News
2022
DECEMBER
Congratulation to our undergraduate research assistant, Vivian Zheng, for completing her academic program and successfully graduating this semester! Vivian has tremendously helped with our research projects, and we are extremely grateful for having her as our lab member. All the best wishes :)
Congratulation to our undergraduate research assistants, Guillermo (Memo) Iván Vargas García and Erick Omar García Vázquez, for completing their visiting research program! Memo and Erick have been working hard, and they both performed wonderfully during their final presentations! We are extremely grateful for having both of them as our lab members. All the best wishes :)
We hope everyone have a cozy warm winter break :) Spending some quality time with family and friends....We will see you in 2023!
NOVEMBER
Congratulation to our graduate student, Bianca Xu for being awarded the Spring 2023 Career Exploration Fellowship from the Graduate College, the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign. This fellowship will support her with a tuition waiver for the semester, a monthly stipend, and an hourly position at Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (OVCRI).
October
Happy birthday to our PI - Dr. Yuan-Xiang Pan! May all your wishes come true :)
Congratulations to Dr. Chen and her team for winning the NSGSA annual Quiz Bowl!! - Thank you for being on our team: graduate students Shu Kwan, Abrory Pramana, Siyuan Liang, Fatma Kadayifci! And special thanks to the undergraduate student who joined us at the last minute :)
September
We hope everyone's summer break went well and welcome you back for the 2022 fall semester!
Also, welcome Shu Kwan, who's currently a DNS graduate student and Ph.D. candidate, to join our research team starting this semester :)
Congratulations to Dr. Chen (and her lab, which is our lab) for receiving the 2022 International Freezer Challenge - The University of Illinois Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, ISEE, and Facilities & Service award!! We ranked in 5th place for outstanding cold-storage sample management practices this year! 👏
Happy birthday to our graduate student, Elizabeth Brandley! All the best wishes 🎂
August
Our PI, Dr. Yuan-Xiang Pan, is promoted with the title of "professor" starting the new school year this coming Aug 21st!! Congratulations, Dr. Pan! You are a great mentor and we are grateful for having the opportunity to work with you!
Welcome our new undergraduate student researchers - Guillermo Iván Vargas García, Erick Omar García Vázquez and Jesús Cora Sosa Flores from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)! To celebrate, we had a great lunch at our recently renovated, the biggest dining hall in Illinois state - Illinois Street Residence (ISR) dining hall. Hail to the orange, hail to the blue! Wish we all have a great fall semester :)
JULY
Our graduate student, Bianca Xu, has attended the 4th North America Chinese Association for Nutrition (NACAN) Summit - Nutrition and food for a Healthy Life (virtually held), during July 22-24, 2022. Bianca was one of the student speakers. She presented her most recent research findings during the summit session 2, and was awarded as Best Abstract/Presentation by NACAN. Congratulations for a job well-done!
JUNE
A "reminder to come back" lunch with our graduate student, Abrory Pramana, who will be gone until late July for hometown visiting, academic networking and research material collecting at Indonesia. Goodbye Abrory (for now), and we hope you enjoy your trip :)
Welcome undergraduate student research assistant - Vivian Zheng, for joining our team!
MAY
End of semester celebration at Neil St Blues, downtown Champaign! Thanks everyone for your hard working and contribution to the lab :) We hope you all have a great summer break!
Our graduate student, Abrory Pramana, has attended the 2nd Annual Purdue Microbiome Symposium at the Beck Agricultural Center in West Lafayette, IN. Abrory presented a poster highlighting his recent research findings during the symposium, congratulations for a job well-done!
April
Our graduate students, Bianca Xu and Siyuan Liang, have attended the 2022 Experimental Biology Conference held at Pennsylvania Convention center at Philadelphia during 04/02-04/05! Both of them presented a poster highlighting their research projects during the conference, congratulations for a job well-done!
Our graduate student, Abrory Pramana, has attended the 2022 Microbial Early Career Research Association (MicroERA) Research Symposium held at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology on Monday, 04/11. Abrory presented a poster highlighting his recent research findings during the symposium, congratulations for a job well-done!
Our PI, Dr. Yuan-Xiang Pan, was awarded with 2022 Outstanding Faculty during the 2022 DNS Nutrition Symposium held at ACES Funk Library on Wednesday, 04/20.
Our lab alumni Laura Moody's manuscript titled Genome-wide cross-cancer analysis illustrates the critical role of bimodal miRNA in patient survival and drug responses to PI3K inhibitors, has been accepted by PLOS Computational Biology. This manuscript is co-authored with current graduate student, Bianca Xu, and our PIs, Dr. Yuan-Xiang Pan and Dr. Hong Chen. Congratulations!
A little celebration from DNSGSA to Dr. Yuan-Xiang Pan, for he has been awarded with 2022 DNS Outstanding Faculty! Congratulations :) Thanks for the gift/bouquet! ❤
MARCH
Happy birthday to our dearest PI, Dr. Hong Chen! All the best wishes!
Spring break starts this Saturday (3/12) and we hope all our undergraduate assistants enjoy it! Spending some time outside (or indoor) on self-care activities and safe driving (hiking, flying, playing...you name it!) We will see you on 3/21!
Congratulation to our graduate student, Bianca Xu and lab alumna Alexia Chen, for featuring this week (3/14)'s ACES blog discussing the Nutrition Fair directed by Justine Karduck, instructor of FSHN 329, during National Nutrition Month!
February
Congratulation to our graduate student, Siyuan Liang for receiving the 2022 William Rose Endowed Award from Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS)! She will use the funding provided by the award to attend this year's Experimental Biology (EB) conference at Philadelphia, PA in April!
Congratulation to our graduate student, Bianca Xu for receiving the 2022 Graduate Student Travel Award from American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)! She will use the funding provided by the award to attend this year's Experimental Biology (EB) conference at Philadelphia, PA in April!
Welcome undergraduate student research assistant - Delores Zeng, for joining our team!
january
Happy new year everyone!
We hope everyone's winter break went great and we welcome you back for the 2022 spring semester!
Also, welcome Elizabeth Brandley, who's a DNS student with a research focus on building the bridge between nutritional sciences and behavioral sciences!