Stress Pathophysiology; Obesity; Vgf gene-derived peptides
IBP PhD Graduate Program
UMN Medical School Bio
Dr. Alessandro Bartolomucci is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology. He is the Ancel Keys Biomedical Scholar in Physiology and Metabolism. He is part of the graduate faculty in IBP and Neuroscience graduate programs.
Research Summary
The Bartolomucci lab is interested in metabolic physiology, stress physiology and social determinants of health and aging. We developed a unique integrative approach to investigate the molecular physiology of obesity and chronic stress-related disease which combines behavioral and genetic models, metabolic, neuroendocrine and imaging techniques in living animals as well as sophisticated molecular and structural biology analyses of neuropeptides.