NEWS - Chapkin Lab

Robert Fuentes Successfully Defended His Thesis, Won 1st Place at Toxicology Meeting

Elizabeth Szymanski

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October 13, 2016

On Monday, September 11, 2017. N. Roberto Fuentes, Jr. successfully defended his thesis titled, “Plasma Membrane Lipid Therapy: Distruption of Oncogenic Ras Driven Phenotypes by Long Chain N-3 PUFA.”

Then on October 13, 2017, Robert placed first in the graduate student presentation competition at the Lone Star Society of Toxicology Regional Meeting at Baylor University.

The title of his talk was “Plasma membrane lipid therapy: Disruption of oncogenic Ras spatiotemporal organization by membrane targeted dietary bioactives (MTDB)”.

Robert is a Toxicology Doctoral Candidate at Texas A&M University and works in the Chapkin Lab.
Non- Invasive Detection and Diagnosis of Colon Cancer

Elizabeth Szymanski

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March 4, 2016

Colon cancer ranks second among cancers both in mortality (nearly 60,000 cases annually) and frequency of detection (more than 150,00o cases annually) in America. Read more here.
Chapkin Receives Vice Chancellor’s Award for Research

Elizabeth Szymanski

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January 14, 2016

COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Robert S. Chapkin, distinguished professor in the department of nutrition and food science, has received a Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence in the research category.

The Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence recognizes the commitment and outstanding contributions of faculty and staff across Texas A&M AgriLife. The award was presented Jan. 14 at the AgriLife Center on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station.

View article here.
Communicating Complexity and Transforming Interdisciplinary Research

Elizabeth Szymanski

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August 5, 2015

Dr. Chapkin with Dr. Ivanov

When a loved one is diagnosed with cancer, the first ques-tions that most often come to mind are “why did this happen to them” and “what can I do”. Faced with this very situation, Dr. Ivan Ivanov, clinical associate professor in bioinformatics at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Bio-medical Sciences (CVM), began a journey helping advance research that one day may be able to answer those questions. (more…)
Getting the Right Signals

Elizabeth Szymanski

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July 23, 2015

Researchers in Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have proposed a “unified” way to explain the function of dietary bioactives in suppressing cancer-causing cell signaling. Read the rest here.