Professor Steve Edgley
- Director of Studies in Preclinical Medicine, St John's College
- Tutor, St John's College
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Research
We are interested in how movements are controlled by neural circuits. Our everyday movements are performed with little conscious thought and are remarkably precise. Despite what the textbooks tell you, the neural mechanisms by which this is accomplished are poorly understood. We work at several levels, particularly at the spinal cord and cerebellum.
My work involves electrophysiology, recording and analysing the signals neurons use to talk to each other. Most current work relates to the cerebellum, which has a well defined circuitry, and how it contributes to a learning process that ‘automates’ movements.
Lab membersJames Phillips (PhD student)
Jack Curtis (PhD student)
Main collaboratorsStuart Baker (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Elzbieta Jankowska (Gotheburg, Sweden)
Sue Jones (Cambridge UK)
Chris Yeo (UCL, London)
Former Lab membersSamit Chakrabarty (leeds UK http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/staff/profile.php?tag=Chakrabarty_S )
Mark Baker (Newcastle UK http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/staff/profile/markbaker.html#publications)
Nick Aggelopoulos (Leibniz Institute Magdeburg http://www.lin-magdeburg.de/en/ifn_mp.jsp?member=naggelop&fc=A)
Wei Xu (Newcastle UK, http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/staff/profile/weixu.html#research)
Teaching and supervision
MVST Part Ib Neurobiology and Human Behaviour - Course organiser and Lecturer
MVST Part Ib Neurobiology and Animal Behaviour - Course organiser and Lecturer
MVST Part Ia Functional Architecture of the Body - Lecturer (nerve degeneration ad regeneration)
MVST Part Ib Head and Neck Anatomy - Lecturer (Cranial nerve function)
MVST Part Ib Neurobiology and Animal/Human Behaviour - Joint Course organiser and Lecturer (motor systems)
MVST Part Ib Practical and Clinical Neuroanatomy - Joint Course organiser
NST PDN/Neuroscience Part II Module 7: Neural circuits and Networks (Cerebellum)