December 2024: Congratulations to Ruoci for receiving the Mark R. Lambrecht Award from the Department of Physiology and Biophysics!

October 2024: Congratulations to Ruoci and Shaolei for being named Outstanding Poster Awardees at the Diabetes and Obesity Research Day!

 

August 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Jiang on the promotion to the rank of Associate Professor on Indefinite Tenure!

June 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Jiang for receiving prestigious Young Investigator Award from @CADA!

June 2024: Congratulations to the Jiang Lab for the new publication entitled “Macrophage-derived chemokine CCL22 establishes local LN-mediated adaptive thermogenesis and energy expenditure” published in Science Advances!

June 2024: Congratulations to the Jiang Lab for the new publication entitled “Estrogen counteracts age-related decline in beige adipogenesis through the NAMPT-regulated ER stress response” published in Nature Aging.

May 2024: Congratulations to Yanyu Qian for passing the prelim exam!

April 2024: Congratulations to the Jiang Lab for the new publication entitled “The Notch-PDGFRβ axis suppresses brown adipocyte progenitor differentiation in early post-natal mice” published in Developmental Cell.

December 2023: Congratulations to our rising stars, Shaolei and Ruoci, for receiving the 2024 AHA Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Fellowships!

October 2023: Congratulations to Shi for winning the poster award and to Ruoci for being selected as a speaker at UIC Diabetes Day!

August 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Shi on successfully defending their thesis!

May 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Jiang and her team for their publication “Genetically prolonged beige fat in male mice confers long-lasting metabolic health" in Nature Communications! Beige adipocytes quickly transition into white adipocytes upon removing stimuli, limiting their therapeutic potential for chronic metabolic diseases. In this study, the authors show that inhibiting Cdkn2a-Becn1-mediated autophagy can maintain beige adipocytes and provide long-term metabolic health benefits.

March 2023: Congratulations to Pratibha on being awarded a Spring 2023 Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant!

December 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Jiang on receiving the Department Rising Star Award!

June 2022: Congratulations to Pratibha on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative (LASURI) award.

June 2022: Congratulations to Cedric on his best presentation award at CADA annual meeting!

May 2022: ​Excited to share that Jiang lab received its first NIH R01!

May 2022: Congratulations to Ruoci on passing her prelim exam!

March 2022: Yexian and Ruifan join the lab!

July 2021: Cedric joins the lab!

Feb 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Jiang and her team for their publication “Progenitor-like characteristics in a subgroup of UCP1+ cells within white adipose tissue” in Developmental Cell, Feb 2021. Beige adipocytes were considered post-mitotic. This study raises the possibility that new beige adipocytes can emerge by proliferation of existing beige adipocytes.

Feb 2021: Congratulations to postdoc from the Jiang lab Dr. Shin for her PI job at Seoul Women's University! 

Feb 2021: Jiang lab receives the NIH R03 award.

July 2020: Iffat joins the Jiang lab as a graduate student.

June 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Jiang and her team for their latest publication “Dynamic control of adipose tissue development and adult tissue homeostasis by platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha” in eLife. The nature of adipose stem cells is still elusive. This work provides the insight that developmental and adult adipocytes are not born equally and they utilize different regulatory mechanisms for adipose lineage commitment.

Jan 2020: Lifeng joins the lab as a research scientist.

July 2019: Jooman joins the lab as a postdoc starting on 7/16/2019

Jan 2019: Michael and Brandon join the lab 1/10/2019

Nov 2018: Sonia joins the lab as a postdoc starting on 11/1/2018.

Aug 2018: Dr. Jiang starts as an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics 8/16/18