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Can "good bacteria" be used to maintain good health as we grow older? Scottish biotech company NCIMB Ltd has teamed-up with the pioneering Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen, to address this question in a new research project, funded by Innovate UK. Discover more at

L is for Learning more and more about Lipodystrophy. To mark #WorldLipodystrophyDay2025 we gathered some of the Rowett researchers involved in helping find a treatment for this rare and debilitating condition. Here's to looking back this time next year at more great progress!

Thank you chemistry colleagues for inviting me down today to present our Rowett Institute research on #naturebasedfoodsolutions - always a chemist at ❤️

Calling shift workers: come to the Rowett on May 22 to hear from scientists exploring practical ways to deal with health effects of night-shift body clock disruption. You'll get top tips on eating, sleeping and exercise. Sign up for your free place here: abdn.site/ShiftWork

Want to help us explore the health benefits of fish AND get all your meals prepared by expert nutritionists for free while you do it? We need overweight but otherwise healthy 30-65 year old meat eaters to join the FAMOUS study. Find out more here: abdn.site/FAMOUS 🐟♥️

ECRs: LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE! We're delighted to be hosting this exciting event for early career researchers right here at the Rowett when Association for the Study of Obesity UK brings the UK Congress on Obesity (UKCO) 2025 to #Aberdeen in September. Sign up here: abdn.io/1ms

🐟 Are UK consumers willing to pay a premium for #Scottishsalmon? 🎣Do eco-labels & nutritional info add buying appeal? Read the new case study by SRUC & Rowett Institute now: 🔗 tinyurl.com/575n8fdh #ResponsibleFarming #Omega3 #CarbonNeutral

What's that got to do with the price of fish?🐟💷 Not as much as you might think, it turns out! Comprehensive new analysis of purchase data suggests we need to look beyond cost when it comes to encouraging people to eat more seafood. 🔖abdn.io/1nI SEFARI Gateway RESAS

Where are we on the journey from weight loss💉to 💊and how would patients and the NHS gain if we get there? When BBC Radio 4 Today and BBC Radio 5 Live want to know, they turn to Prof Prof Lora Heisler Listen back bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… (44m45s) justin webb & bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… (1h14m30s)

Fascinating talk today in our Rowett Institute Rowett Institute Seminar Series by visiting speaker Dr Costas Christodoulides, University of Oxford about his work on body fat distribution and cardiometabolic disease risk.

Best collective noun for scientific case studies? A fascination? A revelation? Send us your ideas! Meanwhile, lots of new ones to read SEFARI Gateway - find out what we've been up to as part of the RESAS programme of environmental, food and agri science sefari.scot/research/case-…

A trove 😊

A great opportunity to join us in the SEFARI Gateway family!

🌟 SCAF MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Dr Surbhi Agarwal is a public health nutritionist and research fellow at The Rowett Institute! 🌟 Surbhi has worked extensively on improving the nutritional status of women & children and exploring what the term convenience means to young women 🫘

The FIO-FOOD Grant team hosted a powerful event at the Scottish Parliament on tackling dietary inequalities in Scotland. Grateful to our sponsor Rhoda Grant, expert speakers, lived experience voices & attendees for their insights! #foodinsecurity #SPFfoodsystems

Starting #PCST2025 as we mean to go on - with Professor Alexandra Johnstone joining a thought-provoking opening panel. Communicating science has never been more important - or more challenging, so delighted to see so many experts from across the globe gathered right here in #Aberdeen all week.

Is fibre "a relatively simple solution to a widespread, significant problem" for cancer patients? We hope to show it is. Read this great summary of a major new Prostate Cancer UK funded trial that's about to get underway. hospitalhealthcare.com/clinical/oncol…

If you missed Rowett Institute's workshop last week, which gave shift workers the opportunity to learn more about the health impacts of a 'disrupted body clock', you can join tomorrow's online session at 2pm on the same topic. Register to attend here: abdn.io/1rT