Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Cynthia McKee on her first author paper published in FASEB J! The title of the paper is “The anti-aging protein Klotho affects early postnatal myogenesis by downregulating Jmjd3 and the canonical Wnt pathway”

Link to paper: https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1096/fj.202101298R

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Student, Nguyen Phi on her recent publication from her previous work with Dr. Orkun Akin, a faculty from MCIP, published in Nature! The title of the paper is “A discrete neuronal population coordinates brain-wide developmental activity”

Link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04406-9

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Mirian De Siqueira on her co-first author review published in Cell! Congrats also to her faculty mentor Dr. Claudio Villanueva! The title of the paper is “Adipose-tissue plasticity in health and disease”

Link to paper: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1eX3fL7PXf0eL

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Alexandra Brownstein and the Shirihai Lab who published in Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders! The title of their paper is “ATP-consuming futile cycles as energy dissipating mechanisms to counteract obesity”

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, James Dang who was awarded the Training Grant in Neurobehavioral Genetics T32 for AY 2021-2022! Congratulations also to his faculty mentor, Dr. Weizhe Hong!

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Sabeen Kazmi for being awarded the UCLA Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology Hyde Fellowship for AY 2021-2022! Congratulations also to her faculty mentor, Dr. Elaine Hsiao!

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Monty Blencowe for being awarded the UCLA Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology Hyde Fellowship for AY 2021-2022! Congratulations also to his faculty mentor, Dr. Xia Yang!

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Sicheng Zhang for being awarded the UCLA Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology Eureka Scholarship for AY 2021-2022! Congratulations also to Sicheng’s faculty mentor, Dr. Claudio Villanueva!

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Monty Blencowe on his first author paper published in Diabetologia! The title of his paper is “IAPP-induced beta cell stress recapitulates the islet transcriptome in type 2 diabetes”.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-021-05569-2

MCIP PhD Student, Monty Blencowe and his faculty mentor, Dr. Xia Yang published a preview paper in Cell Reports Medicine! Congratulations! Their preview is “Found in translation — core network preservation across liver diseases and species” on the recent Esmaili et al. study from Cell Systems.