This is the next event in the Neuroscience Seminar Series hosted by the Centre for Neuroscience Surgery and Trauma.
Date: Wednesday 1 February, 12.30pm-2.30pm
Venue: MS Teams only | Join the meeting
Meeting ID: 377 492 239 865
Passcode: 7Nznbc
Speaker: Dr Jo Edward Lewis, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge
Title: 'My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard; RXFP4 expressing hypothalamic neurons modulate food intake and preference in mice' This is the next event in the Neuroscience Seminar Series hosted by the Centre for Neuroscience Surgery and Trauma. Due to the train strikes, this seminar will take place on MS Teams only. Please contact Jyoti Salhan (j.salhan@qmul.ac.uk) for more information. We hope to see as many of you there as possible. Please look out for more information on future speakers coming soon.
Speaker bio
I am a research fellow at the IMS, within the laboratory of Professor Frank Reimann and Professor Fiona Gribble. I have 13+ years of experience in designing and successfully implementing in vivo studies, often to determine the mechanism of action of hormones and/or pharmaceuticals in combination with in vitro and ex vivo analysis. I have a special interest in how the periphery communicates with the central nervous system.
My research focuses on understanding the central physiological and behavioural mechanisms, in addition to the molecular pathways, behind appetite, hunger and satiety, and on how we can use this information to inform strategies for the treatment of obesity. Last year, I was awarded an EASD-Eli Lilly fellowship to determine the role of glucose dependent insulinotrophic polypeptide (GIP) in the regulation of food intake.
I have presented at national and international conferences and published widely (from Diabetologia and Molecular Metabolism to the Journal of Clinical Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and Glia), as well as championing early career researchers via the Physiological Society and the British Society for Neuroendocrinology.