Dr Thalia Blacking (MA VetMB PhD FHEA MRCVS)
Senior Lecturer in Applied Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology
Contact details
Address
- Street
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The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian - City
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Responsibilities & affiliations
Personal tutor (undergraduate)
Course organiser - Animal Body 4
Section organiser - Locomotion (Y2), Metabolism (Y2), Metabolism (GEP)
Convenor of Examination Board - Animal Body 3
Member of Examination Board - Animal Body 4, Animal Body GEP
Final Year Staff-Student Liaison Committee - Independent Staff Advisor
Learning and Teaching Committee
University & College Union - Local contact (EBVC)
Regrading / contribution rewards panel representative; Workload working group member
Previous - Quality Assurance Committee (2012-2015); EBRC Seminar Committee (2012-2015)
Postgraduate teaching
Teaching
Year 1 - Animal Body 1 (From Cells to Body Structure):
Neurology & neurohistology
Vertebrae & Biomechanics
Live limb anatomy
Receptor theory / cell signalling and drug action
Year 2 / GEP -
Animal Body 3 (Systems biology and pathobiology):
Equine locomotor anatomy (Locomotion - section organiser)
Metabolism (Section organiser)
Ruminants - fermentative digestion
Intestinal secretion and absorption
Haemoglobin and gas transport
Cardiac anatomy / histology and mechanisms of muscle contraction
Animal Body 4 (Integration, application and deductive reasoning): (Course organiser)
Cancer
Equine recurrent airway obstruction
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Corrigendum to "Feline mammary carcinoma stem cells are tumorigenic, radioresistant, chemoresistant and defective in activation of the ATM/p53 DNA damage pathway" [The Veterinary Journal 196 (2013) 414-423]
In:
The Veterinary Journal, vol. 276, pp. 105744
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2021.105744
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (E-pub ahead of print) -
Is CD44 a Marker for Cancer Stem Cells?
(14 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5645-8
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Flow cytometric techniques for detection of candidate cancer stem cell subpopulations in canine tumour models
(22 pages)
In:
Veterinary and Comparative Oncology, vol. 10, pp. 252-273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-5829.2011.00293.x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
CD44 is associated with proliferation, rather than a specific cancer stem cell population, in cultured canine cancer cells
(12 pages)
In:
Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, vol. 141, pp. 46-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetimm.2011.02.004
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
From viruses to cancer stem cells: dissecting the pathways to malignancy
(13 pages)
In:
The Veterinary Journal, vol. 177, pp. 311-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2007.09.017
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Literature review (Published) -
Is cancer a stem cell disease?: Theory, evidence and implications
(14 pages)
In:
Veterinary and Comparative Oncology, vol. 5, pp. 76-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-5829.2007.00127.x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)