Division Announcements and Accomplishments
July 2021
Congratulations to Alisa Nelson for passing her oral PhD qualifying exam for her proposal entitled, 'Mapping metabolic pathways of insulin resistance in the liver microenvironment.' Strong work!
June 2021
Congratulations to Curtis Hughey for his co-authored paper, ‘Multitissue 2H/13C flux analysis reveals reciprocal upregulation of renal gluconeogenesis in hepatic PEPCK-C-knockout mice’
Congratulations to David (Blake) Stagg and members of the Crawford-Puchalska lab for their paper, Diminished ketone interconversion, hepatic TCA cycle flux, and glucose production in D-β-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase hepatocyte-deficient mice.
May 2021
The Crawford-Puchalska Lab welcomes Alisha Seay to the group!
April 2021
Congratulations to Greg Shobert (Hughey lab) for his presentation at the 2021 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Congratulations to David (Blake) Stagg for receiving the Jan Lunden Award!! The Jan Lunden Award honors outstanding research by a graduate or medical student in the field of molecular hepatology.
January 2021
We welcome Sneha Jena, new research associate to the Wernimont lab!
December 2020
- Congratulations to Gregory Shobert, Hughey lab, for receiving an award from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). He is testing the role of hepatic gluconeogenesis in the liver-specific and muscular adaptations to exercise.
- Congratulations to Patrycja Puchalska and members of the Crawford-Puchalska lab for their paper, Determination of ketone bodies in biological samples via rapid UPLC-MS/MS
October 2020
- The Crawford-Puchalska lab welcomes Jacob Gillingham to the team. He will be learning and applying targeted metabolomics and lipidomics analyses to mammalian tissue samples.
- Congratulations to Patrycja Puchalska and Peter Crawford for their co-authored paper, ‘Mitochondrial pyruvate carriers are required for myocardial stress adaptation.’
September 2020
- Congratulations to the Crawford and Puchalska lab for receiving R01 AG069781, ‘Ketogenic Oscillations and Neurometabolic Healthspan,' an inter-institutional project with the University of Kansas Medical Center, with the lab of John Thyfault.
- Congratulations to the Crawford and Puchalska lab for receiving a renewal to R01 DK091538, 'Ketone body metabolism and integrated metabolic homeostasis.'
- Congratulations to the Crawford and Puchalska lab for receiving Academic Investment Research Program (AIRP) funding, ‘Engineering the inhospitable cancer niche via intercellular metabolic shuttles,’ a collaborative endeavor with Kaylee Schwertfeger, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and David Wood, College of Science and Engineering.
August 2020
- Congratulations to Sarah Wernimont for her co-authored paper, ‘Redesigned Care Delivery for Insulin-Requiring Diabetes in Pregnancy Improves Perinatal Glycemic Control While Reducing Neonatal Intensive Care Admissions, Length of Stay, and Costs.’
- Congratulations to Curtis Hughey for his co-authored paper, ‘Reciprocity Between Skeletal Muscle AMPK Deletion and Insulin Action in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.’
July 2020
We welcome Sarah Wernimont, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health to the Division of Molecular Medicine!
June 2020
Alisa Nelson, PhD student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program (Crawford lab), is awarded a 2020-2021 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship. The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF) provides a unique opportunity for outstanding Ph.D. students who are engaged in interdisciplinary research to study with faculty at one of the University’s interdisciplinary research centers or institutes during the fellowship year. Ms. Nelson’s host center is the Institute for Engineering in Medicine. Congratulations, Alisa!
May 2020
- Congratulations to Peter Crawford for his co-authored paper, ‘Pimozide Alleviates Hyperglycemia in Diet-Induced Obesity by Inhibiting Skeletal Muscle Ketone Oxidation.’
- Dr. Curtis Hughey collaborates on the publication, Reciprocity Between Skeletal Muscle AMPK Deletion and Insulin Action in Diet-Induced Obese Mice, in the journal Diabetes.
- Drs. Peter Crawford and Tim Griffin, professor of Biochemistry, Molecular biology, and Biophysics, obtained a $10,000 award from the UMN Office of Academic Clinical Affairs for the project, ‘Angiotensin Peptide Turnover And Flux In Covid-19 Pathogenesis.’
- Dr. Patrycja Puchalska was promoted to Assistant Professor, Division of Molecular Medicine. Dr. Puchalska will continue to develop innovative methods to apply targeted and untargeted metabolomics methodologies to reveal the metabolic origins of fatty liver disease. Congratulations, Patrycja!
April 2020
Dr. Morwena Solivio joins the Hughey Lab. Welcome to the team, Morwena!
