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TRENTU.CA / Biology / Faculty & Research / Faculty / Holly Bates

Holly Bates

Assistant Professor

Holly Bates wearing glasses, a green sweater and white shirt with spots in front of a reddish brown background, smiling at the camera.

  • B.Sc. (University of Ottawa)
  • Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto)

Office: LHS D224

Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 6128

Email: hollybates@trentu.ca

Research interests:

  • Obesity
  • Diabetes
  • Stress
  • Glucocorticoids
  • Brown Fat
  • Thermogenesis

My research interests centre on understanding the processes that regulate the production of heat from brown adipose tissue and how these can be harnessed for the generation of anti-obesity therapeutics. I am more specifically interested in the conversion of white adipose to brown adipose tissue and its role in non-shivering thermogenesis in natural animal populations and the role that glucocorticoids play in these processes. 

Teaching

Current

BIOL 1050H: Human Anatomy

BIOL 1051H: Human Physiology

BIOL 4350H: Pathophysiology of Disease I

BIOL 4360H: Immunology

Past

BIOL 1030H Current Issues in Biology II

BIOL 3830H: Animal Physiology I

BIOL 3840H: Animal Physiology II

BIOL 4320: Pharmacology

BIOL 4360H: Pathophysiology of Disease II

Selected publications

Adegoke OA, Bates HE, Kiraly MA, Vranic M, Riddell MC, Marliss EB. Exercise in ZDF rats does not attenuate weight gain, but prevents hyperglycemia concurrent with modulation of amino acid metabolism and AKT/mTOR activation in skeletal muscle. Eur. J. Nutr. August 13, 2014 Epub ahead of print. PMID: 25120109

Bates HE, Campbell JE, Ussher JR, Baggio LL, Maida A, Seino Y, Drucker DJ (2012) The Gipr is essential for adrenocortical steroidogenesis however corticosterone deficiency does not mediate the favourable metabolic phenotype of Gipr-/- mice.  Diabetes. 61(1):40-8.

Király MA, Campbell J, Park E, Bates HE, Yue JT, Rao V, Matthews SG, Bikopoulos G, Rozakis-Adcock M, Giacca A, Vranic M, Riddell MC (2010).  Exercise maintains euglycemia in association with decreased activation of c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase and serine phosphorylation of IRS-1 in the liver of ZDF rats.  Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 298(3):E671-82.

Bates HE, Sirek A, Kiraly MA, Yue JTY, Riddell MC, Matthews SG, & M Vranic (2008).  Adaptation to Intermittent Stress Promotes Maintenance of β-cell Compensation: Comparison with Food Restriction.  Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 295(4):E947-58.

Bates HE, Sirek A, Kiraly M, Yue JTY, Goche Montes D, Matthews SG, & M Vranic (2008) Adaptation to Intermittent Restraint Stress Delays Development of Hyperglycemia in the ZDF Rat Independent of Food Intake: Role of Habituation of the HPA Axis.  Endocrinology. 149(6):2990-3001.

Kiraly M, Bates HE, Kaniuk N, Yue J, Brumell J, Matthews SG, Riddell M, & M Vranic (2008) Swim Training Prevents Hyperglycemia in ZDF Rats: Mechanisms Involved in the Partial Maintenance of β-Cell Function. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab.  294(2):E271-283.

Bates HE, Kiraly M, Yue JTY, Goche Montes D, Elliott ME, Riddell MC, Matthews SG, & M Vranic (2007). Recurrent Intermittent Restraint Delays Fed and Fasting Hyperglycemia, and Improves Glucose Tolerance in the ZDF Rat. Metabolism 56(8):1065-75.

Kiraly MA, Bates HE, Yue JTY, Goche Montes D, Elliott ME, Matthews SG, Vranic M, & MC Riddell (2007).  Attenuation of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the male Zucker diabetic fatty rat: the effects of stress and non-volitional exercise. Metabolism 56(6):732-44.

Kaniuk N, Kiraly MA, Bates HE, Vranic M, Volchuk A, and JH Brumell (2007) Ubiquitinated-protein aggregates form in pancreatic β-cells during diabetes-induced oxidative stress and are regulated by autophagy.  Diabetes 56(4): 930-9. Impact Factor 8.3.

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