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October 2022
Tan Chaisakhon join the lab. Tan is a Master's student from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She will learn and work on cutting-edge chromatin profiling techniques with adipocytes. We're very excited to have a new student joining our team! Welcome aboard, Tan! |
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October 2022
Our first paper from IUSM has been published in Molecular Metabolism! All the lab members have contributed to the paper. We're very proud of the collaboration among the lab members! Congrats! Keep up the good work! So J, Taleb S, Wann J, Strobel O, Kim K, Roh HC. Chronic cAMP activation induces adipocyte browning through discordant biphasic remodeling of transcriptome and chromatin accessibility. Mol Metab. 2022 Oct 21:101619. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2022.101619. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36273781. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212877822001880 |
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October 2022
BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY RESEARCH DAY @ Biltwell Event Center The Department had the annual research day event in the Indianapolis downtown. Chan and Jisun presented their research projects by posters and oral presentations. It was great all the department members gathered and shared science together. Beautiful fall weather, great food and drinks, nice place, and fun science. |
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October 2022
Jisun won the oral presentation award at the 2022 IUSM Postdoc Symposium! Jisun's abstract was chosen for oral presentation at the symposium, and she got the prize! Congrats, Jisun! |
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October 2022
Solaema's farewell lunch. We walked together to the canal in beautiful weather. Solaema will be on maternity leave for some time. She has been working in the lab for three years as the very first lab member. We really appreciate her hard work and positive energy she brought in. Solaema will be missed. We wish all the best to her and her family! |
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September 2022
Avishek Paul, a first year PhD student in the IBMG program, started rotating in the lab. He will be working with Jamie on brown adipocyte projects. We hope Avishek explores our lab and enjoys exciting ongoing research projects. Welcome, Avishek! |
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September 2022 Olivia's farewell lunch at the Garden Table in the Indianapolis downtown. She finishes working in the Roh lab and moves to the next chapter of her career journey. It has been great pleasure to have Olivia in the lab. We wish you all the best! |
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August 2022 Lab lunch to celebrate Chan's birthday and coming fall semester at Thaitanium in Indianapolis. |
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June 2022 Jisun presents a poster with her project on transcriptomic and epigenomic remodeling during adipocyte browning at the 2022 annual ADA meeting in New Orleans. Great new - Jisun won an IUSM Postdoctoral Travel Award to attend this meeting! Congrats, Jisun! |
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March 2022
Noah Sommers, a first year PhD student in the IBMG program, started rotating in the lab. Noah will be working with Jisun on liver projects using ribosome pull-down experiments. We hope he can explore and enjoy our exciting research projects. Welcome, Noah! |
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December 2021
We have closed 2021 with our holiday lab lunch, gift exchange and annual lab cleaning. We are proud of the our team and grateful for their hard work. Happy New Year! |
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December 2021
Kyungchan "Chan" Kim joined the lab as a postdoc research fellow, starting on December 1st. He received his Ph.D. from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea this summer. His Ph.D. work was focused on the function of brain-derived insulin on growth and metabolism. We're very excited to have another talented scientist joining our team. Welcome aboard, Chan! |
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September 2021
Soumilee Chaudhuri, a first year PhD student in the IBMG program, started her first rotation in the lab. Soumilee has previous research experiences in metabolomics analysis with osteocytes and more. It is our pleasure to have her rotating in the lab. We hope she can explore and enjoy our exciting research projects. Welcome, Soumilee! |
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July 2021
Dr. Roh was awarded his first R01 research grant from NIH / NIDDK. The NIH R01 grant is a major research award for independent investigators and provides a long period support with a large amount of funding. This R01 award will support our beige adipocyte plasticity project. This is fantastic news! |
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July 2021
