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Colleen Deane is a Lecturer in Muscle Cell Biology at the University of Southampton, focusing on mechanisms linking exercise, nutrition, aging, and spaceflight to skeletal muscle health. She holds a PhD and has conducted postdoctoral research on muscle regeneration in aging populations, NAD+ supplementation in older adults, and spaceflight-induced muscle decline. Her work includes the UK-led Molecular Muscle Experiment (MME) on the ISS. She was awarded an MRC fellowship to develop bioinformatics skills for studying muscle atrophy/hypertrophy transcriptional pathways.
Research Interests: Her research spans muscle biology, space physiology, mitochondrial health, and translational nutrition. Key areas include countermeasures for muscle loss in space and aging, bioinformatics analysis of muscle transcriptional data, and nutritional interventions for metabolic dysfunction. Current projects include metabolomics-based studies on age-related musculoskeletal decline and UK-Japan collaborations in medical research.
Awards:
- 3-year MRC Fellowship
- Butterfield Awards for UK-Japan Collaboration
- RANK Travel Grant
Advising & Grants: Supervises PhD students in infection immunity and clinical neurosciences. Leads projects funded by Wessex Medical Research and The Rank Prize Funds. Collaborates on ISS experiments (MME/MME2) and clinical studies on post-acute COVID syndrome.
Labs/Teams: Member of the Institute for Life Sciences and Interdisciplinary Musculoskeletal Health group.
