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Robert Chapkin
Dr. Robert S. Chapkin

 

Brief Bio: Dr. Robert S. Chapkin – Distinguished Professor and National Cancer Institute R35 Outstanding Investigator Awardee, leads the Program in Integrative Nutrition & Complex Diseases at Texas A&M University. Work in the Chapkin lab focuses on dietary prevention of colon cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases. The central goal is to (1) understand cancer chemoprevention at the single cell level, and (2) test membrane targeted therapeutics in combination with dietary / microbial countermeasures to the “Western diet” to more effectively improve gut health and reduce colon cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases. Since diet influences gut microbial composition and metabolite production, to unravel the interrelationships between gut health and the structure of the gut ecosystem, we are in the process of evaluating (using transgenic mice, fruit fly models, and humans) how gut microbes modulate intestinal stem cells (the origin of cancer). As part of this endeavor, we have developed novel noninvasive Systems Biology-based methodologies to model the dynamic relationship between diet and gut microbe-derived metabolites which modulate the cellular organization of the intestine, e.g., stem cell niche.

Research Staff

Laurie Davidson
Dr. Laurie Davidson
Alfredo Erazo-Oliveras
Dr. Alfredo Erazo-Oliveras
Yang-Yi Fan
Dr. Yang-Yi Fan
Jennifer Goldsby
Jennifer Goldsby
Kelly Mallett
Jaileen-Rivera-Rodriguez
Jaileen Rivera-Rodriguez
Dr. Monica Muñoz Vega
Dr. Monica Muñoz Vega

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Michael Salinas
Dr. Michael Salinas
Susan Komanetsky
Dr. Susan Komanetsky

Graduate Students

Destiny Mullens
Destiny Mullens
Yongjian Yang

Undergraduate Students

Jennie Kim
Lexi Poston

Administrative Coordinator

Elizabeth Toole Szymanski

Former Lab Members

Robert Fuentes
Dr. Robert Fuentes
Miranda George
Miranda George
Kyung Ho Jung
Kyung Ho Jung
Eunji Kim
Dr. Eunji Kim
Eunjoo Kim
Dr. Eunjoo Kim
Bianca Tomaszewski
Bianca Tomaszewski
Gabriella Webster
Gabriella Webster
Grace Yoon
Dr. Grace Yoon
Huajun Han
Dr. Huajun Han
Rachel Wright
Rachel Wright
Lana Pruski
Lana Pruski
Photo of Alexander Roitershtein
Dr. Alexander Roitershtein
Kerstin Landrock
Kerstin Landrock
Dr. Ellen Ruth Alexander
Dr. Ellen Ruth Morris
Dr. Xiaoli Wang
Dr. Xiaoli Wang
Abhinav Vadassery
Hee Cheol Chung Headshot
Dr. Hee Cheol Chung
Photo of Sarah Hatten
Sarah Hatten

Our laboratory is located on the first floor of the Nutrition and Food Sciences building, Cater Mattil on the Texas A&M West Campus.

For driving directions, start here.

 

Chapkin Laboratory
Lab Phone: 979-845-0448
Office Phone: 979-845-2142
E-mail: r-chapkin@tamu.edu

 

Address for U.S. Mail
Robert Chapkin
2253 TAMU, 112 Cater-Mattil
College Station, TX 77843-2253

 

Address for UPS or FEDEX Packages
Robert Chapkin
373 Olsen Blvd.
College Station, TX 77843-2253

 

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