Academic staff based in Centres
Contact details and links to profiles of BMS Academic staff in Centres
Name |
Title |
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Phone |
Centre |
Research interest |
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| Dr Till Bachmann | Reader and Online MSc Programme Director | Till.bachmann@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 9438 | DIPM | Diagnostics, biosensors, and pathogen detection. | |
| Prof Catherina Becker | Deputy Director of CDBS and Professor of Neural Development and Regeneration | Catherina.Becker@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 7983 | CDBS | Development and regeneration of the zebrafish nervous system | |
| Dr Thomas Becker | Senior Lecturer/Programme Director | Thomas.becker@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 6225 | CDBS | Development and regeneration of the zebrafish nervous system | |
| Prof Peter Brophy | Professor | P.Brophy@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 7981 | CDBS | Molecular and cell biology of axon-glia interactions in health and disease | |
| Dr Paula Brunton | ZJU Academic Track Lecturer | P.J.Brunton@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1507 | CDBS | Stress physiology | |
| Dr Emanuel Busch | Chancellors Fellow | Emanuel.Busch@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1727 | CDBS | Physiology and genetics of sensory neural circuits in C.elegans | |
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| Dr Stuart Cobb | Reader in Neuroscience | Stuart.cobb@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 9858 | CDBS | Novel therapies for neurodevelopmental disorders | |
| Prof Michael Cousin |
Professor of Neuronal Cell Biology and Head of Pre-Clinical Research at the Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre |
M.Cousin@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3259 | CDBS | Presynaptic cell biology | |
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| Prof Jamie Davies |
Professor of Experimental Anatomy |
Jamie.Davies@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 2999 | CDBS | Organ Development, Tissue Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Bioinformatic support for all of the above | |
| Dr Michael Daw |
Edinburgh-Zhejiang Lecturer |
Michael.Daw@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3722 | CDBS | Developmental physiology of the Barrel Cortex | |
| Dr Barry Denholm | Lecturer | Barry.Denholm@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 9880 | CDBS | Organ development and physiology | |
| Dr Maria Doitsidou | Chancellors Fellow | Maria.Doitsidou@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1727 | CDBS | Degeneration of dopaminergic neurons | |
| Prof Ian Duguid |
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Cellular and Systems Neuroscience |
Ian.Duguid@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3113 | CDBS | Neural circuits and motor behaviour | |
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| Prof Mark Evans |
Professor of Cellular Pharmacology |
Mark.evans@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1501 | CDBS | Calcium signalling & hypoxia-response coupling | |
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| Dr Peter Flatman |
Senior Lecturer in Physiology |
Peter.Flatman@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3254 | CDBS | Control of membrane within the cell | |
| Prof Susan Fleetwood-Walker |
Professor of Sensory Neuroscience |
S.M.Fleetwood-Walker@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1696 | CDBS | Molecular mechanisms of pain and analgesia | |
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| Prof Tom Gillingwater |
Professor of Anatomy |
T.Gillingwater@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3724 | CDBS | New therapies for neurodegenerative diseases | |
| Dr Christos Gkogkas | Chancellors Fellow | Christos.Gkogkas@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3507 | CDBS | Translational control in neuropsychiatric diseases | |
| Dr Sebastian Greiss | Chancellors Fellow | S.Greiss@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1727 | CDBS | Genetic code expansion and neural circuits | |
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| Prof Jürgen Haas | Director, Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine | Juergen.haas@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 6859 | DIPM | Genetic polymorphisms | |
| Dr Patrick Hadoke | Senior Academic Fellow in Pharmacology | Patrick.hadoke@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 6742 | CVS | Atherosclerosis, Angiogenesis, glucocorticoids, androgens, stem cells, imaging. | |
| Dr Andrew Hall | Reader | A.Hall@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3263 | CDBS | Chondrocytes, cartilage and osteoarthritis | |
| Prof Giles Hardingham |
Professor of Molecular Neurobiology |
Giles.hardingham@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 7961 | CDBS | Protective & degenerative signalling in the CNS | |
