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.
Benefits of calorie restriction in mice are mediated via energy imbalance, not absolute energy or protein intake
Smith, D. L., Mitchell, S. E., Johnson, M. S., Gibbs, V. K., Dickinson, S., Henschel, B., Li, R., Kaiser, K. A., Chusyd, D. E., Brown, A. W., Allison, D. B., Speakman, J. R., Nagy, T. R.
The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: XX. impact of long term graded calorie restriction on survival and body mass dynamics in male C57BL/6J mice
Mitchell, S. E., Togo, J., Green, C. L., Derous, D., Hambly, C., Speakman, J. R.
The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol. 78, no. 11, pp. 1953-1963
Protein quality and quantity influence the effect of dietary fat on weight gain and tissue partitioning via host-microbiota changes
Nychyk, O., Barton, W., Rudolf, A. M., Boscaini, S., Walsh, A., Bastiaanssen, T. F., Giblin, L., Cormican, P., Chen, L., Piotrowicz, Y., Derous, D., Fanning, ?., Yin, X., Grant, J., Melgar, S., Brennan, L., Mitchell, S. E., Cryan, J. F., Wang, J., Cotter, P. D., Speakman, J. R., Nilaweera, K. N.
