Neuroscience Theme
Neuroscience Group Information
Projects
Ongoing
- Mechanisms underlying synapse-specific clustering of GABAA receptors (Extensive collaboration within NS group)
- The role of the CA2 region in the hippocampus (Mercer)
- Presynaptic GABAA receptors (Jovanovic)
- Assembly and targeting of NMDA receptors (Stephenson)
- Local circuit connections of interneurones in CA1 of the rat hippocampus (Ali.)
- OIP106 (TRAK1) and GRIF-1 (TRAK2), kinesin-associated adaptor proteins: a study of their role in mitochondrial trafficking processes in neurons (Stephenson)
- The role of neuroinflammation and neurogenesis as avenues of cure for Parkinson’s Disease (Whitton)
- Dendritic hyperpolarization-activated cation channels in entorhinal cortical neurons and temporal lobe epilepsy (Shah)
- Biological and therapeutic roles of glycine receptors containing the alpha2 or alpha3 subunits (R. Harvey)
- Dysfunction of GABA and glycine transporters in human neurological disease (R.Harvey, K.Harvey)
- Identifying substrates for PINK1: implications for Parkinson’s disease (R.Harvey)
- The Role of gephyrin and collybistin family proteins in inhibitory receptor clustering and molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis (R.Harvey, K.Harvey)
New projects now funded and in their initial stages
- Selective targeting of synapses to specific dendritic locations and their modulation by voltage-gated channels (Ruiz, Shah, Thomson)
- Amyloid precursor protein: a novel role in the regulation of NMDA receptor surface trafficking (Stephenson)
- An investigation into NMDA receptor subtype synaptic targeting and lateral mobility mediated by the PSD-95 MAGUK family of scaffold proteins (Stephenson)
- Understanding the effects of HCN channel modulators on the latent period duration (Shah)
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