August 2015: Hello University of Kentucky!
APRIL 2017: Congratulations Jodi, Robert, and Sarah on your Chellgren Summer Research Fellowships!
APRIL 2017: Congratulations Robert!!! He is the recipient of an American Physiological Society Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship!
APRIL 2017: University of Kentucky Showcase of Undergraduate Scholars
MAY 2017: RISER (Rhythms in the SouthEastern Region) in Nashville, TN
MAY 2017: Barnstable Brown Obesity and Diabetes Research Day. Congratulations Bukola and Eric!
**Bukola was invited to give a podium presentation and she rocked it!
**Eric won 2nd place in the Staff Category for his poster presentation!
DECEMBER 2016: Congratulations Matt! Matt was awarded a position on the CCTS TL1 Training Grant!
DECEMBER 2016: Secret Santa was a success!
JULY 2016: We are awarded an NIH R03 grant to study estrogen regulation of daily metabolic rhythms
AUGUST 2016: We are awarded a position on the COBRE COCVD Grant to study circadian disruption and atherosclerosis
MAY 2017: Congratulations Jeff and Bukola! They were both awarded Ribble mini-grants!
DECEMBER 2016: Julie and Jeff win the Departmental Mentor-Mentee Newlywed Game!
**Bookie gave an awesome talk about her estrogen project!
**Jeff and Eric presented posters
**We had a lot of fun at the honky-tonks in Nashville!
APRIL 2018: Lab Outing to Keeneland
APRIL 2018: Robert presents a poster at Experimental Biology, San Diego, CA (as an APS Undergraduate Fellow!)
July 2017: Lab BBQ
April 2017: First Ever Lab Outing to Keeneland
November 2017: Congratulations to Robert!!! He won first place for his poster "Does dim light at night accelerate atherosclerosis?" at the Saha Cardiovascular Research Day!!!
May 2018: SRBR (Society for Research on Biological Rhythms) Meeting, Amelia Island, FL
**Julie gave a Symposium talk
**Bookie did the DataBlitz
**Jeff, Matt, Bookie, Jodi, Tiffany, & Robert presented posters
MAY 2018: Congratulations Bookie and Jeff!!! They were both awarded Ribble Mini-grants!
APRIL 2018: Congratulations Jeff!!! He was awarded a Biology Merit Fellowship!!!
APRIL 2018: Showcase of Undergraduate Scholars
OCTOBER 2017: Lab outing to Keeneland
OCTOBER 2017: BioBonanza Community Outreach Event. Tick-Tock Station was a success!!!
November 2017: Congratulations to Jodi!!! She was named a Gertrude F. Ribble Undergraduate Scholar!!!
Pendergast Laboratory
November 2017: Check out our new paper in Scientific Reports, "mPeriod2Brdm1 and other single Period mutant mice have normal food anticipatory activity." Congrats to Robert on his first publication!
DECEMBER 2017: Secret Santa Party!
MARCH 2018: Congratulations Jodi!!! She is the recipient of an American Physiological Society Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
AUGUST 2017: We are awarded a Pilot Grant from the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and the Barnstable Brown Diabetes Research Center to study the effects of timed exercise on metabolism!!!
MARCH 2019: We were awarded a Pilot grant from the Washington University Diabetes Research Center to study rhythms of insulin signaling!!!!
MAY 2019: Congratulations Bookie and Jeff!!! They were both awarded Ribble Mini-Grants!!!
April 2019: Showcase of Undergraduate Scholars
MAY 2019: The lab attended RISER (Rhythms in the Southeastern Region) at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA
SEPTEMBER 2018: Congratulations to Bookie and Jeff!!! Bookie was selected to give a trainee oral presentation and Jeff was selected to present at the datablitz at Saha Cardiovascular Research Day!
DECEMBER 2018: Secret Santa Party!
APRIL 2019: Jodi presented her research at the Experimental Biology Meeting in Orlando, FL
JULY 2019: Lab BBQ
October 2018: Lab Outing to Keeneland
SEPTEMBER 2019: Congratulations DR. Matt Thomas!!! Matt defended his thesis and is out of here!
SEPTEMBER 2019: The Pendergast Lab hosted the first ever TeaHM Time (=snacks before seminar)
NOVEMBER 2019: Congrats Bukola! Check out her first ever first-author paper in AJP-ENDO
MARCH 2021: Congrats to current and former lab members--Tiffany, Bukola, Luke, Cameron, Ellora, Jodi, and Jeff--their paper is out in AJP-REG!
DECEMBER 2019: Congrats Matt! His timed exercise clinical study is out in JCI Insight!
MAY 2021: Congrats Tori and Liz! Their review paper about estrogens and the circadian system is out in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology!
JUNE 2020: Congrats Jeff! His first first-author paper is out in Scientific reports!
MAY 2020: We had to go virtual for SRBR this year, but still had fun! Bukola, Victoria, and Brad presented posters . Brad won a merit award for his abstract!
OCTOBER 2020: Brad was invited to give a platform talk at the virtual UK Neuroscience Clinical-Translational Research Symposium
NOVEMBER 2020: Bukola and Brad presented posters at the Virtual Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Research Day. Bukola won 3rd place best poster presentation!!!
MAY 2020: Congrats BUKOLA! She was awarded a Biology Morgan fellowship!!!
MAY 2021: Congrats Cameron!!! He was awarded a UK summer undergraduate research fellowship!!! .
DECEMBER 2019: Secret Santa Party!
MAY 2021: Congrats Tori and Liz! They were awarded Ribble mini-grants!
Summer 2022: Nick, Shannon, and Abraham were awarded summer research fellowships! And Amro joined us for the summer as an KY-INBRE summer fellow!
JUNE 2021: The lab receives an NSF CAREER award!
JUNE 2020: SRBR was virtual this year, so no photos, but....Victoria, Bookie, and Brad presented posters AND Brad won a Merit Award!!!
JUNE 2022: Congrats Tori!!!! She was awarded a Biology Merit Fellowship!!!
MAY 2022: SRBR was a blast! Liz gave a podium presentation, Bookie won a Merit Award and Emmett Chappelle award, and Tori, Cameron, Matt, and Nazmul presented posters!!!
Summer 2021: Lab boat day!!!
APRIL 2022: Lab day at Keeneland!
July 2022: Congrats Dr. Bukola Omotola! Bookie defended her thesis and is off to UK Med School to become a Dr. Dr.!!!
July 2022: Congrats to Liz! She is a Master of Biology!
May 2021: Brad and Mitch graduate with their MS in Biology!
April 2022: Abraham, Cameron, Elijah, Nick, and our BIO380 CURE researchers presented their data!
