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Alun
Hughes
School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Liverpool John Moores University and Institute of Health Research
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Function and synchronisation of mammalian circadian oscillators in health and disease, across all levels of organisation from molecular and cell biology to whole animal and human physiology, neuroscience and behaviour, with particular interests in the circadian biology of skin, skeletal muscle and neural tissue, neuropeptide regulation of circadian function and the impact of lifestyle factors such as exercise and diet on circadian biology.
Humans; Mice or other rodents; Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN); Eukaryotic cells (including primary and transformed cell lines); Ex vivo system (other than SCN, derived from humans or other animals)
Quantitative research; Basic/fundamental/discovery research; Translational/applied research; Laboratory research; Non-clinical human studies; In vivo studies or preclinical work with non-human animals; In vitro experiments; Biomedical or health research; Social sciences research (including psychology); Physiology (cellular and organismal, including electrophysiology); Sleep research; Psychiatry and mental health research; Neuroscience; Biology; Molecular biology (including genetics and gene editing); Imaging
Senior Lecturer in Vertebrate Physiology
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