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Oz Lab's research on Fat Imaging

We have developed an innovative methodology for creating ultrasound phantoms that replicate the fat vesicle size characteristic of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD).

We study how metabolic adaption promotes survival during sepsis and how the kidneys contribute to systemic metabolism during inflammation.

NIH funding: Mechanisms of maternal high fat diet induced susceptibility to gut inflammation in offspring

Huen Lab studies how metabolic adaption promotes survival during sepsis and how the kidneys contribute to systemic metabolism during inflammation.

The work of Deborah Carlson, Ph.D., focuses on characterizing the inflammasome mediating the inflammatory response in the heart following thermal injury and thermal injury complicated with sepsis. 

CACTUS Lab clinical services include contrast-enhanced ultrasound, antegrade nephrostogram, elastography, liver fat quantification, percutaneous ethanol (Alcohol) ablation (PEA), Ultrasound-Guided Procedures

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a condition in which excess fat is stored in the liver in people who drink little or no alcohol.

Through intensive vocal practice young birds will gradually learn to imitate the song of their tutor, a process that takes them as many as 6 weeks and tens of thousands of rounds of practice. My laboratory uses several techniques to study the brain circuits involved in this type of learning.

Our research is focused on mechanisms underlying acute kidney injury and sepsis.  Our laboratory has implicated mitochondrial maintenance via PGC1alpha and NAD+ as a novel pathway for resilience against acute physiological stressors.