Endocrinology and Neuroendocrinology
Available supervisors
For endocrinology and neuroendocrinology
- At any time, you may contact any member of the research team listed when seeking a potential supervisor.
Passionate about hormones
Our goal is to undertake basis and translational research relevant to the understanding of obesity, diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, pubertal development, menopause and infertility.
Our activities benefit from the state-of-the-art equipment for cellular, molecular and in vivo investigations as well as clinical facilities within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the IWK Health Centre and the Department of Physiology and Biophysics.
Our current projects include:
- Role of orexigenic hormone ghrelin in insulin resistance and obesity
- Feeding and hormonal abnormalities in Alzheimer's mice models
- Identification of follicular fluid biomarkers of oocyte developmental competence
- Processing of ProApelin and the role of apelin in adipogenesis
- Epigenetics of pubertal development
- Metabolic control of reproductive maturation
- Epigenetic markers of developmental origins of health and disease
Our researchers
Younes Anini
Email: younes.anini@dal.ca
Phone: 902-470-7198
Alejandro Lomniczi
Email: ALomniczi@dal.ca
Phone: 902-431-5338