2019

Jan

1. Published online! Effects of Obesity and Exercise on Bone Marrow Progenitor Cells following Radiation on Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise!    PMID: 30640286 

2. Welcome Dr. Mu from Gansu Agricultural University to join us as a visiting scholar :)

3. Welcome back, our wonderful undergraduate researchers, Deepa Sharma, Avery Zhang and Rachel Yang, we look forward to work with you for another splendid semester!

4. Congrats to our undergraduate researchers, Deepa Sharma and Avery Zhang, as well as our PhD student, Laura Moody, with our summer program high school student, Justin Shao, for their abstracts have been formally accepted by 2019 Experimental Biology Conference at Orlando, Florida! They will present their research project in poster format during the conference.

FEB

1. Happy Birthday to our PhD student, Laura Moody :)

2. Say goodbye to our visiting scholar, Cheng Zhang, for he has completed his 6-month visiting/studying experience. We thank him for being a wonderful member of the lab and wish him good luck on his following graduate school application!

3. Congrats to Laura Moody, our PhD student, for passing her preliminary examination/presentation for her doctoral program!

4. Happy Birthday to our undergraduate researcher, Deepa Sharma!

5. Our undergraduate researchers, Deepa Sharma and Avery Zhang are applying for presentation during this year's University of Illinois - Undergraduate Research Symposium! Wish them good luck!

mar

1. We have a review manuscript published online! Epigenetic Regulation of Metabolism and Inflammation by Calorie Restriction on Advances in Nutrition!   https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmy129 

2. Congratulation to our undergraduate researcher, Avery Zhang, for being selected as a recipient of the amount of $800 travel assistance sponsored by The ACES Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program! She will use this grant to cover her travel to the 2019 Experimental Biology Annual Conference! 

3. Congratulation to our undergraduate researcher, Deepa Sharma, for being selected as a recipient of the amount of $200 Spring 2019 Conference Travel Grant sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research! She will use this grant to cover her travel to the 2019 Experimental Biology Annual Conference! 

4. Happy Birthday to our undergraduate researcher, Avery Zhang!

5. Happy Birthday to our PI, Dr. Hong Chen! :)

apr

1. Two of our undergraduate researchers, Avery and Deepa, plus one of our high school researcher (summer project), Justin, are heading to the 2019 Experimental Biology Conference in Orlando, Florida! They will present their projects in poster format respectively and share their thoughts with thousands of other participants from all over the world!

2. The 2019 ACES Undergraduate Research Symposium was held on April 16 at ACES Funk Library, Heritage Room! Our undergraduate researcher, as well as member of the honored James Scholar Program , Avery, attended this symposium with her individual project poster! Congratulation to Avery!

3. The 2019 University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Undergraduate Research Symposium was held on April 18 at Illini Union! Our undergraduate researchers, Avery and Deepa, attended this symposium with their individual project poster! Congratulation to them! :)

may

1. One of our PhD students, Fatma Zehra Kadayifci, attended the 2019 Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition Graduate Student Association (FSHN GSA) Symposium held at Funk Library on May 28, Thursday! She presented her recent findings from her genetic-knockout mice project in poster format during the symposium!

2. HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our undergraduate researchers Deepa Sharma for graduating with a B.S degree from FSHN!!!! She will be working as a scientist with Pharmaceutical Product Development in Madison, Wisconsin soon!! Way to go Deepa!! :)

3. Dr. Pan has a new manuscript published! Choline supply during negative nutrient balance in Holstein cows alters hepatic cystathionine β-synthase, intermediates of the methionine cycle and transsulfuration pathway, and liver function in Holstein cows on Journal of Dairy Science!    PMID: 31056334 

june

1. Our PhD students, Laura and Diego, together with Dr. Pan and Dr. Chen have a new manuscript published! Tissue-specific changes in Srebf1 and Srebf2expression and DNA methylation with perinatal phthalate exposure on Environmental Epigenetics!    PMID: 31240115 

2. HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our summer high-school researcher Justin Shao for graduating from Exeter High School! Way to go Justin!! :)

3. Dr. Chen has a new manuscript published! The Late Effects of Radiation Therapy on Skeletal Muscle Morphology and Progenitor Cell Content are Influenced by Diet-Induced Obesity and Exercise Training in Male Mice on Scientific Reports!    PMID: 31040340 

july

1. Welcome our new International Summer Immersion Program (ISIP) student, from China’s Zhejiang University, Food Science and Engineering major, Juncen Dong! She will be working at our lab supervised by Dr. Pan as research assistant for the next 4 weeks!

