Kevin Lee, PhD
 
      Associate Professor
    
  
      
      Academic & Research Center
    
  
  
            
              Biomedical Sciences
            
          
              Diabetes Institute
            
      
            
        
        Athens
      
      
      
  
            
      
  Education:
- Molecular and Cellular Biology (PhD), Baylor College of Medicine, 2007
- Biology (BS), Philosophy (BA), University of Illinois, 1999
Expertise:
- Molecular biology
- Adipose tissue
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Metabolism
- Physiology
- Adipocytes
- Fat
- Mouse genetics
- Cellular biology
Summary of Work:
My laboratory has found that adipose tissue is comprised of developmentally and functionally distinct subpopulations of adipocytes. We are examining the molecular biology of these adipocyte subpopulations and determining their effects on systemic metabolism and physiology.
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