News and activities

Sierra presents at the NC GEMS Annual Meeting, October 2019

Mark presents at the NC GEMS Annual Meeting, October 2019

Mike receives an ESI Invited Poster Award from NIEHS Director Linda Birnbaum, June 2019

Congrats to Dr Hudson! March 2019

Evan Walsh wins an Office of Undergraduate Research Grant, December 2017

Jesse wins an Office of Undergraduate Research grant, August 2017

Evan Lamb presents his work, April 2016

2020

• The lab has been awarded a new R01 from NIEHS! This 5 year project will study the role of imprinted genes in programming liver disease after developmental exposure to cadmium (May 2020)
  

2019

• The Cowley Lab wins the holiday door decoration competition! (December 2020)
  

• Brie wins an Office of Undergraduate Research grant to study mechanisms of imprinting regulation! (November 2019)

• The lab wins a feasibility study grant from UNC CGIBD to study epigenetic dysregulation of the Imprinted Gene Network in liver disease (October 2019)

 

• Marine wins a Best Poster award at the UNC CGIBD Annual Symposium! (October 2019)

 

• Sierra and Mark both present posters at the NCSOT and NC GEMS Annual Meetings (NC, October 2019)

 

• Our new paper in Nature's Scientific Reports shows that early life cadmium exposure can increase susceptibility to hypertension in mice and explores the underlying mechanisms (September 2019)

 

• The Cowley Lab hosts Caroline, a high school teacher, as part of an NIEHS-sponsored program to boost EHS awareness among children (August 2019)

 

• Mike and Marine participate in the Gordon Conference on Epigenetics (NH, August 2019)

 

• Mike wins an Early Stage Investigator Invited Poster Award at the Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers Annual Meeting (IA, June 2019)

 

• Huge congratulations to Dr Katie Hudson on her successful PhD defense! (March 2019)

 

• Another successful exhibit at Brain and Behavior Night at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences (March 2019)

 

• The Cowley Lab participates in the legendary Krispy Kreme Challenge as part of Team Bereman Brave! (February 2019)

2018

• Our new paper in Proc R Soc B explores how high fat diet influences the behavioral relationships between a mother and her offspring (November 2018)

• The lab wins a CHHE Pilot Project Award to investigate a novel function for imprinted genes in the programming of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (June 2018)

 

• Congratulations to Katie who wins the runner up-prize for Best Presentation at the Keck Center Student & Postdoc Symposium! (May 2018)

 

• Congratulations to Jesse and Evan who BOTH win Outstanding Presentation Awards at the Undergraduate Research Symposium! Click here to read the full news article (April 2018)

 

• Brain and Behavior Night at the Museum! Our 'epigenetics game' was a hit! See more pictures in our Photo Gallery (March 2018)

 

• A new collaborative paper from the Cowley/Hoyo labs in Environ Health Perspect identifies imprinting control regions as hotspots for DNA methylation changes associated with cadmium exposure (March 2018)
  

 

• Mike co-organizes the 2018 CHHE Annual Symposium on 'Epigenetics, Environment, and Human Health' along with Prof. Randy Jirtle. Read the news article in NIH's Environmental Factor (February 2018)

2017

• Evan W. secures a grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research! He will study multi-generational effects of high fat diet (December 2017)

 

• Mike gives a talk at the EMGS Annual Meeting describing findings from a whole genome bisulfite sequencing study in children exposed to cadmium (NC, September 2017)

 

• The lab wins its first major grant from NIEHS! We will study how cadmium disrupts the methylome and imprinted gene regulation in development. See our Funding page for details (September 2017)

 

• Mike presents at the Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetics, showing that DNA methylation at imprinting control regions is highly sensitive to cadmium exposure (NH, August 2017)

 

• Marine participates in the Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance workshop in Zurich where she presents a poster describing her recent work, and gives a talk on findings from her PhD (August 2017)

 

• Jesse wins a grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research! He will study how imprinted genes are dysregulated by endocrine disruptors (August 2017)

 

• Marine wins Best Poster Prize for the College of Sciences at the NC State Postdoctoral Research Symposium! (May 2017)

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• Mike presents a poster at the SOT Annual Meeting (MD) on genome-wide DNA methylation changes associated with cadmium exposure in humans (March 2017)
  

2016

• Katie and Mike participate in the Toxicoepigenetics workshop (VA), where Katie presents a poster on how cadmium affects DNA methyltransferase gene expression (October 2016)

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• Marine presents a poster of her work on developmental exposure to maternal over-nutrition at the 2nd Danube Conference on Epigenetics, in Budapest (October 2016)

 

• Katie receives a Provost Research Award to study how cadmium impacts expression of the DNA methyltransferases through modulating the structure of a key transcription factor (April 2016)

 

• Evan L. presents his work on diet and maternal/offspring interactions at the NCSU Undergraduate Research Symposium, and at the Keck Center Symposium (April 2016)
  

2015

• Lab wins Genetics Holiday party ornament contest! (December 2015)

 

• The lab wins funding to study the interactions between endocrine disruptors and epigenetics in an ES cell model (August 2015)
  

• Mike wins a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award to study the relationship between over-nutrition during development and the epigenome (June 2015)