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Robert Fuentes becomes finalist in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition.
Robert presented his thesis work in 3 minutes and was selected as a finalist for the competition on November 16. The winner will represent Texas A&M at the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools regional competition in Fayetteville, AK in February. Good luck to Robert!
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.
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.
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.
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. [Read more…] about Communicating Complexity and Transforming Interdisciplinary Research
