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The recently established Food, Metabolism and Society domain is keen to work with - and learn from - as many stakeholders as possible. If you are a UCL researcher and would like to become a member of the domain, please contact Dr Aarathi Prasad (a.prasad@ucl.ac.uk).
Food, Metabolism and Society Domain Members
Name |
UCL Department |
Contact |
Research Interests |
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Professor Arne Akbar Professor of Immunology |
Division of Infection and Immunity, Faculty of Medical Sciences |
a.akbar@ucl.ac.uk 020 3108 2172 |
Human T cell differentiation and longevity; loss of immunity in ageing. |
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Dr Nazif Alic Senior Research Associate |
UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, Faculty of Life Sciences |
n.alic@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 2219 |
Ageing; programming of lifespan by unhealthy diets; transcriptional regulation. |
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Professor Jurg Bahler Chair in Molecular Systems Biology |
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Faculty of Life Sciences |
j.bahler@ucl.ac.uk 0203 108 1602 |
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Professor Francois Balloux Chair in Computational Biology Systems Biology |
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Faculty of Life Sciences |
f.balloux@ucl.ac.uk 0203 108 1601 |
Computational genomic tools; genetic diversity evolution. |
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Professor Rachel Batterham Professor of Obesity, Diabetes & Endocrinology |
Department of Metabolism and Experimental Therapeutics, Faculty of Medical Sciences |
r.batterham@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 0991 |
Obesity; neural/endocrine control of feeding; bariatric surgery. |
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Dr Robert Biel Senior Lecturer |
Development Planning Unit, The Bartlett | r.biel@ucl.ac.uk | International political economy; systems theory; sustainable development; urban agriculture. |
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Dr Aiduan Borrion Lecturer in Sustainable Infrastructure |
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering | a.borrion@ucl.ac.uk | Food waste, closed loop waste-energy-food systems, urban farming, food sustainability, circular economy and localised food systems. |
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Professor Frances Brodsky (chair) Director, Division of Biosciences |
Division of Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences |
f.brodsky@ucl.ac.uk 020 3549 5464 |
Cell biology; Insulin response; Muscle physiology, Clathrin. |
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Dr Filipe Gomes Cabreiro Lecturer in Metabolism and Metabolic Diseases |
Division of Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences | f.cabreiro@ucl.ac.uk | Gut microbiota in metabolic disease. |
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Dr Ceclia Caulcott Vice-Provost (Enterprise and London) |
UCL Innovation and Enterprise |
c.caulcott@ucl.ac.uk 020 3108 6210 |
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Dr Paul Chadwick Senior Teaching Fellow |
UCL Centre for Behaviour Change | p.chadwick@ucl.ac.uk | Behavioural change for metabolic health; clinical psychology. |
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Professor Nishi Chaturvedi Professor of Clinical Epidemiology (Cardiometabolic Disease) |
Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health Sciences |
n.chaturvedi@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 9431 |
Etiology and prevention of diabetes; metabolic function in ethnic minorities. |
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Professor John Christodoulou Professor in Biological NMR Spectroscopy |
Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences |
j.christodoulou@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 2375 |
Protein folding; mass spectrometry methods; metabolomics. |
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Dr Carole Dalin NERC Research Fellow |
UCL Institute of Sustainable Resources, The Bartlett | c.dalin@ucl.ac.uk | |
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Professor Alan Dangour Head of the Nutrition Group |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | alan.dangour@lshtm.ac.uk | |
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Marianne Jennifer Datiles Doctoral Student |
UCL School of Pharmacy | mjdatiles@gmail.com | |
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Dr Sean Davidson Principal Research Associate |
Institute of Cardiovascular Science | s.davidson@ucl.ac.uk | Cardiovascular disease and the influence of metabolic disease and diabetes |
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Dr Nathan Davies Reader in Biochemistry |
Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, Division of Medicine |
nathan.davies@ucl.ac.uk 020 7830 2614 |
Nutrition in critical illness; metabolism in health and disease; alcohol and malnutrition; the microbiome and health; nutrition education. |
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Ellie Doney Researcher and Doctoral Student |
Slade School of Fine Art | e.doney@ucl.ac.uk | |
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Professor Michael Duchen Professor of Physiology |
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences |
m.duchen@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 3207 |
Mitochondrial biology and cell signaling. |
