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Obesity and bad sleep habits among teenagers are two rising health concerns that are intertwined. We have secured a 5-year funding to study how sleep deprivation during adolescence affects fat tissue development and the emergence of metabolic disorders later in life. To do this, we propose SmartSense, a new project resulting from the convergence of…

Philippe Collas and Nolwenn Briand, project group leader in the lab and co-PI on the grant, have obtained funding from the Research Council to study epigenetic mechanisms associated with the beiging of white adipose tissue.