Diana Marcu
PhD student.
Ageing is associated with a chronic and progressive dysregulation of multiple organ systems, and consequently is the primary risk factor for most killer diseases. I am interested in understanding the mechanisms underlying age-related changes in intestinal microbiota and the prospective development of microbiota-based interventions capable of improving late-life health. In my free time I like to get lost in the mountains or in a good book.
Research
Gut bacteria affect many different aspects of animal function, but they are physically confined to the gut lumen. This suggests there must be either signals or metabolites that pass from the gut to other tissues. My PhD project is about trying to identify (some of) those signals, where they go, and what they do when they get there.
C.V.
2018-2019
Learning and development specialist
UoG, U.K.
2018
Wellcome Trust Scholarship undergraduate researcher
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine (UoG), U.K.
2016-2020
BSc Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Glasgow (UoG), U.K.
Publications
Stephen E. Wilkie, Lorna Mulvey, William A. Sands, Diana E. Marcu, Roderick N. Carter, Nicholas M. Morton, Christopher Hine, James R. Mitchell & Colin Selman. [2020] Strain-specificity in the hydrogen sulphide signalling network following dietary restriction in recombinant inbred mice. GeroScience 42, 801–812.