2025
Oct. 8, 2025 – Happy birthday to Tiffany Jacobo, our honorary team member!
Oct. 3, 2025 – We were delighted that our collaborator, Jiantao Ma, had his R01 proposal “Multiethnic and multiomics analysis of longitudinal changes in DNA methylation and Cardiovascular health”, funded! The American Heart Association’s “Life’s Essential 8” provides a checklist of eight key measures for improving and maintaining cardiovascular health. We will collaborate on Dr. Ma’s project to identify areas of the genome where gene expression (the “turning off and on” of genes) responds to the lifestyle changes advised in the Life’s Essential 8 checklist, to better understand why this advice helps preserve heart health as we age. Congratulations to Dr. Ma!
Oct. 1, 2025 – Our collaborative paper “Sleep-disordered breathing subtypes and future diet quality in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis” was published in the journal Sleep Health. Thank you to Dr. Kaitlin Potts at Brigham and Women’s & Harvard Medical School for your leadership on this project!
Oct. 1, 2025 – Our abstract entitled “Leveraging Longitudinal ‘Omics Data to Improve Our Understanding of the Effects of Diet on Health: The Example of Red Meat”, was one of the top-rated abstract submissions, and won a conference award for the upcoming Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research (CHARGE) International Conference. Dr. Alexis Wood is excited to present our work shedding new light on how red meat relates to health at the CHARGE conference in North Carolina this December.
Sept. 19, 2025 – Dr. Alexis Wood loved speaking to parents of toddlers the Family Place "Play, Grow, & Learn" Workshop at West University Branch Library about the importance of good nutrition in the early years. Thank you to all the wonderful participants for your engagement and interest and to all the children who played games with Dr. Wood!
Sept. 18, 2025 – Dr. Alexis Wood was selected receive the 2025 Outstanding Reviewer Recognition award by the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, for her service reviewing manuscript submissions this past year. Congratulations!
Sept. 17, 2025 – Happy birthday to Martin Chen, our biostatistician!
Aug. 25, 2025 – Tobias Kornfein, a Rice Undergraduate, started his second internship with our group. Tobias will be continuing his work using large-scale metabolomic data from the TEDDY study to identify which foods might support cognitive development during toddlerhood. Welcome back, Tobias – we are so glad you are sticking with our team!
