Rebecca Macpherson
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Rebecca MacPherson research program strives to understand the relationship between disturbances in cellular homeostasis and metabolic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease. The aims of her research program is two pronged: 1) to understand the role of lipid metabolism in maintaining cellular homeostasis with a focus on the role of adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) in the regulation of fat metabolism in adipose tissue, skeletal muscle, and liver in health and disease; 2) to understand the cellular mechanisms and pathology that contribute to neurodegeneration in metabolic disease.
Research Interest
Lipid metabolism, Skeletal muscle and adipose tissue lipolysis, Neurodegeneration, Regulation of brain beta-amyloid peptide production
