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Vanessa Leone is an Assistant Professor at the UW Comprehensive Diabetes Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a PhD in Animal Biologics Metabolism. Her research focuses on the essential role of circadian rhythms in metabolic health. She studies how disruptions to these rhythms can lead to metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Additionally, she investigates the gut microbiome's contribution to host health, particularly its unique diurnal patterns which are influenced by environmental cues. A significant aspect of her independent research is to determine how the oscillatory nature of the gut microbiome affects the host's circadian clock function and influences the host's metabolic set-point within the context of diet-induced obesity and diabetes.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences