NTU Metabolism
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#Metabolic Research Theme in the Centre for Systems Health and Integrated Metabolic Health SHiMR at Nottingham Trent University #NTU #NTUMetabolic #SHiMR_NTU
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/groups/metabolic-health
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/groups/metabolic-health
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Joshua N. Awoke, PhD AFHEA, on successfully defending his thesis on the role of #carnosine and #inflammation in #metabolic diseases! 👏 Thanks to Dr. Sergio Colombo & Prof. Mark Turner for their support.
#SHIMR_NTU #NTUMetabolic
#SHIMR_NTU #NTUMetabolic
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Joshua N. Awoke, PhD AFHEA, on successfully defending his thesis on the role of #carnosine and #inflammation in #metabolic diseases! 👏 Thanks to Dr. Sergio Colombo & Prof. Mark Turner for their support.
#SHIMR_NTU #NTUMetabolic
#SHIMR_NTU #NTUMetabolic
We were delighted to host Prof Delphine Boche ( #SouthamptonUni) for our #SHiMR_NTU Seminar! She shared insights into #neuroinflammation in #Alzheimer’s disease and innovative methods to study #microglial cells in the human brain. Thanks to Dr Shreyasi Chatterjee for hosting! @ntuneuro.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We were delighted to host Prof Delphine Boche ( #SouthamptonUni) for our #SHiMR_NTU Seminar! She shared insights into #neuroinflammation in #Alzheimer’s disease and innovative methods to study #microglial cells in the human brain. Thanks to Dr Shreyasi Chatterjee for hosting! @ntuneuro.bsky.social
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💡Big questions and bigger ideas at Friday's Neuroscience-metabolism Journal Club! Hosted by Alex Wilson-Slomkowski, sparking lively debate on how much data is enough for a paper? Brilliant insights, great company and of course, cake 🍰 #NTU #SHiMR #Neuroscience #Metabolism #JournalClub #ScienceChat
October 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
💡Big questions and bigger ideas at Friday's Neuroscience-metabolism Journal Club! Hosted by Alex Wilson-Slomkowski, sparking lively debate on how much data is enough for a paper? Brilliant insights, great company and of course, cake 🍰 #NTU #SHiMR #Neuroscience #Metabolism #JournalClub #ScienceChat
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This week we welcomed new team member Maisie Smedley on placement from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social BSc Neuroscience who will be working on tissue clearing and mapping hypothalamic networks. We were all busy in the lab this week! @ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
www.Dumbell-lab.com
www.Dumbell-lab.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This week we welcomed new team member Maisie Smedley on placement from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social BSc Neuroscience who will be working on tissue clearing and mapping hypothalamic networks. We were all busy in the lab this week! @ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
www.Dumbell-lab.com
www.Dumbell-lab.com
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Restarting neuro/metabolism #JournalClub with a cake! Will it turn into baking club? (I hope so)
@marwaalkhalidi.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
@marwaalkhalidi.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Restarting neuro/metabolism #JournalClub with a cake! Will it turn into baking club? (I hope so)
@marwaalkhalidi.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
@marwaalkhalidi.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
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A great session this morning, thank you to my co-chair Stephen Manchishi and all the speakers Jonathan Johnton, Beatrice Filippi, Chris Coyle and Szilvia Vas and great discussion from the audience. 🧠🎤🍔🕘🐭
September 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A great session this morning, thank you to my co-chair Stephen Manchishi and all the speakers Jonathan Johnton, Beatrice Filippi, Chris Coyle and Szilvia Vas and great discussion from the audience. 🧠🎤🍔🕘🐭
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In this afternoon's poster session come and meet Bharat Muthukumar talk about ZFHX3 #metabolic effects and Sam Bennett on mice divergently selected for metabolic differences and altered behavioural #rhythms.
#BSNbradford2025 #NTUresearch @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social
#BSNbradford2025 #NTUresearch @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In this afternoon's poster session come and meet Bharat Muthukumar talk about ZFHX3 #metabolic effects and Sam Bennett on mice divergently selected for metabolic differences and altered behavioural #rhythms.
#BSNbradford2025 #NTUresearch @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social
#BSNbradford2025 #NTUresearch @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social
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What a great conference @bsneuroendo.bsky.social #BSNbradford2025 with team NTU (and Annabelle not in the photo). Showcasing Neuroendocrine NTU!
✔️three posters
✔️one poster prize 🏆
✔️one session chaired
✔️one presentation to the AGM
✔️a lot of curries eaten 🍛
✔️some crazy dancing
✔️Lots of cool science
✔️three posters
✔️one poster prize 🏆
✔️one session chaired
✔️one presentation to the AGM
✔️a lot of curries eaten 🍛
✔️some crazy dancing
✔️Lots of cool science
September 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
What a great conference @bsneuroendo.bsky.social #BSNbradford2025 with team NTU (and Annabelle not in the photo). Showcasing Neuroendocrine NTU!
