Paul Williams, PhD

April 2023 - April 2024 
Training Focus: Role of hypothalamic mTORC1 signaling in obesity-associated metabolic and cardiovascular dysfunction
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology 

Autumn Moore, PhD

August 2023 - August 2024 
Training Focus: Chemical Optimization and Physiological Characterization of Novel Insulin Sensitizers for the Treatment of Type II Diabetes
Current Position: 

Jayarani Putri, PhD

May 2022 - May 2024
Training Focus: GRB10 as a potentially sexually dimorphic modulator of the Insulin Receptor
Current Position:  Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Molecular Biology

Kelli Davie, PhD

January 2022 - January 2024 
Training Focus: The physiological impact of endothelial lipase inhibition by ANGPTL3 on HDL
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Iowa

Solange Saxby, PhD

September 2022 - September 2023
Training Focus: The relationship of diet quality scores in women with type 2 diabetes mellitus on the risk of neurodegenerative diseases development: The Women’s Health Initiative
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dartmouth Hitchcock-Health

Kelly Hubert, PhD

June 2021 - June 2023
Training Focus: A hepatic mitochondrial pyruvate-citrate carbon flux and reductive drive axis mediating T2D pathophysiology
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Guorui (Gary) Deng, PhD:

June 2021 - June 2023
Training Focus: Elucidating the role of ciliary adenylyl cyclase 3 in energy balance and glucose homeostasis
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Iowa

Tyler Titcomb, PhD, RD:

August 1, 2020 - August 1, 2022
Training Focus: The role of the Paleolithic eating pattern in diabetes prevention and management
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Wahls UIHC Clinical Research, Iowa City, Iowa

Adeyinka Taiwo, MD

June 1, 2020 - June 1, 2022
Training Focus: Fatty Liver Disease: Prevalence of NAFLD and risk factors for progression in Type 1 Diabetes
Current Position: Associate of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Iowa

Katie Robinson, MD, PhD

June 1, 2020 - June 1, 2022
Training Focus: Weight Stigma and Metabolic Outcomes
Current Position: Resident (Internal Medicine), University of Iowa

Kanza Khan, PhD 

June 16, 2020 - June 16, 2022
Training Focus: Examining the role of high fat diet and chronic alcohol on neuropathic pain
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Scholar, Department of Neuroscience & Pharmacology, University of Iowa

Barun Poudel, PhD

June 16, 2020 - June 1, 2021
Training Focus: Role of fat metabolism in sterile bone inflammation
Current Position: Investigator, Innate Immunity Research Unit, GlaxoSmithKline, Pennsylvania
Publications 

Sarah Bjorkman, MD

May 1, 2020 - June 1, 2021
Training Focus: The role of the Activating Transcription Factor 4 on Brown Fat-Mediated Systemic Metabolic Adaptations
Current Position: Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility fellow at the University of Iowa
Publications

Charles Warwick, PhD 

July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018 
Training Focus: Targeting Mitochondrial Fission for Neuroprotection in Oeripheral Diabetic Neuropathy
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, PA 
Publications

Diego Antonio Scerbo, PhD 

July 31, 2018 - March 31, 2019 
Training Focus: Mitochondrial Transport Mechanisms Regulating Skeletal Muscle Substrate Selection
Current Position: Medical Writer, Wunderman Thompson Health, New York, NY 
Publications

Katie Robinson, PhD, MP, RD 

August 1, 2017 - April 1, 2019
Training Focus: Predictors of Post-Bariatric Weight Regain
Current Position: Medical Science Liaison at Abbott Nutrition, Iowa City, IA
Publications 

Jingwei Jiang, PhD 

July 1, 2017 - June 1, 2019 
Training Focus: Centeral Regulation of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Function
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Publications

Kyle Flippo, PhD

July 1, 2017 - June 1, 2019
Training Focus: Role of endocrine signaling in the CNS in regulating metabolism
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology 
Publications

Adam Hedberg-Buenz, PhD 

June 1, 2018 - May 31, 2020
Training Focus: 
Currention Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Physiology amd Biophysics
Publications

Sarah Wernimont, MD, PhD

June 1, 2018 - May 31, 2020
Training focus: Metabolic control of trophoblast differentiation
Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota
Publications

Catherina Pinnaro, PhD

October 1, 2018 - July 1, 2020
Training Focus: Phenotyping diabetes in Turner syndrome using OGTT and CGM Genetic etiologies of diabetes
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes, University of Iowa, Stead Family Dept of Pediatrics
Publications