Lab News

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

APRIL 2021: The lab receives its first NIH R01 award!

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!!!