Sean Quinlan

Sean graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) with a BSc in Pharmacology and from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) with a PhD in Physiology and Medical Physics. During his graduate research (under the supervision of Dr. Eva Jimenez and Prof. David Henshall), Sean studied the effects of phenobarbital, the role of inflammation and the effects of anti-inflammatory drugs on neonatal hypoxia-induced seizures. Sean has, and continues to use a combination of in vivo, behavioral and molecular biology techniques to analyze the changes in the neonatal brain following hypoxic seizures. He is continuing in a similar line of research as a postdoc, focusing on interactions between drugs and seizures in producing long-term outcomes after early life exposure. When he’s not in the lab you will probably either find him wandering around the Lego store or at home making Lego, watching Archer with an Old Fashioned in hand.