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Associate Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Dr. Kristen Boyle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics Nutrition Section at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Boyle studies the regulation of human stem cell metabolism and phenotype in the context of obesity and diabetes. During her early independent career Dr. Boyle began using primary infant mesenchymal stem cells, derived from umbilical cord tissue, to investigate stem cell phenotype and epigenetic signatures as a model for developmental programming in humans. She discovered that cells from infants born to mothers with obesity have epigenetic and metabolic perturbations similar to adults with established obesity and associated with greater neonatal adiposity. Thus, infant stem cell metabolism may elucidate how these children are at increased risk for developing obesity and diabetes later in life. Her current research program is supported by the American Diabetes Association and the NIDDK to investigate mesenchymal stem cell metabolism as a predictor of child metabolic health outcomes, and to determine epigenetic mechanisms for altered metabolism in cells from infants born to mothers with obesity.
On Demand
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Thursday, June 16, 2022
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET
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