Shearer Lab

We are so proud of Dr. Kelly Ness, who received her PhD in Integrative and Biomedical Physiology last Saturday. Her dissertation work demonstrated that sleep deprivation impairs the capacity of fat tissue to respond effectively to insulin, both in an artificial intravenous glucose challenge and also in direct response to a high fat meal. She has published three papers thus far in her graduate work and more are forthcoming. During her dissertation work she received many awards, most notably she received an NIH training award for her work. She goes on to postdoctoral work at the Univ. of Washington with Dr. Joshua Thaler working on neural components of obesity and diabetes.
Kelly was co-mentored by Orfeu Buxton, PhD. For those interested, the formal title of her dissertation is: The Effects of Sleep Restriction and Subsequent Sleep Recovery on Glycemic and Lipemic Metabolism

Shout out to my colleagues, Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton and her lab, who find that daily almond intake can improve the function of "good cholesterol", HDL.

Almonds may help boost cholesterol clean-up crew | Penn State University Eating almonds on a regular basis may help boost levels of HDL cholesterol while simultaneously improving the way it removes cholesterol from the body, according to researchers.