Irene Miguel-Aliaga
Professor of Genetics and Physiology, Imperial College London
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.
EXPs by Irene Miguel-Aliaga
Our nervous system is not the only decision maker; gut cells also sense and integrate information to send signals and trigger change.
Although some scientists believe that nurture overrides biologically determined sex differences, the distinction between nature and nurture is not clear.
The gut is exposed to a great deal of internal information, such as nutrients and microbiota activity.