Home Department: Biology
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Sharon Pitteri, Radiology

Christine is profiling the global omics of fat biopsy specimens from the Stanford Endocrinology Clinic in order to investigate the biomolecular changes that occur in the fat during the progression to type 2 diabetes mellitus. Specifically, she is responsible for characterizing and quantifying the glycoproteome of adipocytes by liquid- chromatography mass spectrometry to analyze changes in protein post-translational modifications induced by an experimental overfeeding model for insulin resistance in humans.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 27, 2014:

Integrating Glycoproteomics and RNA-seq in Profiling Adipose Tissue

Christine Yiwen Yeh¹, Brian Donald Piening¹, Sarah Michelle Totten³, Tracey Lynn McLaughlin⁴, Michael Snyder², Sharon Pitteri³
[Departments of Biology¹, Genetics², Radiology³, and Medicine⁴, Stanford University]