Our article entitled “Altered tricarboxylic acid cycle flux in primary myotubes from severely obese humans” was accepted for publication in International Journal of Obesity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29892037    

Dr. Junhan Li, an Visiting Scholar from Chengdu Sport Institute, China, presented a poster at the ACSM 2018 annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Li’s abstract was entitled “Exercise Training Attenuates Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Rats with Diabetes via… Continue Reading →

IMPL lab members presented their research projects at the 32nd Annual College of Nursing and Health Sciences Research and Scholarship Day.

Benjamin Kugler and Anders Gundersen presented their research work in the session of “Translational Physiology Showcase: Bench to Bedside and In Between” at Experimental Biology 2018 in San Diego, CA. Their presentations were entitled “Effects of Roux- en-Y Gastric Bypass… Continue Reading →

Congratulations to Anders Gundersen for successfully defending his M.S. thesis entitled “Comparisons of Mitochondrial Quality Control in Primary Myotubes from Lean, Severely Obese Non-Diabetic, and Severely Obese Type 2 Diabetic Humans”.

Anderson  Gunderson will defend his thesis “Comparisons of mitochondrial quality control in lean, severely obese non-diabetic, and severely obese type 2 diabetic humans in primary myotubes from lean,severely obese” on Friday 3/30/2018 in the campus center room 1313.

Doctoral student Benjamin Kugler was accepted to present his abstract titled Effects of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery on Mitochondrial Quality Control Proteins in Human Myotubes Derived from Severely Obese Humans.Ben will present his abstract in San Diego on Sunday April 24 ,2018.

January 21st, 2018: Benjamin Kugler receives the 2018 Carolina tum Suden/Frances Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award from the American Physiological Society!