2. Our PhD student, Laura Moody has a new manuscript published, together with our lab alumni, M.S student Paul M. Jung! Perinatal phthalate and high-fat diet exposure induce sex-specific changes in adipocyte size and DNA methylation on The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnutbio.2018.11.005 

aug

1. Our PhD student, Laura Moody has a new manuscript published! The Efficacy of miR-20a as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker for Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Cancers!  https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers11081111 

2. Dr. Pan has a new manuscript published! Hepatic betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase and methionine synthase activity and intermediates of the methionine cycle are altered by choline supply during negative energy balance in Holstein cows on Journal of Dairy Science!    https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2018-16204

3. HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our International Summer Immersion Program (ISIP) undergraduate researcher Juncen Dong, for finishing her 5-week project with us, and presenting her final results in poster during the 2019 ISIP Luncheon at ACES Library, Heritage Room! Good luck with her graduate program application and hopefully we will see her in future :)

4. 8/22/19 WELCOME our newly admitted PhD Program students - Yingwei Zhao and Wei Lu and 3+2 M.S Program student - Jiaxuan Li! Also, welcome back, our undergraduate researcher, Avery, as well as our current PhD student, Fatma :) Are we ready for the new semester!? YES WE ARE!

sep

1. Our PhD student, Laura Moody  and our summer high school researcher alumni, Justin Shao, have a new manuscript published! Maternal Low-Fat Diet Programs the Hepatic Epigenome despite Exposure to an Obesogenic Postnatal Diet on Nutrients!  https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11092075 

2. Welcome our new visiting scholar from Beijing Forestry University , Yue Zhu, for joining our lab! She will be co-advised by Dr. Pan during the following year and complete a project as part of her PhD program!

oct

1. Our ISIP summer program undergraduate student, Juncen Dong, was awarded "Chun Zhen International Exchange Students Scholarship" by Zhejiang University, Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environment Sciences. Congratulation to Juncen for a job well-done!

2. Happy birthday (10/17) for our graduate student, Yingwei Zhao! We wish all the best for her!!

3. Happy birthday (10/21) for our PI, Dr. Yuan-Xiang Pan! Many thanks and good wishes for him!

nov

1. Dr. Pan has a new manuscript published! Hepatic 1-carbon metabolism enzyme activity, intermediate metabolites, and growth in neonatal Holstein dairy calves are altered by maternal supply of methionine during late pregnancy on Journal of Dairy Science!   https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2019-16562 

2. Our visiting scholar, Dr. Ping Mu, has completed his one-year visiting program and went back to Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China to continue his research career there! We wish him all be best and hope to hear from him in future!

dec

1. Our current PhD student, Fatma Zehra Kadayifci, has a new review article published! Early-life Programming of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Understanding the Association between Epigenetics/Genetics and Environmental Factors on Current Genomics! Doi: 10.2174/1389202920666191009110724  Congrats to her and our PI, Dr. Yuan-Xiang Pan!

2. Dr. Yuan-Xiang Pan has a new manuscript article accepted by American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism! It will be published in two weeks and we will keep you updated! Congrats to the author, our lab alumni, Huan Wang and to the co-author, our lab technician, Bianca Xu!

3. Our previous visiting scholar, Dr. Lei Ma, has a new manuscript published together with our lab team! Anti-cancer potential of polysaccharide extracted from hawthorn (Crataegus.) on human colon cancer cell line HCT116 via cell cycle arrest and apoptosis on Journal of Functional Foods!   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2019.103677 Congrats her and our graduate students, Xinyu Tang and Bianca Xu, our visiting scholar, Cheng Zhang and our PI, Dr. Hong Chen!