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Hire Dr. NATALIE L.

United States

My skills lie in the creation and communication of biomedical sciences: research, presenting, grant-writing, education.

Profile Summary

Natalie Lenard serves as the Chair of Sciences – Biology and as the Biology program director. She teaches upper-level courses in biochemistry, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, immunology, and research and mentors both course-related and independent student research. Dr. Lenard completed her doctoral degree in Pharmacology with a minor in Neuroscience at LSUHSC-Shreveport and postdoctoral training at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. She has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and presentations in the basic biomedical sciences.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Animal Behavior/Ethology
• ☆ Cell Signaling Pathways
• ☆ Neurochemistry
• ☆ Neuropharmacology
• ☆ Cell Culture
• ☆ Drug Addiction Treatment
• ☆ Psychopharmacology

Services

• Research
• Data & AI

Research Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Insights

Work Experience

Assistant Dean

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University

September 2021 - Present

Professor

FranU

January 2009 - Present

Postdoctoral Fellow

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

May 2005 - December 2008

Postdoctoral Fellow

LSU Health Shreveport

March 2003 - May 2005

Education

PhD

LSU Health Shreveport

August 1998 - August 2003

BS

Louisiana Tech University

August 1994 - May 1998

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2018). Dietary Quercetin Attenuates Adipose Tissue Expansion and Inflammation and Alters Adipocyte Morphology in a Tissue-Specific Manner . International journal of molecular sciences.

(2015). Sodium butyrate epigenetically modulates high-fat diet-induced skeletal muscle mitochondrial adaptation, obesity and insulin resistance through nucleosome positioning . British journal of pharmacology.

(2014). Dietary quercetin supplementation in mice increases skeletal muscle PGC1α expression, improves mitochondrial function and attenuates insulin resistance in a time-specific manner . PloS one.

(2011). Food reward, hyperphagia, and obesity . American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology.

(2010). Role of beta-adrenergic receptors in the hyperphagic and hypermetabolic responses to dietary methionine restriction . American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology.

(2010). Dietary methionine restriction enhances metabolic flexibility and increases uncoupled respiration in both fed and fasted states . American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology.

(2010). Chronic suppression of μ-opioid receptor signaling in the nucleus accumbens attenuates development of diet-induced obesity in rats . International journal of obesity (2005).

(2009). Alternative mRNA splicing produces a novel biologically active short isoform of PGC-1alpha . The Journal of biological chemistry.

(2009). Meal patterns, satiety, and food choice in a rat model of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery . American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology.

(2009). Appetite control and energy balance regulation in the modern world: reward-driven brain overrides repletion signals . International journal of obesity (2005).

(2008). Central and peripheral regulation of food intake and physical activity: pathways and genes . Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.).

(2007). Absence of conditioned place preference or reinstatement with bivalent ligands containing mu-opioid receptor agonist and delta-opioid receptor antagonist pharmacophores . European journal of pharmacology.

(2006). Differential coupling of beta3A- and beta3B-adrenergic receptors to endogenous and chimeric Galphas and Galphai . American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism.

(2005). Opioid-induced tolerance and dependence in mice is modulated by the distance between pharmacophores in a bivalent ligand series . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

(2005). Mechanisms and significance of the increased brain uptake of tryptophan . Neurochemical research.

(2005). Development of antinociceptive tolerance and physical dependence following morphine i.c.v. infusion in mice . European journal of pharmacology.

(2005). Potential role for nonesterified fatty acids in beta-adrenoceptor-induced increases in brain tryptophan . Neurochemistry international.

(2004). Increased insulin is not required for beta2-adrenoceptor-induced increases in mouse brain tryptophan . European journal of pharmacology.

(2003). Activation of beta2- and beta3-adrenergic receptors increases brain tryptophan . The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics.