Ask the Experts: Energy Metabolism Assays

Original Webinar Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Are you just getting started monitoring cellular metabolism, or do you have questions about your assay system? Whether you are studying cancer, diabetes, stem cells or other changes in cellular states, cellular metabolism is affected.

Join our experts in a live question and answer session where they address your questions and offer tips on assay normalization and cell differentiation.

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 Michael Valley, PhD 

Michael (Mike) Valley is a Senior Research Scientist in the Assay Design Group at Promega. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics from the University of Minnesota. He has been trained as an enzymologist, and since joining Promega in 2004, he has been applying his enzymatic skills to a variety of luminescent assays. These include reporter assays (ONE-Glo™, Renilla-Glo®, and Nano-Glo®), drug metabolism assays (MAO-Glo™), and viability assays (CellTiter-Glo® 2.0 and CellTiter-Glo® 3D). He is now working on metabolite detection assays, most recently developing a luminescent assay to measure glucose uptake by cells (Glucose Uptake-Glo™).

 Donna Leippe, PhD 

Dr. Donna Leippe has spent over 18 years developing technologies and leading research projects as a Senior Research Scientist in R&D at Promega. She is a member of the Assay Design group and focuses on developing bioluminescent technologies for cellular metabolism research.  This has included assays for measuring cellular cofactors (NAD/NADH-Glo™ and NADP/NADPH-Glo™ Assays) and multiple cellular metabolites (Lactate-Glo™, Glucose-Glo™, Glutamate-Glo™ and Glutamine/Glutamate-Glo™ Assays). Donna joined Promega after completing her graduate and postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied Viral Immunology at the Institute for Molecular Virology and the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research.