Carr Lab

Current work

The pathogenesis of insulin resistance in alcoholic liver disease

Regulation of Perilipin 2 by AMPK in experimental alcoholic liver disease

Mechanisms of lipid dysregulation and insulin resistance in alcoholic liver disease

Perilipins in the histopathologic distinction of alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

(PLIN2: lipid-coating protein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHYHkWk7ZJA&feature=youtu.be by undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania Luyun Chen, Judy Choi, and Chelsea Lin)

Ceramide synthetic pathways in metabolic disease

Predictors of NAFLD in IBD patients

Risk factors for readmission and mortality in patients with hepatic encephalopathy