2018
UCC Physiology at the Euros!
Several academic staff and PhD trainees of the Department and former undergraduates of BSc Physiology Class of 2018 will attend the Europhysiology 2018 meeting in London (September 13-16).
The meeting is a collaboration between The Physiological Society, the Scandanavian Physiological Society, the Deutsche Physiologische Gesellschaft, and the Federation of European Physiological Societies with over 1300 registered attendees expected at the inaugural event, which will be followed by meetings in Berlin (2020) and Copenhagen (2022). Oral and poster communications will be presented at the meeting by early-career trainees showcasing some of the research activity currently underway in the Department.
Cardiac and Respiratory Physiology
Oral communication: “Breathing with neuromuscular disease: insights from preclinical studies”
David P. Burns1, Eabha O’Driscoll2, Jane Rowland2, Leonie Canavan2, Kevin H. Murphy1, Karen M. O’Connor1,3,5, Dervla O’Malley1,3, Gerard Clarke3,4, Deirdre Edge2 and Ken D. O’Halloran1
1Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; 2Physiology, School of Medicine, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 3APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; 4Psychiatry and Neurobehavioural Science, School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; and 5Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Oral communication (Early-career Physiologists’ Symposium) and poster: “NADPH oxidase 2 is necessary for chronic intermittent hypoxia-induced respiratory muscle weakness in adult male mice”.
Sarah E. Drummond, David P. Burns, Vincent Healy and Ken D. O’Halloran
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Poster communication: “Apocynin reduces apnoea index in a mouse model of chronic intermittent hypoxia in a non-NADPH oxidase 2 dependent manner”.
Sarah E. Drummond, David P. Burns, Vincent Healy, Ken D. O'Halloran
Department of Physiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Poster communication: “Low-pressure baroreflex control of renal sympathetic nerve activity in rats exposed to chronic intermittent hypoxia: Effect of TRPV1 channel blockade”.
Sara AlMarabeh, Eric F. Lucking, Ken D. O'Halloran and Mohammed Abdulla.
Department of Physiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Poster communication: “Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia Enhances Respiratory Muscle Weakness in Dystrophin-deficient mdx Mice”
David P. Burns1, Sarah E. Drummond1, Lauren Sheeran2, Amelie Coiscaud1, Caitlin O'Hehir1, Deirdre Edge2, Ken D. O'Halloran1
1Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; 2Physiology, School of Medicine, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Poster communication: “Role of afferent nerves in injury and inflammation of the kidney”.
Ella Murphy, Lauren Mulcahy, Mohammed Abdulla.
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Neuroscience
Oral communication: “Calcium homeostasis is significantly disrupted in dentate gyrus neurons of acute, ex vivo brain slices of a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease”.
Michael B. Vaughan1, Aidan Kaar1, David T. Eddington2 and Mark G. Rae1
1Department of Physiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; 2Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Poster communication: “Store-operated calcium entry is profoundly impaired in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease”.
Megan P. Weir, Aidan Kaar, Mark G. Rae.
Department of Physiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Poster communication: “Synaptic expression of interleukin-6 receptors and dystrophin may indicate a role in cognitive deficits associated with loss of dystrophin”.
Kimberley A. Stephenson, Ciara Shanahan, Mark G. Rae, Dervla O'Malley
Department of Physiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Epithelia and Membrane Transport
Poster communication: “Tuft cell hyperplasia in diarrhoea-predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome colonic biopsies”.
Maeve Connolly1, Jessica Aigbologa2, Rebecca O'Brien1, Maria Buckley2, Juliette Buckley3, Dervla O'Malley1,2
1Department of Physiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; 2APC Microbiome Institute, Cork, Ireland, 3School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Education and Teaching
Oral communication: “How much do pre-clinical medical students utilise the internet to study physiology?”.
Dervla O’Malley1, Denis Barry2 and Mark G. Rae1
1Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; 2Anatomy, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.