Jules Griffin
@julesgrif
Director of the Rowett Institute, Aberdeen. Understanding the role metabolism & nutrition plays in metabolic disease. All views expressed are my own (he/him).
A fully funded PhD studentship using mass spectrometry imaging of placenta to understand how exposure to an obesogenic environment in utero contributes to future chronic disease risks.. More details at: findaphd.com/phds/project/s…
Man cannot live on bread alone - but we can make sure it gives us the biggest possible helping hand along the way! So Prof Wendy Russell, who leads our @SGRESAS work on reformulating popular baked goods, was delighted to judge the annual Scottish #Bread Championship once again.
If you are interested in nutrition, food, agriculture, microbiology or biochemistry why don’t you think about joining us?
Where would you find the biggest concentration of nutrition researchers in the UK? Right here in the stunning north-east of Scotland. We got (most of) the family together recently on our annual Research Day. Get in touch via the comments or visit our website to find out more.
Where would you find the biggest concentration of nutrition researchers in the UK? Right here in the stunning north-east of Scotland. We got (most of) the family together recently on our annual Research Day. Get in touch via the comments or visit our website to find out more.
Join us at the 10th Grampian Research Conference as we dismantle traditional disciplinary barriers and pave the way for ground-breaking health and social care innovations. Including NHS Grampian Charity Research Grant winners in a rapid-fire lightning round! #GramConf25

We weren’t expecting this visitor to the Rowett tent at the #RHS25. He literally devoured our research!

Where are the taxis @ABZ_Airport - why is it a surprise there are people waiting after an airplane arrives?
Great work from Renata as part of the RESAS funded strategic research programme @SGRESAS and spoiler alert - your kebab might not be as described!
🚨 Is your Meat Pie really what it says on the label? We've developed MEATiCode, a new LC-MS/MS method that can simultaneously identify multiple meat species, even after cooking or processing. Let’s break it down 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.food… @julesgrif
Delighted to see that my friend and colleague Duncan Graham has been awarded an Honorary Membership Award of Society of Applied Spectroscopy. Well done Duncan. sas.memberclicks.net/honorary-membe…
Official launch of the beautiful @Opportunity_NE1 #seedpod today - supporting our amazing food and drink industry in the North East of Scotland
He knew.....I mean her really knew...
Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was murdered on this day 10 years ago. Watch his 2014 speech predicting the results of Putin’s aggression against Ukraine.
It really is quite frightening how the US far right is just making up stuff. How many political prisoners have died in custody in the UK in the past ten years compared with those in Russia (and Europe in terms of assassinations)? I think the UK figures you could count on one hand
Come on
“No other public institution supports us with so much care through life’s biggest moments. We must support it in return.” Here’s what our new plan for NHS recovery and renewal will do ⬇️
This is a post by a police officer about one of the many criminals involved in storming the Capitol on Jan 6 in 2020, who has now been pardoned by Trump. I wonder how he and Musk will try to justify this! What has happened this week is indefensible!
As a female, immigrant, 1st-generation, and mother of a medically complex child, I will continue to foster diversity and inclusion within my lab, academic, and home community @realDonaldTrump
Join us to discover how to improve your studies into #metabolic diseases with multiomics approaches, at our #MetabolicMultiomics25 conference! #omics 🗓️ 4–6 June 2025 📎 More info: bit.ly/3DPrXr6 Register by 18 March to submit an abstract📊
Oxidative stress leads #MASLD progression & complications: we studied apolipoproteins' oxidation in MASLD patients' serum with proteomic/peptidomic approaches. Link: @unibait @Inst_of_Liver @IMS_MRL @CUH_NHS @TVPLab @Rlchardkay @GabrieleMocciar @julesgrif onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/li…
Thanks for the thread @Skattebo_Oyvind - it was a pleasure being part of this study!
@NatureComms @nih_physicperf @nih_sognsvann @StephenORahilly @KJKolnes @RasmusKjobsted @NEXSKU @SDCOdense @IMS_MRL @julesgrif
Research highlight for 2024: Dr Jenna Gregory's team found new ways to detect MND. The TDP-43 aptamer can show early signs of the disease in brain tissue samples before the cells malfunction when standard symptoms would start to appear. Read more here: abdn.io/1bx