Academic Appointments
Member of the Graduate Faculty, Graduate School of Biological Sciences & Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME
Associate Professor, Adjunct, Department of Molecular Genetics, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Professional Activities
Member, NIH/NIDDK-Cellular Aspects of Diabetes and Obesity Study Section- CADO (2013-2017)
Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Obesity (2012-present)
Member, Sigma Xi Scientific Organization (1986-present)
Teaching Responsibilities
Lecturer, ‘Signaling in Adipose Tissue’ for Cell Biology of Tissue Development and Function; Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, University of Maine, Orono (2013-present)
Co-Instructor; Fall Journal Club; ‘Advanced Mouse Modeling-Relevance to Human Disease; Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, University of Maine, Orono (2015)
Recent Ad-hoc reviewer for following journals
Journal of Lipid Research
PLoS One
PLoS Computational Biology
Diabetes
BMC Genomics
BMC Medical Genomics
Obesity
Stem Cells
Stem Cell Research
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology
Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology
Physiological Genomics, Metabolism
Reproductive Toxicology
Scientific Reports
Biochimie
Annals NY Academy of Sciences.