Postdoctoral Research Award Competition

Chair(s)

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  Andrea Charvet, PhD, RDN, LDN (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Nova Southeastern University
  Hollywood, Florida, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Finalist(s)

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  Jaeeun Lee, Doctrate

  Postdoc
  University of Connecticut
  Vernon, Connecticut, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.
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  Karolline May, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Scholar
  University of Washington
  Seattle, Washington, United States

  Disclosure(s): OrsoBio: Consultant (Ongoing)
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  Lisa Merrill, ScD (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral research associate
  University of Massachusetts Lowell
  Grafton, Massachusetts, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Stephanie Wilson, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Texas A&M IHA; USDA ARS WHNRC; Montana State University
  Sacramento, California, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Mercy Sosanya, PhD

  Postdoctoral Associate
  University at Buffalo
  Buffalo, New York, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Kristen Sutton, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Aurora, Colorado, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Organized by ASN's Early Career Nutrition Interest Group, this award competition challenges early career scientists and clinicians in nutrition by providing a juried abstract review and special oral session in which they compete in presenting their research findings.

Finalists include:

• Jaeeun Lee, PhD, University of Connecticut
  Adipocyte-Specific Deletion of Histon Deacetylase 9 Reduces Adiposity but Triggers Glucose Intolerance, Hyperglycemia, and Hyperlipidemia in Male Obese Mice
• Karolline May, PhD, University of Washington
  Combined Prebiotic Dietary Inulin and VSL#3 Probiotics Modulate Gut Metabolites to Improve Energy Balance and Glucose Metabolism in Diet-Induced Obese Mice
• Lisa Merrill, ScD, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  Development and Validation of Culturally Adapted Inflammation Scores in Puerto Rican Adults
• Mercy Sosanya, PhD, University at Buffalo
  Impact of the BabyThrive Gaming App on Maternal Infant and Young Child Feeding Attitudes and Practices and Child (0 – 2 Years) Anthropometrics
• Kristen Sutton, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Evaluating Approaches That Refine Mendelian Randomization Genetic Instruments to Improve Causal Associations Between Dietary Intake and Human Health
• Stephanie Wilson, PhD, Texas A&M IHA; Montana State University
  Association Between Dietary Polyphenol Intake and Polyphenol-Utilizing Bacteria in Healthy Adults