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 of mice.