Category: Mary Teruel

Timing of stress-hormone pulses controls weight gain

Timing of stress-hormone pulses controls weight gain

CSB faculty Dr. Mary Teruel (senior author), CSB graduate students Zahra Bahrami-Nejad and Michael Zhao (co-lead authors), CSB postdoc Dr. Stefan Tholen, CSB graduate student Mingyu Chung, and CSB alumni Dr. Devon Hunerdosse, Dr. Karen Tkach, and Sabine van Schie (co-authors) discovered that rising and falling levels of hormones known as glucocorticoids can affect weight gain.

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Brooks Taylor awarded a 2017 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award

Brooks Taylor is a recipient of a 2017 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award. He is postdoc in the Teruel lab. Recipients of this award are promising postdoctoral candidates who have the potential to become productive, independent investigators in scientific health-related research fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. Congratulations!

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Cell Fate Control – A Numbers Game

The recent Science publication from the lab of Mary Teruel, “Controlling low rates of cell differentiation through noise and ultra-high feedback”, has been selected as a Science Editors’ Choice and has been featured in SCOPE, the Stanford School of Medicine online Blog.

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