Principal Investigator

Dr. Hauck completed her Ph.D. in the group of Dr. David Bernlohr at the University of Minnesota, where she studied lipotoxicity in adipose tissue during obesity and aging. In 2017, she joined the laboratory of Dr. Mitchell Lazar at UPenn as a postdoctoral researcher to study transcriptional mechanisms that drive metabolic disease. In Jan 2025, Dr. Hauck joined the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor, where her lab is focused on the intersection between metabolic signaling and the epigenome, with a particular interest in the mechanisms that drive nuclear receptor activity.

Lab Manager

Dr. Dickey earned her Ph.D at the U of MN in the Department of Pharmacology studying mechanisms of intracellular calcium release in Dr. Tim Walseth’s lab. She continued her study of signal transduction mechanisms with consecutive postdocs focused on the signaling of T cell adhesion followed by natriuretic peptide signaling. She then entered the world of metabolism research in Dr. Bernlohr’s research group until his retirement before joining the Hauck lab in 2025. With over 20 years at the U of MN, Deb is an exceptional source of institutional knowledge and enjoys training students in their introduction to laboratory research.

We’re hiring motivated students and postdocs. Email us at hauck059@umn.edu