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Currently I am supported through the Water, the Environment, Science and Teaching (WEST) fellowship program. This program pairs science based graduate students and public schools within Salt Lake City School District to enhance scientific curriculum and foster student interest in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Outside of the laboratory my scientific exploits include passaging Saccharomyces cerevisiae in maltose solutions, cultivating Humulus lupulus, and Gallus gallus husbandry. |
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I am testing our POP (Performance of Organisms in Phenotrons) assays on wild mice as a generalized screen for any substance or procedure that might negatively impact human or mammalian health. It has proven sensitive and powerful at detecting health consequences of genetic conditions that had remained invisible to traditional methodologies (Meagher et al. 2000, Carroll et al. 2004 and Ilmonen et al. 2008). I have currently demonstrated dramatic reductions in health due to a diet of 25% calories coming from HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) – a diet which is similar to one experienced by 20% of Americans and within RDIs approved by the FDA.