Sangyong presented on the role of SMIT1 in zinc accumulation at the FASEB Trace Elements in Biology and Medicine conference in Melbourne, FL.

Carolina Logrono joins the lab for the summer as a Bridging the Gap II fellow. Bridging the Gap is a USDA-funded, ten-week summer program in Nutritional Sciences that places students with limited prior research exposure into UConn labs, ending with a research symposium.

Kristofer Terrell gave an oral presentation on the mechanism of zinc imbalance in senescent intestinal epithelial cells.

Funding to establish cellular and animal models for precision nutrition in zinc metabolism, asking whether vitamin B5 metabolism impacts zinc.

Evelyn Nathania has joined the lab as a PhD student in Nutritional Sciences.

Wrapping up her Bridging the Gap summer, Alexis Bates presented on genotyping the SMIT1 transgenic mouse colony and the effect of cellular senescence on myogenesis.

Kristofer Terrell gave an oral presentation on cellular zinc influx in senescent enterocyte models at the American Society for Nutrition Annual Meeting. Suyun Choi presented a poster on microbiome analysis from the small intestines of mice fed zinc supplement and phytic acid.

Alexis Bates joins the lab for the summer as a Bridging the Gap II fellow, also supported by a Summer Undergraduate Research Fund award.

Kristofer Terrell’s review on calcium’s role in aging muscle, cellular senescence, and mineral interactions is published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Closing out her Bridging the Gap summer, Chevenese McKayle presented on CRISPR editing and validation of a TLR2 knockout in Caco-2 cells.