Morgan Fullerton
Assistant Professor
University of Ottawa
Canada
Biography
Morgan Fullerton completed his PhD in at the University of Guelph in 2009 in molecular metabolism. Interested in the molecular regulation of phospholipid metabolism, his work uncovered a link between phospholipids and obesity. He then joined the lab of Dr. Greg Steinberg at McMaster University. Supported by a Postdoctoral and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), his research focused on various aspects of immune cell lipid metabolism and links to whole body insulin sensitivity. In July 2014, Dr. Fullerton joined the department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Ottawa as an assistant professor and is a CIHR New Investigator. The Fullerton lab uses knockout and knock-in mouse models of key metabolic and nutrient regulators and continues to focus on immunometabolism. Dr. Fullerton’s research strives to understand the metabolic regulatory networks in innate immune cells and inflammatory/metabolic cross-talk in metabolic tissues that govern the progression of metabolic diseases such as atherosclerosis, fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes.
Research Interest
Regulation of Phospholipid Metabolism, Immune cell Lipid Metabolism, Atherosclerosis, Fatty liver disease and Type 2 diabetes