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Details for Dr Robert Meech
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Robert Meech |
| Job title | Research Fellow |
| Department | School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc.(Soton) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | ion channel electrophysiology ion channels cnidarian medusae ion pumps |
| Areas of expertise | Ion channels in excitable membranes. I study the electrophysiology of Cnidarian medusae to try to understand the structure, properties and functions of ion channels in systems derived from an early stage in the evolution of nerves. A considerable advantage arises from the ability to make direct links between molecular events in excitable cells and an animal’s different behavioural strategies. Intracellular membrane surface. A long-term interest is in how ion channels and ion pumps interact at the intracellular membrane surface. My experiments on Aplysia neurones in Felix Strumwasser's laboratory in 1969 provided the first direct experimental evidence for the activation of a K+ conductance by intracellular Ca2+. More recently Ian Spreadbury, Corne Kros & I, have examined the role of these Ca2+ activated K+ currents in cochlea outer hair cells (Spreadbury, Kros & Meech, 2004). |