April 2024
Houda Cohen presented her work at Keystone this week. She was selected for an invited talk: "Chronic Cardiac Wasting-Associated Cardiomyopathy in Post-Tumor-Mediated Cancer Cachexia". The word that her talk generated a lot of excitement!
Congratulations to Houda Cohen for receiving a 2024-25 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF). A great honor!
September 2023
Thank you JP and Jenna for their leadership in planning the 2023 Zofia Zukowska Lectureship. What a great visit with Jen Davis!
February 2024
Congratulations to Tracy Her from the Alejandro lab. Tracy has a first author paper that has been published! The title is "Circadian disruption across lifespan impairs glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity in offspring" This study sheds light on how night shift work can impact gestational diabetes risk and metabolic health in children. read here
July 2023
Fanta Barrow was the Graduate Student winner at this year's Cardio Palooza poster session. Congrats Fanta!
June 2023
Way to go JP Pallais and Postdoc, Megan Beetch for winning the top abstracts at the UMN Diabetes Research Day
May 2023
The 2023 Medical School Award Recipients from IBP. Congratulations Naixin and Gavin! The full awards program
April 2023
Congratulations to Arthur de La Cruz-Lynch from the Osborn lab, who received the notice of award for his NIH/NHLBI F30 Award! Proposal title: “Evaluating the mechanisms of afferent renal nerve ablation as a treatment for hypertension”.
We are happy to announce the fall 2023 cohort for IBP!
May 2024
At a ceremony last week for the Medical School Awards recognition at the Bell Museum, Seokwon Jo was honored as the recipient of of the Bacaner and the Brandenburg award. Another Medical School award winner is Eunice Oribamise who received the Lifson Johnson Teaching award. Congratulations to both of you! Seokwon and Eunice are in the back row.
March 2024
Ingrid Rodriguez Aragon recently attended the New England Science Symposium, hosted by the Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Partnership, and she was awarded the Dana Farber / Harvard Cancer Center best poster award. Awesome!
September 2023
Exciting month for the IBP Graduate Program! Congratulations to Pedro Rodriguez and Jae-Hwi Sung who both successfully defended their thesis this month.
Pedro is the recipient of the Minnesota Obesity Prevenstion (MnOPT) Fellowship and will be working as a Post Doc in the Bartolomucci lab.
Jae-Hwi is a Study Director at MD Biosciences.
Congrats to Kate Fallon (MD/PhD) who received the Hemingway award for obtaining the highest GPA in her first year coursework in the 2022-23 academic year.
And the people choose....Eunice and JP! At the 2023 Cardio Palooza poster event, JP and Eunice tied for the Peoples' Choice award winners.
May 2023
Naixin Zhang and her mentor, Dr. Tim O'Connell at the UMN commencement on May 15. We wish her the best in her new position at Tectonic Therapeutic in Boston.
February 2023
Congratulations to Doa Yucel who completed his PhD and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, Boston Children's Hospital.
July 2022
Congratulations to Jenna and Gavin who were both poster session winners at the 2022 Cardio Palooza on July 31.
April 2022
Recent graduate, Brandon Wagner accepted a job at Bio-Techne as Scientist in antibody development, primarily focusing on the development of antibodies for flow cytometry and cell selection.
March 2022
Brandon Wagner successfully defended his thesis and earned his Ph.D.! Way to go, Brandon! Title: "Physiological Consequences of Increased Phosphorylation-Dependent Activation of Guanylyl Cyclase-A and -B"
February 2022
Ph.D. Candidate, Seokwon Jo, received notice that his submitted NIH NIDDK grant application was approved for funding. Great news, Seokwon!
November 2021
Fanta Barrow won a Early Career Investigator Award through the AASLD foundation. Congratulations! check out the details on Twitter.
May 2022
Recent graduate, Alexie Larson started working at Thermo Fisher Scientific within their imaging and detection team.
May 2022
Congratulations to our award recipients:
Fanta Barrow (Revelo lab) is the 2022 IBP Milne and Brandenburg Award recipient. This award recognizes exceptional thesis research in biomedical sciences. Fanta is also the awardee of the Jan Lunden Award. This award honors outstanding research by a graduate or medical student in the field of molecular hepatology.
Ingrid Rodriguez Aragon (Batchelor lab) is the 2021-2022 recipient of the Lifson-Johnson award for excellence in teaching.
Brandon Wagner received the Dr. Marvin and Hadassah Bacaner Research in IBP Award which recognizes exceptional research achievement by graduate students.
Seokwon Jo (Alejandro lab) is the recipient of the Veneziale-Steer Award. This award recognizes outstanding research by a graduate or medical student in the field of cellular growth regulation.
December 2021
Congratulations to Alexie Larson on a successful Ph.D. thesis defense! "Satellite cell maintenance and the strength recovery after injury: the impact of estradiol signaling"
October 2021
Congratulations Iffy on passing your final thesis defense! Iffy is completing his M.D. through the University of Minnesota’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PHD).
