PhD (Aberdeen University 2002)
Advanced Research Fellow
- About
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- Email Address
- s.e.mitchell@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
319, Zoology Building, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
2015-date Research Fellow, Lab Manager Energetics Research Group
- Research
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Research Overview
PhD Students
2016-date Megan Simpson
2016-2020 Jazmin Mendoza “Impacts of the thermic effect of food on feeding behaviour in mice: a test of the heat dissipation limits theory”
2015-2020 Emem Udoh PhD “Impacts of Calorie Restriction on Behaviour and Post-restriction Hyperphagia”
2015-2017 Heba Althubaiti “Fruit and Vegetable Intake and its Relationship with Health Parameters in Primary School Children”
Masters
2021-2022 Master of Science by Research Daniel Phillips “Bioinformatic Characterisation of Alternative Splicing in Three Different Tissues of Male C57BL/6 Mice Following Short-Term Graded Calorie Restriction"
2019-2020 MSci Daniel Phillips “Remodelling of three different tissues in the male C57BL/6 mouse during short-term graded caloric restriction is caused by tissue-specific variations in cell size and number”
2018-2019 MRes Stephanie Summers "The Impact of Short-Term Graded Calorie Restriction on Melanocortin-3 receptor (MC3R) Knockout Mice"
2013-2015 MSci Megan Simpson “The effect of maternal age on offspring susceptibility to high fat diet induced obesity and offspring expression of hypothalamic obesity related genes”.
2011-2013 MRes Dawn Graham, “The Role of Neuropeptides and their Receptors in Response to Increased Hunger, Reduced Food Intake and Reduced Body Fat Content”.
2011-2013 MRes Nicole Culbert, “Does Hunger Neuropeptide and Energy Balance Manipulation Affect Metabolic Rate and Antioxidant Activity in C57BL/6 Mice under Caloric Restriction?”
Supervisor of a number of Erasmus Funded Internships from AgroSup, Djon, France.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Lab Skills in Biosciences (BI3812), co-coordinator with Cath Jones
Parasitology Field trip (BI25F3), co-coordinator with Jerry Sternberg
Supervisor for laboratory-based research projects for Honours students
Lecturer on following courses:
Environmental Physiology (ZO3513)
Principles of Animal Physiology (BI2510)
Diversity of Life 2 (BI1512)
- Publications
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Effects of Chronic Oral Rimonabant Administration on Energy Budgets of Diet-Induced Obese C57BL/6 Mice
Obesity, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 954-962Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2011.357
Physiological and behavioral responses to intermittent starvation in C57BL/6J mice
Physiology and Behavior, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 376-387Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.08.035
Traversing the ovine cervix: a challenge for cryopreserved semen and creative science
Animal , vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 1791-1804Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731111000978
Caloric Restriction
Molecular Aspects of Medicine, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 159-221Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mam.2011.07.001
The impact of acute caloric restriction on the metabolic phenotype in male C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, vol. 131, no. 2, pp. 111-118Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mad.2009.12.008
Dietary supplementation with conjugated linoleic acid plus n-3 polyunsatturated fatty acid increases food intake and brown adipose tissue in rats
Nutrients, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 178-196Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLeptin receptor gene expression and number in the brain are regulated by leptin level and nutritional status
The Journal of Physiology, vol. 587, no. 14, pp. 3573-3585Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2009.173328
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The contribution of animal models to the study of obesity
Laboratory Animals, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 413-432Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1258/la.2007.006067
The Lou/C rat is proportionally smaller than the Wistar and not anorexic or hyperactive as previously reported
International Journal of Obesity, vol. 31, no. S1, pp. S84-S84Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ijo.0803597
Animal models of obesity
Obesity Reviews, vol. 8, no. Suppl 1, pp. 55-61Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2007.00319.x