High School Students

High school and Junior High school students sponsored and mentored by the University of Louisville faculty listed to work on the projects of the Metabolomics Initiative. All authored and presented posters at the Regional Science Fair, Dupont Manual High School on the dates noted in the linked table.

High School students in Dr. Yappert's lab

Undergraduate Students

Many University of Louisville undergraduate students, and some from other institutions within Kentuckiana, receive hands-on instruction at the Center for Metabolomics. Undergraduate students participate in all aspects of research including conducting their own projects, developing analytical methods, and preparing platform and poster presentations. The linked table provides access to examples of some of this quality work.

Undergraduate Student Kathleen Marshall in Dr. Fan's lab

Visiting Researchers

Developing research scientists of all levels are welcome to work side-by-side with CREAM core faculty and staff learning Metabolomics techniques and applying them to their particular research interests. Students and junior faculty from laboratories across campus, around the state, throughout the nation and from around the world contribute to the interdisciplinary cross-pollination of ideas that is a very important CREAM objective. Recent contributions have been made by the following:

·        Scott Jones – Medicine at University of Louisville. Natural products involved in pre-Parkinson’s disease symptoms.

·        Mariia Yuneva – University of California, San Francisco. Molecular regulatory mechanisms of C-Mic oncogene in mammalian cells.

·        Santigo Moralli – University of Barcelona. High-throughput metabolite analysis, specifically the study of the lipidome and its changes during cell cycle progression and tumor transformation.

·        Miriam Porquet – University of Barcelona. Study of metabolic and lipid profiles of mouse embryogenic fibroblast cell lines using LTQ FT MS and GCMS techniques and software to describe the metabolic importance of the lack of two key enzymes (CDK4 and CDK6) in the cell cycle.

Professional Symposia

 Bringing the most current and innovative work in the Metabolomics discipline to students and scientists in the Louisville area is an important mission of the Center. Two Metabolomics symposia have been hosted by the Center:

First Louisville Symposium on Metabolomics November 5-6, 2005

·        Program 

·        Sponsors

·        Program (with Abstracts)

·        Sponsors

Introducing Metabolomics to a diverse community

Core Center faculty and staff have also participated in many local conferences with audiences ranging from Secondary School teachers to Medical Doctors. These presentations serve to educate the community about the discipline of Metabolomics and offer the instructional services of the Center to the community it serves. The following is a partial list:

Kentucky Association for Environmental Education – September 15, 2007

·        Metabolomics in bioavailability, mechanism, and biomarker discovery

·        Downloadable classroom exercises and materials

Kentucky Science Teachers Association – November 2, 2007

·        Metabolomics and Isotopomer analysis

·        Downloadable classroom exercises and materials