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Institute of Metabolic Science

Metabolic Research Laboratories
 

A series of bite-size video interviews with some of our researchers, giving a behind-the-scenes look at life in the lab and highlighting the cutting-edge science happening at the IMS-MRL.

Question time

Is obesity a choice?

What are perineuronal nets?

What next after Ozempic?

Can you be healthy at any size?

Life as a clinical academic

How to lose weight?

What happens to brain plasticity in metabolic disease?

Why do we crave junk food when we are full?

What causes pregnancy sickness?

What is 'omics'

What is leptin?

What is Ozempic?

Structural plasticity and body weight

What is structural plasticity?

What is type 2 diabetes?

What about the effects of the environment on bodyweight?

How do genes regulate bodyweight?

What is the median eminence?

Leadership lessons from Prof Stephen O'Rahilly

What is mass spectrometry (part 1)

What is mass spectrometry (part 2)

How has science changed?

 

The genetics of bodyweight

How have students changed?

What are glial cells?

Why are the levels of childhood obesity so high?

Is obesity a disease?

 

 

Advice with

Advice for young researchers

  

Advice for PhD students

  

   

 

Meet our researchers

Professor Clemence Blouet

Professor Sadaf Farooqi

Dr Manon Marbot

Professor Sue Ozanne