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Activities and Updates from the Hull Body Composition Laboratory

2020

Abstracts by Amy Herman were accepted for the American Society for Nutrition 2020 Conference in Seattle, Wash. They were titled "A Single-Goal Fiber Intervention Does Not Compromise Nutritional Intake During Pregnancy" and "Differences in Gut Microbiota Following a High-Fiber Diet During Pregnancy." This event was canceled due to COVID-19 (June 2020).

An abstract by Lauren Hand was accepted for the American Society for Nutrition 2020 Conference in Seattle, Wash. It was titled "Impact of Lifestyle Interventions on Quality and Consumption of Hyper-Palatable Foods within Gestational Diets: Single-Goal vs. Multiple-Goal." This event was canceled due to COVID-19 (June 2020).

An abstract by Sarah Horton was accepted for the American Society for Nutrition 2020 Conference in Seattle, Wash. It was titled "Dietary Self-Monitoring Related to Appropriate Weight Gain in Pregnancy." This event was canceled due to COVID-19 (June 2020).

Amy Herman was to present "Fat Mass Gained on a High Fiber Diet During Pregnancy Influenced by Baseline Gut Bacteroides Levels" at KU Medical Center’s 2020 Student Research Forum. This event was postponed due to COVID-19 (April 2020).

Lauren Hand was to present "Single-Goal Intervention Improves Diet Quality in Pregnant Women" at KU Medical Center’s 2020 Student Research Forum. This event was postponed due to COVID-19 (April 2020).

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Aline Andres, Ph.D., RD, (at left, above) associate director for clinical research at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, visited the Hull lab team to discuss improvement of research methods and data collection. Andres serves as a consultant for the ADORE GAINS study (March 2020).

Amy Herman created a poster to present at Keystone Symposia: A Gut-Systemic Perspective for Metabolic Disease in Santa Fe, N.M. Her poster was titled "Fat Mass Gained on a High Fiber Diet During Pregnancy Influenced by Baseline Gut Microbial Bacteroides Levels." This event was canceled due to COVID-19 (March 2020).

Lauren Hand created a poster to present at Keystone Symposia: A Gut-Systemic Perspective for Metabolic Disease in Santa Fe, N.M. Her poster was titled "Fiber Intake Changes Gut Phascolarctobacterium Abundance: Impact on Maternal Body Composition." This event was canceled due to COVID-19 (March 2020).

Amy Herman presented "Differences in Gut Microbiota Following a High-Fiber Diet During Pregnancy" at The 51st Annual Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum in Omaha, Neb. She placed second in the graduate student oral category. Congratulations, Amy! (February 2020).


2019

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Jennifer Cauble, Ph.D., RD, (above, left) graduated from KU's doctoral program in medical nutrition science. More information about her dissertation can be found on the student work page (December 2019).

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Amy Herman (above) presented "A High-Fiber Diet Intervention During Pregnancy Favorably Improves the Microbiota" at the Obesity Society Obesity Week Conference in Las Vegas, Nev. (November 2019).

Laura Castro de Santiago attended KU Medical Center’s 2019 Latinx Research Day. She also participated in the planning committee for this event (October 2019).

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Sarah Horton (above, left) graduated from the University of Kansas Medical Center with a master’s degree in dietetics and nutrition (May 2019).

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Amy Herman (above) presented "A High-Fiber Diet Intervention During Pregnancy Favorably Improves the Microbiota" during the 2019 Student Research Forum at KU Medical Center (April 2019).

Interested in Participating in a Research Project?

This lab is not currently enrolling any studies to outside participants. However, women 12-20 weeks pregnant may be interested in the Assessment of DHA on Reducing Early Preterm Birth (ADORE) trial.

Participants are eligible to have their children participate in the ADORE GAINS study, a follow-up to ADORE investigating the effect of prenatal DHA supplementation on a baby’s body composition.


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Lab Director

Holly Hull, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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