Lab News
May 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Weicang Wang (PhD student, 2014-19), who will start as tenure-track assisant professor at Purdue University this fall!
May 2023: Congratulations to Jianan for her paper in FASEB J.
April 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Quancai Sun (postdoc, 2022-present), who will start as tenure-track assisant professor at Florida State University this fall!
July 2022: We got funding from Singapore Therapeutics Development Review (STDR) program to study the roles of gut leakage in diabetes.
June 2022: Guodong was appointed as Dean's Chair Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, NUS.
June 2022: We got funding support from MOE Tier 1 grant to study dietary control of colon cancer.
Oct 2021: Congratulations to Jianan and Kathy's publication in Nature Communications. We identified the specific gut microbial enzymes involved in metabolic activation and gut toxicity of tricosan.
August 2021: Guodong wins Foods Young Investigator Award.
March 2021: Jianan wins Founder’s Scholarship from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
Jan 2021: Jianan wins Best Poster Award, Pioneer Valley Microbiology Symposium.
June 2020: Congratulations to Katherine Sanidad to win the Byron Prize Award for best Ph.D. Dissertation for Molecular and Cell Biology Graduate Program, UMass-Amherst
Feb 2020: Guodong wins Samuel Cate Prescott Award of IFT.
Feb 2020: Congratulations to Yuxin for her publication in PNAS. We discovered that soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) is a novel endogenous regulator of obesity-induced intestinal barrier dysfunction, bacterial translocation, and associated diseases.
Dec 2019: Congratulations to Minhao for his publication in Toxicological Sciences about the effect of triclocarban in IL-10 KO mice.
Nov 2019: We got an USDA AFRI grant to study the roles of oxidized PUFAs on gut microbiota and gut health.
Nov 2019: We got an NIH/NCI R03 grant to study the mechanisms for obesity-associated colon cancer.
Nov 2019: Congratulations to Haixia, Kathy, and Weicang for their publication in Gut Microbes.
Nov 2019: Congratulations to Yuxin for her publication in Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.
August 2019: Congratulations to Jinan, Xijin, and Ran for their publication in Cancer Prevention Research, see university press release.
August 2019: Congratulations to Kathy for her success in PhD defense! She will go to Prof. Melody Zeng’s laboratory at the Weill Cornell Medicine for post-doc.
May 2019: Congratulations to Weicang for his success in PhD defense! He will go to Prof. Bruce Hammock’s laboratory at UC-Davis for post-doc.
Feb 2019: Congratulations to Haixia and Elvira for their publication in Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.
Feb 2019: Congratulations to Jianan for winning the Hultin scholarship competition, a great achievement!
Feb 2019: Congratulations to Weicang for winning three awards: AOCS Health and Nutrition Division Student Award, AOCS Honored Student Award, and Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad Award from the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in New York.
Jan 2019: Congratulations to Weicang and Yuxin for their publication in Cancer Research. See university press release.
Jan 2019: Congratulations to Kathy and Elvira for their review paper published in Annual Review of Food Science and Technology
Jan 2019: Guodong won AOCS Young Scientist Research Award and will present his research on 2019 AOCS National meeting.
Jan 2019: Guodong is on Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Dec 2018: We got funding support from USDA/NIFA program to study how dietary fatty acids modulate colon tumorigenesis through P450 Eicosanoid pathway.
Dec 2018: Congratulations to Haixia to win the Best Postdoctoral Publication Award, Society of Toxicology; and Weicang to win Travel Award, the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
Nov 2018: Congratulations to Yuxin’s publication in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Kathy’s publication in Gut Microbes, and Haixia’s publication in DNA and Cell Biology.
Oct 2018: Guodong was invited to give a talk at NIH/NIEHS.
Sept 2018: Guodong was invited to give a talk at Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University.
June 2018: Congratulations to Yuxin for her review paper in Cancer and Metastasis Reviews.
April 2018: Congratulations to Haixia and Weicang for their publication in Science Translational Medicine about the toxicity of triclosan. See Youtube, and press release by UMass-Amherst.
