Welcome to Our Research Pages
We are committed to the discovery of key molecular events that underlie diabetes and its complications.
Current approaches include:
- molecular study of lipid metabolism and insulin action interaction
- physiological models of fetal diabetic programming
- advancement of bioinformatic techniques for use in diabetes research
About Us
 Our team includes experienced scientists and students. Our work is supported by grants from the NIH and the American Diabetes Association's Amaranth Diabetes Fund. Please browse these pages, reading about our research, our lab members, or view links to our publications. You may view our public resources for diabetes research. Please feel free to contact us. | Our affiliations: ● University of Iowa Children's Hospital ● Department of Pediatrics → in the Carver College of Medicine → at the University of Iowa |
Lab News
1-Jul-2009 The American Diabetes Association's Amaranth Diabetes Fund will be supporting our Research Award “Macronutrient contributions to fetal diabetic programming” for the coming year.
25-May-2009 Four award winning students grace the lab this summer:
| Student | Level | Research Fellowship | ||
| Alex Sawatzke | Medical Student | "Pre-M1" | ||
| Brandon Menke | Medical Student | "Pre-M1" | ||
| Jonathan Karch | Undergraduate | ICRU | ||
| Mattie Oelschlaeger | Medical Student | "M1" |
29-Apr-2009 Undergraduate Brandon Menke presented his research at the Gene F. Lata Biochemistry Undergraduate Honors Symposium.
9-Feb-2009 As detailed in this publication, our lab helped show that even mild maternal diabetes during late gestation leads to insulin resistance in offspring.
1-Nov-2008 See our latest publication detailing the impact of PPARγ on uptake of fatty acids in skeletal muscle.
30-Sep-2008 Dr. Arthur Spector visits our lab.
05-Sep-2008 Our lab has relocated to an adjacent building. We are excited to be housed within the nascent Program in Developmental Origins of Disease at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital.
21-Aug-2008 Our lab was fortunate to have participated in groundbreaking research on the origins of brown fat, published yesterday in Nature.
23-Jun-2008 Our lab reopens after being closed for 9 days due to flooding of the Iowa River. Luckily our building was untouched. Official University flood news. See the river forecast. Aerial views of the campus flooding last week.
09-Jun-2008 Our abstract “PPARγ enhanced fatty acid uptake in muscle is mediated by upregulation of CD36” was delivered as an oral presentation at the American Diabetes Association annual scientific meeting in San Francisco.
13-May-2008 We welcome Medical Student Mattie Oelschlaeger to the lab.
22-Jan-2008 We welcome undergraduate Biomedical Engineer Jonathan Karch to the lab.
01-Jan-2008 Our lab is the recipient of a 3-year research grant from the American Diabetes Association entitled “Macronutrient contributions to fetal diabetic programming”.