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Dr. Amy Rowat named as one of the 2024 Allen Distinguished Investigator

Dr. Amy Rowat named as one of the 2024 Allen Distinguished Investigator

Dr. Amy Rowat was recently named one of this year’s Allen Institute Allen Distinguished Investigator. The Allen Distinguished Investigator program supports early-stage research with the potential to reinvent entire fields. Dr. Rowat’s cohort project for this grant is, “Mechanobiology tools for dissecting drivers of membrane mechanics, form, and function.”
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Professors Xiao, Yang, and Villanueva recently publish new article in Cell Reports

Professors Xiao, Yang, and Villanueva recently publish new article in Cell Reports

Professors Xiao, Yang, and Villanueva recently publish a new article in Cell Reports, “PPARy-dependent remodeling of translational machinery in adipose progenitors is impaired in obesity”. Their cover illustration was also chosen for this issue.
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UCLA’s Future of Food Fellows program is featured in the UCLA Newsroom

UCLA’s Future of Food Fellows program is featured in the UCLA Newsroom

Professor Amy Rowat, recently appointed as the inaugural faculty director of the UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies, oversees the Future of Food Fellows Program. This is a new fellowship program that seeks to help graduate students become future leaders in the emerging field of cellular agriculture
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Drs. Alward and Dussene’s publishes an article in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology, in which they also were chosen for the issue’s cover

Drs. Alward and Dussene’s publishes an article in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology, in which they also were chosen for the issue’s cover

Dr. Alward and Mélanie Dussenne, a postdoc from the Alward lab, published an article on the expression of novel androgen receptors in three GnRH neuron subtypes in cichlids in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology, where their microscopy image was chosen for the cover of the current issue.
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