Margarita De L. Teran-Garcia

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Dr. Teran-Garcia's research focus is on understanding the role of genetic and environmental influences on the development of children obesity.The laboratory uses genomic approaches to study pediatric nutrition, obesity and its related disorders in the context of translational research.

Selected Publications

Teran-Garcia M., Rankinen T., Bouchard C. Genes, Exercise, Growth and the Sedentary, Obese Child. J Appl Physiol. 2008; 105:988-1001.

Ukkola O., Teran-Garcia M., Tremblay A., Després J.P. and Bouchard C. Adiponectin Concentration and Insulin Indicators Following Overfeeding in Identical Twins. J Endocrinol Invest. 2008; 31(2):132-7.

Teran-Garcia M., Després J.P., Tremblay A., and Bouchard C. Effects of Cholesterol Ester Transfer Protein (CETP) gene polymorphisms on adiposity in response to long-term overfeeding in identical twins. Atherosclerosis 2008; 196(1):455-460.

Redman L.M., Teran-Garcia M. and Ravussin E. Preventing Metabolic Syndrome: Diet, Exercise, Both or More? Review of Endocrinology 2007 July/Aug: 23-25. 2007.

Teran-Garcia M., Rankinen T., Rice T., Leon A.S., Rao D.C., Skinner J.S. and Bouchard C.Variations of the Four and a half LIM domain 1 gene (FHL1) are associated with fasting insulin and insulin sensitivity responses to regular exercise. Diabetologia 2007; 50(9):1858-66.

Teran-Garcia M. and Bouchard C. Genetics of the Metabolic Syndrome. Review. Appl. Physiol. Nutr. Metab. 2007; 32: 89-114.

Teran-Garcia, M., Adamson A.W, Rufo C., Clarke S.D. and Gettys T.W. Involvement of NF-Y in the polyunsaturated fatty acid inhibition of rat liver fatty acid synthase gene transcription. Biochem J. 2007; 402 (3): 591-600.

Adamson A.W., Suchankova G., Rufo C., Nakamura M.T., Teran-Garcia M., Clarke S.D. and Gettys T.W. Hepatocyte nuclear factor-4alpha contributes to carbohydrate-induced transcriptional activation of hepatic fatty acid synthase. Biochem J. 2006;399 (2): 285-95.

Teran-Garcia M., Santoro N., Rankinen T., Bergeron J., Rice T., Leon A.S., Rao D.C., Skinner J. S., Wilmore J.H., Bergman R. N., Després J.P. and Bouchard C. Hepatic Lipase Gene Variant -514C>T is associated with lipoprotein and insulin sensitivity response to regular exercise: The HERITAGE Family Study. Diabetes 2005; 54 (7): 2251-2255.

Teaching

Courses recently taught:

FSHN 420 - Nutritional Aspects of Disease

Latest Degree

Ph.D. in Metabolism/Nutrient-gene interactions - University of Texas at Austin. 2001

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Teran-Garcia obtained her M.D. from the National University Autonomous of Mexico, UNAM, and did her pediatric residency at the National Institute of Pediatrics in Mexico. In 2001 she received her Ph.D. in Metabolism/Nutrient-gene interactions form the University of Texas at Austin under the mentorship of Prof. Steven D. Clarke. After completing her post-doctoral training with Prof. Claude Bouchard at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, she continued her work as an Associate Scientist in the Human Genomics Laboratory and Co-Director of the Cell Culture Core Facility. Dr. Teran-Garcia has experience in clinical nutrition, nutrigenetics, and childhood obesity. In August of 2008, she joined the faculty of Food Science and Human Nutrition as an Assistant Professor in Nutrition.