
Alexa Wade
BCMB PhD Student
awade11@jhmi.edu
Awards and Honors
2023 – Maria Del Carmen Vitery Graduate Student Award
2021- 2023 American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship
Research Interests
Transcriptional mechanism of brown adipose tissue function
Publications
Bethea M, Liu Y, Wade AK, Mullen R, Gupta R, Gelfanov V, DiMarchi R, Bhatnagar S, Behringer R, Habegger KM, Hunter CS. The islet-expressed Lhx1 transcription factor interacts with Islet-1 and contributes to glucose homeostasis. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2019 Mar 1;316(3):E397-E409.
Wade AK, Liu Y, Bethea MM, Toren E, Tse HM, Hunter CS. LIM-domain transcription complexes interact with ring-finger ubiquitin ligases and thereby impact islet β-cell function. J Biol Chem. 2019 Aug 2;294(31):11728-11740.