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)
