Eric B. Taylor, PhD, will present the seminar “Portal to power and confectionery: The mitochondrial pyruvate carrier as a master node in hepatic metabolism.”

A major focus of Dr. Taylor’s laboratory at the University of Iowa is to understand the function of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC) as a central regulator of hepatic metabolism. Dr. Taylor co-discovered the identity of the MPC (Science, 2012). The Taylor Lab has recently demonstrated that disrupting the MPC in the liver attenuates hyperglycemia in models of type 2 diabetes (Cell Metabolism, 2015).