Research Focus

Brain control of blood glucose

Awards

UW Diabetes Research Center Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Graduate Fellowship (2019-2020)

Pathology and Lab Medicine Retreat Poster Presentation Award (2019)

American Diabetes Association Oral Sessions Speaker (2017, 2018, and 2020)

UW Cardiovascular Pathology Training Grant HL-007312 (2016-2019)

American Heart Association Scientific Session, Travel Grant (2015)

CSU Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar (2015)

Publications

Brown JM, Scarlett JM, Matsen ME, Nguyen HT, Secher AL, Jorgensen R, Morton GJ, Schwartz MW. “The Hypothalamic Arcuate Nucleus-Median Eminence Is a Target for Sustained Diabetes Remission Induced by Fibroblast Growth Factor 1.” Diabetes. 2019

Scarlett JM, Muta K, Brown JM, Rojas JM, Matsen ME, Acharya NK, Secher A, Ingvorsen C, Jorgensen R, Høeg-Jensen T, Stefanovski D, Bergman RN, Piccinini F, Kaiyala KJ, Shiota M, Morton GJ, Schwartz MW. “Peripheral Mechanisms Mediating the Sustained Antidiabetic Action of FGF1 in the Brain.” Diabetes. 2019

Brown JM, Scarlett JM, Schwartz MW. “Rethinking the role of the brain in glucose homeostasis and diabetes pathogenesis.” J Clin Invest. 2019

Hultman K, Scarlett JM, Baquero AF, Cornea A, Zhang Y, Salinas CBG, Brown J, Morton GJ, Whalen EJ, Grove KL, Koegler FH, Schwartz MW, Mercer AJ. “The central fibroblast growth factor receptor/beta klotho system: Comprehensive mapping in Mus musculus and comparisons to nonhuman primate and human samples using an automated in situ hybridization platform.” J Comp Neurol. 2019

Mirzadeh Z, Alonge KM, Cabrales E, Herranz-Pérez V, Scarlett JM, Brown JM, Hassouna R, Matsen ME, Nguyen HT, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Zeltser LM, Schwartz MW. “Perineuronal Net Formation during the Critical Period for Neuronal Maturation in the Hypothalamic Arcuate Nucleus.” Nat Metab. 2019

Bentsen MA, Rausch DM, Mirzadeh Z, Muta K, Scarlett JM, Brown JM, … Schwartz MW and Pers TH. “Transcriptomic analysis links diverse hypothalamic cell types to fibroblast growth factor 1-induced sustained diabetes remission.” Nature Communications. 2020

Alonge K, Mirzadeh Z, Scarlett JM, Logston A, Brown J et al. Hypothalamic perineuronal net assembly is required for sustained 719 diabetes remission induced by fibroblast growth factor 1 in rats. Nature Metab. 2020.