Dr. Karla Pires, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow in the Boudina lab, has been selected for a podium presentation and a travel award grant for her work on autophagy and adipose inflammation entitled “Ablation of adipocytes autophagy induces insulin resistance and reveals new roles for lipid peroxides and Nrf2 signaling in adipose-liver crosstalk” at the NIDDK Autophagy as a Common Pathway in Diseases 2018 meeting. The NIDDK Autophagy as a Common Pathway in Diseases 2018 meeting will be held at the National Institutes for Health Campus on March 8th and 9th in Bethesda, Maryland.