- School Director for Outreach
- Project co-founder of ReadiLab Initiative
- Contributor to Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Scholars' Program
Dyan Sellayah
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Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Cellular & Organismal Metabolism
- Senior Tutor (Director of Academic Tutoring).
As Senior Tutor, Dr Sellayah serves on the following committees:
- Student Disciplinary Committee (SDC)
- University Exceptional Circumstances Appeal Board (ECAB)
- University Standing Committee on Special Cases (USCSC)
- University Standing Committee on Academic Engagement & Fitness to Study
- Chair of Teaching Ethics Subcommittee
Previous Positions:
- Director of Outreach
- Director of Diversity, Inclusivity & Wellbeing
- Admissions Tutor
- Programme Director
Teaching
Module Convenor for:
- Medical Genetics
- Forensics
- Clinical Skills
- Group Lead for Outreach and Science Communication dissertation projects
Research 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
- Invited speaker at Westminster Health Forum (UK cross-party parliamentary policy forum) on ‘tackling childhood obesity in the UK’ in 2020
- Recipient of the MRC New Investigator Research Grant award (2017) of £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