NEWS
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!
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.
January 2021
Omnia Gaafer, a first year PhD student in IBMG program, started her second rotation in the lab.
We hope she enjoys exploring the exciting research projects in the lab.
Welcome, Omnia!
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 abroad, Jisun!
October 2020
Emmanuel Solis, a first year PhD student in IBMG program, started rotating in the lab.
Welcome, Emmanuel!
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 (*corresponding author)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212877820301605?via%3Dihub
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
Free access to the paper is available through November 25th, 2020. Check it out here:
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1bsY95WXUlIdQ1
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
Free access to the paper is available through November 25th, 2020. Check it out here:
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1bsY95WXUlIdQ1
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!
August 2020
Olivia Strobel joined the lab as an undergraduate student intern, through the Life-Health Sciences Internship (LHSI) Program.
Welcome abroad, Olivia!
July 2020
Dr. Roh receives a 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.
July 2020
Dr. Roh is awarded 2020 Ralph W. and Grace M. Showalter research grant for the beige adipocyte plasticity project.
June 2020
Dr. Roh is awarded the Pilot & Feasibility Award from the Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases (CDMD) at Indiana University School of Medicine.
https://medicine.iu.edu/news/2020/06/diabetes-center-recognizes-scientists-for-promising-projects
April 2020
Quantitative Real Time PCR machine with 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 is ready to run once lab hibernation is over.
It is open to anyone in the Department after trainings. Ask Dr. Roh for details.
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 .
November 2019
The lab is set up with ALL BRAND NEW equipment and finally starting our exciting research!
November 2019
Solaema Taleb joined the lab as a research technician and the very first lab member!
Welcome aboard!
September 2019
First orders started to come in...
September 2019
The Hyun Roh Lab officially opens at Indiana University School of Medicine on September 1st, 2019!!