Inger-Åshild Bye, Sten Lund, Yu-Chiang Lai, Jørgen Jensen, Eva Blomstrand, Hans A. Dahl,  Jan Cabri

 

Yu-Chiang Lai defended his PhD thesis “Role ot glycogen content on glucose uptake and glycogen synthase in skeletal muscles: The effect of contraction” at NIH April 8th (Supervisor Prof. Jørgen Jensen).

 

In his post doc, Lai will work with Professor Mark Rider, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) and the de Duve Institute and go deeper in the mechanism by which exercise mediates its effect in skeletal muscle.

 

The title of Lai’s project is: “Identification of new kinase substrates in isolated skeletal muscle under contraction and insulin stimulation".

 

The de Duve Institute is a world wide renowned multidisciplinary biomedical research institute hosting several laboratories of the faculty of medicine of UCL. Christian de Duve received the "Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology" in 1974, and in that same year he founded the International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology (ICP).

 

Since then he has not only remained remarkably active in science and in promoting the ICP, but has also devoted much of his time, talents and enthusiasm to the advancement of scientific knowledge and to kindle the sparks that ignite investigative careers. The department of Prof. Mark Rider focuses mainly on main  AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and insulin signalling cascades.