Juleen Zierath - short curriculum vitae#

Education:

• 1984 University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls WI, B.S, Secondary Education, Business Administration
• 1986 Ball State University, Muncie IN, M.A, Exercise Physiology
• 1995 Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Ph.D, Physiology
• 1995 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Post-doc, Medicine
• 1998 Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE, Docent, Physiology

Activities:

• 2010-pres Director of the Strategic Research Program in Diabetes at Karolinska Institutet
• 2011-13 Member of the Nobel Committee, Karolinska Institutet (Adjunct member 2008-10)
• 2010-pres Editor-in-Chief, Diabetologia
• 2010-13 Chair of the Board of Directors, Keystone Symposia Organization

• 2007-09 Member of the Swedish Research Council Board for Medicine
• 2006-pres Member of the Nobel Assembly, Karolinska Institutet
• 2006-pres Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Keystone Organization/Symposium

• 2004-pres Member of the Novo Nordisk Research Committee
• 2004-pres Minkowski Prize Committee European Association for the Study of Diabetes
• 2004-06 Member of Sweden Central Sports Organization prize committee
• 2000&2002 Program Committee Member for Annual Meetings of the EASD
• Scientific Reviewer of Grants from various Research Councils incl. Swedish Research Council, European Research Council
• Member of Editorial Board for Endocrinology (2000-04) and Obesity Research (2002-pres), Senior Editor for Journal of Endocrinology (2002-06), Diabetologia(2004-10), Diabetes Metabolism Research & Reviews (2003-pres), Experimental Diabetes Research (2006-pres), and American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology and Metabolism (2007-10)

Plenary talks:

• 2011, Feb, AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington DC
• 2010, Sept, The EMBO Meeting, Barcelona, Metabolomics Workshop
• 2010, Aug, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Nuclear Receptors & Disease, US
• 2010, July, International Congress on Obesity, Stockholm “Karolinska Institutet
• 200 Year Jubilee Lecture”
• 2010, July, 35th FEBS Congress, Gothenburg Sweden, Datta Prize Lecture
• 2010, May, Massachusetts General Hospital – Karolinska Institutet – Cell Days of Molecular Medicine
• 2010, April, Experimental Biology 2010 & American Society for Nutrition Presidential Symposium, Anaheim CA
• 2010, March, The 1st International Abu Dhabi Diabetes Congress, U.A.E.
• 2009, Nov, Frontiers in Medicine at Nobel Forum Karolinska Institutet supported by the Nobel Assembly. “Recent Progress in Research on Bioactive Peptides”
• 2009, Oct, Biology in Balance, Cell Press, Massachusetts General Hospital and Fondation IPSEN. Buenos Aires Argentina
• 2009, Sep, FASEB Summer Research Conference, Glucose transporter biology and diabetes
• 2009, April, Experimental Biology 2009, New Orleans LA

Present Supervisor for 10 registered doctoral students: F Salehzadeh, F Szekeres, S Kulkarni, R Tom, M Holmström, F Mashili, J Yan, R Sjögren, I Riedl, C Nylén.

Previous Main Supervisor for 14 doctoral graduated students, and previous Co-Supervisor for 6 doctoral graduated students.

Present Supervisor of 8 Post-Doctoral Fellows: B Benziane (07-pres), B Egan (08-pres), H Boon (09-pres), E Nascimento (10-pres), L Mannerås Holm (11-pres), H Kirchner (11-pres), T de Castro Barbosa (11-pres), J Massart (11-pres).

Previous Supervisor of 15 Post-Doctoral Fellows.