Our Teams.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Hauck completed her Ph.D. in the group of Dr. David Bernlohr at the University of Minnesota, where she studied lipotoxicity in adipose tissue during obesity and aging. In 2017, she joined the laboratory of Dr. Mitchell Lazar at UPenn as a postdoctoral researcher to study transcriptional mechanisms that drive metabolic disease. In Jan 2025, Dr. Hauck joined the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor, where her lab is focused on the intersection between metabolic signaling and the epigenome, with a particular interest in the mechanisms that drive nuclear receptor activity.

Lab Manager

Dr. Dickey earned her Ph.D at the U of MN in the Department of Pharmacology studying mechanisms of intracellular calcium release in Dr. Tim Walseth’s lab. She continued her study of signal transduction mechanisms with consecutive postdocs focused on the signaling of T cell adhesion followed by natriuretic peptide signaling. She then entered the world of metabolism research in Dr. Bernlohr’s research group until his retirement before joining the Hauck lab in 2025. With over 20 years at the U of MN, Deb is an exceptional source of institutional knowledge and enjoys training students in their introduction to laboratory research.

Undergraduate Researcher

Andy is a senior undergraduate majoring in Biochemistry. He joined the lab in the summer of 2025 as a recipient of the BMBB Undergraduate Summer Internship. His research interests include molecular mechanisms underlying metabolic regulation, and he is gaining hands-on experience in experimental design, data analysis, and biochemical techniques through his work in the lab.

Graduate Student

Casey is a PhD student in the Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, and Genetics program who joined the Hauck lab in 2026. She comes from a biochemistry and biotechnology background with previous epigenetics research experience studying transcription factors implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders at Washington University. Her research in the Hauck lab focuses on NCOR complexes function within the liver and their regulation of the transcriptome under different metabolic and aging conditions. 

Bioinformatics Specialist.

Sanskruti is pursuing her M.S. in Data Science at the University of Minnesota. She joined the Hauck Lab in 2024, where she applies computational approaches to study transcriptional regulation and metabolism. Her work focuses on RNA-seq data analysis, pipeline development, and pathway enrichment to investigate mechanisms that drive metabolic signaling. She brings expertise in machine learning and big data analytics, supporting the lab’s efforts to integrate bioinformatics with experimental biology. Sanskruti is particularly interested in transcriptomics and systems-level integration of biological data.

We’re hiring motivated students and postdocs. Email us at hauck059@umn.edu