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Principal Investigator

Alexander S. Banks, Ph.D. Assistant Professor asbanks [at] bidmc.harvard.edu About Dr. Banks Investigations in the Banks lab focus on understanding the mechanisms linking obesity with insulin resistance. The goal of this work is to provide new insights that may lead to novel therapeutic...

Other Systems

PARR instruments bomb calorimeter Determines energy content of food or fecal matter FLIR thermal imaging camera Determines thermal radiation

Core Equipment

Our facilities were updated and re-launched as an institutional Energy Balance Core in 2019 to continue the tradition of excellence in metabolic research. This included a bomb calorimeter and a thermal imaging camera. In 2020 we obtained a Promethion indirect calorimeter and DSI’s continuous glucose...

Energy Balance Core Contact Information

Energy Balance Core at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center EnergyBalanceCore@bidmc.harvard.edu We are located in the Center for Life Science Boston 3 Blackfan Circle Boston, MA 02215

Postdoctoral Fellows

Deepti Ramachandran, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow dramach1 [at] bidmc.harvard.edu Nagasuryaprasad Kotikalapudi, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow nkotikal [at] bidmc.harvard.edu

Research Assistants

William Bernard, BASc Research Assistant wbernard [at] bidmc.harvard.edu Marissa Cortopassi, B.S Research Assistant mcortopa [at] bidmc.harvard.edu Gabrielle Paquette, B.A Research Assistant gpaquett [at] bidmc.harvard.edu

Highly Cited Research from the Core

Many discoveries have relied upon careful measurement of body composition and metabolic rates in un-anesthetized, freely moving mice. One metric to determine the impact of a scientific publication is how many times other scientific articles have referred to that work–or citations. Selected highly...