How is it that the same food for some people can be associated with fond memories of how good it tasted while other people panic and suffer from terrible anxiety when they think of it? Our feelings and thoughts have great impact on what, when and how much we eat. All of these thoughts and

Why do some people eat more than others? How it is that the brain, a gelatinous clump, can make us experience how good some food tastes? How can the brain associate eating with such incredible danger that some people choose to die instead of eating more? If you are interested in how the brain and

We recently got our latest paper, O-GlcNAc cycling mediates energy balance by regulating caloric memory, accepted in Appetite. Now the proofs are in and the paper is available online, including on PubMed. Check it out: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105320

We’ve just heard from Appetite that they’ve accepted our paper ‘O-GlcNAc cycling mediates energy balance by regulating caloric memory’. The paper came out of a collaboration between us and the labs of Chad Slawson and Udayan Apte at Kansas University and John Hanover at NIDDK (NIH), USA. In the paper we describe our discovery that

We are recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Explore our website and contact us if you want to know more.

The lab has just received a new grant from Region Västerbotten. The grant will help hire two more graduate students.

Moving in to IMB at Umeå University we are building a whole new lab. We’re custom building rooms for tissue culture, general wet lab experiments and an animal room for behavior experiments – all dedicated to our lab. The general lab can host more than 8 people! Thank you WCMM, the Department of Clinical Sciences