Thorens Bernard
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Center for Integrative Genomics
University of 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. In 1986 he moved to the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge (USA) for a postdoctoral fellowhisp in Harvey Lodish laboratory. In 1991 he came back to Switzerland to take a Career Development award from the SNSF and to establish his laboratory at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. Since 2002 he is Professor on Physiology and joined the Center for Integrative Genomics in 2005.
Research Interest
Glucose transporters, hormone receptors, pancreatic ß cells, hypothalamus, glucose sensing, diabetes.
Publications
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Cruciani-Guglielmacci C, Bellini L, Denom J, Oshima M, Fernandez N, et al., (2017). Molecular phenotyping of multiple mouse strains under metabolic challenge uncovers a role for Elovl2 in glucose-induced insulin secretion. Molecular metabolism. 2017 Apr 30;6(4):340-51.
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Barazzoni R, Deutz NE, Biolo G, Bischoff S, Boirie Y, et al., (2017). Carbohydrates and insulin resistance in clinical nutrition: Recommendations from the ESPEN expert group. Clinical Nutrition. 2017 Apr 1;36(2):355-63.
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Wigger L, Cruciani-Guglielmacci C, Nicolas A, Denom J, Fernandez N, et al., (2017). Plasma Dihydroceramides Are Diabetes Susceptibility Biomarker Candidates in Mice and Humans. Cell Reports. 2017 Feb 28;18(9):2269-79.
