ACROSS
1 Corner piece
5 Singer James
9 One of more
than 21 million
Indians
13 British nobleman
14 Composer
Janácek
15 Perfect
17 Shot that can’t be
blocked
19 Complaint
20 Office supply
22 Elbows, e.g.
25 Cause to roll in
the aisles
26 Electrolysis
particle
27 Jaguar, for one
30 Queen who
succeeded
William III
31 Ring result
32 Support for many
a 29-Down
33 More degrading
34 Gucci competitor
36 Parade sight
38 “My thoughts
are ... ”
40 Economist Smith
41 Special __
44 “The Daily Show”
host Trevor __
45 Malt option
48 Queen’s subject
49 “__ a man who
wasn’t there”
50 Pug or Peke
51 Certain trio
member
55 Really enjoyed
56 Hard times
60 Haggard of
country
61 Sets a price of
62 Not in the pink
63 R&B-influenced
genre
64 Editor’s mark
65 Catering aid
DOWN
1 NBA employee
2 Homonym of
3-Down
3 Homonym of
2-Down
4 Habitual booster?
5 Pre-coll.
6 Gull relative
7 Film for which
Jessica Lange
won her first Oscar
8 Plus
9 __ cup
10 Inventor’s need
11 Stock
12 “Try this”
16 “My Fair Lady”
lyricist
18 People mover
21 “Norma __”
22 Square on a
muffin
23 Relative of a puffin
24 What many a
countdown clock
does
28 Suffix denoting
resemblance
29 Support garb
30 Gp. for drivers
33 Military aircraft
hold
35 Bit of a cheer
36 Org. regulating
vaccines
37 __ school
38 Needing to be
bailed out ... or
where 20-, 27-,
45- and 51-
Across may be
found
39 Supports a
cause
40 Most dilettantish
42 Opposite of
post-
43 Qantas hub, in
itineraries
45 Site of the
George W. Bush
presidential
library
46 Eco-friendly
wheels
47 Antarctic explorer
Shackleton
49 Force
52 Pilot’s alphabet
ender
53 Wedding tradition
54 MIT center?:
Abbr.
57 __ bubble
58 Record label for
P!nk
59 Something to
look up to
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ACROSS
1 Mimic
4 Dreidel stakes
8 “The Avengers”
co-star
12 Droops
14 Two-dimensional
figure
15 2013 Literature
Nobelist
16 With the circled
letter over, self-
ruled entity
18 “Breakfast at
Tiffany’s” co-star
19 Website revenue
source
20 “Now wait just a
sec ... ”
22 Some bling
23 Where many kids
squirm
24 Passage
26 One who really
gets in your
head?
30 Where a “cluck
and grunt” might
be ordered
31 Response to an
order
32 With the circled
letter over,
humanitarian
goal
35 Corp. bigwigs
37 “Double Fantasy”
artist
38 “I got it”
39 With the circled
letter over,
undercover
missions
44 Favorable, as a
contract
45 Some aides
46 Actors change
them often
48 Old Ford minivan
50 Product of
Ptolemy
51 Stop
52 Dude (up)
53 Illusions
57 Take care of
59 With the circled
letter over,
concern of the
Fed
61 “Citizen Kane”
poster name
62 Mercyhurst
University city
63 Draw guffaws
from
64 “Hey, you!”
65 Nik Wallenda
need
66 Color
DOWN
1 On the briny
2 Took care of
3 Silly Putty
holders
4 2007 Acer
acquisition
5 Often-named
stretches
6 Service to be
redone
7 Workout
portmanteau
8 Sticking point
9 Skinny
10 Wrestling style
11 Dead man
walking
13 Rowling teacher
15 Like steres
17 Drifted off
21 Indic language
24 French poet
executed by
Robespierre
25 Digging
26 Delicacy
27 Revelations
28 Female in the
wild
29 Home run __
33 Bad end
34 Barclays Center
hoopsters
36 Lily variety
40 Lie atop
41 About
42 Runner in a race
43 Pencil maze
instruction
47 Pro and Mini
48 “Sour grapes”
coiner
49 1973 resignee
53 Israel’s Iron Lady
54 Fix
55 Owner of
StubHub
56 Ophthalmologist’s
concern
58 One of the small
fry
60 Test for one on
the DL, perhaps
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in a competition within the
University
of
Michigan
that
selected which professors would
represent the University in the
application process.
