Prevention of inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer: identification of novel risk factors, therapeutic targets, and biomarkers
Dr. Guodong Zhang
Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
About
the Speaker
Dr. Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Food Science and Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He obtained his BS of Chemistry from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China (2003), MS of Chemistry from National University of Singapore (2005), PhD of Food Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010), and performed postdoctoral training at the University of California-Davis (2010-13).
Talk
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The incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which is characterized by chronic inflammation in small intestine and colon tissues, are dramatically increasing in the US and other countries. IBD severely impacts life quality of the patients. Symptoms include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and rectal bleeding; to date, there is no cure of IBD. In addition, IBD patients have increased risks of developing colon cancer. It is estimated that more than 20% of IBD patients would develop colon cancer, and more than 50% of these patients would die from colon cancer.
Our research focuses on prevention of IBD and IBD-associated colon cancer. To achieve this, we address two issues: (1) identification and characterization of novel environmental risk factors of IBD and colon cancer. We study how environmental and dietary compounds alter gut microbiome and deregulate mucosal immune system to exaggerate colonic inflammation and colon tumorigenesis; and (2) discovery of novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers of IBD and colon cancer. We use LC-MS/MS-based lipidomics and transgenic animal models to study the roles of eicosanoid signaling in colonic inflammation and colon cancer, in order to identify novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers of these diseases.
时间：2018年6月21日14:00-15:30
地点：行政办公楼628会议室（原620-12会议室）
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