Renata Pereira Alambert, PhD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology and Metabolism
Current Positions
- Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology and Metabolism
Education
- PhD, Human & Experimental Biology, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Graduate Program Affiliations
Center, Program and Institute Affiliations
Selected Publications
- Pereira RO, Olvera AC, Marti A, Fang S, White JR, Westphal M, Hewezi R, AshShareef ST, García-Peña LM, Koneru J, Potthoff MJ, Abel ED. OPA1 Regulates Lipid Metabolism and Cold-Induced Browning of White Adipose Tissue in Mice. Diabetes. 2022 Dec 1;71(12):2572-2583. PMCID: PMC9750944
- Pereira RO, Marti A, Olvera AC, Tadinada SM, Bjorkman SH, Weatherford ET, Morgan DA, Westphal M, Patel PH, Kirby AK, Hewezi R, Bùi Trân W, García-Peña LM, Souvenir RA, Mittal M, Adams CM, Rahmouni K, Potthoff MJ, Abel ED. OPA1 deletion in brown adipose tissue improves thermoregulation and systemic metabolism via FGF21. Elife. 2021 May 4;10. doi: 10.7554/eLife.66519. PMCID: PMC8128440
- Pereira RO, Tadinada SM, Zasadny FM, Oliveira KJ, Pires KMP, Olvera A, Jeffers J, Souvenir R, Mcglauflin R, Seei A, Funari T, Sesaki H, Potthoff MJ, Adams CM, Anderson EJ, Abel ED. OPA1 deficiency promotes secretion of FGF21 from muscle that prevents obesity and insulin resistance. EMBO J. 2017 Jul 14;36(14):2126-2145. PMCID: PMC5510002
- Pereira RO, Wende AR, Crum A, Hunter D, Olsen CD, Rawlings T, Riehle C, Ward WF, Abel ED. Maintaining PGC-1α expression following pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy preserves angiogenesis but not contractile or mitochondrial function. FASEB J. 2014 Aug;28(8):3691-702. doi: 10.1096/fj.14-253823. Epub 2014 Apr 28. PMCID: PMC4101649
- Pereira RO, Wende AR, Olsen C, Soto J, Rawlings T, Zhu Y, Riehle C, Abel ED. GLUT1 deficiency in cardiomyocytes does not accelerate the transition from compensated hypertrophy to heart failure. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2014 Jul;72:95-103. PMCID: PMC4037364
- Pereira RO, Wende AR, Olsen C, Soto J, Rawlings T, Zhu Y, Anderson SM, Abel ED. Inducible overexpression of GLUT1 prevents mitochondrial dysfunction and attenuates structural remodeling in pressure overload but does not prevent left ventricular dysfunction. J Am Heart Assoc. 2013 Sep 19;2(5):e000301. PMCID: PMC3835233