Summary
Team members
Postdoctoral Researchers:
Dr. Zhigang Liu - MRC-funded project: Impact of an Enterobacteriaceae-rich microbial community on gut health
Dr. Maria Glymenaki - ERC-funded project: EntroBariatric
Dr. Maria Valdivia - ERC-funded project: EntroBariatric
PhD:
Aruchuna Mohanaruban - EndoBarrier (Clinical Research Fellow) (2015 - 2018)
Hu Cong - Effects of Anaesthetics on Cancer Metastatic Gene, Protein and Metabolic Profiling (2017 - 2020)
Elisabeth Vonhof - Application of 1H HR MAS NMR spectroscopy in investigating host-microbial interaction (2017 - 2020)
Grace Barker - Nutritional intervention for colorectal cancer (2017 - 2020)
Jutarop Phetcharaburanin - Metabolic and microbial alterations in bariatric surgery (writing up)
Natalie McLymont - Application of metabonomics in ICU patients (passed viva)
Visiting PhD:
Ornuma Haonon - Metabolic profiles of kidney injury in opisthorchiasis hamster during consumption high fat/high fructose diets and MSG intake, Khon Kaen University
MRes:
01.2018 - 06.2018 MRes supervisor "Investigating the metabolic behaviour of gut bacteria after bariatric surgery" - Student: Man Chun Wong
10.2017 - 03.2018 MRes supervisor "Gut tissue metabolism after bariatric surgery" - Student: Yang Bi
3.2017 - 09.2017 MRes supervisor "The role of gut microbiota in bariatric surgery" - Student: Isabelle Coales
3.2017 - 09.2017 MRes supervisor "Metabolic phenotyping of colonic organoids" - Student: Qiling Chen
3.2017 - 09.2017 MRes supervisor "Metabolic behaviour of the gut bacterial isolated from obese and weight loss surgical patients" - Student: Grace Barker
03.2016 - 09.2016 MRes supervisor “Effects of acute and chronic monosodium glutamate intakes as a food additive on urinary metabolic changes” - Student: Hasina Abdul
03.2016 - 09.2016 MRes supervisor “Metabolic profiling of lung cancer cell lines” - Student: Chiao Chin Gan
10.2015 - 03.2016 MRes supervisor “Metabolic Profiling of Children with Crohn’s Disease and their Responses to Enteral Nutrition Therapy” - Student: Victoria Auyeung
10.2015 - 03.2016 MRes supervisor “Investigation of Metabolic Phenotypes of Zebrafish Related to Genotypes and Environment” - Student: Yousun Kim
10.2015 - 03.2016 MRes supervisor “Investigating the impact of bariatric surgery-induced microbiota on Caenorhabditis elegans lifespan and lipidome” - Student: Gintare (Amber) Vaitkute
10.2015 - 08.2016 MRes supervisor “Investigating the Effect of a High Protein Diet in Mice Using Metabolic Profiling” - Student: Anqi Zhang (an abstract submitted to a conference)
03.2015 - 09.2015 MRes supervisor “Metabolic Behaviour of Gut Bacteria under Various Environmental Conditions” - Student: Jessica Lin
03.2015 - 09.2015 MRes supervisor “A 1H NMR- and UPLC-MS-Based Metabolomic Investigation of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery-Induced Metabolic Changes of the Intestine, Spleen and Pancreas Extracts of Non-Diabetic Rats” - Student: Zhanxuan (Emily) Wu
10.2014 - 03.2015 MRes primary supervisor for a project entitled “Human Faecal Sample Collection Method Development” - Student: Jasmina Gratton (published article)
10.2014 - 03.2015 MRes primary supervisor for a project entitled “Metabolic phenotyping of IBD patients” - Student: Miriam Eustace
10.2013-03.2014 MRes primary supervisor for a project entitled “Anti-malarial effect of Albertisia delagoensis” - Student: Sarah Amis
03.2012-09.2012 MRes primary supervisor for a project entitled “Metabolic effects of antibiotics in mice” - Student: Bing Xia
10.2011-03.2012 MRes primary supervisor for a project entitled “Quality control of a traditional Chinese medicine” - Student: Durr-e-Shahwar Malik
03.2011-09.2011 MRes primary supervisor for a project entitled “The biochemical component analysis of medicinal plant extracts” - Student: Danielle Monteil
10.2010-03.2011 MRes co-supervisor for a project entitled “The impact of inhalational anaesthetics on the neurochemical profile in an in vitro model of Alzheimer’s disease” - Student: Sam Spurr
01.2010-08.2010 Co-supervisor of MRes student from Queen Mary University working on African plant extracts
BSc:
02.2014 - 05.2014 BSc primary supervisor for a project entitled “Metabolic effect of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass on Zucker rats” - Student: Raheej Khan