Kosala Dissanayake
Lecturer in Veterinary Biomedical Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: +441316506258
- Email: kosala.dissanayake@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Euan MacDonald Centre
Address
- Street
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The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
Easter Bush Campus - City
- Midlothian
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
Kosala graduated from university of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka with a degree in veterinary medicine and animal science in 2007. After short time in small animal and exotic animal practice in Sri Lanka, she moved to Scotland to do a masters in integrative neuroscience at university of Edinburgh (2010) before completing her PhD in neuroscience from the same university (2015). Her PhD project was to understand the neuromuscular transmission failure in organophosphorus pesticide toxicity in humans, under the supervision from Prof. Richard Ribchester and Prof. Michael Eddleston. Then she undertook a post-doctoral research project looking at further mechanisms of her PhD research project (2015 – 2020).
Following a brief post-doctoral project with Prof. David Wyllie and Prof. Peter Kind at university of Edinburgh (2021- 2022), Kosala became a lecturer in Veterinary Biomedical Science at the Royal (Dick) School of veterinary studies in 2022.
Her current research focuses are on calcium (Ca2+) induced excitotoxicity in neuromuscular junction. She is also interested in comparative neuromuscular junction physiology in large animals including companion animals and farm animals.
Qualifications
2015 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). University of Edinburgh
2010 Master of Science (MSc by research). University of Edinburgh
2007 Bachelor of Veterinary medicine and Animal Science (BVSc). University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Responsibilities & affiliations
Animal Body 3 course organiser
Principle investigator - Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Reasearch
Undergraduate teaching
Year 1 : Animal body 1
Year 2 : Animal body 3 & Animal Body 4
Year GEP : Animal body
Year 3 - 5 : Student research component
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
Physiology of neuromuscular junction transmission in health and disease.