Associate Professor
Academic & Research Center
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Education:
- Molecular and Cellular Biology (PhD), Baylor College of Medicine, 2007
- Biology (BS), Philosophy (BA), University of Illinois, 1999
Expertise:
- Molecular biology
- Adipose tissue
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Metabolism
- Physiology
- Adipocytes
- Fat
- Mouse genetics
- Cellular biology
Summary of Work:
My laboratory has found that adipose tissue is comprised of developmentally and functionally distinct subpopulations of adipocytes. We are examining the molecular biology of these adipocyte subpopulations and determining their effects on systemic metabolism and physiology.
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