糖心视频

Professor Gwyn Gould

Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Contact

Personal statement

Gwyn did his undergraduate Biochemistry degree at the University of Southampton. He followed this with a PhD at the same institution with Professor Tony Lee on the biophysics of membrane protein/lipid interactions, graduating in 1986. He then moved to Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, working with Professor Gustav E. Lienhard, where he began his interest in glucose transport. He moved to the University of Glasgow in 1989 developing his interest in the structure and function of glucose transporters and the cell biology of membrane trafficking. He and his laboratory moved to SIPBS in October 2019.

Studies in Gwyn鈥檚 group seek to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms which regulate glucose transport in adipocytes, cardiomyocytes and skeletal muscle. Studies focus upon identifying the molecular machinery that control GLUT4 function, defining how this machinery interacts with the insulin signalling system, and defining how these processes are impaired in disease.

In particular we are interested in using cutting edge imaging approaches to study the behaviour of gluocse transporters in health and disease.

Lab web site:听听

Back to staff profile

Prize And Awards

Recipient
2004
Recipient
29/4/2025
Recipient
1/6/1992

Back to staff profile

Publications

Camus St茅phane M, Camus Marine D, Figueras-Novoa Carmen, Boncompain Gaelle, Sadacca L Amanda, Esk Christopher, Bigot Anne, , Kioumourtzoglou Dimitrios, Perez Franck, Bryant Nia J, Mukherjee Shaeri, Brodsky Frances M
Journal of Cell Biology Vol 219 (2019)
Bowman Peter R T, Smith Godfrey L,
PLoS One Vol 14 (2019)
Sadler Jessica B A, Lamb Christopher A, Welburn Cassie R, Adamson Iain S, Kioumourtzoglou Dimitrios, Chi Nai-Wen, , Bryant Nia J
Scientific Reports Vol 9 (2019)
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology Vol 53, pp. 64-73 (2016)
Sadler Jessica BA, Bryant Nia J,
Molecular Biology of the Cell Vol 26, pp. 530-536 (2015)
Kioumourtzoglou Dimitrios, , Bryant Nia J
Molecular and Cellular Biology Vol 34, pp. 1271-1279 (2014)

Back to staff profile

Research Interests

A major consequence of insulin action is a dramatic increase in the rate of glucose transport into fat and muscle. This is achieved by the delivery of the facilitative glucose transporter GLUT4 from insulin-sensitive intracellular stores to the cell surface. Insulin-stimulated glucose transport is impaired in Type-2 diabetes; this is underpinned by reduced delivery of GLUT4 to the cell surface. Metabolic disorders such as Type-2 diabetes are linked to the development of cardiovascular disease. Our lab uses cellular, genetic and systems biology approaches to understand insulin regulated GLUT4 trafficking in different cells.

Studies in our group use a range of experimental systems and approaches. These include genome editing of cultured adipocytes to probe the regulatory pathways controlling GLUT4 trafficking and activity, cutting-edge imaging techniques including STED-FCS and dSTORM, analysis of signalling and trafficking in subcellular fractions and analysis of transport kinetics in intact cells. We also employ Saccharomyces cerevisiae听as a tool to study membrane trafficking.

Professional Activities

Editorial board member
2019
Editorial board member
2017
Editorial board member
2017
Invited speaker
22/8/2025
Organiser
22/8/2025
Contributor
2/7/2025

Projects

Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Principal Investigator) Wahid, Maheen (CoPI) Tinto, Kirsty (CoPI) Murray, James (Co-investigator) Currie, Susan (Co-investigator) Boyd, Marie (Co-investigator) Perrie, Yvonne (Co-investigator) Gould, Gwyn (Co-investigator)
AWERB 3Rs Prize 2024 - Strathclyde 3R's: Reduction, Refinement and Replacement Prize
01-Jan-2025
Gould, Gwyn (Principal Investigator) Faulds, Karen (Co-investigator) Tomkinson, Nick (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2027
Gould, Gwyn (Principal Investigator) Li, David (Co-investigator) McConnell, Gail (Co-investigator) Van de Linde, Sebastian (Co-investigator)
15-Jan-2023 - 14-Jan-2026
Gould, Gwyn (Principal Investigator)
10-Jan-2023 - 04-Jan-2026
McGeown, William (Principal Investigator) Mavroeidi, Alexandra (Principal Investigator) Parra Rodriguez, Mario (Co-investigator) Brown Nicholls, Louise (Co-investigator) Rasmussen, Susan (Co-investigator) Robertson, David (Co-investigator) Tse, Dwight (Co-investigator) Kirk, Alison (Co-investigator) Hafford-Letchfield, Trish (Co-investigator) Rattray, Nicholas (Co-investigator) Bushell, Trevor (Co-investigator) Gould, Gwyn (Co-investigator) GANGANNAGARIPALLI, Jaheedabegum (Co-investigator) Carswell, Hilary (Co-investigator) Tate, Rothwelle (Co-investigator) Kurdi, Amanj (Co-investigator) Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator) Moshfeghi, Yashar (Co-investigator) Roper, Marc (Co-investigator) McConnell, Gail (Co-investigator) Kerr, Andy (Co-investigator) Li, David (Co-investigator) Thomson, Avril (Co-investigator) Campbell, Gerard (Co-investigator) Vourganas, Ioannis (Co-investigator) Clark, Ruaridh (Co-investigator) Macdonald, Malcolm (Co-investigator)
HaSS Bridging Disciplines.

Successfully funded for access to UK Biobank:

The overarching aim of the application is to investigate the predictors (e.g., lifestyle, neuroimaging metabolic and genetic) of healthy ageing (e.g., cognitive, physical and mental health in older age).

Our objectives are to identify the contribution of predictors (lifestyle, medication-related, neuroimaging, metabolic, and genetic) of the following outcomes, that occur at greater frequency in older age:
1) Cognitive impairment (e.g., due to normal ageing or neurological disorders such as Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, stroke)
2) Poor physical health (e.g., osteoporosis, diabetes, falls and fractures)
3) Poor mental health (e.g., anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation)
08-Jan-2023 - 09-Jan-2025
McConnell, Gail (Principal Investigator) Gould, Gwyn (Co-investigator) Brown, Mollie (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026

Back to staff profile

Contact

Professor Gwyn Gould
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Email: gwyn.gould@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4805