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The work of Vanderbilt Institute for Obesity and Metabolism (VIOM) plays a key role in reducing obesity rates in Tennessee

Tennessee has dropped from 3rd to 15th in the state obesity rankings. The work of MPB faculty member Joan Randall and other members of the VIOM which has contributed to this success has been featured in the current issue of  Vanderbilt Medicine.

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Study by MPB faculty on the importance of circadian rhythm in insulin action receives national and international media coverage

A collaborative study between MPB faculty Carl Johnson (pictured), Owen McGuinness and David Wasserman has demonstrated that disrupting circadian rhythm contributes to the development of insulin resistance. The results of the study published in the March 4th issue of Current Biology has been featured by both national and international news organizations.

 

Click here to listen to the February 21st BBC World Service Podcast (Entitled Russian Meteor strike, the feature on the Current Biology article begins at 13'15")

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The work of new MPB faculty member published in Science

 

The work of new MPB faculty member Gregor Neuert has been published in Science. The paper, entitled "Systematic Identification of Signal-Activated Stochastic Gene Regulation" can be seen in the February 1st edition.  The research focuses on developing models to predict transcriptional changes in cells in response to different environmental conditions.
 
Click here to read coverage of Gregor's work in the Reporter

 

 
MPB post-docs and students win research awards at Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's 2013 Science day
 
 
On 15th January more than 120 Vanderbilt researchers presented their work as posters at the annual Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Science Day. Graduate student Megan Fettig of Danny Winder's lab received first place in the cellular and molecular neuroscience category for her  poster entitled "Stress and noradrenergic modulation of extended amygdala projecting dopamine neurons of the rostral linear nucleus". The post-doctoral award in the same category went to Brian Shonesy of Roger Colbran's lab for his poster entitled "CaMKII us a novel diacylglycerol lipase-alpha interacting protein that regulates striatal endocannabinoid signaling". Johanna Gandy, also of the Colbran lab, received an honorable mention in the same group for her poster on the "Regulation of striatal CaMKII activity by extracellular calcium influx". Click here to see a full list of the winners. 

 

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