Jane Shearer

The central focus of the Shearer laboratory is metabolic physiology. The mission statement is to ‘Employ knowledge of metabolism to predict, prevent and treat chronic metabolic disease states’. The group's genome to systems approach is unique and provides the opportunity to examine both whole body and tissue specific biochemical and metabolic regulation.

Positions

Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology

Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine

Scientist, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute

Trainees

The Shearer laboratory has 3-6 trainees at any given time including undergraduate students, practicum students, co-op students, graduate students, visiting scientists and post-doctoral fellows. At present, Dr. Shearer is able to supervise students (MSc, PhD, MD) for four graduate programs as follows:

1. Medical Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine
2. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine 
3. Faculty of Kinesiology 
4. Biomedical Engineering