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Centre 

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Prof Till Bachmann Chair of Molecular Diagnostics and Infection Till.bachmann@ed.ac.uk

0131 242 9438

 Infection Medicine Diagnostics, biosensors, and pathogen detection.
Dr Sam Booker Research Fellow        
Dr Matt Brook Academic Track Lecturer (Zhejiang)        
Prof Peter Brophy Professorial Fellow 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 Senior Lecturer P.J.Brunton@ed.ac.uk 0131 651 1507 CDBS Stress physiology

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Dr Ann Clemens Simons ESAT Fellow        
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 Senior Lecturer

 Michael.Daw@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3722 CDBS Developmental physiology of the Barrel Cortex
Dr Barry Denholm Senior 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
Dr Thamarai Dorai-Schneiders Senior Lecturer in Molecular Bacteriology Thamarai.Schneiders@ed.ac.uk 0131 242 6285 Infection Medicine Antibiotic resistance, bacteria
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
Dr Claire Durrant Race against Dementia Research Fellow        
Dr Adrian Duszkiewicz Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow        

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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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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
Dr Jill Fowler Alzheimer Society Research Fellow        

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Dr Jian Gan UKDRI Programme Leader (Fellow)        
Prof Tom Gillingwater

Professor of Anatomy

 T.Gillingwater@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3724 CDBS New therapies for neurodegenerative diseases
Dr Alfredo Gonzalez Sulser Research Fellow        
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, Infection Medicine Juergen.haas@ed.ac.uk 0131 242 6859 Infection Medicine Genetic polymorphisms
Prof Patrick Hadoke Personal Chair of Arterial Remodelling 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
Prof Karen Horsburgh Personal Chair of Neuroscience 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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Dr Paul Le Tissier Senior Lecturer Paul.LeTissier@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3107 CDBS Regulation of the anterior pituitary gland
Dr Dawn Livingstone

Senior 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
Dr Gedi Luksys Academic Track Lecturer (Zhejiang)        
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
Prof John Mason Personal Chair of Molecular Neural Development John.Mason@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 6820 CDBS Embryonic development of the forebrain
Dr Barry McColl Senior Research Fellow        
Dr Victoria McCulloch Lecturer in Anatomy        
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 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

Senior 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 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 Director of Postgraduate Teaching Kim.Picozzi@ed.ac.uk 0131 242 9376 Infection Medicine Global health, infectious diseases, molecular epidemiology, neglected zoonotic diseases
Dr Tom Pratt Senior 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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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 Mariela Scortti Senior Research Fellow M.scortti@ed.ac.uk 0131 651 3624 Infection Medicine 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
Dr Martin Simmen Lecturer M.Simmen@ed.ac.uk 0131 651 1773 CDBS

Computational modelling of nucleosome positions
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 Infection Medicine 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
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 Infection Medicine Antibodies, chimeric T-cell receptors
Prof Evelyn Telfer   Evelyn.Telfer@ed.ac.uk   CDBS Follicle and oocyte development
Dr Thomas Theil

Reader

 Thomas.theil@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3721 CDBS

Patterning and axon pathfinding in the forebrain
Dr Carole Torsney

Senior Lecturer
Carole.Torsney@ed.ac.uk
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 Infection Medicine 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 Infection Medicine 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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Dr Rob Young Academic Track Lecturer (Zhejiang)        
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