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