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Dr Sharon Mitchell

Dr Sharon Mitchell
Dr Sharon Mitchell
Dr Sharon Mitchell

PhD (Aberdeen University 2002)

Advanced Research Fellow

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Email Address
s.e.mitchell@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address

319, Zoology Building, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ

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School of Biological Sciences
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Biography

2015-date       Research Fellow, Lab Manager Energetics Research Group

Research

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

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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  • Suppression of leptin during lactation: contribution of the suckling stimulus versus milk production

    Brogan, R. S., Mitchell, S. E., Trayhurn, P., Smith, M. S.
    Endocrinology, vol. 140, no. 6, pp. 2621-2627
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Towards improved reproductive technologies for sheep

    Robinson, J., Williams, L. M., Mitchell, S. E., Mylne, M. J., Mckelvey, W. A. C.
    Animal and Food Science Research Report. Scottish Agricultural College, pp. 2-5, 4 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Nutritional and hormonal regulation of the leptin system

    Trayhurn, P., Hoggard, N., Mitchell, S. E., Rayner, D. V.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • ob gene expression and secretion of leptin following differentiation of rat preadipocytes to adipocytes in primary culture

    Mitchell, S. E., Rees, W., Hardie, L. J., Hoggard, N., Tadayyon, M., Arch, J. R., Trayhurn, P.
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 230, no. 2, pp. 360-364
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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