Dr. Roh was awarded the 2021 American Diabetes Association Junior Faculty Development Award. This award will support our project on adipocyte cellular reprogramming during obesity. |
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May 2021
Our LHSI (Life-Health Sciences Internship) intern, Olivia Strobel, has won the best ePortfolio award. We're proud of her accomplishment and very happy for her! Congrats, Olivia! You deserve it. Check out her ePortfolio here: CLICK |
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March 2021
Areli Javier, a first year PhD student in the IBMG program, started her third rotation in the lab. It is our pleasure to have her rotate in the lab. We hope she can explore our exciting research projects for the next couple of months. Welcome, Areli! |
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February 2021
Seahorse XF Analyzer system has been set up in the lab. It is available for anyone from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to use after training. It will definitely enhance our research capabilities. Please contact Dr. Roh for more information. |
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December 2020
Jisun So joined the lab as a postdoctoral research fellow. Dr. So earned her B.S . in Nutrition and M.S. in Clinical Nutrition at Seoul National University and her Ph.D. in Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition at Tufts University. Dr. So is our very first postdoc fellow in the lab. We're very excited to work with her! Welcome aboard, Jisun! |
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October 2020
Emmanuel Solis, a first year PhD student in IBMG program, started rotating in the lab. Welcome, Emmanuel! |
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September 2020
Dr. Roh’s work extended from his postdoc research has been just published in Molecular Metabolism. Solaema contributed to the study as well. Congrats! We are looking forward to the follow up studies! "Adipocytes Fail to Maintain Cellular Identity During Obesity Due to Reduced PPARγ Activity and Elevated TGFβ-SMAD Signaling" Roh HC , Kumari M, Taleb S, Tenen D, Jacobs C, Lyubetskaya A, Tsai LT, Rosen ED. Mol Metab. 2020 Sep 26:101086. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2020.101086 |
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September 2020
Collaborative project with the Alex Banks lab at Harvard Medical School has been published in Cell Metabolism. "Obesity-Linked PPARγ S273 Phosphorylation Promotes Insulin Resistance through Growth Differentiation Factor 3". Hall JA, Ramachandran D, Roh HC, DiSpirito JR, Belchior T, Zushin PH, Palmer C, Hong S, Mina AI, Liu B, Deng Z, Aryal P, Jacobs C, Tenen D, Brown CW, Charles JF, Shulman GI, Kahn BB, Tsai LTY, Rosen ED, Spiegelman BM, Banks AS. Cell Metab. 2020 Oct 6;32(4):665-675 |
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August 2020
Jamie Wann joined the lab as a research technician. She graduated from Indiana University Bloomington this year with her B.S. in neuroscience. Welcome abroad, Jamie! |
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August 2020
Olivia Strobel joined the lab as an undergraduate student intern, through the Life-Health Sciences Internship (LHSI) Program. Welcome abroad, Olivia! |
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July 2020
Dr. Roh received the 2020 Career Development Award from the American Heart Association. This award will support the project on aberrant reprogramming of adipocyte identity during obesity for the next 3 years. |
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July 2020
Dr. Roh was awarded 2020 Ralph W. and Grace M. Showalter research grant for the beige adipocyte plasticity project. Congrats! |
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July 2020
Dr. Roh was awarded the Pilot & Feasibility Award from the Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases (CDMD) at Indiana University School of Medicine. Congrats! |
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April 2020
Quantitative Real Time PCR machine with a 384-well plate has arrived in the lab. It was possible with the generous support from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for the new assistant professors Dr. Evan Cornett and Dr. Hyun Roh. It will definitely promote efficient research progress. It will be ready to run once lab hibernation is over. It is open to anyone in the Department after trainings. Ask Dr. Roh for details. |
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March 2020
The Roh lab and all other labs at IUSM are joining social distancing. We have switched to the 'hibernation' mode to prevent the COVID-19 spread and to protect from the disease. Stay all healthy and safe. We will be back! |
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November 2019
Solaema Taleb joined the lab as a research technician and the very first lab member! Welcome aboard! |
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September 2019
The Hyun Roh Lab officially opens at Indiana University School of Medicine on September 1st, 2019!! |