April 2018: Congratulations to Weicang and Jianan for their publication in PNAS about new mechanism of obesity-induced colonic inflammation. Press release by Boston Globe, UMass-Amherst, and UC-Davis.
March 2018: Congratulations to Weicang to win the Outstanding Poster Award at the 17th International Winter Eicosanoid Meeting.
Feb 2018: We got an R03 funding support from NIH/NCI to study cytochrome P450 and their metabolites in colon cancer.
Feb 2018: Congratulations to Kathy and Haixia for their publication in Toxicological Sciences.
Jan 2018: Congratulations to Kathy to win the NESOT Student Travel Award to attend the 2018 SOT meeting.
Oct 2017: Congratulations to Kathy to win the Award for Best Student Oral Presentation, and Haixia to win the Postdoctoral Poster Award, at Northeast Chapter of the Society of Toxicology (NESOT) Annual Meeting.
June 2017: Congratulations to Weicang and Jun for their publication in Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.
May 2017: Congratulations to Haixia and Zheyuan for their publication in JAFC.
May 2017: Weicang has won four awards: American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Graduate Student Travel Award, Micha Peleg International Travel Award, IFT Feeding Tomorrow Graduate Scholarship, and NEIFT scholarship. Congratulations!
May 2016: We received Faculty Research Grant/Healey Endowment Grant (FRG/HEG) from UMass.
May 2016: Congratulations to Kathy and Elvira for their publication in JAFC.
April 2016: Congratulations to Julia and Zheyuan for passing the MS defense.
March 2016: Elvira has won the first place in the ACS Undergraduate Student Research Award Symposium, congratulations!
January 2016: The paper of Yoshiki and Weicang on curcumin degradation is featured as the cover of Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, congratulations to Yoshiki and Weicang.
Dec 2015: Guodong is invited to give a talk in The 16th International Winter Eicosanoid Conference.
Nov 2015: Congratulations to Yoshiki and Weicang for their new paper in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, which is also under a provisional patent application by UMass-Amherst. See NMFR.
Nov 2015: Elvira has won the Rising Researcher Award of UMass, this is among most prestigious awards for UMass undergraduate students. see University Press.
Nov 2015: We have got $500,000 grant support from USDA to investigate the molecular mechanisms of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Nov 2015: Elvira has won a travel award and is a finalist of 2016 AGFD Undergraduate Student Research Award Symposium, she will present her recent research at the 2016 ACS National Meeting.
Nov 2015: Congratulations to Weicang and Zheyuan for their publication in Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. See JNB.
August 2015: Congratulations to Weicang and Elvira for their publication in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. See MNFR.
July 2015: Elvira has won the 2nd place of the IFT Undergraduate Research Competition, Congratulations!
April 2015: Elvira has won a travel award and is a finalist for IFT Undergraduate Research Competition, she will present her research of curcumin on lymphangiogenesis in IFT meeting in Chicago, Congratulations!
Feb 2015: Our review paper is the Most Downloaded Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators articles. See POLM.
July 2014: Our review paper of omega-3 lipid mediators was accepted for publication in Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat., Congratulations to Weicang, Julia and Fei.
June 2014: Our COX-2/sEH paper was accepted for publication in PNAS (see Full Text, Press Release)
April 2014: Guodong is a finalist for ACS/AGFD Young Scientist Award, the competition will be at the 2014 ACS National Meeting in San Francisco.
March 2014: Guodong and Hang win the Armstrong Fund for Science Award of UMass (see University Press Release).
March 2014: Guodong receives Outstanding Poster Award in Diabetes-Cancer Section of the 15th International Winter Eicosanoid Conference.
Jan 2014: Guodong is invited to give a talk in FASEB Science Research Conference “Phospholipid Cell Signaling and Metabolism in Inflammation and Cancer”.
Nov, 2013: Our review paper of bioactive lipids is published in Progress in Lipid Research.
Nov, 2013: Guodong is invited to give a talk in session of “Eicosanoids and Cancer” in The 15th International Winter Eicosanoid Conference.