Thorens Bernard
Full Professor
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Universite de Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Bernard Thorens received his PhD from the University of Geneva for studies on the biosynthesis of immunogluobulins in pre-B lymphocytes. He then did a first postdoctoral fellowship in Geneva working on hematopoietic growth factors with Pierre Vassalli.
Research Interest
Molecular and physiological analysis of energy homeostasis in health and disease
Publications
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Revisiting the physiological roles of SGLTs and GLUTs using positron emission tomography in mice Monica Salaâ€Rabanal, Bruce A. Hirayama, Chiara Ghezzi, Jie Liu, Sungâ€Cheng Huang, Vladimir Kepe, Hermann Koepsell, Amy Yu, David R. Powell, Bernard Thorens, Ernest M. Wright, Jorge R. Barrio J Physiol. 2016 Aug 1; 594(15): 4425–4438.
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Intestinal PPARγ signalling is required for sympathetic nervous system activation in response to caloric restriction Kalina Duszka, Alexandre Picard, Sandrine Ellero-Simatos, Jiapeng Chen, Marianne Defernez, Eeswari Paramalingam, Anna Pigram, Liviu Vanoaica, Cécile Canlet, Paolo Parini, Arjan Narbad, Hervé Guillou, Bernard Thorens, Walter Wahli Sci Rep. 2016; 6: 36937.
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Molecular phenotyping of multiple mouse strains under metabolic challenge uncovers a role for Elovl2 in glucose-induced insulin secretion Céline Cruciani-Guglielmacci, Lara Bellini, Jessica Denom, Masaya Oshima, Neïké Fernandez, Priscilla Normandie-Levi, Xavier P. Berney, Nadim Kassis, Claude Rouch, Julien Dairou, Tracy Gorman, David M. Smith, Anna Marley, Robin Liechti, Dmitry Kuznetsov, Leonore Wigger, Frédéric Burdet, Anne-Laure Lefèvre, Isabelle Wehrle, Ingo Uphues, Tobias Hildebrandt, Werner Rust, Catherine Bernard, Alain Ktorza, Guy A. Rutter, Raphael Scharfmann, Ioannis Xenarios, Hervé Le Stunff, Bernard Thorens, Christophe Magnan, Mark Ibberson Mol Metab. 2017 Apr; 6(4): 340–351.
