Kilpatrick Carroll

Kilpatrick (kil) is a graduate student in the department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biophysics. Kil graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2001 with a
degree in biochemistry, and was awarded the National Science Foundation predoctoral
fellowship in 2002. Kil joined the laboratory in 2002 and his main focus has been on the
obesity protein Tubby. Kil’s current research focus is to discover upstream and downstream
factors in the Tubby pathway, and to determine the biochemical mechanism by which Tubby
regulates metabolism.

E-mail: kjc2002@columbia.edu