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SUMMARY:Pharmacology Seminar Series: Hugh Robinson\, Ion Channels\, Electr
 ical Activity and Energy Consumption in Neuroendocrine Cancer Cells - Hugh
  Robinson\, PDN
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DESCRIPTION:Friday 5 December\, 13:00 - 14:00\n\nSpeaker: Hugh Robinsion\,
  PDN\, University of Cambridge\n\nTalk Title: Ion Channels\, Electrical Ac
 tivity and Energy Consumption in Neuroendocrine Cancer Cells\n\nBiography:
  Hugh Robinson studied Natural Sciences as an undergraduate at the Univers
 ity of Cambridge\, graduating in 1982. After a year working on cardiac mus
 cle electrophysiology at Rockefeller University and mathematical modelling
  of neurons at the MIT with Christof Koch\, he returned to Cambridge for h
 is PhD\, in the lab of Denis Haydon in the Physiological Laboratory\, on t
 he gating of single potassium channels. He then moved to Japan for postdoc
 toral work on synaptic glutamate receptors at the Tokyo Metropolitan Insti
 tute for Neurosciences (1988-91) and developing multielectrode array techn
 ology in the Materials Science Department of NTT Basic Research Laboratori
 es (1991-93). In 1993\, he returned to the Physiological Laboratory in Cam
 bridge\, firstly as Wellcome Vision Research Fellow\, and then from 1996\,
  as University Lecturer\, and Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is curr
 ently Professor of Cellular Electrophysiology in the Department of Physiol
 ogy\, Development and Neuroscience in the University of Cambridge. He has 
 worked on many aspects of electrical signal integration by neurons\, pione
 ering techniques of nonstationary fluctuation analysis of synaptic current
 s\, and conductance injection (dynamic clamp) to probe the function of pop
 ulations of ion channels in neuronal activity\, and studied biophysical me
 chanisms of thresholds\, synchronisation of firing\, and irregular action 
 potential generation in various cortical neuron types. Since 2017\, he has
  focused on understanding the roles of ion channels and electrical signall
 ing in cancer cells\, and the emerging field of cancer neuroscience.
LOCATION:Seminar Room (Level 2)\, Dept of Pharmacology 
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