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Joined the Department in 2024, the Karpac Lab focuses on understanding the origins of signaling networks that provide animals with metabolic flexibility to balance energy homeostasis. The research addresses how ancient networks react to intense evolutionary pressures shaped by diverse inputs, including nutrient availability, pathogens, and aging. Primarily utilizing the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a genetic model, the lab investigates the function and integration of signaling networks at multiple levels of biological organization, including molecules, cells, tissues, inter-organ communication, and organismal physiology related to aging.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.