I moved to the LMS after completing a PhD and postdoc at the University of Oxford and University of Queensland. In my previous roles I was working on motor neuron disease, specifically characterising genomically humanised mouse models of FUS-ALS. I am particularly interested in the role of muscle in health and disease and so I joined the LMS to study the role of AMPK activation in skeletal muscle. I will be using a combination of in vitro and in vivo models to study the effect of AMPK- γ3 activation in muscle metabolism and physiology to try and understand how this could be targeted to reduce or prevent muscle wasting.