Dr. Laura Palanker Musselman
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Binghamton University
United States of America
Biography
Laura Musselman was born and raised in New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Cornell University in 1995. From 1995 to 2000, Laura was a researcher in the Skin Bioscience Division at Unilever Research, working on in vitro models of skin aging and irritation. In 2000, she moved west to start her Ph.D. at the University of Utah. Laura earned her Ph.D. in Genetics studying Drosophila nuclear hormone receptor function in the laboratory of Carl Thummel. There, she developed an interest in metabolism and disease. Laura came to the division in 2007 to start a postdoctoral fellowship studying mechanisms of obesity and insulin resistance with Thomas Baranski, and became a Research Instructor in 2011.
Research Interest
Diet, aging, obesity, sugar and lipid metabolism
Publications
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Na J, Musselman LP, Pendse J, Baranski TJ, Bodmer R, Ocorr K, Cagan R. A Drosophila model of high sugar diet-induced cardiomyopathy. PLoS genetics. 2013 Jan 10;9(1):e1003175.
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Musselman LP, Fink JL, Ramachandran PV, Patterson BW, Okunade AL, Maier E, Brent MR, Turk J, Baranski TJ. Role of fat body lipogenesis in protection against the effects of caloric overload in Drosophila. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2013 Mar 22;288(12):8028-42.
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Buescher JL, Musselman LP, Wilson CA, Lang T, Keleher M, Baranski TJ, Duncan JG. Evidence for transgenerational metabolic programming in Drosophila. Disease models & mechanisms. 2013 Sep 1;6(5):1123-32.
