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• October 2019- Congratulations to Aki Chaffin who received an impact score of 11 (!!!!!) on her NIH F31 application. Amazing!

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• September 2019- Sooo proud of the Ryan Lab crew, who did an excellent job communicating their ongoing research at the annual MCIP graduate group colloquium. Aki Chaffin won a 'best short talk' award, and Jeff Wu and Karl Larson won the two 'best poster' awards :)  Congratulations to all!

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• September 2019- The lab receives a new 5-year R01 from NIDDK, to study mechanisms underlying sex-dependent responses to dietary macronutrients. 

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• June 2019- Nadya Godoroja joins the lab as a Research Assistant. We are thrilled to pieces that Nadya will be with us for a couple more years !!!

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• June 2019- Congratulations to new CBS graduates Charity Gikura and Nadya Godoroja! Best wishes and thank your your hard work!

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• May 2019- Aki's abstract for the 79th Annual Meeting of the American Diabetes Association wins the WIN-ADA #sabv Abstract Award!! Congratulations Aki :)

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• April 2019- Aki Chaffin's first first-author paper is accepted for publication in Stress

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• April 2019- Aki will be a predoctoral trainee on the UC Davis CTSC T32 beginning in June!

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• April 2019- Karl was awarded a Barbara Horwitz and John Horowitz MCIP Physiology Award :)

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• April 2019- Karl was awarded the UC Davis Schwall Dissertation Year Fellowship!

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• April 2019- Karl Larson is named as a 2019-2020 ARCS Foundation Scholar! Thank you ARCS Foundation!!

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• March 2019- Congratulations to new CBS graduate Carl Huang! Thanks to Carl for his contributions to the lab!

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• March 2019- We are so excited that MCIP graduate student Chih-Ting (Jeff) Wu will join the lab! 

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• February 2019- Karl's paper is accepted in Endocrinology

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• September 2018- The lab receives a High-Priority, Short-Term Project award from NIDDK. "Control of protein intake and metabolism by FGF21" 

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• June 2018- Congratulations to new CBS graduate Edwin Tran! Thanks for all of your contributions to the lab!

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• April 2018- Aki passed her qualifying exam with flying colors and is advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. 

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• March 2018- Karl Larson was honored with the 2018 Irving J. Hertzendorf Memorial Award in Physiology for his outstanding qualities as a scholar and as a humanitarian. Congratulations Karl, it is well deserved!

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• January 2018- Karen and Karl publish a new paper focused on the effects of ketogenic diets on the HPA axis.