Elena Makarova
Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russia
Biography
Dr. Elena Makarova (PhD – biology) now is a senior researcher in the Laboratory of Physiological Genetics in the Institute of Cytology and Genetics (Novosibirsk, Russia). Her researches focus on the studies of sex-specific influence of maternal leptin on metabolic characteristics in progeny of rodents. She with her colleagues found maternal leptin retarded obesity development in male progeny and improves glucose metabolism in progeny of both sexes in mice.