Brian Parks
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: brian.w.parks@wisc.edu
Address:
Nutritional Sciences
Leveraging genetics to understand the pathways and molecular mechanisms that contribute to metabolic diseases.
- Address
- 1415 Linden Drive, Nutritional Sciences Building, Room #340C
- Department
- Nutritional Sciences
- Research Interests
- Leveraging genetics to understand the pathways and molecular mechanisms that contribute to metabolic diseases.
- Research Fields
- Mouse & Human Genetics, Network Biology, Biochemistry, Obesity, Diabetes
- Lab Website
- https://parkslab.nutrisci.wisc.edu
The Parks Lab is focused on addressing the question of how genetics and diet interact together to contribute to common metabolic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Through the use of large-scale systems genetics studies we aim to identify and characterize biological pathways that can be harnessed to treat disease. Our work is interdisciplinary in nature and incorporates genetics, computational biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry.
Representative Publications:
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Parks BW, Sallam T, Mehrabian M, Psychogios N, Hui ST, Norheim F, Castellani LW, Rau CD, Pan C, Phun J, Zhou Z, Yang WP, Neuhaus I, Gargalovic PS, Kirchgessner TG, Graham M, Lee R, Tontonoz P, Gerszten RE, Hevener AL, Lusis AJ. Genetic architecture of insulin resistance in the mouse. Cell Metabolism. Feb 3;21(2):334-46. (2015)