What's "In the News" in the Camell Lab!

Declan Smith has been awarded an AAI Young Investigator Award for the 2024 Autumn Immunology Conference! This award is given to the top abstract in each workshop. Well done and congratulations!!

Congratulations to first author Anna Carey and all co-authors on the publication of her most recent project entitled "B-cell interleukin 1 receptor 1 modulates the female adipose tissue immune microenvironment during aging" in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology! Check it out here!

Congratulations to Wei-Ching (Lulu) Shih on the publication of her first author manuscript entitled "Role for BLT1 in regulating inflammation within adipose tissue immune cells of aged mice" in Immunity & Aging! Done in collaboration with Dr. David Bernlohr and other Camell lab members, this work is the result of Lulu's M.S. thesis work. Check it out in the Obesity and Immunosenescence collection here!

In Hwa awarded the ICIS-Pfizer Junior Investigator Award for Most Promising Research Presentation at Cytokines 2024. Congrats Ina! This award will support her travel for an oral presentation at an international conference. https://cytokinesociety.org/congratulations-in-hwa-jang-icis-pfizer-junior-investigator-award-winner-at-cytokines-2024/?amp=1

Congratulations to Korbyn Dahlquist for being awarded the 2024-2025 UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship! The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) gives the University's most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write their dissertation during the fellowship year.

Congratulations to Korbyn Dahlquist and Anna Carey for receiving the 2024 BMBB Graduate Student Leadership Award (KD) and the President's Student Leadership and Service Award (AC)!

Anna Carey was invited to give an oral presentation at the 5th Annual Midwest Aging Consortium and received an award in recognition of the presentation. Congrats Anna!

Title: Age-associated accumulation of B cells promotes macrophage inflammation and inhibits lipolysis in adipose tissue during sepsis.

Congratulations to first author Korbyn Dahlquist and all co-authors for the publication of her project in Nature Aging! PD1 blockade improves survival and CD8⁺ cytotoxic capacity, without increasing inflammation, during normal microbial experience in old mice. Check it out here!

The Camell Lab celebrated the first graduate student thesis defense! Congrats to Lulu Shih on a very successful presentation and Masters of Science in Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics!

Congratulations to Declan and Katie who presented their research posters at the University of Minnesota Undergraduate Symposium!

Katie Nguyen: Examining Cellular Senescence and Brown-Adipose-Like Features of Cardiac Adipose Tissue in Female Mice.

Declan Smith: Detecting senescence in immune cell populations during natural aging using gH2AX via multiparameter flow cytometry.

Congrats to In Hwa (Ina) Jang for being awarded the 2024-2025 Arnold H. Johnson Fellowship. This fellowship is given to a talented graduate student pursuing innovative research in the areas of nutrition or metabolism.

Congratulations to the first author, Anna Carey, for the publication of her project. It was done in collaboration with Drs. Thomas Griffith (UMN) and Vladimir Badovinac (U of Iowa). Congrats also to other Camell lab members/alumni who worked on this project. Check it out here!

Congratulations to Victor Kruglov and Ina Jang on their recent publication!
Inflammaging and fatty acid oxidation in monocytes and macrophages - Check it out here!

Congratulations to Katie Nguyen for receiving the UROP Award!
Katie Nguyen, undergraduate student, won the UROP Award to perform independent research on her project titled "Examining Cellular Senescence and Brown Adipose-Like Features of Cardiac Adipose Tissue in Female and Male Mice." More information on the University of Minnesota UROP award can be found here! Nice job, Katie!

2023

Congratulations to Victor Kruglov of the Camell lab on his recent award for TOP Abstract at the Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Victor Kruglov was selected for an oral presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by Integrative Biology and Physiology. He also won an award for top abstract! Great job, Victor!

Congratulations to Korbyn and Anna of the Camell lab on their recent travel awards!
Korbyn Dahlquist and Anna Carey have been selected to receive travel awards to the American Association of Immunology Conference in May of 2023 in Washington, DC! They have also been invited to give poster/oral presentations. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Anna Carey on receiving the 2023 Frederick E. Shideman Leadership Award!
The Shideman Leadership Award recognizes exemplary contributions to the Pharmacology community, made outside of the research lab, by a senior PhD student.

Congratulations to Dr. Camell on her recent awards!
Christina Camell, PhD, received the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship! The goal of the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship Program is to advance the careers of assistant professors at a crucial point in their professional lives. The designation of “McKnight Land-Grant Professor” is held by recipients for a two-year period. Congratulations, Dr. Camell!

Christina Camell, PhD, received a notice of award for her competitive submission to the National Institute on Aging titled Role of PD1 and IL-10 during infection in aging. This 2-year project seeks to investigate the potential difference(s) in the molecular and cellular mechanisms modulating the inflammatory response to infection in existing mouse models of aging. Dr. Camell is a member of the core faculty of iBAM and holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics (BMBB) as well as graduate faculty appointments in the Departments of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics (MPaT) and Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology (MICaB).

Declan presenting a poster at the UMN Undergraduate Research Symposium.