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Dr Lazaros Foukas Lecturer |
UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, Faculty of Life Sciences | l.foukas@ucl.ac.uk | Carbohydrate and lipid homeostasis in ageing. |
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Professor Dorian Fuller Professor of Archaeobotany |
UCL Institute of Archaeology | d.fuller@ucl.ac.uk | |
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Dr Matthew Gage BHF Senior Research Fellow |
Department of Metabolism and Experimental Therapeutics, Faculty of Medical Sciences | m.gage@ucl.ac.uk | Macrophage nuclear receptors in atherosclerosis; endothelium in diabetes. |
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Dr Paul Gissen Professorial Research Associate |
UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, Faculty of Population Health Sciences |
p.gissen@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 3531 |
Protein misfolding/misolcalisation in disease; inborn errors of metabolism (CIEM). |
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Dr Alex Gould Honorary Professor |
The Francis Crick Institute and UCL Division of Biosciences | alex.gould@crick.ac.uk | Regulation of growth and metabolism. |
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Professor Ivan Gout Professor of Cancer Biochemistry |
Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences | i.gout@ucl.ac.uk | |
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Dr George Grimble Principal Teaching Fellow |
Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences |
g.grimble@ucl.ac.uk 020 3108 2185 |
Diet and metabolic disease. |
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Professor Sue Hamilton Director, UCL Institute of Archaeology |
UCL Institute of Archaeology |
ioa-director@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 7483 |
Agricultural archaeology. |
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Professor Rebecca Hardy Scientific Programme Leader |
Institute of Epidemiology and Health, Faculty of Population Health Sciences |
rebecca.hardy@ucl.ac.uk 020 7670 5713 |
Prenatal development; childhood growth; adult BMI trajectories; trajectories of physical function and influences on later health and ageing. |
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Professor Michael Heinrich Professor of Pharmacognosy |
UCL School of Pharmacy | m.heinrich@ucl.ac.uk | Herbal medicine interface, the anthropology of food, diabetes and metabolic syndrome prevention and ethnopharmacology. |
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Professor Aroon Hingorani Director, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science |
Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health Sciences |
a.hingorani@ucl.ac.uk 020 3108 3080 |
Genetic epidemiology of metabolic and cardiovascular disease. |
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Professor Glen Jeffery Professor of Neuroscience |
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology |
g.jeffery@ucl.ac.uk 020 7608 6837 |
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Dr Anastasia Kalea Senior Teaching Fellow |
Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences | a.kalea@ucl.ac.uk | Personalised Nutrition; Dietetics; Molecular nutrition; Disease prevention and survival (vascular ageing, cardiovascular disease; hypertension; diabetes; cancer); Biomarkers (of nutritional exposure and nutritional status). |
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Professor Monica Lakhanpaul Professor of Integrated Community Child Health |
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health |
m.lakhanpaul@ucl.ac.uk 020 7905 2259 |
Optimising feeding practices to address malnutrition (early years focus); citizen science and working with marginalised communities. |
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Dr Nicholas Lesica Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow |
Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences |
n.lesica@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 8979 |
Neuroscience and healthy eating. |
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Professor Georgina Mace Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystems |
Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Division of Biosciences |
g.mace@ucl.ac.uk 020 3108 1125 |
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Dr Gustav Milne Honorary Senior Lecturer |
UCL Institute of Archaeology | g.milne@ucl.ac.uk | Urban living and health; river Thames archeology. |
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Professor Mark Miodownik Professor of Materials and Society |
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences | m.miodownik@ucl.ac.uk | Materials engineering; arts and humanities materials research. |
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Professor Richard Mott Weldon Professor of Computational and Statistical Genetics |
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Faculty of Life Sciences | r.mott@ucl.ac.uk | |
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Professor Michael Munday Professor of Pharamceutical Biochemistry |
UCL School of Pharmacy | michael.munday@ucl.ac.uk | |
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Dr Rebecca O'Connell Reader in the Sociology of Food and Families |
Institute of Education |
rebecca.oconnell@ucl.ac.uk 0207 612 6458 |
Social anthropology of food |
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Dr Kaori O'Connor Honorary Senior Research Associate |
Department of Anthropology |
k.o'connor@ucl.ac.uk 0207 636 6970 |
