Lab News

 Male LEW.1WR1 Rats develop metabolic dysfunction, steatohepatitis, and liver damage has been accepted as a Feature Papers in Endocrines: 2024 

Dr. Love-Rutledge Selected as a 2024 Fred Sanfilippo-ASIP Visiting Lectureship Program Award Recipient 

Quiana Wilkerson-Vidal & Moses Adaji David win 1st and 2nd place poster awards at the North Alabama Wilson Dam Chemistry Research Symposium

Dr. Love-Rutledge was a Symposium Keynote Speaker at Mississippi Academy of Sciences Meeting

Dr. Love Rutledge presents a Spotlight Talk at Discover BMB 2024

Madushika Wimalaranthne Successfully Defends her Dissertation

Nina Fortier and Lauren Richardson have abstracts accepted to the 2023 ACS National meeting

Young Adult Male LEW.1WR1 Rats have reduced beta cell area and develop glucose intolerance was accepted for publication

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mce.2022.111837

Metabolite Quantification: A fluorescence-based method for urine sample normalization prior to 1-H-NMR Analysis was accpeted for publication

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-022-01939-y

The Case for FAT10 as a novel target in fatty Liver Diseases was accepted for publication

https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2022.972320

Hannah Underhill Succesfully Defends Her MS in Chemistry Thesis

Lauren Richardson takes 1st Place for the Honor's College at the Summer Community of Scholars Poster Session

Nina Fortier Presents her Summer Research at the 2022 Summer Community of Scholars Poster Session

Madushika W. was selected for a blitz talk at the 2022 Mid Atlantic Diabetes and Obesity Research Symposium

Dr. Love-Rutledge received PRIDE Small Research Project Grant

Dr. Love-Rutledge receives AAUW Research Publication Grant

Dr. Love-Rutledge receives the Undergraduate Mentor Award 

https://www.uah.edu/science/science-news/16252-uah-presents-2021-university-awards-for-excellence-to-faculty-staff

Congratulations to Luis Mercado and Evann Fowler on winning ASIP Training awards

https://www.uah.edu/science/science-news/16265-two-cos-students-receive-2021-asip-awards

Congratulations Fall 2020 Graduates

Quiana Wilkerson Vidal, M.S. 

and 

Jennifer Nix, B.S.  

Dr. Love-Rutledge was 2021 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Award Recipient

https://www.uah.edu/events/icalrepeat.detail/2021/01/14/14005/-/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-2021-commemoration-program

Quiana Vidal and Madushika Wimalarathne will be presenting at ENDO 2021


Dr. Love-Rutledge was featured in 1000 inspiring Black Scientist in America article


http://crosstalk.cell.com/blog/1000-inspiring-black-scientists-in-america

https://www.uah.edu/news/news/dr-sharifa-love-rutledge-named-to-list-of-1-000-inspiring-black-scientists

Jennifer Nix, Evann Fowler, Ian T Ross, Olivia Casimir, and Luis Mercado Present for the SCS 2020 Program


Madushika Wimalarathne Presents at Metabesity 2020

Jennifer Nix, Evann Fowler, Ian T Ross, Olivia Casimir, and Luis Mercado Present for the SCS Outreach Program

Dr. Love Rutledge was featured in the ASBMB Research Spotlight on 9/17/2020 

https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/091720/understanding-the-impact-of-type-1-diabetes-suscep

Graduate Student Victoria McConnell has been accepted to present at the Alabama Academy of Sciences Meeting and wins research grant!

Dr. Love-Rutledge was recognized as a rising star in the 100 inspiring Black Scientist in America

Quiana Vidal was highlighted in a post by the ReTOOL Program at the University of Florida 

Anna Hart participated in the 2020 Emerging Researchers National conference in Washington, D.C.

Madushika Wimalaranthne and Quiana Vidal have been accepted to present at EB 2020

Luis Mercado, Anna Hart, Sidney Martin, and Helen Gibson present posters at the 2020 SURC conference

Congratulations on graduating with a M.S. in Chemistry, Genoah Collins! 

Congratulations Hannah Underhill on graduating with your B.S. in Biology

Congratulations to Zane Griffin on graduating with your B.S. in Chemistry!

Genoah Collins Presents oral Presentation and the NOBCChE meeting

Several of the lab undergraduates present at the 2019 Summer Community of Scholars Poster Session

Helen Gibson, Jamya Patterson, Sidney Martin and Laura Catherine Wright present at this years summer Community of Scholars Poster session

Laura Catherine Wright wins Best of College(Science) honorable mention at 2019 Summer Community of Scholars Poster Session 

Helen Gibson(RCEU) presents at the 2018 Summer Community of Scholars Poster Session

Genoah Collins Presents at the 2018 NOBCChE National Meeting

Luis Mercado presenting at the 2019 Experimental Biology Meeting in Orlando, FL.

Amber Wade presenting at the 2019 Experimental Biology Meeting in Orlando, FL. 

Undergraduate Honor's Capstone Research Student, Sidney Martin Participates in the MSU Biochemistry Bootcamp.

Dr. Love-Rutledge selected as a 2019 FLARE fellow.

Dr. Love-Rutledge selected as a delegate to ASBMB's Advocacy Training Program.

https://twitter.com/dpham20/status/1141425433038209026 

Luis Mercado wins outstanding Presentation Award at ABRCMS.

Madushika Wimalarathne selected to represent the College of Science at Research Horizon's Day. 

Victoria McConnell selected to present at the UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center Retreat Poster Session. 

Madushika Wimalarathne selected to present at the Southeastern Regional Lipid Conference

Luis Mercado (RCEU) presents at the 2018 Summer Community of Scholars Poster Session