Keith Lawrence Brain (k.l.brain@bham.ac.uk)
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DOB: 19th February, 1973
Positions:
Senior Lecturer (Neuropharmacology), University of Birmingham
Lecturer (Pharmacology), Christ Church College, University Oxford
Associate Member, Department of Pharmacology, University Oxford
          

Previous Positions

2007-9 University Research Lecturer, University Oxford
2005-9 Research Fellow and Tutor, Keble College, Oxford
2005-9 Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Dept. Pharmacology, Oxford
2004-5 Senior House Office, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals
2003-4 Tutor for Graduates, Exeter College, Oxford
2002-5 Staines Medical Research Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford
2001-4 Oxford Nuffield Medical Fellow, Dept. Pharmacology, Oxford
2000    Intern, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Academic Qualifications

2002 Master of Arts (by decree) [Oxford]
2000 Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (Hons) [Sydney]
1999 Doctor of Philosophy (Med) [Sydney].
1995 Bachelor of Science [Sydney] [Pure Mathematics and Physics]

Grants (>£20,000)

2009-12 University of Birmgingham Startup Grant (postdoctoral salary for 3 years: Dr P. Sidaway in post; £100,000)
2008-9 Wellcome Trust Value in People Award for John Young (£21,970)
2008-11 Wellcome Trust Equipment Grant 084631/Z/08/Z, to Pratt, Sim, Galione, Churchill, Brain for flow cytometer including maintenance (£114,366).
2007-10 British Heart Foundation studentship, "Junctional modulation in mesenteric artery and vas deferens" (£91,867)
2005-9 Wellcome Trust Career Development Research Fellowship (£324,808; their reference: 074128)
2001-4 Nuffield Medical Research Fellowship (£141,000)

Key Research Directions
Our laboratory aims to understand autonomic junctional transmission from fundamental principles through to therapeutic interventions
Current projects include:
- Prostaglandin E2 and its role in bladder overactivity
- Prejunctional nicotinic receptors and the regulation of sympathetic transmission
- The effect of cannabinoids on sympathetic transmission
- The development of new techniques for dynamically monitoring neurotransmitter release with single-molecule resolution failure (with H. Bayley, University of Oxford)
- Developing new optical and MRI-sensitive probes for sympathetic failure (with S. Faulkner, University of Oxford)

Other Key Academic Positions (3 years; external to Siena)

2010 Membership and Awards Committee, British Pharmacological Society
2009 European Representative, Int. Soc. Autonomic Neuroscience (ISAN)
2008-9 International Program Committee ISAN congress 2009

PhD Supervision: J. Kennard (2007-), S. Kobayter (2006-10), R. Amos (2003-7), D. Williams (2001-4).

PhD Examining: S. Wang (2010; Birmingham); J. Winter (2010; Birmingham); P. Dickson (2009; Queen's University of Belfast); E. Meng (2008; Oxford); S. Vasudevan (2008; Oxford), A. Fabiyi (2006; Oxford)

Activity as a Journal Reviewer

I review papers for “British Journal of Pharmacology”, “The Journal of Physiology”,  "Experimental Physiology",“Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical”, “FASEB Journal”, "Neuroscience Letters", "Neurourology and Urodynamics" and “Journal of Microscopy”.