When you hear the words ‘brown seaweed’, you may have an image of a slimy and not particularly attractive plant in your mind. Perhaps you’ve heard of the usefulness of this marine plant as a dietary supplement. For University of Tampa organic chemist Dr. Richard Squitieri, padina gymnospora, found right here in Tampa Bay, mayContinue reading “Seaweed: a new tool in the cancer-fighting toolbox?”
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Symposium: Krishna’s Mahabharatas
On Friday, Dr. Sohini S. Pillai presented her work on different version of the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian epic. Dr. Pillai is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Director of Film and Media Studies at Kalamazoo College, where she teaches courses on religious traditions in South Asia, religion in cinema, and epic literature. She isContinue reading “Symposium: Krishna’s Mahabharatas”
Symposium: Identifying Mechanisms of Antioxidant Treatment on the Warburg Effect in drug resistant breast cancer by Dr. Kimberly Dobrinski
Dr. Dobrinski presented her research — some of which was alongside Honors students — on breast cancer at the year’s final symposium. Dr. Dobrinski is a professor of Biology at UT. Her area of specialty is Molecular Biology and Genomics with a focus on disease including cancer. In her presentation, she broke down different typesContinue reading “Symposium: Identifying Mechanisms of Antioxidant Treatment on the Warburg Effect in drug resistant breast cancer by Dr. Kimberly Dobrinski”