Welcome to
The Hauck Lab
at the University of Minnesota
Metabolism and the epigenome.
Welcome to the Hauck lab! Here, we’re excited about how metabolic signals are communicated, interpreted, and remembered through the epigenome. We seek to understand how those signals work in healthy individuals, but also how disruptions in signaling to the epigenome drive metabolic dysfunction in diseases like obesity, diabetes, MASLD, and during aging.
We use genetic and dietary mouse models to identify the signaling molecules involved in communicating the metabolic status of an organism, investigate the proteins that receive those signals inside of the nucleus, and characterize the epigenomic changes that ultimately drive programmatic gene expression.
Dr. Amy K. Hauck
Assistant Professor-Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota
Postdoctoral Fellow- Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania, Laboratory of Mitchell A. Lazar
Ph.D. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics- University of Minnesota, Laboratory of David A. Bernlohr (2017)
B.A. Biology- University of San Diego (2010)