✔️three posters
✔️one poster prize 🏆
✔️one session chaired
✔️one presentation to the AGM
✔️a lot of curries eaten 🍛
✔️some crazy dancing
✔️Lots of cool science
✔️three posters
✔️one poster prize 🏆
✔️one session chaired
✔️one presentation to the AGM
✔️a lot of curries eaten 🍛
✔️some crazy dancing
✔️Lots of cool science
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Presenting her work on today's poster session @marwaalkhalidi.bsky.social talking about ZFHX3 and it's molecular action on energy balance neuropeptides @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social #BSNbradford2025
September 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Presenting her work on today's poster session @marwaalkhalidi.bsky.social talking about ZFHX3 and it's molecular action on energy balance neuropeptides @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social #BSNbradford2025
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The #DumbellLab on tour! #BSNbradford2025 left-right it's me, Bharat, Marwa @marwaalkhalidi.bsky.social and Annabelle. Posters might be over but chat to us about our work here at the @bsneuroendo.bsky.social annual meeting!
www.Dumbell-lab.com
@ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
www.Dumbell-lab.com
@ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The #DumbellLab on tour! #BSNbradford2025 left-right it's me, Bharat, Marwa @marwaalkhalidi.bsky.social and Annabelle. Posters might be over but chat to us about our work here at the @bsneuroendo.bsky.social annual meeting!
www.Dumbell-lab.com
@ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
www.Dumbell-lab.com
@ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
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Well done Sam! Great to see NTU neuroendocrinology highlighted and winning prizes 🏆 #BSNbradford2025 #NTUresearch @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
Congratulations to the poster prize winners @Tianyi Lu (Cambridge), Samuel Bennett (NTU) @ntumeta.bsky.social, @heleneachus.bsky.social (Aston) #BSNbradford2025
A tight competition and excellent work on all posters presented at the meeting!
A tight competition and excellent work on all posters presented at the meeting!
September 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Well done Sam! Great to see NTU neuroendocrinology highlighted and winning prizes 🏆 #BSNbradford2025 #NTUresearch @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Gareth Banks and colleagues on their recent publication in @dmmjournal.bsky.social on a mouse knock-in model of frontotemporal #dementia / #AmyotrophicLateralSclerosis #ALS & colleagues from @mrcharwell.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @utoronto.ca
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
Multi-modal comparative phenotyping of knock-in mouse models of frontotemporal dementia/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Summary: We report side-by-side behavioural and sensory phenotyping data of two knock-in next-generation mouse models of aspects of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia disease sp...
journals.biologists.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Congratulations to Gareth Banks and colleagues on their recent publication in @dmmjournal.bsky.social on a mouse knock-in model of frontotemporal #dementia / #AmyotrophicLateralSclerosis #ALS & colleagues from @mrcharwell.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @utoronto.ca
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
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🧠 New Research Alert!
Dr. Gareth Banks' latest study in Translational Psychiatry highlights the role of the murine ATP-binding cassette transporter Abcc5 (MRP5/cMOAT) in memory consolidation, circadian rhythm regulation, and glutamatergic signalling.
📄 Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1038/s413...
Dr. Gareth Banks' latest study in Translational Psychiatry highlights the role of the murine ATP-binding cassette transporter Abcc5 (MRP5/cMOAT) in memory consolidation, circadian rhythm regulation, and glutamatergic signalling.
📄 Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1038/s413...
The murine ATP-binding cassette transporter C5 (Abcc5/MRP5/cMOAT) plays a role in memory consolidation, circadian rhythm regulation and glutamatergic signalling - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - The murine ATP-binding cassette transporter C5 (Abcc5/MRP5/cMOAT) plays a role in memory consolidation, circadian rhythm regulation and glutamatergic signalling
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August 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🧠 New Research Alert!
Dr. Gareth Banks' latest study in Translational Psychiatry highlights the role of the murine ATP-binding cassette transporter Abcc5 (MRP5/cMOAT) in memory consolidation, circadian rhythm regulation, and glutamatergic signalling.
📄 Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1038/s413...
Dr. Gareth Banks' latest study in Translational Psychiatry highlights the role of the murine ATP-binding cassette transporter Abcc5 (MRP5/cMOAT) in memory consolidation, circadian rhythm regulation, and glutamatergic signalling.
📄 Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1038/s413...
