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School of Medical Sciences (Neuroscience group)
Professor Ken Ashwell
| Position: | Professor |
| Organisation: | Anatomy - School of Medical Sciences |
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| Web: | Research Profile | Research Lab |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Comparative neuroanatomy and developmental neurobiology |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Carbocyanine dye tracing in fixed post-mortem material |
| Keywords: | Marsupials, Monotremes, Human brainstem |
Dr Ben Barry
| Position: | Lecturer |
| Organisation: | Health and Exercise Science, School of Medical Sciences |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Neural control of human movement; nervous system control of groups of muscles; deficiencies with ageing and osteoarthritis |
| Technologies, Expertise: | EMG, single motor unit recordings, peripheral nerve stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation |
| Keywords: | Systems neuroscience, motor control, motor unit, spinal reflex |
Emeritus Professor Peter Barry
| Position: | Conjoint Professor |
| Organisation: | Physiology and Pharmacology - School of Medical Sciences |
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| Web: | Research Profile | Research Lab |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Membrane biophysics, Ion permeation and ion selectivity, Ligand-gated ion channels, Selectivity, Glycine receptor channels, Cyclic-nucleotide-gated ion channels, Liquid junction potential corrections in patch-clamp measurements, Unstirred-layer effects near membranes |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Ion permeation analysis and modelling, Liquid junction potential analysis in patch-clamp measurements |
| Keywords: | Ion permeation and ion selectivity, Ligand-gated ion channels, Glycine receptor channels, Cyclic-nucleotide-gated ion channels, Liquid junction potential corrections, Unstirred-layer effects |
Associate Professor Pascal Carrive
| Position: | Associate Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Medical Sciences |
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| Web: | Research Profile | Research Lab |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Central control of autonomic function, Psychological stress, Animal (rat) behaviour, Neuroanatomy |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Radiotelemetry, Infrared thermography, Fos, Neuronal tract tracing, Immunohistochemistry, Neuroanatomy, Cardiovascular physiology, Intracerebral microinjections |
| Keywords: | Blood pressure, Heart rate, Temperature regulation, Skin blood flow, Brown adipose tissue, Conditioned fear, Anxiety, Restraint, Cold stress, Hypothalamus, Limbic system, Brainstem, Spinal cord |
Professor Gary Housley
| Position: | Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Medical Sciences |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
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Dr Nicole Jones
| Position: | Senior Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Medical Sciences |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
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Dr Trevor Lewis
| Position: | Lecturer |
| Organisation: | Physiology and Pharmacology - School of Medical Sciences |
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| Web: | Research Profile | Research Lab |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Ligand-gated ion channels, Glycine receptors, Single-channel kinetics, Ion channel gating |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Patch clamping, Transient transfection, Cell culture, Single channel kinetics |
| Keywords: | Gating, Kinetics, Ion channels |
Dr Andrew Moorhouse
| Position: | Senior Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Medical Sciences |
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| Web: | Research Profile | Research Lab |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Patch clamping/electrophysiology, Ion channels - structure/function, Glycine receptors/ligand-gated ion channels, Synaptic transmission |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Patch clamping |
| Keywords: | Ion channels, Glycine receptors, Synapses |
Professor Margaret Morris
| Position: | Professor of Pharmacology |
| Organisation: | School of Medical Sciences |
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| Web: | Research Profile | Research Lab |
| Affiliations: | Honorary Principal Fellow - Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Member - Centre of Neuroscience, University of Melbourne |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Central control of appetite and brain changes in obesity, Early onset obesity, Glucose sensing by the brain, Role of NPY in epilepsy, Seizure exacerbation by anti-epileptic drugs, Stress and seizures, Central control of blood pressure |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Whole animal experimentation, Animal models of obesity and diabetes, Microdialysis, Transmitter release - in vitro |
| Keywords: | Neuropeptides, Transmitter release, Obesity and diabetes, Epilepsy |
Dr Richard Vickery
| Position: | Lecturer |
| Organisation: | Physiology and Pharmacology - School of Medical Sciences |
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| Research Interests, Skills: | Sensory systems; Synaptic integration, Neural coding, Neural prostheses |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Single unit recording, Intracellular brain slice recording, Recording in awake animals, Psychophysics |
| Keywords: | Electrophysiology, Sensory, Brain slices |
Professor Phil Waite
| Position: | Head of Neural Injury Research Unit |
| Organisation: | School of Medical Sciences |
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| Web: | Research Profile | Research Lab |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Spinal cord injury, Neuroplasticity, Sensory pathways, Pain |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Neuroanatomy, Histology, Immunohistochemistry, Electrophysiology |
| Keywords: | Spinal cord injury, Neuroplasticity, Sensory pathways, Pain |
Dr Wei Wu
| Position: | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | School of Medical Sciences |
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| Research Interests, Skills: | Pathophysiologies of Alzheimer's disease; AIDS dementia complex |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Primary cell culture, Flow cytometry, Immunohistochemistry, High performance liquid chromatography, Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, Real time RT-PCR |
| Keywords: | Alzheimer's Disease, AIDS dementia complex, Quinolinic acid, Kynurenine pathway |
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