Laboratory of Nutrigenomics, Monica Dus, PhD
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The newest Dus Lab publication is a review on the literature connecting taste, diet composition, and obesity, published in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism! The online version is available for reading now.
You can now read about Anoumid Vaziri’s work in Science Advances! See the press release and paper links below to learn about chromatin remodeling in taste cells in response to a high sugar diet environment.
Read Dr. Christina May’s newest paper featured in this eLife Digest! Learn how dopamine reward signaling changes in flies on a high sugar diet in this brief overview or check out the paper, titled “Dietary sugar inhibits satiation by decreasing the central processing of sweet taste”, here.
Check out this LSA News article that highlights the various reasons science is particularly important at the time of the COVID 19 pandemic. Dr. Monica Dus talks about why she restructured her molecular genetics class to reading and criticizing preprints relating to COVID 19 and how this created a unique opportunity for students to develop and apply their scientific literacy amid a plethora of fake news. She also talks about what her lab’s research can suggest about the effects of self-isolation on our diets.
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/news-events/all-news/search-news/why-we-do-science.html
Sugar alters compounds that impact brain health in fruit flies
University of Michigan News published a piece on Dr. Daniel Wilinksi’s Nature Communication paper, “Rapid metabolic shifts occur during the transition between hunger and satiety in Drosophila melanogaster”. The press release was then shared on ScienceDaily! Check this out for a short summary featuring Dr. Monica Dus, Dr. Alla Karnovsky, and Dr. Peter Freddolino on the metabolic profiles of flies fed a high-sugar diet and the new tool they developed, Flyscape.
NPR’s Joe Palca interviewed Dr. Monica Dus to learn about what initially motivated her lab to study how a high sugar diet can change the brain to promote overeating and obesity. Read or listen below to find out more!