| Dr Leah Herrgen | Principal Investigator | Lherrgen@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 9448 | CDBS | Molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain repair | |
| Prof Karen Horsburgh | Principal Investigator | Karen.Horsburgh@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 6216 | CDBS | Influence of vascular dysfunction on cognitive decline:relevant to ageing, vascular and Alzheimers disease | |
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| Dr Mandy Jackson |
Senior Lecturer |
Mandy.Jackson@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 7518 | CDBS | Purkinje cell dysfunction and degeneration | |
| Prof Andrew Jarman |
Professor of Developmental Cell Biology |
Andrew.Jarman@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3737 | CDBS | Developmental control of sensory neurogenesis and ciliogenesis | |
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| Prof Peter Kind | Director, Patrick Wild Centre and Director, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain | P.Kind@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1762 | CDBS | Disorders of brain development | |
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| Prof Gareth Leng |
Professor of Experimental Physiology |
Gareth.Leng@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 2869 | CDBS | Physiology of neuroendocrine networks | |
| Dr Paul Le Tissier | Lecturer | Paul.LeTissier@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3107 | CDBS | Regulation of the anterior pituitary gland | |
| Dr Dawn Livingstone |
Lecturer |
Dawn.Livingstone@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 9880 | CDBS | Steroid hormone signalling | |
| Prof David Lyons | Professor of Neurobiology | David.Lyons@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 7978 | CDBS | Mechanisms of myelinated axon formation, function and repair | |
| Prof Mike Ludwig |
Professor of Neurophysiology |
Mike.Ludwig@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3275 | CDBS | Neuropeptides and their effects on behaviour | |
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| Dr Sutherland Maciver |
Reader |
S.Maciver@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3714 | CDBS | The protein Actin and the biology of amoebae | |
| Dr John Mason | Reader | John.Mason@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 6820 | CDBS | Embryonic development of the forebrain | |
| Prof Dies Meijer | Professor of Cellular Neurobiology | Dies.Meijer@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 6238 | CDBS | Molecular genetics of myelination and synapse formation | |
| Dr John Menzies | ZJU UG Programme Director | John.Menzies@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1711 | CDBS | Appetite control and food choice | |
| Dr Gracan Michlewski | ZJU Academic Track Lecturer | Gracjan.Michlewski@ed.ac.uk | DIPM | Regulation of gene expression, RNA processing and innate immune response to RNA viruses | ||
| Dr Rory Mitchell |
Senior Lecturer |
Rory.Mitchell@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3550 | CDBS | Receptor-mediated signal transduction | |
| Prof Richard Morris | Professor of Neuroscience | Richard.G.M.Morris@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3520 | CDBS | Neurobiology of learning and memory | |
| Dr Joanne Murray |
Senior Lecturer (Zhejiang) |
Jmurra19@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1711 | CDBS | Growth and development of the ovarian follicle | |
| Dr Lyndsay Murray |
Lecturer in Anatomy |
Lyndsay.Murray@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 5985 | CDBS | Degeneration of motor neurons | |
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| Prof Matthew Nolan | Professor of Neural Circuits and Computation | Matt.Nolan@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 9874 | CDBS | Neural circuits and computation | |
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| Dr Laura O'Hara | Academic Track Lecturer (Zhejiang) | L.Ohara@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1507 | CDBS | Sex steroid receptors in the hypothalamus and pituitary | |
| Dr Harry Olverman | Senior Lecturer | H.Olverman@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3523 | CDBS | Human mood disorders | |
| Dr Iris Oren | Chancellors Fellow | Iris.Oren@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1903 | CDBS | Memory and diseases | |
| Dr Emily Osterweil | Chancellors Fellow | Emily.Osterweil@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3722 | CDBS | mRNA translation and synaptic connections | |
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| Dr Jennifer Paxton |
Lecturer in Anatomy |
J.Z.Paxton@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 5250 | CDBS | Musculoskeletal tissue engineering | |
| Dr Guisy Pennetta | Lecturer | G.Pennetta@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 3201 | CDBS | Molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases | |
| Dr Kim Picozzi | Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Principal Investigator | Kim.Picozzi@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 9376 | DIPM | Global health, infectious diseases, molecular epidemiology, neglected zoonotic diseases | |
