Academic and Scholarly Events

  • 3/2 MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Matthew Lynes

    Tuesday, March 2, 2021

    3:30pm – 4:30pm

    Dr. Matthew Lynes, Assistant Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School

    Host: Dr. Michael Lynes

    “The Physiologic Response to Cold Temperatures”

    Matt Lynes is an Assistant Investigator at the Joslin Diabetes Center and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Yu-Hua Tseng’s lab at the Joslin and is currently a researcher in Dr. Tseng’s lab. In his work, he has identified a novel signaling lipid capable of facilitating lipid uptake and oxidation into brown fat cells, and his most recent work has extended the understanding of how brown fat cells develop.

    Seminar Link

    For more information, contact: Ciara Hanlon at ciara.hanlon@uconn.edu