- School Director for Outreach
- Project co-founder of ReadiLab Initiative
- Contributor to Reading Scholars' Program
Dyan Sellayah
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Associate Professor
- Module convenor for BI3BA7-Medical Genetics (year 3), BI3EM1-Evolutionary Medicine (year 3)
- Admissions Tutor & Program Director for Medical Sciences
Teaching
Part 3: Medical GeneticsResearch centres and groups
National Collaborators
- Prof Roger Cox (MRC Harwell)
- Dr Felino Cagampang (University of Southampton)
- Prof Dame Frances Ashcroft (University of Oxford)
Research projects
Dr. Sellayah's research aims to investigate the molecular mechanisms that govern fat (adipose) tissue development and function in the context of obesity. His specific focus is in:
- Investigating the developmental programming of brown adipose tissue thermogenesis.
- Assessing the Impact of maternal nutrition during development on offspring adipose tissue development and function.
- Elucidating the function of FTO in adipogenesis
- Establishing the therapeutic potential of metformin's effects on adipose tissue
- Evolutionary origins of obesity
Awards and honours
Esteem Factors
- Recipient of the MRC New Investigator Research Grant award (2017) of 拢409,989
- Junior Research Fellow, Linacre College, University of Oxford 2014-2015
- Paper selected in top 5 basic research articles of 2014 in the journal Endocrinology
- Research highlight, Nature Medicine:17:1356, 2011
Impact, enterprise and outreach