Research Interests
Research in my lab is focused on understanding the role of nutritional factors that regulate metabolic activity. Some of the methods we employ are mouse models of diet-induced obesity, exercise (both chronic and acute), or gene knockout/overexpression to study nutrient-mediated control of fatty acid oxidation, glucose uptake, and insulin signaling. Our lab also uses molecular and cellular biology methods to study nutrient-mediated effects on transcriptional regulation of metabolism.
Current Research
Identification of bioactive food components that modify DNA transcriptional activity.
Epigenetic alterations of metabolic pathways though active DNA demethylation.