Our Laboratory is in the James Naysmith Building Heriot Watt:
Facilities: mutielectrode array readers, imaging cameras, patch and voltage clamp amplifiers, microscopes, data aquisition systems, microelectrode fabrication suite, Cell and tissue culture facilities.
Current Lab. Members Heriot-Watt
Postgraduate students
Kyriakos Michail (PhD Fellow). An invitro device to study MS. Medical Research Scotland Studentship 2015-19
Mario Alvarez-Martinez (PhD Fellow) Developing a microelectrode array to study Islet health. EPSRC studentship 2017-2021
Undergraduate Students
Susana Lopez Arranz. 4th year Project student in MChem with Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Formation of nanopores in native and artificial bilayers 2015-16
Marina Yonova 4 yr BSc hons Chem Project student. Detecting cellular K+ fluxes with Asante dyes 2015-16
Andrew T G Weir 4 year BSc Physics project student. Developing imaging software to study K+ fluxes using superresolution microscopy.
2015-16
Past Members Heriot Watt
Matthew Euston (PhD Student). Biophysics of Calcium channels 2013-17.
Susana Lopez Arranz. 4th year Project student in MChem with Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Formation of nanopores in native and artificial bilayers 2015-16
Marina Yonova 4 yr BSc hons Chem Project student. Detecting cellular K+ fluxes with Asante dyes 2015-16
Andrew T G Weir 4 year BSc Physics project student. Developing imaging software to study K+ fluxes using superresolution microscopy.
2015-16
Euan O'Brien (Physics Undergrad Student) Validation and implementation of a system for the
automatic phenotyping of swimming larvae (2014)
James Hewitt (Physics Undergraduate student). Gigaseal formation in cultured cells (2013).
Past members Naples
Gabriele Amore (Researcher). Gene regulatory networks in sea urchin and Ciona intestinalis.
Stefania Piscopo (researcher). Sleep and behaviour in marine invertebrates, biophysics of ion channels and nanotoxicology.
Giorgio Matassi (Researcher)
George Nwurim (PhD Student, Open university UK). Project: Swimming behaviour of the larva of Ciona intestinalis.
Nicole Selzer (PhD Student, University of the Sannio, Benevento Italy ). Project: Programming and gathering data for an interactive map of the nervous system of Ciona intestinalis.
Clara Cervone. (Masters Student, University of Naples FII) Activity and function of neural networks in Ciona intestinalis.
Mohammed Idris (PhD student)
Marina Langella (PhD student)
Saverio Gentile (PhD student)
Sig Luigi Di Martino (Technician).
Sig Gabriele Ferrandino (Technician).
Past members Plymouth, UK
Candida Rogers (Post doc, BBSRC )
Irina Vinogradova (Post Doc, Wellcome Trust
Pedro Lima (PhD Student, BBSRC)