A huge well done to our incredible PhD graduates from the Metabolic Health team, Dr Laura Lenham, and Dr Jade Creighton. We are proud to celebrate this important milestone with you. #SHIMR_NTU #NTU #NTUMetabolic @ntuneuro.bsky.social #PhD #Graduation #Classof2025
🎓 Big congratulations to our amazing Neuroscience PhD graduates Laura and @jessica-bates.bsky.social today! 🧠
We're proud to be celebrating alongside our friends in @ntumeta.bsky.social
Here's to all who are graduating today—your hard work has paid off. 👏
#PhDGraduation#NTU#Neuro#ClassOf2025
We're proud to be celebrating alongside our friends in @ntumeta.bsky.social
Here's to all who are graduating today—your hard work has paid off. 👏
#PhDGraduation#NTU#Neuro#ClassOf2025
July 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A huge well done to our incredible PhD graduates from the Metabolic Health team, Dr Laura Lenham, and Dr Jade Creighton. We are proud to celebrate this important milestone with you. #SHIMR_NTU #NTU #NTUMetabolic @ntuneuro.bsky.social #PhD #Graduation #Classof2025
Today is #WorldBrainDay! 🧠
This year’s theme: #Brain Health Across Ages — a reminder of how vital brain research is.
📸 Image by a former #PhD student showing increased brain permeability via red #immunofluorescence in ageing pathology
#Neuroscience #BrainHealth
This year’s theme: #Brain Health Across Ages — a reminder of how vital brain research is.
📸 Image by a former #PhD student showing increased brain permeability via red #immunofluorescence in ageing pathology
#Neuroscience #BrainHealth
July 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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PhD student Zak and Professor Tom Wishart are at the #AnatomicalSociety #cerebralcortex conference in Oxford, presenting their latest research on the role of PpT1 in #Batten disease. Exciting insights from the #NTUneuro and #SHiMR team!🧠🔬
#Neuroscience #Research #PhDLife #MolecularBiology #SciComm
#Neuroscience #Research #PhDLife #MolecularBiology #SciComm
July 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
PhD student Zak and Professor Tom Wishart are at the #AnatomicalSociety #cerebralcortex conference in Oxford, presenting their latest research on the role of PpT1 in #Batten disease. Exciting insights from the #NTUneuro and #SHiMR team!🧠🔬
#Neuroscience #Research #PhDLife #MolecularBiology #SciComm
#Neuroscience #Research #PhDLife #MolecularBiology #SciComm
Dr Alice Murphy spoke at the UKHAIC networking event, sharing how her #FTMA grant with Intelligent OMICS Ltd is advancing research into predicting #type2diabetes improvement post-bariatric surgery using urine. Great discussions on #healthyAgeing. #diabetes #NTU #NTUMetabolic #SHiMR_NTU
July 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Dr Alice Murphy spoke at the UKHAIC networking event, sharing how her #FTMA grant with Intelligent OMICS Ltd is advancing research into predicting #type2diabetes improvement post-bariatric surgery using urine. Great discussions on #healthyAgeing. #diabetes #NTU #NTUMetabolic #SHiMR_NTU
Great to see #NTUMetabolic @ #PhysiologyofObesity2025 w/ Dr @fearoncassidy.bsky.social & Prof @tonygoldstone.bsky.social .
@physoc.bsky.social
@mark-christian-lab.bsky.social
@rebeccadumbell.bsky.social
@ntuneuro.bsky.social
@jhobbs22.bsky.social
@nurudeenrasaq.bsky.social
@nkalender.bsky.social
@physoc.bsky.social
@mark-christian-lab.bsky.social
@rebeccadumbell.bsky.social
@ntuneuro.bsky.social
@jhobbs22.bsky.social
@nurudeenrasaq.bsky.social
@nkalender.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Honored to be at #PhysiologyofObesity2025 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social representing @mark-christian-lab.bsky.social. Sharing our work on #BrownFat -enriched #microRNAs in #lipodystrophy and #obesity. Poster up today, come by!
#SHIMR_NTU @physoc.bsky.social @jhobbs22.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
#SHIMR_NTU @physoc.bsky.social @jhobbs22.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Honored to be at #PhysiologyofObesity2025 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social representing @mark-christian-lab.bsky.social. Sharing our work on #BrownFat -enriched #microRNAs in #lipodystrophy and #obesity. Poster up today, come by!
#SHIMR_NTU @physoc.bsky.social @jhobbs22.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
#SHIMR_NTU @physoc.bsky.social @jhobbs22.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social
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At the @physoc.bsky.social Physiology of obesity meeting in @uniofnottingham.bsky.social today. Bharat will be presenting his poster this afternoon on ZFHX3 in #BrownFat and metabolism @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @socendocrinology.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social #NTUresearch
July 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
At the @physoc.bsky.social Physiology of obesity meeting in @uniofnottingham.bsky.social today. Bharat will be presenting his poster this afternoon on ZFHX3 in #BrownFat and metabolism @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @socendocrinology.bsky.social @ntumeta.bsky.social @ntuneuro.bsky.social #NTUresearch
#SHiMR2025 wrapped up with closing remarks from Prof Gareth Lavery, celebrating a day of brilliant science.
