Here’s Car Reen’s new email: kok1@llnl.gov if you want to contact her to congratulate her.

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Jennifer Auchtung, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Food Science and Technology

1901 N 21^st St, 270 FIC

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lincoln, NE 68588

517-488-4990

From: Silvana Martini <smartini2@unl.edu>
Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
To: "'fdst-all-building@lists.unl.edu'" <fdst-all-building@lists.unl.edu>
Subject: Cool news from one of our graduates

Congratulations to Car Reen Kok for being named the recipient of the Global Prebiotics Association (GPA) 2025 Young Researcher Award for Applied Research. The award is based on her paper “Identification of carbohydrate gene clusters obtained from in vitro fermentations as predictive biomarkers of prebiotic responses” published in BMC Microbiology. Devin Rose, Juan Cui from Computer Science, Lisa Whisenhunt from the Nebraska Food for Health Center (NFHC), and Bob Hutkins were co-authors on the paper that was funded in part by the NFHC.

Car Reen earned her B.S. from UNL in Biochemistry and then moved to Bob Hutkins’ lab for her M.S. in Food Science and Technology and her Ph.D. in Complex Biosystems. She is now a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

I know many of you know Car Reen, so please help me congratulate her and her team on this outstanding accomplishment!

Congrats!

Silvana

Silvana Martini, PhD Professor, Department Head University of Nebraska–Lincoln Food Science & Technology Lincoln, NE 402-472-5267 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society Fellow of the American Oil Chemists' Society Past President of the American Oil Chemists' Society (2022-2023)