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Dr Hugh R. Matthews

Reader in Sensory Physiology, Fellow of St John's College Tel: +44 (0)1223 333803, Fax: +44 (0)1223 333840, E-mail: hrm1@cam.ac.uk
 

Hugh Matthews (Left), Salome Antolin (Middle) and Johannes Reisert (Right)

Picture taken by Roger Thomas (October 2003).
Hugh Matthews (Left), Salome Antolin (Middle) and Johannes Reisert (Right).
 

Research Interests:

Phototransduction and olfactory transduction. Calcium homeostasis in vertebrate photoreceptors and olfactory receptors, and its role in modulating their electrical responses. Light-induced calcium release within the photoreceptor outer segment.

Research Students:

Ms Salomé Antolin
Ms Yiu Tak Leung

Current Collaborators:

Prof Gordon L. Fain, Department of Physiological Science, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Prof M.Carter Cornwall, Department of Physiology, Boston University Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Prof Rosalie K. Crouch, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Dr Alapakkam P. Sampath, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Dr Johannes Reisert, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Publications (in PDF)