External Seminars from the IMS-MRL (Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories)


2023-01-12 13:15: Untangling the inter-organ communication network (Dr Ilia Droujinine, Department of Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, USA)

2023-01-31 13:15: Next-Generation Methods In Preclinical Obesity Research (Professor Alex Banks,  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, US)

2023-02-02 12:15: Developing precision medicine strategies for metabolic disease in Māori and Pacific people by targeting population specific genetic variants (Professor Peter Shepherd,  Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Auckland, New Zealand)

2023-02-07 13:15: Tissue-specific biased agonism in metabolic disease (Dr Ben Jones, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College, London)

2023-02-14 13:15: Compartmentalised metabolism and metabolite signalling to the nucleus (Dr Sophie Trefely, Signalling and Epigenetics, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

2023-03-07 13:15: Host-Tumor Interactions in Interleukin-6 Associated Cancer Cachexia (Professor Tobias Janowitz,  Assistant Professor Cancer Center Member, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)

2023-03-21 13:15: Sex Inclusive Research: addressing misconceptions and barriers to including both sexes (Dr Natasha Karp, Biostatistics, Quantitative Biology, Discovery Science, R&D, AstraZeneca, UK)

2023-05-02 13:15: Somatic mutation of metabolism genes in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (Dr Matthew Hoare, University of Cambridge and CRUK Cambridge Institute)

2023-05-09 13:15: Infralimbic cortex melanocortin 4 receptor mediates food intake behavior and executive function (Dr Rachel Ross, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA)

2023-05-23 13:15: Ciliary signaling control of obesity and metabolism: mechanisms and human genetic drivers (Professor Peter Jackson, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)

2023-06-06 13:15: Common Forms of Obesity & Fat Distribution, From Phenotypes to Mechanisms (Professor Cecilia Lindgren,  Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford)

2023-10-03 13:15: Uncovering Novel GPCR Pathways for the Treatment of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes (Professor Zach Gerhart-Hines, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen)

2023-10-10 13:15: Obesity-related alterations in beta-cell function and heterogeneity of metabolic function in obesity and in response to weight loss (Professor Bettina Mittendorfer, Division of Geriatrics & Nutritional Science, Washington University, USA)

2023-10-24 13:15: Metabolic neurocircuits: Early exposures and environmental influences (Dr Rachel Lippert, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany)

2023-10-31 13:15: Primary insulin signalling disorders – molecular insights and physiological conundrums (Professor Rob Semple, Centre for Cardiovascular Research, University of Edinburgh)

2023-11-21 13:15: Studying how fat cells can migrate and play roles in wound healing and cancer using in vivo live imaging of Drosophila pupae (Dr Anna Franz, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College, London)

2023-11-28 12:30: mTORC1, inter-organ communication and adaptation of lipid metabolism during catch-up growth of the long bones (Dr Alberto Rosello-Diez, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)