Cellular Basis of Behaviour and Disease

Research in this group focuses on the function of neurons and glia with the aim of understanding how cellular and network properties control complex behaviours. In addition, pathological changes in cellular properties are studied in various models of neurodegenerative and neurological disorders (such as Motor Neuron Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease) in order to reveal key disease mechanisms that could serve as targets for novel therapeutic strategies.

Group Members

	Dr Maciej Antkowiak Academic Fellow in Medical Photonics	ma81@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463603
	Dr Marcus Bischoff Lecturer Developmental genetics and imaging of morphogenesis	mb273@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 467199
	Prof Glen Cottrell Professor (Emeritus) Novel ligand-gated ion channels in nerve cells	gac@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463572
	Prof Kishan Dholakia Professor Optical manipulation in biomedicine	kd1@st-andrews.ac.uk
	Dr Gayle H Doherty Lecturer in Neursoscience Cell death during neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration	ghm@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463611 (lab 463544)
	Prof Malte Gather Professor Biophotonics and bioinspired optics	mcg6@st-andrews.ac.uk
	Prof Frank Gunn-Moore Professor of Molecular Neurobiology Director of Research Molecular development and survival of mammalian neurons	fjg1@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463525
	Dr Bill Heitler Reader Simple Systems Neurobiology and Modelling	wjh@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463490
	Dr Wenchang Li Royal Society University Research Fellow Neural networks controlling movement in a simple vertebrate	wl21@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463579
	Dr Gareth Miles Reader Neurophysiology of mammalian spinal motor networks	gbm4@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463281
	Prof David O'Hagan Professor Organic and bio-organic fluorine research	do1@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 467176
	Dr Samantha Pitt Royal Society of Edinburgh Biomedical Fellow Intracellular calcium dynamics and the molecular function of intracellular ion-channels	sjp24@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463516
	Dr Stefan Pulver Lecturer Neural control of locomotion in Drosophila	sp96@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: +44 (0) 1334 463503
	Prof Keith Sillar Professor of Neuroscience Neural control and development of vertebrate locomotion	kts1@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463503
	Dr Judith Sleeman Lecturer in Cell and Developmental Biology Structure and dynamics of the mammalian cell nucleus	jes14@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463524
	Dr V Anne Smith Senior Lecturer Complex biological networks	vas1@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463368
	Dr Ildiko Somorjai MASTS Lecturer Regeneration Biology	imls@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463628
	Dr Alan Stewart Senior Lecturer in Molecular Medicine Metal ions in medicine	ajs21@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463546
	Dr Javier Tello Lecturer in Pharmacology	jt65@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463517
	Prof John Zajicek Chair in Medicine	jz45@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463560