Ph.D.
I am currently working on a project on modeling glucose homeostasis and analyzing diseased states. This project is a collaboration with the Johnson Lab at UBC.
This work was/will be presented at:
Publication:
Skovsø, S., Panzhinskiy, E., Kolic, J., Dionne, D. A., Dai, X., Sharma, R. B., Elghazi, L., Cen, H. H., Ellis, C. E., Faulkner, K., Marcil, S. A. M., Overby, P., Noursadeghi, N., Hutchinson, D., Hu, X., Li, H., Modi, H., Wildi, J., Botezelli, J. D., Noh, H. L., Suk, S., Gablaski, B., Bautista, A., Kim, R., Cras-Méneur, C., Flibotte, S., Sinha, S., Luciani, D. S., Nislow, C., Rideout, E. J., Cytrynbaum, E. N., Kim, J., Bernal-Mizrachi, E., Alonso, L. C., MacDonald, P. E., Johnson, J. D. Beta-cell specific Insr deletion promotes insulin hypersecretion and improves glucose tolerance prior to global insulin resistance. Nature Communications 13:735 (2022).
M.Sc.
My M.Sc. thesis was on human lactation. This project involved generating a model that uses neurological, hormonal and external stimuli to describe human milk production during lactation in order to undrestand how milk production increases.
This work was presented at:
This thesis can be read here:
Faulkner, Katharine R. Modeling milk production in the lactation period and the effect of feeding frequency on milk production. Master's Thesis, University of British Columbia. (2019).
During my undergraduate degree, I did my Honor's Thesis work on estimating river metabolism. In this project, I used dissolved oxygen data to estimate daily ecosystem metabolism rates for the Susquehanna River in order to determine the effect of the river ecosystem on atmospheric carbon dioxide.
This work was presented at:
The abstract for this thesis can be found here:
Faulkner, Katharine R. Estimation of daily net ecosystem production rates in the Susquehanna River using inverse modeling with dissolved oxygen data. Honors Thesis, Bucknell University. (2017).
Paper in preparation.