Connor Laule, PhD
Graduate Research Assistant
Biography
The objective of my work is to understand how obesity reshapes properties of intrahypothalamic neurocircuits and contributes to the development of hypertension.
Awards
- NIH/NHLBI Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA), 2023-2026
- Central Nervous System Section Van Harreveld Memorial Award from American Physiological Society, Experimental Biology, 2022
- Fellowship appointment on the Pharmacological Sciences Training Program (NIH T32 GM067795), University of Iowa, 2020-2022
- Horwitz and Horowitz Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Award from American Physiological Society, Experimental Biology, 2018
- Horwitz and Horowitz Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award from American Physiological Society, Experimental Biology, 2018
Publications
- Root KM, Akhaphong B, Molin AM, Huchthausen ME, Laule CF, Regal RR, Alejandro EU, and Regal JF: Critical Role for Macrophages in the Developmental Programming of Pancreatic β-cell Area in Offspring of Gestational Hypertension. Submitted to Diabetes, May 2022.Regal JF, Laule CF, Root KM, Gilbert JS, and Fleming SD: Reply to “Letter to the Editor: Importance of B Cells in Response to Placental Ischemia.” Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 318:H726-H728, 2020. PMID: 32141767
- Regal JF, Laule CF, Root KM, Gilbert JS, and Fleming SD: Reply to “Letter to the Editor: Importance of B Cells in Response to Placental Ischemia.” Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 318:H726-H728, 2020. PMID: 32141767
- Laule CF, Odean EJ, Wing CR, Root KM, Towner KJ, Hamm CM, Gilbert JS, Fleming SD, and Regal JF: Role of B1 and B2 Lymphocytes in Placental Ischemia-induced Hypertension. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 317.4:H732-742, 2019. PMID: 31397167
- Regal JF, Laule CF, McCutcheon L, Root KM, Lund H, Hashmat S, and Mattson DL: The Complement System in Hypertension and Renal Damage in the Dahl SS Rat. Physiological Reports 6.6: 13655, 2018. PMID: 29595916
- Laule CF, Wing CR, Odean EJ, Wilcox JA, Gilbert JS, and Regal JF: Effect of Nicotine on Placental Ischemia-induced Complement Activation and Hypertension in the Rat. J Immunotoxicol 14.1:235-240, 2017. PMID: 29185370
Abstracts
- Laule CF, Guo DF, and Rahmouni K: Brainstem BBSome Regulates Glucose Metabolism and High Fat Diet Sensitivity. FASEB J 36:3611, 2022. Abstract also presented at FOEDRC Diabetes Research Day 2022.
- Root KM, Akhaphong B, Molin AM, Huchthausen ME, Laule CF, Regal RR, Alejandro EU, and Regal JF: Role of Macrophages in Developmental Programming of Pancreatic β-cell Area in Offspring of Gestational Hypertension. FASEB J 36:2645, 2022.
- Laule CF, Odean EJ, Wing CR, Gilbert JS, Fleming SD and Regal JF: Depletion of B1 and B2 lymphocytes in placental ischemia-induced hypertension in the rat. FASEB J 32:729.4, 2019.