Abigail Pearce
- PhD Student
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Research theme: Bioscience for an integrated understanding of health
Prior to my PhD I completed my undergraduate course at Cambridge. I then took a year out of academia, enabling me to travel and visit friends and family across the globe. During this time I worked as a tailor, a new skill which I have since employed! Aside from my PhD, I am an avid painter and sketcher, focusing on painting my and my families pets. I am also a competitive archer, shooting a compound bow for 2 years, after shooting a recurve bow for 8 years previously.
Research
Project Title:
Unravelling the mechanisms of GLP1R internalisation
Project Summary:
I am looking at internalisation and signalling of the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP1R). In particular, I am focused on interactions with receptor activity modifying proteins (RAMPs), and now these influence GLP1R signalling. I am then investigating how these changes in signalling and internalisation affect the potentiation of insulin secretion by GLP1
Dr Graham Ladds