Molecular Endocrinology Training Program (METP) Preceptors
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Research Interests: Understanding the basic mechanisms regulating cellular longevity in health and metabolic disease
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Research Interests: Elucidating gut-brain interactions that regulate body weight and energy homeostasis
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Research Interests: Regulation of nuclear receptors in the liver, gonads and hypothalamus by small signaling lipids
Lab website: https://www.blindlab.org/
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Research Interests: Investigating the molecular mechanisms by which external signals influence lymphocyte function in homeostasis and pathophysiology
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Research Interests: The sodium iodide symporter (NIS): structure, transport mechanism, regulation, and roles in physiology, pathophysiology and public health
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Bruce Carter, Ph.D.
BiochemistryAssociate DirectorVanderbilt Brain InstituteResearch Interests: Neurotrophin signaling in neuron development and disease
Lab website: https://www.brucecarterlab.com/index.html
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Wenbiao Chen, Ph.D.
Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsAssociate DirectorVDRC Metabolic Physiology Shared Resource (MPSR)Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms controlling islet endocrine cell adaptation to insulin resistance
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Research Interests: The regulation of liver glucose production and storage by hormones, neural mediators, and metabolites
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Research Interests: Regulation and role of calcium/ calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II
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Research Interests: Understanding how nutritional and other environmental factors affect pancreatic islet cell function and proliferation
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Research Interests: The regulation and functional roles of adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing in neuronal signaling
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Maureen Gannon, Ph.D.
MedicineMolecular Physiology and BiophysicsCell and Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: Genes that regulate beta cell differentiation, proliferation, and survival
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Research Interests: GTP binding proteins: structure, function and the molecular mechanisms of signal transduction
Lab website: https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/hamm-lab/
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Research Interests: Immune-mediated mechanisms by which obesity increases risk of disease
Lab website: https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/hasty-lab/
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Research Interests: Elucidating insulin-mediated molecular mechanisms that regulate mitochondrial morphology and molecular transfer with the ER
Lab website: https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/hinton-lab/
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Research Interests: Determining how mechanisms that modulate islet calcium handling can be targeted to treat diabetes
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Research Interests: Structural biology of calcium signaling and transport through biological membranes
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Research Interests: Regulation of islet beta cell metabolism, function and cell architecture by microtubules
Lab website: https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/kaverina-lab/
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Research Interests: Signaling pathways that play critical roles in the early development of multicellular organisms
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Mark Magnuson, M.D.
Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsCell and Developmental BiologyDirectorVanderbilt Center for Stem Cell BiologyResearch Interests: Calcium signaling and pancreatic beta-cell failure
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Owen McGuiness, Ph.D.
Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsDirectorVDRC Analytical Services CoreResearch Interests: Regulation of metabolic responses to inflammation: Interaction with nutrition
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Kevin Niswender, M.D., Ph.D.
MedicineDirectorDiabetes and Endocrinology Postdoctoral (DEP) Training ProgramDirectorVDRC Metabolic Physiology Shared Resource (MPSR)Research Interests: Development of novel treatments for diabetes by merging human genetics with drug discovery
Lab website: https://www.vumc.org/kd-niswender-lab/niswender-lab-mission
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Richard O'Brien, Ph.D.
Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsDirectorMolecular Endocrinology Training Program (METP)Research Interests: The regulation of insulin secretion with a focus on two proteins, G6PC2 and ZnT8
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Alvin Powers, M.D.
MedicineMolecular Physiology and BiophysicsDirectorVanderbilt Diabetes CenterDirectorVanderbilt Diabetes Research Center (VDRC)Research interests: Pancreatic islet biology: studies on development vascularization, and imaging and the potential for regeneration as a cure for type 1 diabetes
Lab website: https://www.powersbrissovaresearch.org/
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John Stafford, M.D., Ph.D.
MedicineMolecular Physiology and BiophysicsDirectorVanderbilt Student Research Training Program (SRTP)Research Interests: Defining the mechanisms for sex differences in dyslipidemia, fatty liver and atherosclerosis using animal models
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Roland Stein, Ph.D.
Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsCell and Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: Determining how islet-enriched transcription factors impact islet alpha and beta cell identity and activity
Lab website: https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/roland-stein-lab/
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Research Interests: Structure, function, and regulation of protein serine/threonine phosphatase 2A (PP2A)
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David Wasserman, Ph.D.
Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsDirectorMouse Metabolic Phenotyping CenterResearch Interests: Delineating the role of insulin and integrin signaling pathways in the control of metabolism in health and diabetes
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Danny Winder, Ph.D.
Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsDirectorVanderbilt Center for Addiction Research (VCAR)Research Interests: Determining molecular mechanisms that modulate synaptic function in the extended amygdala in the context of stress, feeding, and addiction
Lab website: https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/winder-lab/
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