Research in my lab aims to understand how nutrients and growth factors control intracellular signaling pathways and how these pathways are coupled to cellular metabolism. We specifically focus on the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway and how it plays a role in cancer metabolism, diabetes and T cell biology. Our goal is to understand how cells rewire metabolic processes in response to genetic and environmental changes and how we can manipulate this reprogramming process to improve immunotherapy and develop more effective therapeutic strategies for cancer and other metabolic disorders. We use both mammalian cell and mouse models and employ techniques including proteomics/genomics, metabolomics, flow cytometry, biochemical and cell biology techniques.
Program Faculty
- Estela Jacinto
- Professor
- Department: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Graduate Program(s): Cell and Developmental Biology | Microbiology and Molecular Genetics | Physiology and Integrative Biology
- Major Research Interest(s): Aging, Cancer Biology, Immunology, Metabolism / Nutrition, Signaling
- Research Techniques: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Cell culture, Metabolomics, Proteomics
- Research Organism(s): Cell lines, Mice
- Rotation Faculty
- Phone: 1.7322354476
- Email: jacintes@rwjms.rutgers.edu
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- RWJMS Research Building & School of Public Health, Room 260
- 683 Hoes Lane West
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8021
- Key Words: T lymphocytes, metabolism, cancer, signal transduction, glycosylation
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