receive a Keystone Symposia Scholarship to attend the Jan. 2013 meeting ‘Metabolic Control of Inflammation and Immunity’ in Colorado.
Congratulations to Amy R. Johnson, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Liza Makowski for winning the postdoc chalk talk competition focusing on her project “The Role of Substrate Metabolism and Macrophage Activation in Obesity” in September at the South East Lipid Research Conference. Dr. Johnson also presented a poster and an invited lecture… Read More
Jillian Hamilton received the North Carolina Dietetic Association’s Outstanding Dietetics Student Award for 2012. She was honored at the NCDA Awards & Recognition Lunch at the NCDA Annual Meeting on April 15th, 2012. Congratulations, Jillian!
Yuanyuan Qin, doctoral candidate, is one of 12 finalists selected for the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Graduate Student Research Awards competition at the 2012 Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego April 2012. She will participate in an oral competition for a chance to win a cash prize and will present a poster. She has… Read More
Gina Sacks, BSPH candidate, was selected by the Dept of Nutrition to receive the Joseph Edozien Outstanding Undergraduate Award. Congratulations Gina!
Makowski’s Cafeteria Diet paper was the #5 out of top 10 news stories read in the Gillings School of Global Public Health News. It was the #1 read scientific article. Go lab! http://www.sph.unc.edu/schoolwide_news/top_10_in_2011_the_years_most_read_news_stories_21345_8289.html
Yuanyuan Qin has been invited to present her work and received a travel award to present her abstract, “Adipose Inflammation Induced by Acute Alcohol Exposure and Burn Trauma” at the Alcohol and Inflammation Research Interest Group (AIRIG) annual meeting in Chicago in November 2011.
Congratulations to our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Brante Sampey on accepting a great position at Metabolon, Inc. Best of luck! You will be missed.
Obesity and Diabetes: Recent Advancements Reveal There’s More to the StoryTuesday, March 8, 2011 http://www.ncresearchcampus.net/media-center/obesity-and-diabetes.aspx
