SRTP Preceptors

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: Biochemical mechanisms that regulate body weight and insulin sensitivity

Research Interests: Lipid mediators and sustainable therapeutic interventions for chronic diseases

Research Interests: Role of the autonomic nervous system in hypertension and obesity

Research Interests: Longitudinal diabetes care; relapse prevention in diabetes

Research Interests: Women's health in diabetes/obesity

Research interests: Risk and protective factors in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes

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

Research Interests: Improvement of self-management and related skills in pediatric diabetes, obesity, and other chronic illnesses

Research Interests: Patient education in diabetes; health services research on adults and adolescents with type 2 diabetes

Research Interests: Epidemiology in pediatric diabetes

Research Interests: Type 1 diabetes prevention, ERB signaling in liver regeneration, signal transduction

Research Interests: Social, emotional, and environmental influences on eating, exercise, and smoking behavior

Research Interests: Nutritional and molecular epidemiology

Research Interests: Diabetic retinopathy, genetics of eye diseases, ocular pharmacogenomics

Research Interests: Diabetic retinopathy, translational biomedical and tissue engineering, telemedicine, and the application of biosensors and nanotechnology to clinical medicine and surgery

Research Interests: Glomerulosclerosis and vascular changes

Research Interests: Design, synthesis, and characterization of polymeric biomaterials for bone tissue engineering

Research Interests: Animal models of atherosclerosis; the macrophage in atherosclerosis; gene therapy

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

Research Interests: Role of integrins and extracellular matrix in epithelial biology; cell-extracellular matrix interactions in kidney

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

Research Interests: Placental inflammation in gestational diabetes

Research Interests: Central nervous system (CNS) development and function

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

Research Interests: Diabetes and bariatric surgery

Research Interests: Central Nervous System (CNS) and blood pressure

Research Interests: Insulin resistance; metabolic and cardiovascular effects of iatrogenic hyperinsulinemia caused by peripheral insulin delivery

Research Interests: Translational mitochondrial genomics in HIV

Research Interests: Adiposity and immune activation

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

Research Interests: Hypertension and hypotension in diabetes

Research Interests: Pseudohypoparathydroidism

Research Interests: Diet and obesity

Research Interests: Brain and physiology metabolic regulation

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

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

Research Interests: Role of gene copy number variation in type 1 diabetes; molecular mechanisms regulating interferon gamma gene transcription; regulatory T cells

Research Interests: Microfluidics, microfluidic materials, smart materials, biomaterials, micro and nanotechnology, bioMEMS

Research Interests: Islet autoantibodies as biomarkers; role of autoantigen-specific B lymphocytes in driving autoimmune disease

Lab website: https://medsites.vumc.org/bonamilab/bonami-lab

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms controlling islet endocrine cell adaptation to insulin resistance

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

Research Interests: Genes that regulate beta cell differentiation, proliferation, and survival

Research Interests: Determining how mechanisms that modulate islet calcium handling can be targeted to treat diabetes

Research Interests: Regulation of islet beta cell metabolism, function and cell architecture by microtubules

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

Research Interests: Calcium signaling and pancreatic beta-cell failure

Research Interests: Autoimmunity and immune tolerance in type 1 diabetes

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

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/

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms responsible for the coordinated development of complex organ systems

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

Research Interests: Colorectal carcinogenesis, biology of cancer cell invasion and metastasis, identification of novel molecular biomarkers

Research Interests: Role of EGF receptor and its ligands in epithelial cell growth, differentiation and neoplasia

Research Interests: Bacteria-host interactions, bacterial toxins, Helicobacter pylori, gastric cancer

Lab website: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/coverlab/

Research Interests: Therapeutically targeting inflammatory molecules in colitis and colon cancer

Research Interests: Genes that regulate beta cell differentiation, proliferation, and survival

Research Interests: Vesicle trafficking and recycling pathways that regulate function of apical membrane specializations in polarized kidney and gastrointestinal epithelial cells

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

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

Research Interests: Signaling pathways that play critical roles in the early development of multicellular organisms 

Research Interests: Pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric cancer

VDDRC website: https://www.vumc.org/digestive-disease-research-center/home

Research Interests: Antigen presentation and lymphocyte development

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

Research Interests: Epigenetic control of intestinal epithelial wound healing and repair programs and relationship to colorectal oncogenesis

MSTP website: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/mstp/

Research Interests: Mucosal immunology, mechanisms of inflammation, oxidative stress and gastrointestinal carcinogenesis, host-pathogen interactions