Areas of Specialty:
Longevity genetics
Demography of aging
Endocrine regulation of aging
Marc Tatar, PhD
Brown University, United States
Marc Tatar is Professor in The Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University and the Brown Center on the Biology of Aging. Dr. Tatar studies the demography, evolution and genetics of aging to explore basic mechanisms of longevity, metabolism, hormones and age-associated disease. Long-standing work in the Tatar laboratory focuses on genetic analysis of Drosophila to understand how insulin and IGF signaling regulates aging as it interacts with nutrition and reproduction. Emerging work investigates how neuropeptide signaling from specialized endocrine cells of the gut regulates lifespan extension by dietary restriction. The lab has developed models of human age-associated pathology with Drosophila, focusing on innate immune dysfunction and cardiorenal fibrosis. Dr. Tatar has published over 100 research papers, including at Nature, Science, and PNAS. Dr. Tatar received his Ph.D. from UC Davis (1994) in the laboratory of James Carey and completed post-doctoral training at the University of Minnesota. He has been on the faculty of Brown University since 1997. Dr. Tatar has been an Ellison Senior Scholar, Founding Joint Editor-in-Chief of Aging Cell, and a member of the Board of Review Editors for Science. He completed a MERIT award from the National Institute of Aging. Asides from science and teaching, Dr. Tatar is an avid sports cyclist, which keeps him young in spirit and health