Jennie
Bever Babendure, PhD, IBCLC
Assistant Research Professor
Education
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PhD - University of California, San
Diego
Biology, 2007
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BS - Arizona State University, AZ
Biochemistry, 2000
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Lactation Consultant -University of California, San
Diego, 2009
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International Board Certification as Lactation Consultant
(IBCLC), 2009
Research Interests
Obesity, inflammation, endocrine dysfunction and lactation
outcomes. Biological basis of lactation
failure. Coordination of care to protect maternal and child
health in the early postpartum. Women's health. Maternal
depression and anxiety. The use of social media to advance
health advocacy campaigns.
Recent Publications and Presentations
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Bever Babendure JL, McCann A, Audelo L, Chase J,
Forbes B, Hickman M, Linda K, McCulloch J, Rigg DB, Walker M, West
A. Friends of the WHO Code: Using Social Media to Defend
the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.
United States Lactation Consultants Associationa Annual Meeting,
July 2013 St. Louis, MO.
- Resifsnider E, Mendias N, Davila Y and Bever Babendure
JL. Contraception and the Obese Woman. Journal
of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. 2013 May;25(5):223-33.
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Bever Babendure JL, Watkins A, Dodgson JE.
Breastfeeding Support in Maricopa County; A Geospatical Analysis.
American Public Health Association Meeting, November 1, 2011
Washington, D.C.
- Yoshizaki T, Schenk S, Imamura T, Babendure JL,
Sonoda N, Bae EJ, Oh DY, Lu M, Milne JC, Westphal C, Bandyopadhyay
G, Olefsky JM. SIRT1 inhibits inflammatory pathways in macrophages
and modulates insulin sensitivity. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab.
2010 Mar;298(3):E419-28
- Yoshizaki T, Imamura T, Babendure JL, Lu JC,
Sonoda N, Olefsky JM. Myosin 5a is an insulin-stimulated Akt2
(protein kinase Bbeta) substrate modulating GLUT4 vesicle
translocation. Mol Cell Biol. 2007 Jul;27(14):5172-83.
- Babendure JR, Babendure JL, Ding JH, Tsien RY.
Control of mammalian translation by mRNA structure near caps. RNA.
2006 May;12(5):851-61.
- Li LS, Babendure JL, Sinha SC, Olefsky JM, Lerner
RA. (Shared first author) Synthesis and evaluation of photolabile
insulin prodrugs. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2005 Sep 1;15(17):3917-20.
Grants and Projects
- Principal Investigator. Markers of Inflammation and Breastfeeding
Outcomes in Obese Women. Funded by the International Lactation
Consultant Association (ILCA). 2013-2015.
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