Group Leader
Rebecca established her independent research group at NTU in 2021. She previously worked at the MRC Harwell Institute Oxford, and the University of Luebeck, Germany. Her PhD was at the Rowett Institute, with earlier research experience at the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen, UK.
PhD Student
Marwa started her PhD in February 2024 on hypothalamic regulation of energy balance
Placement Research Assistant
Bharat is spending his MSc placement year as a research assistant, working on adipose tissue gene expression and regulation of adipocyte physiology in 3t3l1 cells.
Mbiol Project Student
Joshua's project worked on a novel regulator of adipogenesis in mouse pre-adipocytes.
MRes Project Student
Athira worked on the rhythmic expression of ZFHX3 in adipose tissues. Athira went on to work as a clinical data reviewer at Pfizer, UK.
Summer Placement Student
Arashdeep spent summer 2024 extracting RNA from adipose tissues in her summer placement
DUMBELL, R. and COX, R.D., 2024. The genetics of adipose tissue metabolism. Royal Society Open Science, 11 (2): 231478. ISSN 2054-5703
NOLAN, P. M., BOURBIA, N., BANKS, G., WILCOX, A. G., BENTLEY, L., KENT, L., HILLIER, R., WILSON, D., BARRETT, P AND DUMBELL, R. 2023 The regulatory transcription factor Zfhx3 is involved in central control of appetite and energy expenditure. The FASEB Journal. 37: e23189. doi:10.1096/fj.202201829R
MUŠO, M., BENTLEY, L., VIZOR, L., YON, M., BURLING, K., BARKER, P., ZOLKIEWSKI, L.A., COX, R.D. and DUMBELL, R., 2022. A Wars2 mutant mouse shows a sex and diet specific change in fat distribution, reduced food intake and depot-specific upregulation of WAT browning. Frontiers in Physiology, 13: 953199. ISSN 1664-042X
YUN, H., DUMBELL, R., HANNA, K., BOWEN, J., MCLEAN, S.L., KANTAMNENI, S., PORS, K., WU, Q.-F. and HELFER, G., 2022. The chemerin-CMKLR1 axis is functionally important for central regulation of energy homeostasis. Frontiers in Physiology, 13: 897105. ISSN 1664-042X
DUMBELL, R., 2022. An appetite for growth: the role of the hypothalamic–pituitary–growth hormone axis in energy balance. Journal of Neuroendocrinology: e13133. ISSN 0953-8194
POWELL, G., LONG, H., ZOLKIEWSKI, L., DUMBELL, R., MALLON, A.-M., LINDGREN, C.M. and SIMON, M.M., 2022. Modelling the genetic aetiology of complex disease: human-mouse conservation of noncoding features and disease-associated loci. Biology Letters, 18 (3): 20210630. ISSN 1744-9561
LABER, S., FORCISI, S., BENTLEY, L., PETZOLD, J., MORITZ, F., SMIRNOV, K.S., AL SADAT, L., WILLIAMSON, I., STROBEL, S., AGNEW, T., SENGUPTA, S., NICOL, T., GRALLERT, H., HEIER, M., HONECKER, J., MIANNE, J., TEBOUL, L., DUMBELL, R., LONG, H., SIMON, M., LINDGREN, C., BICKMORE, W.A., HAUNER, H., SCHMITT-KOPPLIN, P., CLAUSSNITZER, M. and COX, R.D., 2021. Linking the FTO obesity rs1421085 variant circuitry to cellular, metabolic, and organismal phenotypes in vivo. Science Advances, 7 (30): eabg0108. ISSN 2375-2548
MUŠO, M., DUMBELL, R., PULIT, S., SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG, N., LABER, S., ZOLKIEWSKI, L., BENTLEY, L., CLAUSSNITZER, M. and COX, R.D., 2020. A lead candidate functional single nucleotide polymorphism within the WARS2 gene associated with waist-hip-ratio does not alter RNA stability. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, 1863 (11): 194640. ISSN 1874-9399
HELFER, G. and DUMBELL, R., 2020. Endocrine drivers of photoperiod response. Current Opinion in Endocrine and Metabolic Research, 11, pp. 49-54. ISSN 2451-9650
DUMBELL, R. and COX, R.D., 2019. Genetically altered mice as an approach for the investigation of obesity and metabolic disease. In: M. LUDWIG and G. LEVKOWITZ, eds., Model animals in neuroendocrinology: from worm to mouse to man. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, pp. 233-255. ISBN 9781119390947
