This article identifies intestinal enteroendocrine cell subtypes in zebrafish and provides the first systematic description of the peptide hormones they produce. Published in PLOS Biology.
This article reveals that the epithelial transcription factor Elf3 mediates host immune responses to microbiota and protects against aerocystitis in zebrafish. Published in mBio.
The Rawls lab is happy to welcome Dr. Laura Childers, a new postdoctoral fellow who recently received her Ph.D. in Dr. Michel Bagnat’s lab here at Duke University. Laura is supported by the Digestive Disease… Welcome Laura Childers!
The Rawls lab bids a fond farewell to Lizzie Reich who has worked with our lab and the Duke Zebrafish Core Facility as a Research Technician for the past two years.
Congratulations and farewell to Briana Davis and Maggie Morash on their successful defenses of their Ph.D. dissertations! Bri is moving on to be a Medical Writer with AdMed in Philadelphia, and Maggie is returning to… Farewell to Briana Davis and Maggie Morash!
This review article summarizes recent insights from human and animal studies into early subclinical stages of the inflammatory bowel diseases. Published in Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol.
The labs of John Rawls, Stacy Horner, and Carolyn Coyne (Duke University), Balfour Sartor (UNC Chapel Hill) are happy and grateful to have received a new NIDDK R01 grant to define the the roles of… Rawls lab receives new collaborative R01 grant to how microbiota regulates intestinal epithelial gene transcription!
This award will support Jia’s research into regional control of lipid absorption and metabolism in the zebrafish.
