Ilya Vinnikov
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Biography
Ilya Vinnikov has earned his Doctoral degree in 2008 at the Internal Medicine I department of the University of Heidelberg. The following years he spent as a senior Postdoc at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg. He explored different sites of the regulatory circuit maintaining energy homeostasis including the neurons of the arcuate and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus, midbrain dopaminergic neurons, and diabetes models. His main interest is to decipher how these complex heterogeneous structures within the brain interact with each other and with the periphery to regulate energy metabolism, both on subcellular, cellular and circuit levels.
Abstract
Abstract : Hypothalamic microRNAs suppress development of obesity