Building research excellence in understanding causes of metabolic disease

1). Principal Investigator:  Dr. Robert Koza Title: Characterization of murine models with adipose‐specific transgenic expression of Mest 2). Principal Investigator:   Dr. Calvin Vary Title:  Discovery of novel diet‐dependent and adipose depot‐specific protein PTMs in PVAT  

Presentations from COBRE group members:  Calvin Vary, PhD:  Lipidomics; Aaron Brown, PhD (pictured above left) :  A Novel Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Model of Beige Adipogenesis for Development of Anti-Obesity Therapies;  Michaela Reagan, PhD (pictured above right) : 3D Tissue Engineered  Design of Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue to Investigate the Influence of Myeloma on Adipocytes and Adipogenesis http://neric2017.org/