Division Announcements and Accomplishments

January 2024

  • Congratulations to Patrycja Puchalska for publishing https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apha.14077
  • Congratulations to Patrycja Puchalska for winning the Scientific Poster Award at the Metabolic Health Summit 2024. Wonderful presentations also by Kyle Fulghum, Alisa Nelson, and Eric Queathem

December 2023

November 2023

October 2023

  • Patrycja Puchalska presented at the Polish Proteomics Society and Polish Society of Metabolomics (PTP) on Thursday October 22nd. The title of her talk was "Metabolomics and Lipidomics approaches to reveal disease pathobiology"

Publication updates

September 2023

Congratulations to the Wernimont Lab for being awarded Outstanding Obstetrics Paper from the Perinatal Research Society for their manuscript: 
Mahr RM, Jena S, Nashif SK, Nelson AB, Rauckhorst AJ, Rome FI, Sheldon RD, Hughey CC, Puchalska P, Gearhart MD, Taylor EB, Crawford PA, Wernimont SA. Mitochondrial citrate metabolism and efflux regulate BeWo differentiation. Sci Rep. 2023 May 6;13(1):7387. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-34435-x. PMID: 37149697 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37149697/

August 2023

July 2023

  • Congratulations to Curtis Hughey for receiving R01DK136772 "Hepatic Integration of Mitochondrial Oxidative Metabolism Pathways in Health and Disease"!
  • Peter Crawford is named Vice Dean for Research

May 2023

March 2023

Congratulations to Eric Queathem for being appointed to T32 Inclusive Excellence Training Program in the Systems Biology of Cardiovascular Inflammation!

February 2023

  • Congratulations to Dr. Sereen Nashif and Renee Mahr on their recent presentations at the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine Annual Meeting in San Francisco. They presented three posters: one evaluating the impact of metformin on trophoblast differentiation and two examining neonatal outcomes and clinician rationale for early birth in pregnancies complicated by diabetes.
  • Congratulations to Alisa Nelson for being appointed to T32 DK007203 Training Grant in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism!

November 2022

  • Congratulations to the Hughey lab for their paper, 'Loss of hepatic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase 1 dysregulates metabolic responses to acute exercise but enhances adaptations to exercise training in mice,' accepted by the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Congratulations to Eric Queathem for being awarded a scholarship to attend the 14th annual course Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis at Vanderbilt University!

October 2022

  • Congratulations to Eric Queathem for receiving a scholarship to attend the 14th annual NIDDK Course: Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis.
  • Welcome, Rumina Todorova to our group as a new Researcher!

August 2022

June 2022

Congratulations to Curtis Hughey for receiving an American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant titled "Defining the Role of Methyl Donor Availability in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Pathophysiology and the Underlying Metabolic Remodeling".

May 2022

Congratulations to Peter Crawford for co-authorship paper, “Krebs takes a turn at cell differentiation”.

April 2022

Congratulations to  David (Blake) Stagg for receiving the J. Jacob Kaplan Award, which recognizes outstanding research by undergraduate or graduate medical students in one of the following areas: cardiology, immunology in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, and gastroenterology.

March 2022

Congratulations to Alisa Nelson and members of the Crawford-Puchalska lab for their paper, “Artifactual fatty acid dimers mimic FAHFA signals in untargeted metabolomics pipelines”.

February 2022

November 2021

  • Congratulations to Alisa Nelson for receiving the Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award for her abstract and presentation entitled “Acute exercise unveils serum metabolomics markers distinguishing overweight and normal weight runners” at the 2021 Hebbel Research Day
  • Congratulations to Ferrol Rome for receiving the Outstanding Predoctoral Researcher Award for her abstract and presentation entitled “Disrupted Liver Metabolism in GNMT-Deficient Mice is Mitigated by Dietary Methionine Restriction” at the 2021 Hebbel Research Day

October 2021

September 2021

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

May 2021

The Crawford-Puchalska Lab welcomes Alisha Seay to the group! 

April 2021

January 2021

We welcome Sneha Jena, new research associate to the Wernimont lab!

December 2020

October 2020

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

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

April 2020

Dr. Morwena Solivio joins the Hughey Lab.  Welcome to the team, Morwena!