Allison Xu, PhD

Mouse Metabolism Core Director
M_Diabetes Center
Research Area
Central Regulation

Research in Allison Xu’s laboratory focuses on understanding the adaptive regulation of energy balance and glucose homeostasis in response to changes of physiologic and environmental conditions. Specifically, Allison’s lab is investigating how hypothalamic and hindbrain neurons sense and integrate peripheral hormones and nutritional signals, and how these neurons regulate feeding, energy expenditure, systemic glucose and lipid metabolism. These efforts will help better understand how energy balance and glucose homeostasis are regulated and how these regulations are disrupted in obesity, type 2 diabetes and aging.

Publications

A consensus guide to preclinical indirect calorimetry experiments.

Nature metabolism

Banks AS, Allison DB, Alquier T, Austad SN, Auwerx J, Ayala JE, Baur JA, Carobbio S, Churchill GA, Dall M, de Cabo R, Donato J, Dragano NRV, Elias CF, Ferrante AW, Finck BN, Galgani JE, Gerhart-Hines Z, Goodyear LJ, Grobe JL, Gupta RK, Habegger KM, Hartig SM, Hevener AL, Heymsfield SB, Holman CD, de Angelis MH, James DE, Kazak L, Kim JB, Klingenspor M, Kong X, Kooijman S, Lantier L, Lloyd KCK, Lo JC, Lodhi IJ, MacLean PS, McGuinness OP, Medina-Gómez G, Mirmira RG, Morrison CD, Morton GJ, Müller TD, Ogawa Y, Pajuelo-Reguera D, Potthoff MJ, Qi N, Reitman ML, Rensen PCN, Rozman J, Rutkowsky JM, Sakamoto K, Scherer PE, Schwartz GJ, Sedlacek R, Selloum M, Shaikh SR, Chen S, Shulman GI, Škop V, Soukas AA, Speakman JR, Spiegelman BM, Steinberg GR, Svensson KJ, Thyfault JP, Tiganis T, Titchenell PM, Turner N, Velloso LA, Vidal-Puig A, Ward CS, Williams AS, Wolfrum C, Xu AW, Xu Y, Zierath JR, International Indirect Calorimetry Consensus Committee (IICCC)