Departmental News:
Congratulation to Dr. Arlan Richardson from Dept of Biochemistry and Physiology for receiving an award from the American Federation for Aging Research.
The award information is here: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103524
Upcoming Seminars:
Link to article: Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion induces venous dysfunction via EPAS1 regulation in mice | Nature Communications
Other Departmental News:
Congratulations to Dr. Sreemathi Logan for being awarded Fellowship in the American Aging Association (AGE). In addition, she was recently elected as President-Elect-Elect of AGE and will preside as president over the AGE 2027 Annual Meeting.
Congratulations to the labs of Drs. Karen Jonscher and Jed Friedman on their recent publication in eBioMedicine. The Impact factor for EBioMedicine is 10.2 ranking it in the top tier of journals. This publication can now be downloaded from the publisher’s website at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396425005481?via%3Dihub.
Benjamin Nelson, PhD, a post-doc in Dr. Jed Friedman’s lab, won the first-place award in his breakout session at the HHDC Research Symposium November 14, 2025. Presented by Dr. Ann Louise Olson. His talk was titled "Single-Cell Liver Transcriptomic Reveals Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cell Expansion and Immune Tolerance in Western-style Diet Exposed Juvenile Nonhuman Primates".
Huge congratulations to (now officially!) Dr. Phoebe Ohene-Marfo on her successful dissertation defense!
Huge congratulations to (now officially!) Dr. Gertrude Kyere-Davies on her successful dissertation defense!
Huge congratulations to (now) Dr. Sandra Gostyńska on a successful dissertation defense!
Our faculty meeting! Always fun :-)
Congratulations to the Dr. Carlos Diaz-Garcia Lab and their collaborators for their recent publication in the PNAS. This publication can now be found on the publisher’s website: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2519902122
Congratulations to Dr. Matt Baier and the Dr. Sreemathi Logan Lab for their recent publication in Aging and Disease. Dr. Baier, the first author in this publication, was an MD/PhD student in Dr. Logan's laboratory who recently graduated. The published study was part of his dissertation work.
This publication is now available on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41082300/
Congratulations to the Dr. Carlos Diaz-Garcia Lab and their collaborators for their recent publication in the Journal of Physiology.
This publication can now be found on the publisher’s website: http://doi.org/10.1113/JP287618.
Congratulations to Dr. Xin Zhang and his collaborators with publication of their research paper in Nature Cardiovascular Research!
Press release for this publication can be found here
Congratulations to a PhD student, Sandra Gostynska, and her research supervisor, Dr. Augen Pioszak, with publishing a research paper in Science Signaling.
Press release for this publication can be found here
and here
Congratulations to Dr. Tiangang Li with receiving an R01 grant! 💐🥂
1R01 DK117965 (2/5/2019 – 4/30/2030)
Title: Regulation of bile acid metabolism and signaling in metabolic diseases
Role: PI
Goal: To investigate Gly-MCA as a novel agent to treat hepatobiliary injury in cholestasis.
Holiday Party!
