Personal profile

Biography

  • 2013-present: Head of Pre-Clinical Research at the Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre

  • 2010-present: Chair of Neuronal Cell Biology, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh

  • 2008-2010: Reader, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh

  • 2004-2008: Senior Lecturer, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh

  • 2000-2004: Lecturer, Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh

  • 1998-2000: Human Frontiers of Science Long-Term Fellow, Children’s Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia

  • 1997-1998: Royal Society Travelling Fellow, Children’s Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia

  • 1994-1997: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neurosciences Institute, University of Dundee

  • 1994: PhD Biochemistry, University of Dundee

  • 1991: BSc (Hons I) Biochemistry, University of Edinburgh

Current Research Interests

  • Understanding the molecular mechanism of activity-dependent bulk endocytosis
  • Determining the physiologycal role of activity-dependent bulk endocytosis
  • Understanding how interactions between synaptic vesicle control their retireval during endocytosis
  • Understanding how presynaptic dysfunction results in human disease

My research in a nutshell

The recycling of synaptic vesicles (SVs) is central to neurotransmitter release, synaptic function and brain communication. Our laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms that control bot the endocytosis and recycling of SVs. We also investigate how presynaptic dysfunction precipitates a series of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental conditions and disorders of neuronal excitability.

Teaching

 

Undergraduate

 

Year 2: Biomedical Sciences 2

 

Year 3: Physiology 3

 

Year 4: Honours Physiology, Developmental and Clinical Neuroscience, Synaptic Function and Plasticity in Health and Disease, Membrane Biology

 

 

 

Postgraduate

 

MSc by Research Biomedical Sciences (Life Sciences),

 

MSc by Research Integrative Neuroscience

 

 

 

Exam Boards

 

Year 4: Honours Physiology, Honours Medical Sciences

 

Postgraduate MSc by Research Integrative Neuroscience

 

 

 

Course organiser

 

Year 3: Physiology 3

 

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