Shearer Lab

Polyunsaturated fatty acids are used to produce regulatory signals which allow the heart and blood vessels to adapt to stress.

Mechanistic insights into cardiovascular protection for omega-3 fatty acids and their bioactive lipid metabolites Abstract. Patients with well-controlled low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, but persistent high triglycerides, remain at increased risk for cardiovascul

We are so proud of Dr. Rachel Walker, who received her PhD in Nutrition last Saturday. Her dissertation work demonstrated the complex ways in which the fat tissue and the liver work together to regulate distribution of fats during chronic and short term stress. She has published four papers thus far in her graduate work and more are forthcoming. During her dissertation work she received many awards, most notably the Kligman Fellowship for dissertation work. She goes on to postdoctoral work here at Penn State with in Dr. Harvartine’s lab and she plans to continue work in the role of inflammation and resistance to insulin during lactation. Congrats !

For those interested, the formal title of her dissertation is: Using Compartmental Modeling to Describe the Effect of Inflammation on the Regulation of Circulating Fatty Acids and Oxylipins by the Liver and Adipose Tissue.