| Dr Tom Pratt | Lecturer | T.Pratt@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3732 | CDBS | Roles of carbohydrates in the developing brain | |
| Prof David Price |
Professor of Developmental Neurobiology |
David.Price@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3262 | CDBS | How brains are made | |
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| Prof Richard Ribchester | Professor of Cellular Neuroscience | Richard.Ribchester@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3256 | CDBS | Neuromuscular connections | |
| Dr Nathalie Rochefort | Chancellors Fellow | N.Rochefort@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3113 | CDBS | Neural processing of visual information | |
| Dr Nicola Romano | ZJU Academic Track lecturer | nicola.romano@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1711 | CDBS | Single cell information processing in the pituitary | |
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| Dr Thamarai Dorai-Schneiders | Principal Investigator | Thamarai.Schneiders@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 6285 | DIPM | Antibiotic resistance, bacteria | |
| Dr Mariela Scortti | Senior Research Fellow | M.scortti@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 3624 | DIPM | Molecular determinants of bacterial virulence | |
| Prof Mike Shipston | Dean, Biomedical Sciences and Professor of Physiology | Mike.Shipston@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3253 | CDBS | Ion channel physiology | |
| Dr Dirk Sieger | Chancellors’s Fellow | Dirk.Sieger@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 6161 | CDBS |
Microglia-tumour interactions |
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| Dr Martin Simmen | Lecturer | M.Simmen@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1773 | CDBS |
Computational modelling of nucleosome positions |
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| Dr Paul Skehel | Senior lecturer | Paul.Skehel@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1961 | CDBS | Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration | |
| Dr Richard Sloan | ZJU Academic Track Lecturer | Richard.Sloan@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 6281 | DIPM | Interferon induced transmembrane proteins, HIV, retroviruses | |
| Dr Karen Smillie | Lecturer | K.Smillie@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1506 | CDBS | Signalling, neurones & networks | |
| Prof Norah Spears |
Professor of Reproductive Physiology |
Norah.Spears@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3267 | CDBS |
Female reproductive development |
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| Prof Tara Spires-Jones | Deputy Director, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences | Tara.Spires-Jones@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1895 | CDBS | Degenerative brain diseases and ageing | |
| Dr Melanie Stefan |
Edinburgh-Zhejiang Lecturer |
Mstefan@ed.ac.uk | 0131 651 1711 | CDBS | Understanding of learning and memory | |
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| Dr Simon Talbot | Principal Investigator and Senior Lecturer | S.Talbot@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 6282 | DIPM | Antibodies, chimeric T-cell receptors | |
| Prof Evelyn Telfer | Evelyn.Telfer@ed.ac.uk | CDBS | Follicle and oocyte development | |||
| Dr Thomas Theil |
Senior Lecturer |
Thomas.theil@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3721 | CDBS |
Patterning and axon pathfinding in the forebrain |
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| Dr Carole Torsney |
Lecturer |
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0131 650 9881 | CDBS | Somatosensory plasticity | |
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| Dr Sander Van Den Driesche | Edinburgh-Zhejiang Lecturer | S.vandenDriesche@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3112 | CDBS | Male reproductive health and disorders | |
| Prof Jose Vazquez-Boland | Chair of Infectious Diseases | V.Boland@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 6288 | DIPM | Infection biology of bacterial intracellular pathogens | |
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| Prof Sue Welburn |
Executive Dean, ZJU-UoE Institute and Professor of Medical and Veterinary Molecular Epidemiology |
Sue.Welburn@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 6457 | DIPM | Parasites, human sleeping sickness | |
| Dr Emma Wood | Reader | Emma.Wood@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 3531 | CDBS | Memory and space | |
| Prof David Wyllie |
Director of CDBS and Professor of Ion Channel Physiology and Pharmacology |
David.J.A.Wyllie@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 4564 | CDBS | Physiology and pharmacology of ion channels | |
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| Zhang, HongYan | Chancellors Fellow | HongYan.Zhang@ed.ac.uk | 0131 242 6799 | CDBS |
Locomotor control and rhythm generation in simple animal model systems |