Chunmin Lo, PhD

Education:

• Food Science (PhD), University of Missouri, 2000
• Nutrition & Food Science (MS), Auburn University, 1992
• Home Economics-Nutrition & Food Service (BS), Catholic Fu-Jen University, 1988

Expertise:

• Gut peptides
• Apolipoproteins
• Hypothalamic neuropeptides
• Lipid/glucose metabolism
• Food intake and Energy expenditure
• Thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue
• Neurophysiology
• Sympathetic nervous system
• Vagus nerve system
• Lipid transport and lipid-induced neuronal activation
• Lipoprotein synthesis and degradation
• Insulin secretion/sensitivity
• Molecular and cellular biology
• Chemical and chromatographic analysis
• Surgical implantation of 3  ^rd  and 4  ^th cerebroventricular cannula
• Surgical denervation of adipose tissue
• Cellular morphology and lipoprotein size determined by transmission electron microscopy

Summary of Work:

My research interests are to investigate the roles of apolipoproteins, gut peptides and neuropeptides on a gut-brain axis through the stimulation of vagus nerves and sympathetic nervous system in the control of energy homeostasis and lipid/glucose metabolism in obese and diabetic models.

Link:

View My Work in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)