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School of the Biological Sciences

 

 

Reader in Nociception, Department of Pharmacology

Ewan St. John Smith studies the molecular mechanisms by which sensory neurones detect noxious stimuli, so-called nociceptors and how the properties of these neurones change from health to disease. Learn more

 

Research Areas


Pain
Sensory neurophysiology
Ion channel biophysics
 
 

Techniques


Behaviour
Retrograde tracing
Whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology
Ca2+ imaging 
Molecular biology

 

Research Themes