Hybrid Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, May 5, 2025
Paul Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
Albert Resnick, M.D. Associate Professor, Senior Attending Physician and Head of the Weslie R. and William H. Janeway Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism, The Rockefeller University
Brown Fat in Health and Disease: From Clinical Phenotypes to Molecular Mechanisms
Recommended Readings:
Xiao, Haopeng, et al. “Architecture of the outbred brown fat proteome defines regulators of metabolic physiology.” Cell 185.24 (2022): 4654-4673.
Wibmer, Andreas G., et al. “Brown adipose tissue is associated with healthier body fat distribution and metabolic benefits independent of regional adiposity.” Cell Reports Medicine 2.7 (2021).
Becher, Tobias, et al. “Brown adipose tissue is associated with cardiometabolic health.” Nature medicine 27.1 (2021): 58-65.
Wu, Jun, Paul Cohen, and Bruce M. Spiegelman. “Adaptive thermogenesis in adipocytes: is beige the new brown?.” Genes & development 27.3 (2013): 234-250.
Khandekar, Melin J., Paul Cohen, and Bruce M. Spiegelman. “Molecular mechanisms of cancer development in obesity.” Nature Reviews Cancer 11.12 (2011): 886-895.
