The next Distinguished Scientist Seminar at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine will feature Dr. Deborah Muoio, associate professor in the department of medicine and the department of pharmacology and cancer biology at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C.The lecture, titled "Nutrient Control of Mitochondrial Fluxibility," will take place March 21, 2013, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA's main campus.
Dr. Muoio earned her Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. Her post-doctoral training centered on metabolic disease and exercise physiology in the laboratories of Dr. Lynis Dohm at East Carolina University and Drs. William Kraus and Chris Newgard at Duke University. She was recruited to join the faculty at Duke University in 2004.
Dr. Muoio’s laboratory investigates mechanisms of metabolic regulation in skeletal muscle, with emphasis on molecular events that link over-nutrition and inactivity to the development of insulin resistance.
To learn more about Dr. Muoio’s research, click here and here.
