Katherine Strissel, Ph.D

Featured HNRCA Research Publications
	Scientist III Obesity and Metabolism Laboratory Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA at Tufts University 711 Washington Street Room 606 Boston, MA 02111-1524 Phone: (617) 556-3319 Fax: (617) 556-3224 E-mail: katherine.strissel@tufts.edu
Education	B.A. University of Illinois at Chicago M.A. Biology Temple University Ph.D Biology Temple University
Research Focus	Potential role(s) of macrophage infiltration of obese adipose tissue in progression towards insulin resistance and type II diabetes
Selected Professional Affiliations	NAASO American Society for Cell Biology Society for Neuroscience American Association for the Advancement of Science Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Strissel, KJ, Stancheva ZS, Miyoshi H, Perfield II, JW, DeFuria J, Jick Z, Greenberg AS and Obin MS. Adipocyte Death, Adipose Tissue Remodeling and Obesity Complications. Diabetes. 2007;56:2910-2918. Souza SC, Christoffolete MA, Ribeiro MO, Miyoshi H, Strissel KJ, Stancheva ZS, Rogers NH, D'Eon TM, Perfield JW, Imachi H, Obin MS, Bianco AC, and AS Greenberg. Perilipin regulates the thermogenic actions of norepinephrine in brown adipose tissue. J Lipid Res. 2007;48:1273-1279. Miyoshi, H, Souza SC, Zhang H-H, Strissel KJ, Christoffolete MA, Kovsan J, Rudich A, Kraemer FB, Bianco AC, Obin MS, and Greenberg AS. Perilipin promotes HSL-mediated adipocyte lipolysis via phosphorylation-dependent and independent mechanisms. J Biol Chem. 2006;281:15837-15844. Strissel KJ, Sokolov M, Trieu LH, and Arshavsky VY. Arrestin translocation is induced at a critical threshold of visual signaling and is superstoichiometric to bleached rhodopsin. J Neurosci. 2006;26:1146-1153. Strissel KJ, Lishko PV, Trieu LH, Kennedy M J, Hurley JB and Arshavsky VY. Recoverin undergoes light-dependent intracellular translocation in rod photoreceptors. J Biol Chem. 2005;280:29250-5.