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 Microbiologyhttps://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/urldefense.us/v3/__https:/bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12866-024-03344-y*Ack1__;Iw!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!zu9BAKo6nb1jDUflsDKtGqKQffNJqUUXllt57947Xle-Y682DVgdUVwPkZEmk9q740Nww1kQkhKwcao$__;Kg!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!GkkMIcmcISV5KYEo5W1PCPtGk11UN7YFLrXNLfXLfAOjAlX0rkFaGGAl71QGnTNEny_PdxgCKglB$. 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
[University of Nebraska – Lincoln] 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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aocs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/155... > Fellow of the American Oil Chemists' Society Past President of the American Oil Chemists' Society (2022-2023)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.aocs.org__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!Em0I6Eh... >
Here’s Car Reen’s new email: kok1@llnl.govmailto: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 21st 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 Microbiologyhttps://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/urldefense.us/v3/__https:/bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12866-024-03344-y*Ack1__;Iw!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!zu9BAKo6nb1jDUflsDKtGqKQffNJqUUXllt57947Xle-Y682DVgdUVwPkZEmk9q740Nww1kQkhKwcao$__;Kg!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!GkkMIcmcISV5KYEo5W1PCPtGk11UN7YFLrXNLfXLfAOjAlX0rkFaGGAl71QGnTNEny_PdxgCKglB$. 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
[University of Nebraska – Lincoln] 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' Societyhttps://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/aocs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15589331__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!Em0I6Eh3-TweNBGlRqhOuLO92Z9FgRZFR7evVFbObLQv64ny3RemAOh8MFtdaKWrTlGtCqGlSpu0mQKKBFxx792bXsxRVUQn$ Fellow of the American Oil Chemists' Society Past President of the American Oil Chemists' Society (2022-2023)https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.aocs.org__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!Em0I6Eh3-TweNBGlRqhOuLO92Z9FgRZFR7evVFbObLQv64ny3RemAOh8MFtdaKWrTlGtCqGlSpu0mQKKBFxx792bXkfqvRL5$
Thanks Jennifer! Silvana
[University of Nebraska – Lincoln] 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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aocs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/155... > Fellow of the American Oil Chemists' Society Past President of the American Oil Chemists' Society (2022-2023)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.aocs.org__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!HVOm56w... >
From: Jennifer Auchtung jauchtung2@unl.edu Sent: Monday, April 14, 2025 8:07 PM To: Silvana Martini smartini2@unl.edu; 'fdst-all-building@lists.unl.edu' fdst-all-building@lists.unl.edu Subject: Re: Cool news from one of our graduates
Here’s Car Reen’s new email: kok1@llnl.govmailto: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 21st St, 270 FIC University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588 517-488-4990
From: Silvana Martini <smartini2@unl.edumailto:smartini2@unl.edu> Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM To: "'fdst-all-building@lists.unl.edu'" <fdst-all-building@lists.unl.edumailto: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 Microbiologyhttps://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/urldefense.us/v3/__https:/bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12866-024-03344-y*Ack1__;Iw!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!zu9BAKo6nb1jDUflsDKtGqKQffNJqUUXllt57947Xle-Y682DVgdUVwPkZEmk9q740Nww1kQkhKwcao$__;Kg!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!GkkMIcmcISV5KYEo5W1PCPtGk11UN7YFLrXNLfXLfAOjAlX0rkFaGGAl71QGnTNEny_PdxgCKglB$. 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
[University of Nebraska – Lincoln] 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' Societyhttps://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/aocs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15589331__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!Em0I6Eh3-TweNBGlRqhOuLO92Z9FgRZFR7evVFbObLQv64ny3RemAOh8MFtdaKWrTlGtCqGlSpu0mQKKBFxx792bXsxRVUQn$ Fellow of the American Oil Chemists' Society Past President of the American Oil Chemists' Society (2022-2023)https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.aocs.org__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!Em0I6Eh3-TweNBGlRqhOuLO92Z9FgRZFR7evVFbObLQv64ny3RemAOh8MFtdaKWrTlGtCqGlSpu0mQKKBFxx792bXkfqvRL5$
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