Colleen Deane

Colleen Deane is a Medical Research Council Skills Development Fellow at the University of Exeter, utilising a multi-omics approach to understand the mechanisms underlying age-related muscle atrophy and hypertrophy. During this fellowship, she is developing her computational modelling skills to complement her strong training background in skeletal muscle metabolic/molecular physiology.

Prior to being awarded her fellowship, Ms Deane was working as a post-doctoral research fellow under the supervision of Dr Timothy Etheridge. During this time, she worked on two main projects that were; i) investigating whether NAD+ supplementation improved skeletal muscle mitochondrial function and physical capacity in older adults and, ii) establishing molecular mechanisms of and countermeasures to muscle decline in space.

Ms Deane completed her Ph.D. in 2017, which investigated the metabolic and molecular mechanisms regulating age-related declines in human skeletal muscle regenerative capacity. Prior to her Ph.D., she completed an MSc in Physical Activity, Nutrition and Health Promotion and a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science.