Former Research Associates

Dr. Rabban Mangat

Project: August 2016 - 2023

Research focus: Research on the mechanisms that accumulate apoB48-remnant lipoproteins in arterial tissue by proteoglycans during atherogenesis and insulin-resistance.

Supervisor: Dr. Spencer Proctor

What I like to do outside the lab: Watching movies, cooking new recipes and shopping.

Email: rabban.mangat@ualberta.ca

Dr. Mich Wilke

 

 

 

 


Project: 2024

Research focus:  To improve our understanding of health outcomes and  health care in women with and without  PCOS in Canada. The focus is on  cardiometabolic risk, diabetes and cardiovascular disease and improving health care in those with PCOS.

Supervisor: Dr. Donna Vine

What I like to do outside the lab:  TBA

Email: mwilke@ualberta.ca

Dr. Abdoulaye Diane

 

 

 

 

 

Project: Research Associate, Nov. 2012 - 2013 & June 2014 - April 2017

Research Focus 2014-2017: Use of pre-clinical swine models (the Landrace and Ossabaw Strains) to validate the cardioprotective effects of ruminant trans fats during diabetes.

Research Focus 2012-2013:

1. Study the role of the hypothalamic orexigenic neuropeptide Y (NPY) and anorexigenic neuropeptide pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) pathways in the alteration of energy balance during obesity.

2. Test the adaptive hypothesis that an obese-prone genotype confers a fitness advantage when animals are challenged with food restriction and food-related locomotion (activity anorexia), and also try to provide the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying this connection.3. Test how specific nutrients modulate these neuropeptides.

Supervisor: Dr. Spencer Proctor

Email: abdoulay@ualberta.ca