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Mid-Term review meeting and report
Actually the consortium is preparing the mid-term review meeting and report in order to present the development and results of the ADIBET Project to the European Commission.

The secondments are running
The exchanges of staff that the ADIBET Project planned at the beginning have started to be implemented. Are you interested in a Postdoctoral position? ADIBET consortium offers two  recruitments for postdoctoral researchers to start immediately. If you are interested in more information consult the Jobs section and/or contact us.

Job opportunities

Opened the IDIBAPS Postdoctoral position to study the role of the adipose tissue in beta cell function and mass
ADIBET Project is searching a post-doctoral researcher with an experience from 4 to 10 years in order to start a nearly 2 year period in the Diabetes and Obesity Lab in IDIBAPS – Barcelona under the leadership of Prof. Ramon Gomis. Send your application: adibet.idibaps@gmail.com.

Opened the Warwick Postdoctoral position to study the role of the adipose tissue in beta cell function and mass
ADIBET Project is searching a post-doctoral researcher with an experience from 4 to 10 years in order to start a nearly 2 year period in the laboratory of Mike Khan and Stella Pelengaris in the University of Warwick. Send your application: adibet.warwick@gmail.com.

What is Adibet?

The project

ADIBET Project represents the shared vision of a highly respected multidisciplinary team comprising, clinicians, biologists, statisticians, mathematicians and computer scientists. Specifically, by using both a systems biology and a more traditional candidate-gene approach in parallel, we will perform a series of interrelated tasks to tackle the following goals:

 
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Identify the effects of obesity on adipose tissue using a systems approach
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Characterize the specific differences in the pathophysiology of obesity in children and ageing population and between genders
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Begin the major task of describing how these adipose cell genes/proteins are clustered (interactome) and to identify downstream functional gene/protein networks. Paying special attention to the differences observed in the different adipose tissue depots.
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Unambiguously identify the changes in adipokine secretome accompanying the key phenotypes and physiological distribution of adipocyte to understand adipocyte plasticity.
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Identify the molecular mechanisms by which the different adipokines influence the function of beta cell and endothelium. Determine which adipokine is responsible for what effect.
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Identify, a limited and manageable subset of those genes/proteins predicted to offer the greatest promise as potential therapeutic targets with the aim to exploit the druggable targets.
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