Anthropology and culture; history of food and feeding behaviour. |
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Professor Dan Osborn Professor of Human Ecology |
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
dan.osborn1@ucl.ac.uk | |
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Dr Aaron Parkhurst Teaching Fellow in Medical Anthropology |
Department of Anthropology | a.parkhust@ucl.ac.uk | Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes; Culture and Chronic Illness; Health and Urban living. |
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Professor Dame Linda Partridge Professorial Research Fellow |
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Faculty of Life Sciences |
linda.partridge@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 4380 |
Genetic determinants of ageing; ageing response to dietary restriction. |
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Dr Richard Pearson Reader of Biodiversity |
Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Division of Biosciences |
richard.pearson@ucl.ac.uk 0203 108 7691 |
Biogeography and biodiversity of plants and animals. |
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Dr Brian Power Lecturer |
Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, Division of Medicine |
brian.power@ucl.ac.uk |
Eating Behaviour Change; Dietetics; Intervention; Development and Evaluation; Implementation Science; Clinical Trials. |
| Dr Markus Ralser | The Francis Crick Institute and University of Cambridge | markus.ralser@crick.ac.uk | Dynamic evolution of metabolic networks. |
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Dr Jason Rihel Reader in Behavioural Genetics |
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biosciences | j.rihel@ucl.ac.uk | Neurons that regulate sleep. |
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Dr Gul Deniz Salali Post-Doctoral Research Associate |
Department of Anthropology | guldeniz.salali.12@ucl.ac.uk | |
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Dr Joanne Santini Reader in Microbiology |
Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences |
j.santini@ucl.ac.uk 020 7631 6675 |
Microbial metabolism and its impact on the environment and human health. |
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Francesca Scotti Research Associate |
UCL School of Pharmacy |
francesca.scotti.11@ucl.ac.uk | |
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Professor Stephen Shennan Professor of Theoretical Archaeology |
UCL Institute of Archaeology |
s.shennan@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 4739 |
Evolutionary perspectives on cultural change. |
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Professor Elizabeth Shephard Professorial Research Associate |
Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences |
e.shephard@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 2321 |
Drug metabolism; FMOs in energy metabolism. |
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Dr Adrian Slee Senior Teaching Fellow |
Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences | a.slee@ucl.ac.uk | Malnutrition, cachexia, sarcopenia and frailty. |
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Dr Andrew Smith Senior Lecturer in Innate Immunity |
Eastman Dental Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences | andrew.m.smith@ucl.ac.uk | |
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Professor Surjit Kaila Singh Srai Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences |
k.srai@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 2642 |
Iron transport and metabolism. |
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Dr Chris Stefan Reader |
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology |
c.stefan@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 7208 |
Membrane lipid and organelle homeostasis |
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Dr Michael Sulu Research Associate |
Department of Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Science | m.sulu@ucl.ac.uk | |
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Professor Gyorgy Szabadkai Professor of Physiology |
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences |
g.szabadkai@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 7362 |
Mitochondria in cellular stress responses and disease. |
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Professor Mark Thomas Professor of Evolutionary Genetics |
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Faculty of Life Sciences |
m.thomas@ucl.ac.uk 020 7679 2286 |
Evolution of genes involved in nutrition. |
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Professor Geraint Thomas Professor of Biochemistry |
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences |
g.thomas@ucl.ac.uk 020 3549 5456 |
Phospholipids; computational analysis of metabolism. |
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Professor Megan Vaughan Professor of African History and Health |
UCL Institute of Advanced Studies |
megan.vaughan@ucl.ac.uk |
History of medicine and psychiatry in Africa; on the history of famine, food supply and gender relations. |
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Professor Jonathan Wells Professor of Anthropology and Paediatric Nutrition |
UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, Faculty of Population Health Sciences | jonathan.wells@ucl.ac.uk | Economic and environmental influences on metabolism. |
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Dr Mariia Yuneva Programme Leader |
The Francis Crick Institute | mariia.yuneva@crick.ac.uk | Oncogenes and tumor metabolism. |