Congrats to our prize winners:Maria Pia Savoca, Abha Kushwaha & Ollie Megram!
Huge thanks to all speakers, chairs & attendees for making it such an inspiring event.
#NTU_Metabolic #SHIMR_NTU
Congrats to our prize winners:Maria Pia Savoca, Abha Kushwaha & Ollie Megram!
Huge thanks to all speakers, chairs & attendees for making it such an inspiring event.
#NTU_Metabolic #SHIMR_NTU
July 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#SHiMR2025 wrapped up with closing remarks from Prof Gareth Lavery, celebrating a day of brilliant science.
Congrats to our prize winners:Maria Pia Savoca, Abha Kushwaha & Ollie Megram!
Huge thanks to all speakers, chairs & attendees for making it such an inspiring event.
#NTU_Metabolic #SHIMR_NTU
Congrats to our prize winners:Maria Pia Savoca, Abha Kushwaha & Ollie Megram!
Huge thanks to all speakers, chairs & attendees for making it such an inspiring event.
#NTU_Metabolic #SHIMR_NTU
Highlight of #SHiMR2025: an insightful keynote from Nabil-Fareed Alikhan on #EntericPathogens, #COVID19 genomics, and how #bioinformatics, large-scale #genomics and open software are shaping global #PublicHealth responses.
#COGUK #PathogenSurveillance #NTU_Metabolic #BigData #NTU #NTU_Metabolic
#COGUK #PathogenSurveillance #NTU_Metabolic #BigData #NTU #NTU_Metabolic
July 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Highlight of #SHiMR2025: an insightful keynote from Nabil-Fareed Alikhan on #EntericPathogens, #COVID19 genomics, and how #bioinformatics, large-scale #genomics and open software are shaping global #PublicHealth responses.
#COGUK #PathogenSurveillance #NTU_Metabolic #BigData #NTU #NTU_Metabolic
#COGUK #PathogenSurveillance #NTU_Metabolic #BigData #NTU #NTU_Metabolic
Session 3 at #SHiMR2025 put the spotlight on #BigData! Chaired by Dr David Boocock, the session opened with Dr David Negus from AROM, who explored how large-scale data can accelerate the search for novel #antimicrobials. #SHIMR_NTU #NTU
July 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Session 3 at #SHiMR2025 put the spotlight on #BigData! Chaired by Dr David Boocock, the session opened with Dr David Negus from AROM, who explored how large-scale data can accelerate the search for novel #antimicrobials. #SHIMR_NTU #NTU
An inspiring afternoon session at #SHIMR2025 Symposium.
Chaired by Dr Marion Hogg, the session began with Professor Tom Wishart offering a look into the proteomic profiling of #synapses, exploring how molecular vulnerability might shape #neurological stability.
#SHIMR_NTU @ntuneuro.bsky.social
Chaired by Dr Marion Hogg, the session began with Professor Tom Wishart offering a look into the proteomic profiling of #synapses, exploring how molecular vulnerability might shape #neurological stability.
#SHIMR_NTU @ntuneuro.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
An inspiring afternoon session at #SHIMR2025 Symposium.
Chaired by Dr Marion Hogg, the session began with Professor Tom Wishart offering a look into the proteomic profiling of #synapses, exploring how molecular vulnerability might shape #neurological stability.
#SHIMR_NTU @ntuneuro.bsky.social
Chaired by Dr Marion Hogg, the session began with Professor Tom Wishart offering a look into the proteomic profiling of #synapses, exploring how molecular vulnerability might shape #neurological stability.
#SHIMR_NTU @ntuneuro.bsky.social
#SHiMR2025 session 1 set the scene for a day of #BigData-powered discovery.
From Prof Nik Morton’s opening remarks to an inspiring talk by SHiMR iPrize winner Prof Keeley Brookes on public engagement through the #LEAP, the morning set the tone for a day of science. #NTU_Metabolic #SHIMR_NTU #NTU
From Prof Nik Morton’s opening remarks to an inspiring talk by SHiMR iPrize winner Prof Keeley Brookes on public engagement through the #LEAP, the morning set the tone for a day of science. #NTU_Metabolic #SHIMR_NTU #NTU
July 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
#SHiMR2025 session 1 set the scene for a day of #BigData-powered discovery.
From Prof Nik Morton’s opening remarks to an inspiring talk by SHiMR iPrize winner Prof Keeley Brookes on public engagement through the #LEAP, the morning set the tone for a day of science. #NTU_Metabolic #SHIMR_NTU #NTU
From Prof Nik Morton’s opening remarks to an inspiring talk by SHiMR iPrize winner Prof Keeley Brookes on public engagement through the #LEAP, the morning set the tone for a day of science. #NTU_Metabolic #SHIMR_NTU #NTU