About Me

Hi, I’m Tony.

I am from Menominee, Michigan. Menominee is a small town along the Green Bay of Lake Michigan and is the southern most point of Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula (U.P.). Residents of the U.P. are colloquially known as Yoopers. I graduated as Valedictorian from Menominee High School in 2010 and attended the University of Michigan for my undergraduate studies.

At U of M, I majored in Movement Sciences in the School of Kinesiology. As I began taking my upper level courses taught by Drs. Victor Katch and Jeff Horowitz I began to develop a curiosity for metabolic research and joined Dr. Greg Cartee’s Muscle Biology Lab. While a member of the Muscle Biology Lab, I was exposed to the effects of age and calorie restriction on exercise and insulin stimulated glucose uptake in skeletal muscle. This experience was formidable and I sought a career in research science.

I pursued a Ph.D. in the lab of Dr. Katsu Funai, where I studied phospholipid metabolism. My dissertation work examined the role of phospholipid methylation in skeletal muscle and its affect on energy expenditure. This work was rewarded with an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship.

Currently, I am a postdoc in Dr. Shingo Kajimura’s laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where I am expanding my expertise in metabolic research. In my down time I enjoy fishing and exploring the outdoors with my partner and our dog.