“Insulin induced gene-2a links CREBH signaling to hepatic lipid metabolism in the pathogenesis of hepatic steatosis and hypertriglyceridemia” will be presented by Dr. Xiaozhu Su, assistant professor, Department of Nutrition & Health Sciences.

Qiaozhu Su received her PhD from McGill University in 2007 and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Qiaozhu has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and served as an editorial board member for several professional journals. Her research interests include lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, mechanism of metabolic syndrome, with a particular emphasis on the role of microRNAs, ER and mitochondrial stress in obesity, fatty liver disease and insulin resistance.