Metabolism Interest Group (MIG) Affiliated Labs

Research Interests: Mechanisms involved in improved glucose handling following bariatric surgery; role of the omentum in the treatment of morbid obesity

Research Interests: Understanding the basic mechanisms regulating cellular longevity in health and metabolic disease

Research Interests: Elucidating gut-brain interactions that regulate body weight and energy homeostasis

Research Interests: Characterization of the molecular mechanism of action of Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and determination of the structure-function relationships of the PGE2 receptors

Research Interests: The sodium iodide symporter (NIS): structure, transport mechanism, regulation, and roles in physiology, pathophysiology and public health 

Research Interests: The regulation of liver glucose production and storage by hormones, neural mediators, and metabolites

Research Interests: Biochemical mechanisms that regulate body weight and insulin sensitivity

Research Interests: Understanding how nutritional and other environmental factors affect pancreatic islet cell function and proliferation

Research Interests: Diabetes and bariatric surgery

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms underpinning vesicle-mediated protein transport and membrane biogenesis

Research Interests: Immune-mediated mechanisms by which obesity increases risk of disease

Lab website: https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/hasty-lab/

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/

Research Interests: Contribution of aldosterone and mineralocorticoid receptor to insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and inflammation

Research Interests: Regulation of metabolic responses to inflammation: Interaction with nutrition

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

Research Interests: The regulation of insulin secretion with a focus on two proteins, G6PC2 and ZnT8

Research Interests: Defining the mechanisms for sex differences in dyslipidemia, fatty liver and atherosclerosis using animal models

Research Interests: Small RNA-mediated gene regulation in lipid and lipoprotein metabolism; microRNA communication and systemic homeostasis

Research Interests: Delineating the role of insulin and integrin signaling pathways in the control of metabolism in health and diabetes

Research Interests: Metabolic engineering; systems biology; diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders; tumor metabolism; autotrophic metabolism; cell culture engineering