Education

  • PhD, Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge, LA, 2011, Veterinary Medical Sciences 
  • MS, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2006, Human Nutrition
  • BS, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2001, Dietetics

Research Interests

Dr. Elks has a general interest in the effects of the extracellular matrix on tissue function in obesity and diabetes. More specifically, she is interested in understanding how ligand-receptor interactions in adipose tissue affect the function of the tissue in both normal physiology and disease. Her current research is focused on how immune cell-derived cytokines interact with stromal cells to affect adipose tissue physiology in both obesity and Crohn's Disease. 

Department: Matrix Biology

Selected Publications

  1. Scott MC, Park CH, Dietrich M, Wu X, Gimble JM, Elks CM, Chang JS, Floyd ZE. Isolation of Murine Adipose-Derived Stromal/Stem Cells for Adipogenic and Osteogenic Differentiation or Flow Cytometry-Based Analysis. Methods Mol Biol. 2024;2783:93-107.
  2. Warfel JD, Elks CM, Bayless DS, Vandanmagsar B, Stone AC, Velasquez SE, Olivares-Nazar P, Noland RC, Ghosh S, Zhang J, Mynatt RL. Rats lacking Ucp1 present a novel translational tool for the investigation of thermogenic adaptation during cold challenge. Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2023 May;238(1):e13935. 
  3. Bailey JL, Burk DH, Burke SJ, Reed SD, Ghosh S, Elks CM. Adipocyte-Specific Laminin Alpha 4 Deletion Preserves Adipose Tissue Health despite Increasing Adiposity. Biomedicines. 2022 Aug 25;10(9):2077. 
  4. Bailey JL, Hang H, Boudreau A, Elks CM. Oncostatin M Induces Lipolysis and Suppresses Insulin Response in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Apr 23;23(9):4689
  5. Hang H, Bailey JL, Elks CM. Oncostatin M Mediates Adipocyte Expression and Secretion of Stromal-Derived Factor 1. Biology (Basel). 2019 Mar 23;8(1):19.
  6. Stephens JM, Bailey JL, Hang H, Rittell V, Dietrich MA, Mynatt RL, Elks CM. (2018) Adipose Tissue Dysfunction Occurs Independently of Obesity in Adipocyte-Specific Oncostatin Receptor Knockout Mice. Obesity. 26(9):1439-1447.
  7. Elks CM. (2018) Obesity and Inflammation: One Size Never Fits All. EBioMedicine. 30:9.
  8. Turner PA, Gurumurthy B, Bailey JL, Elks CM, Janorkar AV. (2017) Adipogenic Differentiation of Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Grown as Spheroids. Process Biochemistry. 59:312-320. 

NCIB Publications