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javaguru said:For the record, he's a respected scientist.....
Dr Tom Cunnane
University Lecturer
Fellow and Tutor in Physiological Sciences, Hertford College
Dr Cunnane graduated in Pharmacology at Bath University, and obtained a PhD in the Department of Pharmacology, Glasgow University. He continued his research in the Department of Physiology, Leicester University where he worked for two years with Professor Asa Blakeley funded by the MRC. He then set up an electrophysiological laboratory at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm working with Professor Lennart Stjärne as an MRC and Royal Society Overseas Fellow. Dr Cunnane returned to the UK to set up his own independent research group as an MRC Senior Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology, Glasgow University, before being appointed to his College Fellowship and University Lectureship in Oxford in 1984. Dr Cunnane has developed techniques to study the relationship between action potential propagation and neurotransmitter release at the level of the individual varicosity in sympathetic nerve terminals. More recently, Dr Cunnane's group have been studying calcium dynamics in mature nerve terminals using confocal microscopy, and have discovered an unexpected and novel action of nicotine. Briefly, nicotine induces spontaneous asynchronous calcium transients in individual varicosities.
Dr Cunnane has been an Editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology and Chairman of the International Union of Physiological Sciences Commission on the Physiology of Neurotransmitters and Modulation.
Key Research Areas
Electrophysiological characterisation of neurotransmitter release mechanisms in single living varicosities in postganglionic sympathetic neurones
Presynaptic receptor activation and the role of potassium and multiple forms of calcium channels in varicose nerve terminals
Investigation of the nature of the calcium channels controlling ACh release from preganglionic sympathetic nerves
Molecular machinery controlling neurotransmitter release
Yeah ... I never read that much in the 3+ years that composed of my freshman year.