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Dr. Shabbir Merchant

Dr. Merchant is board certified in Neurology and graduated from Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded / Government Medical College in 2009. Dr. Merchant completed a residency at Hahnemann University Hospital. Dr. Merchant focuses on Movement Disorders, including Difficulty With Walking...

Welcome Evelyn!

Welcome to the Banks Lab, Evelyn! She joined the lab as a research assistant in June, 2024.

Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) :Telemetry

Indirect calorimetry data for one mouse implanted with a glucose and body temperature telemetry probe in the Promethion indirect calorimeter. Food was removed 1 h before start of the dark photoperiod (grey) and mice enter bouts of torpor (Rubio et al Mol Metabolism 2023)​

Germ-free mice

Germ-free mice can be examined using isolator cages (bottom). With this approach, we canexamine the metabolic profile of germ-free mice or mice colonized with specific microbes. ​

Infrared thermal imaging (FLIR)

Thermal imaging was performed using FLIR on juvenile mice placed in a sterile 6-well culture dish to visualize body temperature distribution.

Body Composition

Body composition was measured using the Echo MRI 3-in-1 system and plotted in CalR, with fat, lean, and total mass shown on the left and corresponding percentage composition on the right. ​