University of Bristol Microvascular Research Laboratories  Department of Physiology

Research interests Fundraising trip Support Group Members Contact details Teaching links (and library project) Positions available Publications Conference presentations British Microcirculation Society Links Department of Physiology Bristol Heart Institute Updated March 29th 2006

	Professor David Bates Director, MVRL, and British Heart Foundation Lecturer in Basic Biomedical Sciences, Department of Physiology.  email: Dave.Bates@bris.ac.uk		Dr Steve Harper Consultant/Hon Senior Lecturer, Academic Renal Unit, Southmead Hospital.  Email: S.Harper@bris.ac.uk

Dr Andy Salmon Clinical Lecturer in Nephrology and Honorary Research Fellow in Physiology Andy.Salmon@bristol.ac.uk	Dr Jeanette Woolard Wellcome Trust Advanced Training Fellow, from Canada J.Woolard@bris.ac.uk	Dr Chris Neal MRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Chris.Neal@bris.ac.uk

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Research Interests

Postdoctoral Research Assistants and Associates	Postgraduate Students	Clinical  Fellows and Research Assistants
Dr Yan Qiu Cancer Research UK Postdoctoral Research Associate, from China Yan.Qiu@bris.ac.uk	Ollie Stone BHF PhD student, Ollie.stone@bris.ac.uk Principal Supervisor Dave Bates	Mr Darryl Dunn Michael Brough Healing Foundation Research Fellow and PhD Student,writing up Darryl.Dunn@bris.ac.u
Dr Emma Rennel Fight for Sight Postdoctoral  Research Associate, from Sweden Emma.Rennel@bris.ac.uk	Dawid Nowak BHF PhD student, from Poland (writing up, working jointly with Dr Michael Ladomery  at UWE) Dawid.Nowak@bris.ac.uk Principal Supervisor Dave Bates	Dr Victoria Bills British Heart Foundation Clinical PhD Student Victoria.Bills@bristol.ac.uk Principal Supervisor Peter Soothill
Dr Maryam Hamdollah- Zadeh Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Associate, from Iran a.h.zadeh@bris.ac.uk	Joanne Ferguson BHF PhD student, from Scotland Joanne.ferguson@bris.ac.uk Principal Supervisor Steve Harper and Andy Salmon	Ms Shyamala Gopi Clinical Research Fellow in Urology, from India shyamalagopi@hotmail.com Principal Supervisor Dave Gillatt
Dr Anette Magnussen NERC/RBVRT postdoctoral research assistant, from Germany.	Elliana Amin PhD Student, from Singapore (working jointly with Dr Michael Ladomery in the BGRI, Faculty of Appolied Sciences, University of West of England) Principal Supervisor Mike Ladomery	Kirsty Symonds Research assistant kirsty.symonds@bris.ac.uk (working jointly with Dr Antonio Orlando in the Dept of Plastic Surgery at Frenchay Hospital)
Dr Jing Hua Wellcome Trust funded Ophthalmologist Postdoctoral Research assistant (from China )	Mr Robert Muston Honorary Research Assistant and MSc candidate. Robert.Muston@bris.ac.uk Principal Supervisor Chris Neal
Dr Cathy Glass  Postdoctoral Research assistant (from Wales)	Leslie Sage PhD student, from USA Leslie.Sage@bris.ac.uk Principal Supervisor Dave Bates
Vadim Alexeenko BHF funded postdoctoral research assistant (with Jules Hancox), from Russia and Lithuania	Maria Peiris Pages. PhD student (working jointly with Dr Pramila Ramani  in Cellular and Molecualr Medicine) Principal Supervisor Pramila Ramani
Maxine Emmett Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Assistant Maxine.Emmett@bris.ac.uk	Wei Kang Wu  PhD student  (working jointly withProfessor Andrew Dick  in Ophthalmology) Principal Supervisor Andrew Dick
Coralie Hoareau-Aveilla FMS Postdoctoral Research Fellow (UWE. honorary resaerch fellow, Bristol).	Josh Dungwa UBHT Funded PhD student (working jointly with Dr Pramila Ramani  in Cellular and Molecualr Medicine) Principal Supervisor Pramila Ramani

Laboratory Technicians

Ms Joanne Malcolm   Laboratory Manager, from Scotland j.malcolm@bris.ac.uk

Ms Silvia Lanati MRC funded Laboratory technician (from Italy)

Mr Dan Wratting Laboratory technician.

Previous students and postdocs staff

Mr Alex Varey was a Clinical Research Fellow/RCS  Surgical Registrar and Hunterian Professor of Surgery for 2007-8. He is now working as a specialist registrar in plastic surgery in the South West.	Ricardo Peixota is studying Medicine at Warwick	Arjun Krishnakur is now working at the University of Oxford as a research assistant, having compelted his MSc with us.
Liz Waine was a Urology Registrar/Visiting Clinical  Research Fellow. She is Currently writing up her MD while working as a Specialist Registrar in Surgical Urology.	Andy Benest has a position as a junior team leader with Hellmut Augustin's laboratory in Heidleberg.	Heather Bevan is a postdoctoral research associate at the Academic Renal Unit at Southmead Hospital working with Dr Simon Satchell
Mr Rowan Pritchard- Jones was the 2005-6 Hunterian professor of Surgery and is a SPR on the Liverpool Plastic Surgery Rotation	Dr Olga Konopatskaya is currently working with Dr Alastair Poole in Pharmacology in Bristol	Dr Hongwei Cheng is working jointly with Jules Hancox in the CRL and Clive Orchard in the Department of Physiology
Dr Catherine Glass is now back in the lab after a spell as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Davis,  with Prof Roy Curry	Dr Rachel Perrin is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California, with Prof Sarah Yuan.	Dr Becky Foster is a postdoctoral research associate at the Academic Renal Unit working with Profesor Peter Mathieson.
Kavita Joory is a medical student in Birmingham	Jacqui Shields is a postdoctoral research scientist in Melody Swartz' laboratory in Lausanne	Dr Wenying Wang is currently working as a research scientist for Novobiotech in Beijing

Support

Wellcome Trust	British Heart Foundation	Association for International Cancer Research,	Medical Research Council	The Richard Bright VEGF Research Trust,
Cancer Research UK	National Kidney Research Foundation	Prostate Research Campaign	Royal College of Surgeons	Skin Cancer Research Fund

Contact Details

Teaching links

This years Library Project

Microvascular Lab

Available positions

We currently have one technical position available.

Recent publications

       Including papers in press

        Details of abstracts and posters presented at recent meetings by members of the lab.

The British Microcirculation Society

The BMS home page, with details of conferences, abstracts, a whole load of microcirc. journals, and a lot more.

 

Links

The Microcirculation Society

Link to the Microcirculatory Society in the United States

Other Vascular Biology links

Link to the home page of the NAVBO, Physsoc, APS and others

Dr Bates' personal links

Links to pages I think are interesting, including skiing, wine and football links

Department Page

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