Irene Miguel-Aliaga

I am Professor of Genetics and Physiology at Imperial College London. I study how our internal organs change and affect us.

I am a geneticist and I run the Miguel-Aliaga Laboratory at the Institute of Clinical Sciences at Imperial. My team and I research organ plasticity: how and why organs that we commonly regard as fully-developed change in size or function, in response to environmental or internal challenges, mainly focusing on intestines and their neurons.

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Publications

Miguel-Aliaga, I., Hadjieconomou, D., King, G., et al. (2020). Enteric neurons increase maternal food intake during reproduction. Nature, 587, 455–459.
Ameku, T., Beckwith, H., Blackie, L., et al. (2020). Food, microbes, sex and old age: on the plasticity of gastrointestinal innervation. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 62, 83–91.
Miguel-Aliaga, I., Redhai, S., Pilgrim, C., et al. (2020). An intestinal zinc sensor regulates food intake and developmental growth. Nature, 580, 263–268.
Hudry, B., de Goeij, E., Mineo, A., et al. (2019). Sex differences in intestinal carbohydrate metabolism promote food intake and sperm maturation. Cell, 178(4), 901–918.
Miguel-Aliaga, I., Jasper, H., & Lemaitre, B. (2018). Anatomy and Physiology of the Digestive Tract of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics, 210(2), 357–396.
Hudry, B., de Goeij, E., Mineo, A., et al. (2019). Sex differences in intestinal carbohydrate metabolism promote food intake and sperm maturation. Cell, 178(4), 901–918.

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