Lovejoy, Owen
We investigate the age and structure of the human clade, with special reference to the fossil record. This includes formal hypotheses of how and why our clade has been demographically successful and what characters are unique to it.
Our laboratory applies high-throughput unbiased system biology approaches, i.e. metabolomics and proteomics to understand the pathogenesis of obesity-associated metabolic diseases, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and diabetes, and their cardiovascular complications. Our group helped to develop the heavy water-based metabolic labeling approach for global proteome dynamics studies, which are currently extensively used by multiple research labs around the world. NAFLD and type 2 diabetes (T2D) afflict one-third of the US’s population.