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.
New paper made the cover of Science Advances!
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.
Fat fruit flies: High-sugar diet deadens sweet tooth; promotes overeating, obesity in flies
The first paper from Monica’s lab was released 07 May 2019! Titled “High Dietary Sugar Reshapes Sweet Taste to Promote Feeding Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster” graduate students Christina May and Anoumid Vaziri explore the changes in sweet taste neurons which lead to the behavioral output of overeating and obesity. Check out the interview with Michigan News and listen to Monica present the data at the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Have a listen.
Fat fruit flies: High-sugar diet deadens sweet tooth; promotes overeating, obesity in flies
To read the paper follow this link: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(19)30492-9. Altmetrics rates the paper in the top 5% of all research outputs!