Our research is directed towards understanding the role of nutritional factors that regulate metabolic activity in obesity and obesity related disease. We employ mouse models of diet-induced obesity, exercise, and gene knockout/overexpression to study nutrient mediated control of fatty acid oxidation, glucose uptake, and insulin signaling.
News and Awards
How walnuts can help protect against effects of splurge meal, 2016, Chad Paton and Jamie Cooper
Selected as a participant in the 2016 Institute of Food Technologists Emerging Leaders Network program, Chicago, IL, 2016, Chad Paton
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Research Projects
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Determining the effect of a high fat diet on skeletal muscle satellite cell differentiation
Investigators:
Chad Paton, Yura Son, Ph.D. student in Foods and nutrition -
Defining the mechanisms of dihydrosterculic acid metabolism on suppression of lipid biosynthesis
Investigators:
Chad Paton
Our Team
Chad Paton, PhD
Associate Professor
Leah Halls
PhD student
Sloane Stoklosa
Ph.D. student & Dietetic Intern
Gabi Brocca
FDST MS student
Ashley Mixon
NUTR Undergraduate researcher
Janny Hiew
FDST Undergraduate researcher
Emilie Franz
NUTR Undergraduate researcher
Paton Lab
Paton Lab Group