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Giles, Erin
Erin Giles
Assistant Professor
Office:
214A Cater-Mattil
Email:
egiles@tamu.edu
Phone:
979-459-1849
https://gileslab.tamu.edu/
Undergraduate Education
B.Sc. in Bio-Medical Science (Honours)
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 2000
Graduate Education
Ph.D.in Medical Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2007
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Anschutz Health and Wellness Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
Awards
2018-Fellow, 2018 cohort, NCI Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC)
2017-Komen Obesity-Breast Cancer Grand Challenge Competition, 2nd Place Award
2015-Outstanding Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Nutrition Obesity Research Center
2014-Colorado Center for Women’s Health Research - Junior Faculty Research Development Award
2014-Postdoctoral Fellow of the Year, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, University of Colorado School of Medicine
2014-Top Abstract, The Obesity Society – Obesity & Cancer Section
2014-Travel Award - Integrating Resistant Starch, Microbiome, and Disease Risk Reduction Symposium
2013-Early Career Travel Award, Endocrine Society Annual Meeting
2012-Research Recognition Award, American Physiological Society, Integrative Biology of Exercise IV Meeting
2012-Winning Poster, University of Colorado Postdoctoral Research Day
2010-Colorado Nutrition and Obesity Research Center Pilot Award
2010-American Institute for Cancer Research Fellowship
2009-Thorkildensen Research Fellowship
2009-Early Career Investigator Travel Award, Kern Aspen Lipid Conference
2009-Travel Award, FASEB Summer Research Conference - The Physiological Basis for Obesity Therapeutics
2008-University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine Research Day 1st place - Postdoctoral Fellows Category
2006-McMaster University Department of Oncology Residents Research Day 1st place (oral)
2003-Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Research Fellowship
2003-Travel Award, Gordon Research Conference - Insulin-Like Growth Factors in Physiology & Disease, Scholar
2001-2003 -Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2000-2001-Graduate Scholarship, McMaster University
1999-Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award, University of Guelph

Research Interest

I am currently building a research program that uses an integrative, translational approach to understand the mechanisms by which obesity promotes postmenopausal breast cancers. My work focuses on understanding how the obese microenvironment, when combined with the metabolic and hormonal changes associated with menopause, promote tumor development, survival, and growth.  In parallel, I am investigating the role of adipose tissue inflammation in the development of metabolic disease after menopause. My hope is that the knowledge gained from studying the ‘normal’ adipose and breast environments during menopause will also help us understand the changes that occur to create a tumor-promoting environment in the breast of obese women during this same window of time.

Publications

  1. Wellberg, EA, Corleto, KA, Checkley, LA, Jindal, S, Johnson, G, Higgins, JA et al.. Preventing ovariectomy-induced weight gain decreases tumor burden in rodent models of obesity and postmenopausal breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res. 2022;24 (1):42. doi: 10.1186/s13058-022-01535-x. PubMed PMID:35725493 .
  2. Kotta, AS, Kelling, AS, Corleto, KA, Sun, Y, Giles, ED. Ghrelin and Cancer: Examining the Roles of the Ghrelin Axis in Tumor Growth and Progression. Biomolecules. 2022;12 (4):. doi: 10.3390/biom12040483. PubMed PMID:35454071 PubMed Central PMC9032665.
  3. Baine, RE, Johnston, DT, Strain, MM, Henwood, MK, Davis, JA, Reynolds, JA et al.. Noxious Stimulation Induces Acute Hemorrhage and Impairs Long-Term Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) in Female Rats: Evidence Estrous Cycle May Have a Modulatory Effect. Neurotrauma Rep. 2022;3 (1):70-86. doi: 10.1089/neur.2021.0055. PubMed PMID:35112109 PubMed Central PMC8804264.
  4. Schembre, SM, Jospe, MR, Giles, ED, Sears, DD, Liao, Y, Basen-Engquist, KM et al.. A Low-Glucose Eating Pattern Improves Biomarkers of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk: An Exploratory Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Feasibility Trial. Nutrients. 2021;13 (12):. doi: 10.3390/nu13124508. PubMed PMID:34960058 PubMed Central PMC8707938.
  5. Fabian, CJ, Klemp, JR, Marchello, NJ, Vidoni, ED, Sullivan, DK, Nydegger, JL et al.. Rapid Escalation of High-Volume Exercise during Caloric Restriction; Change in Visceral Adipose Tissue and Adipocytokines in Obese Sedentary Breast Cancer Survivors. Cancers (Basel). 2021;13 (19):. doi: 10.3390/cancers13194871. PubMed PMID:34638355 PubMed Central PMC8508448.
  6. Glenny, EM, Coleman, MF, Giles, ED, Wellberg, EA, Hursting, SD. Designing Relevant Preclinical Rodent Models for Studying Links Between Nutrition, Obesity, Metabolism, and Cancer. Annu Rev Nutr. 2021;41 :253-282. doi: 10.1146/annurev-nutr-120420-032437. PubMed PMID:34357792 PubMed Central PMC8900211.
  7. Fabian, CJ, Befort, CA, Phillips, TA, Nydegger, JL, Kreutzjans, AL, Powers, KR et al.. Change in Blood and Benign Breast Biomarkers in Women Undergoing a Weight-Loss Intervention Randomized to High-Dose ω-3 Fatty Acids versus Placebo. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2021;14 (9):893-904. doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-20-0656. PubMed PMID:34244155 PubMed Central PMC8416797.
  8. Giles, ED, Wellberg, EA. Preclinical Models to Study Obesity and Breast Cancer in Females: Considerations, Caveats, and Tools. J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasia. 2020;25 (4):237-253. doi: 10.1007/s10911-020-09463-2. PubMed PMID:33146844 PubMed Central PMC8197449.
  9. Giles, ED, Brown, IL, MacLean, PS, Pan, Z, Melanson, EL, Heard, KJ et al.. The In Vivo Net Energy Content of Resistant Starch and Its Effect on Macronutrient Oxidation in Healthy Adults. Nutrients. 2019;11 (10):. doi: 10.3390/nu11102484. PubMed PMID:31623184 PubMed Central PMC6835355.
  10. Presby, DM, Checkley, LA, Jackman, MR, Higgins, JA, Jones, KL, Giles, ED et al.. Regular exercise potentiates energetically expensive hepatic de novo lipogenesis during early weight regain. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2019;317 (5):R684-R695. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00074.2019. PubMed PMID:31553623 PubMed Central PMC6879845.
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