The voice of British neuroscience today

The BackpagesThis issue’s CONTRIBUTORSAnna Ger is doing BSc Pharmacology at Bristol,working with husband Dmitri to study psychoactivesubstances and business. Plans for the future? -psychopharmacology. al9702@bristol.ac.ukDmitri Ger studied chemistry in Estonia and is nowworking on a few interesting synthesises in organicchemistry. Dream? - freedom of chemical art andconstant developing.Joelle Abi-Rached is a PhD student in the History ofScience at Harvard University and author of recent paperon the history of the BNA. jabi@fas.harvard.eduRochelle Ackerley is an Assistant Professor atSweden’s University of Gothenburg, where she’s usingmicroneurography to record single axons in human skin.rochelle@physiol.gu.seAlison Brindle is UCL’s Neuroscience StrategyAdministrator and plays a lead role in developing andcoordinating UCL Neuroscience public engagementactivities. a.brindle@ucl.ac.ukKate Button is mid-way through a PhD at Bristol, whereshe investigates the role of biased social cognition insocial anxiety. kate.Button@bristol.ac.ukGareth Evans is a lecturer at the University of Yorkinterested in the cell signalling of development andlearning. gjoe500@york.ac.ukUna FitzGerald leads the Multiple Sclerosis and StrokeResearch group at the National University of Ireland,studying the role of stress to the endoplasmic reticulumin MS. una.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ieSuzi Gage is a 1st year PhD student at the University ofBristol, investigating associations between cannabis use,psychosis and depression. suzi.gage@bristol.ac.ukRobert Halliwell is Professor of Neuroscience and ClinicalPharmacology at the University of the Pacific’s School ofPharmacy in California, USA. rhalliwell@pacific.eduBruce Hood is director of the Bristol CognitiveDevelopment Centre, and author of books includingSuperSense: From superstition to religion – the brainscience of belief. bruce.hood@bristol.ac.ukStand-up comedian, television, radio and theatreperformer Robin Ince (e.g. The Infinite Monkey Cage,Just a Minute, Dead Ringers) has just published RobinInce’s Bad Book Club. robinince.comAnthony Isles is a Senior Lecturer investigatingepigenetic influences on brain and behaviour at theNeuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute,Cardiff University. islesar1@Cardiff.ac.ukMatt Jones is a Research Fellow at the University ofBristol. His lab works on the network basis of cognition.matt.jones@Bristol.ac.ukPreviously a neuroscientist and anatomy lecturer, HannoKoppel is now an NHS psychotherapeutic counsellorworking with asylum seekers and ethnic minorities.hannokoppel@googlemail.comResearch Fellow Chris Martin is a neuroimagingneuroscientist at Oxford University, studing how toimprove non-invasive imaging to understand brainfunction and disease. chris.martin@rob.ox.ac.ukBecky McCall is a freelance science and medicaljournalist for print and online publications, who alsodabbles with audio and TV. beckyoktar@hotmail.comFrancis Mcglone works at Liverpool John MooresUniversity & Nottingham’s Sir Peter Mansfield MagneticResonance Unit, using microneurography combined withfMRI. francis.mcglone@liverpool.ac.ukJuan Mena-Segovia is an Investigator Scientist at theMRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit (Oxford)studying neuronal circuits in the brainstem.juan.mena-segovia@pharm.ox.ac.ukKaz Pasiecznik is a neuroscience and neuropsychologygraduate currently studying for a PhD at the University ofBristol. kaz.pasiecznik@bristol.ac.ukJemma Ransom is a second year PhD student at theUniversity of Aberdeen studying retinoid biochemistry inthe adult brain. r01jsr9@abdn.ac.ukSteven Rose is director of the Brain and BehaviourResearch Group at the Open University, author, politicalcampaigner, and well-known from lectures, TV and radio.s.p.r.rose@open.ac.ukEmma Ross is a lecturer in human physiology atThe University of Brighton. E.Z.Ross@brighton.ac.ukRosie Twomey is studying for a PhD at Chelsea School,University of Brighton, investigating neurophysiologicaldeterminants of exercise tolerance in hypoxia.Karen Walshe is Biosciences Research Officer at theBritish Library, leading projects, activities and events forthe Science, Technology and Medicine team.Jonathan Webb recently interrupted a DPhil (Oxford)to work at London’s Science Media Centre. He alsoacts, sings, runs a website and podcast (nerd-alert.net)JWebb@ri.ac.ukIfat Yasin is a Senior Lecturer in auditory psychophysicsat UCL Ear Institute and was the scientific lead for theUCL-British Library event described in Meeting Reports.Quoc Vuong, from Newcastle’s Institute of Neuroscience,uses psychophysics, computer graphics, computervision, eye tracking and functional brain imaging tostudy visual cognition47