Dus added that the grant is
crucial for young scientists due to
reduced funding available in the
biomedical field. Without such
funding, she would be unable
to hire and train scientists and
graduate students, resulting in
slower research progress. Dus
said this grant allows her the
opportunity to explore a topic
that has not received much
research attention in the past.
“This really gives me the
ability to focus on this really new
question and have a few graduate
students working on it for the
next five years and build enough
momentum so that I can make a
case to the government that this
is something really important
to study and now have a ton
of
data
that
shows that it’s
not something
risky
anymore,” Dus
said. “It’s really
a game changer
for
young
scientists
like
me.”
Also
a
member
of
the
Michigan
Nutrition and Obesity Research
Center
and
the
Michigan
Diabetes Research Center, Dus
said she was always interested
in how the environment —
which includes pollution, stress
or other intangible factors —
changes the brain. Dus said she
particularly focuses on diet as
a form of environment because
diet can change depending on the
amount and the type of food and
nutrients that are consumed.
“It’s also really relevant to
today’s society because we have
this biomedical crisis,” Dus said.
“About 1.6 billion people … are
either overweight or obese in
the United States. If you have 10
people in a room, eight essentially
out of 10 will be overweight and
about half of those obese. It’s a
really huge public crisis because
today we’re dying of chronic
diseases like diabetes and cancer,
and
essentially
Alzheimer’s,
which are all linked to obesity.”
Dus uses fruit flies in her
research
to
study
how
the
brain sees sugar — particularly
focusing on real versus fake sugar
— because the flies have a similar
physical structure to humans
and exhibit complex behavioral
patterns. In her research, Dus
measures the changes in fruit
flies’ metabolism, weight, the
amount of food they eat and their
behaviors and learning abilities.
Dus’ research ultimately shows
that real sugar is absorbed by the
brain differently than artificial
sugars, which is indicative of why
people have trouble controlling
themselves around foods made
with real sugar.
“Your brain actually mostly
only sees the real sugar,” Dus said.
“If you look at the micronutrients
that we ingest the most in the last
50 years, it’s mostly sugar; it’s not
really fat.”
Robert
Denver,
chair
of
the
Molecular,
Cellular
and
Developmental
Biology
Department, agreed, saying it is
important to link the environment
and human behavior, especially
in obesity research. He said it’s
crucial for the department —
particularly those focusing on
this
type
of
research — to
receive grants
so
the
basic
processes
leading
to
overeating can
be understood
and prevented.
“For
many
years
there’s
been an obesity epidemic in
the United States, and it has
actually spread throughout the
world,” Denver said. “In 2013, the
American Medical Association
officially recognized obesity as
a disease, which was a move that
has actually caused physicians
to pay more attention to the
condition. Today it is estimated
we spend around almost $200
billion on obesity-related illness
in the United States … there’s a
lot of interest in understanding
the causes of obesity and finding
ways to treat it and to reverse it.”
Denver said obesity has a lot
to do with one’s eating habits,
behavior and the reinforcement
of eating habits.
“There are reward centers in
the brain that, when you eat a
very highly palatable food, it just
makes you want to eat more of
it,” Denver said. “Since the early
to mid-1970s, much of the food
that is produced — processed
food — has been engineered to
be highly palatable … it causes
people to want more and eat more
and it ultimately leads to this
reinforcement of the behavior.”
OBESITY
From Page 1
“This really gives
me the ability to
focus”