25^th September at 10:00-11:00
On-site event
in Turku PET Centre 1^st floor seminar room

Professor George Brooks, University of California, Berkeley
Muscle and Whole Body Lactate Kinetics: Organ-Organ, Cell-Cell, Intracellular, and Postprandial Lactate Shuttles

Host: Ilkka Heinonen (ilkka.heinonen@utu.fi)

Coffee, tea and pulla is served starting 9:30. If you wish to meet Professor Brooks for a discussion outside the seminar please message Ilkka Heinonen at ilkka.heinonen@utu.fi

George A. Brooks is Distinguished Professor of Integrative Biology, at the University of California, Berkeley. He has 50+ years of experience in metabolic research, spanning from whole body level in humans to cellular scale. He is a pioneer of particularly lactate research and his studies have been cited >30 000 times. His work has appeared in PNAS and various other prestigious journals. He has summarized his lactate work and that of others in Cell Metabolism (The Science and Translation of Lactate Shuttle Theory – Cell Metab. 2018 Apr 3;27(4):757-785.) and more recent ideas and results can be read in their Nature Metabolism study in regards to postprandial lactate shuttle (Nat Metab. 2024 Apr;6(4):670-677.).