[Seminarcontacts] FW: CMDB/GGB/MCBL Seminar Program: Dr. Kai Sun, Wednesday 11/30, Via Zoom

[Mariella J Valdivia]

CMDB/GGB/MCBL Seminar Program

Fall 2022



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Speaker: Dr. Kai Sun

​ Center for Degenerative and Metabolic Diseases, University of Texas Health Center



Seminar Title: " Dynamics of Lipid Droplets and Mitochondra in Obesity and Cancer”



When: Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm

Presented via Zoom

Zoom Link: https://ucr.zoom.us/j/94383581111?pwd=MDdEMzBLQzNHM2xOMmdFaHNIR0F5Zz09

Meeting ID: 943 8358 1111

Passcode: 130476



Link to Meeting Sign-up Sheet:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CEYepH0ZYuwwRqV1u6tco2fiZ1Jr4H5hJMEtsDQqspo/edit#gid=0




Dr. Kai Sun is an Associate Professor in the Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston who did a postdoc with world-renowned adipocyte researcher Dr. Philipp Scherer at UTSW after earning his PhD in 2005 in the Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program here at UCR.



Dr. Sun’s laboratory investigates novel factors that regulate the dynamics of adipose tissue remodeling during obesity development. In the past, he has revealed that high fat diet-induced obesity shapes a hypoxic microenvironment that initiates the local fibrosis and inflammation in adipose tissue which eventually leads to systemic insulin resistance and cardiovascular dysregulation. Intriguingly, he found that VEGF-A-induced angiogenesis ameliorates the pathological changes by suppressing the local hypoxia and stimulating sympathetic innervation in both white and brown adipose tissue.  Most recently, Dr. Sun’s group has been investigating the dynamics of lipid droplet-associated proteins during adipose tissue remodeling by Mass Spectrometry. He has successfully identified several novel proteins that translocalize onto lipid droplets and the interface of endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-lipid droplets in response to different cellular stimuli.




More on his research can be found here:  https://www.uth.edu/imm/faculty/profile?id=a02013dc-ecef-4908-9fe3-71297da6cc54


Host: Dr. Frances Sladek, sladek at ucr.edu


​Robin Heathcoat

Administrative Assistant III
EMN Administration
Life Sciences Building Room 2710
Email: emnadmin at ucr.edu
Phone: 951-827-5915
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