MOIR, L., BOCHUKOVA, E.G., DUMBELL, R., BANKS, G., BAINS, R.S., NOLAN, P.M., SCUDAMORE, C., SIMON, M., WATSON, K.A., KEOGH, J., HENNING, E., HENDRICKS, A., O'RAHILLY, S., BARROSO, I., SULLIVAN, A.E., BERSTEN, D.C., WHITELAW, M.L., KIRSCH, S., BENTLEY, E., FAROOQI, S. and COX, R.D., 2017. Disruption of the homeodomain transcription factor orthopedia homeobox (Otp) is associated with obesity and anxiety. Molecular Metabolism, 6 (11), pp. 1419-1428. ISSN 2212-8778
DUMBELL, R., PETRI, I., SCHERBARTH, F., DIEDRICH, V., SCHMID, H.A., STEINLECHNER, S. and BARRETT, P., 2017. Somatostatin agonist pasireotide inhibits exercise-stimulated growth in the male Siberian hamster (Phodopus sungorus). Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 29 (1): 12448. ISSN 0953-8194
DUMBELL, R., LELIAVSKI, A., MATVEEVA, O., BLAUM, C., TSANG, A.H. and OSTER, H., 2016. Dissociation of molecular and endocrine circadian rhythms in male mice lacking Bmal1 in the adrenal cortex. Endocrinology, 157 (11), pp. 4222-4233. ISSN 0013-7227
DUMBELL, R., MATVEEVA, O. and OSTER, H., 2016. Circadian clocks, stress, and immunity. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 7: 37. ISSN 1664-2392
SCHERBARTH, F., DIEDRICH, V., DUMBELL, R.A., SCHMID, H.A., STEINLECHNER, S. and BARRETT, P., 2015. Somatostatin receptor activation is involved in the control of daily torpor in a seasonal mammal. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 309 (6), R668-R674. ISSN 0363-6119
DUMBELL, R.A., SCHERBARTH, F., DIEDRICH, V., SCHMID, H.A., STEINLECHNER, S. and BARRETT, P., 2015. Somatostatin agonist pasireotide promotes a physiological state resembling short-day acclimation in the photoperiodic male Siberian hamster (Phodopus sungorus). Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 27 (7), pp. 588-599. ISSN 0953-8194
LELIAVSKI, A., DUMBELL, R., OTT, V. and OSTER, H., 2015. Adrenal clocks and the role of adrenal hormones in the regulation of circadian physiology. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 30 (1), pp. 20-34. ISSN 0748-7304
KOLBE, I., DUMBELL, R. and OSTER, H., 2015. Circadian clocks and the interaction between stress axis and adipose function. International Journal of Endocrinology, 2015: 693204. ISSN 1687-8337
PETRI, I., DUMBELL, R., SCHERBARTH, F., STEINLECHNER, S. and BARRETT, P., 2014. Effect of exercise on photoperiod-regulated hypothalamic gene expression and peripheral hormones in the seasonal dwarf hamster Phodopus sungorus. PLoS ONE, 9 (3): e90253. ISSN 1932-6203
ROBINSON, J.E., EVANS, N.P., DUMBELL, R., SOLBAKK, A.-K., ROPSTAD, E. and HARALDSEN, I.R.H., 2014. Effects of inhibition of gonadotropin releasing hormone secretion on the response to novel objects in young male and female sheep. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 40, pp. 130-139. ISSN 0306-4530
Rebecca was awarded the British Society for Neuroendocrinology Michael Harbuz Award for Early Career Researchers in Aberdeen in July.
Read MoreWe hosted our Bradford and Nottingham Collaborators for a day of discussion and teambuilding at NTU
Read MoreThe current version of our lab handbook - a collaborative document on ways of working in our research group
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We regularly have fully funded 4 year PhD projects as part of the Nottingham BBSRC DTP, and applications usually open in September.
While there may not be any directly funded PhD studentships listed online, it is always worth getting in touch to discuss opportunities.
We welcome undergraduate students wishing to take part in a summer research internship, whether NTU or external students. Please get in touch by February for the same year.
We offer projects on the integrated masters programmes MBiol Pharmacology and Biochemistry at Nottingham Trent University.
Lab based projects are available on the following MRes programmes at Nottingham Trent University: MRes Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Neuropharmacology.