June 2021
Congratulations to Carolina! She successfully defended her thesis on June 10. Title: “Unraveling the Mechanisms Underlining Fukutin-Related Protein Pathogenesis using Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Myotubes”. Carolina is currently doing her post-doctoral fellowship with the Kiessling lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
April 2021
Congrats Seokwon! Seokwon Jo been selected by the Medical school to receive the Steer Family Award in Diabetes Research. The Steer Family Award in Diabetes Research is presented for outstanding research by a graduate or medical student in the field of diabetes mellitus.
March 2021
Seokwon is also the 2020-21 recipient of the Lifson/Johnson Memorial Award. The Lifson/Johnson Memorial Award recognizes excellence in teaching by undergraduate or graduate students. Selection is by the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology. Congratulations, Seokwon!
March 2021
Congratulations to Carolina Ortiz Cordero who is the recipient of the The Beatrice Z. Milne and Theodore Brandenburg Award which recognizes exceptional thesis research by graduate students in the basic biomedical sciences. The Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Graduate Programs Council in the Medical School coordinates the selection process.
Carolina is also the winner of the The Dr. Marvin and Hadassah Bacaner Research Award. The Dr. Marvin and Hadassah Bacaner Research Awards program encourages intellectual achievement by graduate students and is underwritten by a gift to the Foundation in memory of Jacob and Minnie Bacaner. Selection is done by departments.
April 2021
The MnDRIVE Brain Conditions Fellowship and Steering Committees, announced that MD/Ph.D. student, Arthur de la Cruz-Lynch has been awarded a MnDRIVE Graduate Fellowship in Neuromodulation. The purpose of the MnDRIVE Graduate Fellowship in Neuromodulation is to promote excellence in graduate training by providing funding to outstanding doctoral students specializing in neuromodulation. Congratulations Arthur!
February 2021
Way to go, Carolina! Another publication, this one in in eLife. Here is the link for her paper, "NAD+ enhances ribitol and ribose rescue of α-dystroglycan functional glycosylation in human FKRP-mutant myotubes"
2020
December, 2020
Congratulations to Forum Kamdar on her successful thesis defense entitled: "Modeling Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cardiomyopathy using Patient Specific Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived-Cardiomyocytes "
December, 2020
Great Job, Carolina! Carolina Ortiz Cordero recently published a review in Trends in Cell Biology. Here is the link.
November, 2020
Congratulations to Seokwon Jo! His manuscript entitled, Translational Factor eIF4G1 Regulates Glucose Homeostasis and Pancreatic β-Cell Function, is accepted in Diabetes. View the publication here.
September, 2020
The University of Minnesota MSTP has announced the 2020 – 2021 Leadership in Diversity Fellowship recipients. This new fellowship program recognizes MSTP students who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion through leadership in initiatives that foster the program’s commitment to creating a diverse, inclusive, equitable and just climate. Congratulations to Iffy Akinnola, who is one of the recipients of this Fellowship. For the listing of all recipients.
September, 2020
Jae Hwi Sung received the Lifson/Johnson memorial award which recognizes excellence in teaching by a graduate student. Jae Hwi was a Teaching Assistant for undergraduate physiology students Fall 2019. Kudos to Jae!
Congratulations to Seokwon Jo who received the Allan Hemingway Scholarship. This award is giving to the graduate student with the highest cumulative GPA upon completion of their first year of coursework.
June, 2020
Amber Lockridge successfully defended her thesis on June 5, 2020. Amazing work Amber! "When to secrete and when to rest? Protein O-GlcNAcylation in beta cell functional responses to hyperlipidemia."
September 2020, Amber will begin her post doctoral training in the lab of John Allan Hanover, Ph.D., NIH.
April 2020
Congratulations to Amber Lockridge who is the 2020 recipient of the Dr. Marvin and Hadassah Bacaner Research Award.
Amber's manuscript titled "Islet O-GlcNAcylation is Required for Lipid Potentiation of Insulin Secretion through SERCA2" has been accepted to be published in Cell Reports. Great news! Read paper here.
March 2020
Congratulations to Dan Baumann and other collaborators from Dr. Alejandro lab on their recent publication titled "Role of nutrient-driven O-GlcNAc-posttranslational modification in pancreatic exocrine and endocrine islet development" in Development.
Mayank Verma, M.D., Ph.D. is doing his residency at the University of Texas - Southwestern in Child Neurology and Neuroscience.
Matthew Wheelwright, M.D., Ph.D., is a resident at the University of Minnesota Department of Surgery.
Amritha Yellamilli, M.D., Ph.D., is continuing her training at Standford's Pediatric Residency Program in the Physician-Scientist Track.
2019
October 2019
Congratulations Kadambari on the successful passing of her final thesis defense! Thesis title: "Poloxamer 188 in pre-clinical models of acute myocardial infarction- old problem, new perspectives”
September 2019
Jae Hwi Sung is the recipient of the Alan Hemingway Scholarship. Jae had the highest GPA in his first year of coursework.
July 2019
Tanya Meyers successfully passed her final thesis defense! Thesis title: "Preclinical Models of Dystrophic Cardiomyopathy and Therapies for the Dystrophic Heart”. Tanya will begin her post doctoral training at Nationwide Children's hospital.