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Sharon Jensen-Cody

Address: 3310C PBDB
Phone: (319) 335-7660
Email: sharon-idiga@uiowa.edu

Mentor: Matthew Potthoff, PhD

Undergraduate Institution: University of California-Santa Cruz

Graduate Program: Molecular Medicine

Year Entered Into Program: 2015

Research Description

Novel Mechanisms Regulating Energy Expenditure

Awards

  • James Spratt Scholar Award, 2019-2020
  • Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Retreat Poster Presentation Award, 2019
  • NIH/NRSA Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship (F31 DK117515), 2018-present [Dec 1 start date]
  • American Heart Association Fellowship (18PRE34030399), 2018-present [Received NRSA, will turn back AHA Nov 31]
  • Molecular Medicine Research Retreat, 1st place on oral presentation, 2018
  • Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Spring 2018
  • Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Retreat Poster Presentation Award, 2017
  • There Minute Thesis Winner & People's Choice Award, 2017
  • Iowa Physiological Society Meeting Poster Presentation Award, 2017
  • 4th Annual Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center Symposium Poster session travel award, University of Iowa, 2017
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology Program Retreat Poster Presentation travel award, University of Iowa, 2016
  • Alfred P. Sloan Scholar, The University of Iowa, 2015-present


Publications

  1. Jensen-Cody SO*, Flippo KH*, Claflin KE, Yavuz Y, Sapouckey SA, Walters GC, Usachev YM, Atasoy D, Gillum MP, Potthoff MJ.:  FGF21 Signals to Glutamatergic Neurons in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus to Suppress Carbohydrate Intake. *contributed equally.  Cell Metab. July 07, 2020 - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2020.06.008 (online) 
  2. Ameka M, Markan KR, Morgan DA, BonDurant LD, Idiga SO, Naber MC, Zhu Z, Zingman LV, Grobe JL, Rahmouni K, Potthoff MJ.:  Liver Derived FGF21 Maintains Core Body Temperature During Acute Cold Exposure. Sci Rep 9(1):630, 2019.  PMCID: PMC6345819
  3. Zhang P, Kuang H, He Y, Idiga SO, Li S, Chen Z, Yang Z, Cai X, Zhang K, Potthoff MJ, Xu Y, Lin, JD.: NRG1-Fc improves metabolic health via dual hepatic and central action. JCI Insight. 3(5). pii: 98522. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.98522, 2018. PMCID: PMC5922292
  4. Klingelhutz AJ, Gourronc FA, Chaly A, Wadkins DA, Burand AJ, Markan KR, Idiga SO, Wu M, Potthoff MJ, Ankrum JA.: Scaffold-free generation of uniform adipose spheroids for metabolism research and drug discovery. Sci Rep. 8(1):523, 2018.  PMCID: PMC5765134
  5. BonDurant LD, Ameka M, Naber MC, Markan KR, Idiga SO, Acevedo MR, Walsh SA, Ornitz DM, Potthoff MJ.:  FGF21 Regulates Metabolism Through Adipose-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms.  Cell Metab. 25(4):935-944, 2017.  PMCID: PMC5494834
  6. deBoer TR, Palomino RI, Idiga SO, Millhauser GL, Mascharak PK.:  Tyrosine nitration in peptides by peroxynitrite generated in situ in a light-controlled platform: effects of pH and thiols.  J Inorg Biochem. 138:24-30, 2014.  PMID: 24857804