Author Kai Zou

A huge thank you to Nicole for her last year’s dedication to the lab and science. Good luck on your next adventures on the west coast!

Doctoral student Benjamin Kugler successfully defended his dissertation entitled “THE ROLE OF SKELETAL MUSCLE DRP1-MEDIATED MITOCHONDRIAL FISSION IN OBESITY-INDUCED INSULIN RESISTANCE”. Congratulations, Dr. Kugler! So proud of you!!!

Congratulations to doctoral student Benjamin Kugler on winning the prestigious American Physiological Society Virendra B. Mahesh Award of Excellence in Endocrinology and Metabolism. His presentation is entitled “The Loss of Drp1 Improves Skeletal Muscle Insulin Action in Primary Myotubes Derived… Continue Reading →

Our lab was recently awarded a $455,847 grant from the National Institutes of Health for the research project entitled “Targeting Dynamin-related protein 1-mediated mitochondrial fission to correct insulin resistance in obesity”. We have several opening positions available to graduate and… Continue Reading →

Congratulations to doctoral students Benjamin Kugler on winning the Exercise and Health Sciences (EHS) Graduate Student Best Poster Award at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences Virtual Research Day! His poster is entitled “Exercise Attenuates Tumor Growth in an… Continue Reading →

The Zou lab published a paper in Physiological Reports entitled “Pharmacological inhibition of dynamin-related protein 1 attenuates skeletal muscle insulin resistance in obesity”. In this paper, we used a pharmacological inhibitor of Dynamin-Related Protein (Drp1), Mdivi-1, in diet-induced obese mice… Continue Reading →

Lots of good news this month! We have another paper accepted, this time in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise – the leading journal for the American College of Sports Medicine. Congratulations to Benjamin Kugler for his third first-author… Continue Reading →

Doctoral student Benjamin Kugler presented our recent work in “Exercise and Cancer” at the Integrative Physiology of Exercise (IPE) Virtual Meeting. In his poster, Ben presented a study from our research team, in which we found that voluntary exercise slows… Continue Reading →

Our recent article titled “Impaired Glucose Partitioning in Primary Myotubes from Severely Obese Women with Type 2 Diabetes”  has been selected for APSselect (http://apsselect.physiology.org/), a collection from the APS that showcases some of the best recently published articles in physiological… Continue Reading →

Our paper titled “Impaired Glucose Partitioning in Primary Myotubes from Severely Obese Women with Type 2 Diabetes” was accepted for publication in American Journal of Physiology – Cell Physiology. Congratulations! Thanks to all the authors who contributed to this paper!