Congratulations to Lab Mascot HARVEY for being awarded “Dog of the Month” for December 2025! Good boy, Harvey!! Visit the ‘Events’ tab to see award image.
November 6, 2025 – The Anthony lab is proud to announce that our manuscript entitled, “Amino acid insufficiency impairs hepatic vitamin A mobilization in mice” is now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Another great collaboration between the Anthony and Quadro labs! Congrats to Anthony lab team members: Chintan Bhavsar, Flavio Rodriguez-Polanco, Brian Zalma, Esther Lopez, and Saad Farooq.
October 24, 2025 – Congratulations to Saad Farooq for passing his doctoral dissertation proposal defense!!
April 9, 2025 – Congratulations to Chintan Bhavsar for receiving the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies Outstanding Master’s Student Award!!
March 10, 2025 – Congratulations to Chintan Bhavsar for successfully defending his Master’s thesis entitled, “The role of nutrient sensing pathways in regulating circulating levels of vitamin A“.
January 8, 2025 – The Anthony lab is proud to announce that our manuscript entitled, “Autophagy related 7 (ATG7) regulates food intake and liver health during asparaginase exposure” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations to first author Brian A. Zalma and coauthors Maria Ibrahim, Flavio C. Rodriguez-Polanco, Chintan Bhavsar, Esther M. Rodriguez, Eduardo Cararo-Lopes, Jordan L. Levy, Ronald C. Wek, Eileen White, Tracy G. Anthony. This was a great collaboration with the White lab!
September 12, 2024 – Congratulations to Dr. Brian A. Zalma, PhD who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled, “Mechanisms of Asparaginase-Associated Hepatic Steatosis and Dysfunction”.
August 14, 2024 – Congratulations to Dr. Jordan Levy, PhD who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled, “General Control Non-Derepressible 2 As a Homeostatic Regulator of Thermogenesis and Biological Rhythms”.
August 4-8, 2024 – Kudos to Lingyi Zhu and Chintan Bhavsar for receiving NIDDK travel grants to present their research at the Nutrient Sensing and Signaling in Metabolism FASEB SRC held in Southbridge, MA.
December 4, 2023 – The Anthony lab is proud to announce Jordan Levy’s paper (https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00181.2023), was selected for December’s #APSselect award winning article.
May 11, 2023 – Congratulations to Lingyi Zhu for being awarded the Department of Nutritional Sciences Outstanding Academic Achievement award!
May 10, 2023 – Brian Zalma presented his work on asparaginase at the TriState Cancer Metabolism meeting at Princeton University.
May 9, 2023 – The American Society for Nutrition and the ASN Foundation has selected Dr. Tracy Anthony as the recipient of the 2023 Osborne and Mendel Award. This award is given for outstanding recent basic research accomplishments in nutrition. The award is supported by the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (IAFNS).
April 14, 2023 – Congratulations to Chintan Bhavsar on successfully presenting his George H. Cook senior thesis entitled, “Mechanisms of high fat-induced liver steatosis during asparaginase exposure”.
April 14, 2023 – Congratulations to Lingyi Zhu on successfully presenting her George H. Cook senior thesis entitled, “Altered control of skeletal muscle growth and metabolism in mice lacking Bckdk“.
March 29, 2023 – Congratulations to Isha Kinjawadekar on successfully passing her molecular biology and biochemistry senior thesis defense with honors!
March 28, 2023 – The Anthony Lab is proud to announce that our manuscript entitled, “Kinetic proteomics identifies targeted changes in liver metabolism and the ribo-interactome by dietary sulfur amino acid restriction” is now published in the journal GeroScience. PMID: 36976488
March 21, 2023 – The Anthony Lab is proud to announce publication of a review article entitled, “Surviving and adapting to stress: Translational control and the integrated stress response” in the journal Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. PMID:36943285
March 15, 2023 – The Anthony Lab is proud to announce that our manuscript entitled, “A systems approach points to a therapeutic role for retinoids in asparaginase-associated pancreatitis” is now published in Science Translational Medicine. PMID: 36921036
September 24, 2022- We celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the Anthony Lab along with present and former lab members !
