Jade Stanley
Tuskegee University
Danielle Dean Lab
The Dean lab studies how organs communicate to regulate nutrient homeostasis and how this is dysregulated in obesity and diabetes. Our research focuses on the liver-pancreatic islet alpha cell axis, especially how liver and pancreatic islet cells sense amino acids and how amino acid sensing and metabolism may be disrupted in obesity and diabetes. Currently, I am interested in how amino acid transporters and enzymes affect islet cell proliferation and hormone secretion especially glucagon secretion from alpha cells, a potential target for new diabetes treatments.