{"id":2,"date":"2019-04-23T12:32:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T16:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:11:14","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sutton Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"151\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/10\/sutton-lab.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142\" style=\"width:843px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/10\/sutton-lab.png 468w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/10\/sutton-lab-300x97.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Determine the impact of chronic low-level orally ingested &#8220;forever&#8221; chemicals and nano plastic particles on the microbiome of the intestines.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sutton Lab has been primarily comprised of Pharm D students from the School of Pharmacy in yearly Summer Fellowships. During these two-month periods, students go through an intensive training for laboratory analysis and cell culture techniques. The student usually continues some work well into the following Fall semester &#8211; drafting a report or a poster &#8211; the latter which is then presented at a local science or professional conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/Zainab.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" style=\"width:560px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/Zainab.png 468w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/Zainab-300x232.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure>\n<cite>J<em>abor, Z., <strong>S. C. Sutton<\/strong>. Translocation of Polystyrene and Polymethacrylate Nanoparticles Across Caco-2 and HT-29 Cell Monolayer. First Annual Maine Research Symposium on Biomedical Science and Engineering, UNE, Portland, ME, 12 October 2022.<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/10\/poster-pic2-rotated.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/10\/poster-pic2-rotated.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/10\/poster-pic2-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carmella St. Pierre in front of her poster &#8220;Modification of an <em>In Vitro <\/em>Intestinal Inflammation Model that Realistically Predicts Cellular Damage from Low Density Nanoplastic&#8221; at the Maine Research Symposium GSBSE at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"249\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/10\/M-Steele-poster.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143\" style=\"width:457px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Megan Steel presents her poster &#8220;Plastic nanoparticle toxicity is accentuated in the inflamed intestinal cell model&#8221; at the GSBAE meeting in Orono, ME (St. Pierre, C., P. A. Caradonna, M. Steele and S. C. Sutton. &#8220;Plastic nanoparticle toxicity is accentuated in the immune-competent inflamed intestinal tri-culture cell model.&#8221; <em>Nanotoxicology <\/em>19 (2025): 69-83.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/12\/Sutton-2025-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/12\/Sutton-2025-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/12\/Sutton-2025-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/12\/Sutton-2025-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/suttonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/12\/Sutton-2025.jpg 1362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Sutton, S. C. and R. D. 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