August 19, 2022 – Congratulations to Maria Tolentino who presented her Rutgers Youth Enjoys Science (RUYES) summer project at the Annual Research Poster Symposium Day held at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
August 17, 2022 – Congratulations to Brian Zalma who passed his doctoral thesis proposal defense!
August 16, 2022 – Congratulations to Jordan Levy who passed his doctoral thesis proposal defense!
August 15, 2022 – We warmly welcome Esther Rodriguez to The Anthony Lab team as our new lab manager. Check out her bio on the People tab!
August 11, 2022 – The Anthony Lab is pleased to announce that the Corn Hole Competition winners at The Anthony Lab 2022 summer picnic are Brian Zalma and Jordan Levy.
August 9, 2022 – Congratulations to Isha Kinjawadekar on a successful poster presentation at the Rutgers HCW-SURF symposium.
May 24, 2022 – The Anthony Lab is proud to announce that our manuscript entitled, “Activation and execution of the hepatic integrated stress response by dietary essential amino acid deprivation is amino acid specific”, was accepted for publication by The FASEB Journal. Congratulations to lead author, William Jonsson, and to contributing author Emily Mirek!
May 4th, 2022 – Congratulations to Isha Kinjawadekar who was selected to receive a competitive undergraduate research fellowship award, the Honors College with Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (HCW-SURF)!
April 4th, 2022 – Brian Zalma presented his work entitled “Autophagy is Disrupted in the Livers of Obese Mice Exposed to Asparaginase” selected for oral presentation at the “Spotlight Session- Cancer Signaling and Therapeutics” at the Experimental Biology 2022 Conference.
Congratulations to Jordan Levy for being awarded the 2022 Cell & Molecular Physiology Section Research Recognition Award – at the Experimental Biology scientific conference in Philadelphia, PA!
April 3rd, 2022 – Jordan Levy will be presented his work entitled, “Dietary Protein Quality Influences Liver Circadian Rhythms in a GCN2-dependent Manner” at Experimental Biology.
Congratulations to Caleb Prempeh who was accepted to participate in the 2021/2022 Extended Research Program offered through the NIH/NIDDK STEP-UP program. We are so happy to have you stay in the Anthony Lab, Caleb!
March 11th, 2022 – Congratulations to Dr. William Jonsson who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled “Dietary Amino Acid Restriction and the Integrated Stress Response”.
February 14th, 2022 – Brian Zalma was awarded a travel award from the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research.
December 15th, 2021 – Congratulations to Jeffrey Burns who successfully defended his Masters thesis! Jeff has accepted a job at Bristol Meyers Squibb starting in January 2022.
December 7th, 2021 – Brian Zalma was invited to present his work at the Ludwig Princeton Cancer Institute Inaugural Symposium.
November 7th, 2021 – Congratulations to Brian Zalma for completing the New York City marathon!
November 2021- Congratulations to Jeffrey Burns who received a research award from the Rutgers Center For Lipid Research!
The Anthony Lab is proud to announce that William Jonsson’s manuscript “Physiological responses to dietary sulfur amino acid restriction in mice are influenced by Atf4 status and biological sex” was accepted for publication by the Journal of Nutrition! Congratulations to lead author William, plus contributing authors Nick Margolies, Brian Zalma, Jordan Levy, and Emily Mirek!
November 13th, 2020 – Well done William Jonsson on an excellent presentation at the monthly meeting of the Rutgers RNA Club!
November 4th, 2020 – Great job William Jonsson and Jordan Levy, who presented their original data at the second IFNH Annual Research Day!
October 23rd, 2020 – Congratulations to William Jonsson for a very well-done presentation at the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s NC-1184 Annual Meeting!ions to lead author William, plus contributing authors Nick Margolies, Brian Zalma, Jordan Levy, and Emily Mirek!
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