The Eating Disorders Research Program is studying the processes that regulate energy homeostasis (balancing the body’s energy intake and output).
The team is specifically interested in how brain networks coordinate energy status with eating behaviour and how these processes may become disordered and lead to conditions such as obesity or anorexia and other related conditions such as diabetes. The program is also interested in how environmental factors such as stress or ageing contribute to these conditions.
To help with their research, the team has developed sophisticated transgenic mouse models to use in combination with state-of-the-art technologies in an effort to uncover the mechanisms that influence energy homeostasis. The team also has two sets of Promethion Metabolic cage systems that synchronise metabolic data with behavioural events in rodents.
For more information about these machines please contact Prof. Herbert Herzog: h.herzog@unsw.edu.au