University of Bristol Microvascular Research Laboratories    Department of Physiology and Pharmacology

Research interests Support Group Members (current and ex) Contact details Teaching links (and library project) Positions available Publications Conference presentations British Microcirculation Society Links Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Bristol Heart Institute Updated April 26th 2009

	David Bates Professor of Microvascular Biology and Medicine, Scientific Director, MVRL, and British Heart Foundation Lecturer in Basic Biomedical Sciences, Department of Physiology.  email: Dave.Bates@bris.ac.uk		Steve Harper Honorary Professor in Physiology and Pharmacology, Clinical Director, MVRL, Consultant Nephrologist, Academic Renal Unit, Southmead Hospital.  Email: S.Harper@bris.ac.uk

Dr Andy Salmon MRC Clinician Scientist, Clinical Lecturer in Nephrology, (Academic Renal Unit) and Physiology and Pharmacology Andy.Salmon@bristol.ac.uk

Dr Chris Neal Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Chris.Neal@bris.ac.uk

Thank you for your interest in the MVRL.

Research Interests

Microvascular Biology and Medicine.

Postdoctoral Research Assistants and Associates	Postgraduate Students	Research Assistants, lab manager and technicians
Dr Yan Qiu Cancer Research UK Postdoctoral Research Associate, from China Yan.Qiu@bris.ac.uk	Leslie Sage PhD student, from USA Leslie.Sage@bris.ac.uk Principal Supervisor Dave Bates	Kirsty Symonds Research assistant kirsty.symonds@bris.ac.uk
Dr Maryam Hamdollah- Zadeh Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Associate, from Iran	Maria Peiris Pages. PhD student (working jointly with Dr Pramila Ramani  in Cellular and Molecualr Medicine) Principal Supervisor Pramila Ramani	Mr Robert Muston Honorary Research Assistant and MSc candidate. Robert.Muston@bris.ac.uk Principal Supervisor Chris Neal
Vadim Alexeenko BHF funded postdoctoral research assistant (with Jules Hancox), from Russia	Wei Kang Wu  PhD student  (working jointly withProfessor Andrew Dick  in Ophthalmology) Principal Supervisor Andrew Dick (from Taiwan)	Ms Joanne Malcolm   Laboratory Manager, from Scotland j.malcolm@bris.ac.uk
Sebastian Oltean BHF Postdoctoral Research Assistant . From Romania	Silvia Lanati. Wellcome Trust FundedPhD student. Principal Supervisor Dave Bates
Kenton Arkill BHF Postdoctoral Research Assistant	Nick Beazley Long Wellcome Trust FundedPhD student. (jointly supervised by Dr Lucy Donaldson)
	Mel Gammons. SCaRF and FFS funded PhD student

Support

Wellcome Trust	British Heart Foundation	Association for International Cancer Research,	Medical Research Council	The Richard Bright VEGF Research Trust,	Fight for Sight
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 two PhD studentships 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

Previous students and postdocs staff

Dr  Gopinath Damodaran is now a Barts and London charitable Trust Research Fellow at the Centre for cutaneous research, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, in London.	Elianna Amin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Rayne Institute, King's College London (ex PhD student)	Dr  Coralie Hoareau-Aveilla is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Toulouse
Dr Emma Rennel is working as a Field Application Specialist  for Gyros AG	Dr Oliver Stone accepted a position at University of California San Francisco working with Didier Stainer on angigoenesis in zebrafish (ex PhD student)	Dr Joanne Ferguson is currently travelling around South America. (ex PhD student)
Dr Jeanette Woolard has recently been appointed as a Lecturer in Cardiovascular Pharmacology at the University of Nottingham	Maxine Emmett is now working as a a postdoc with Rowan Pritchard-Jones in Liverpool (ex PhD student)	Dr Cathy Glass went to University of California at Davis for her Postdoctoral Research, gaining a Regenerative Medicine fellowship. However, she had to return to the UK for health reasons and is now at home with her daughter (ex PhD student)
Dr Jing Hua is now a postdoctoral research fellow with Professor Lois E.H. Smith at Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital, Boston, USA	Mr Darryl Dunn is completing his plastic surgery training in Oxford	Dr  Dawid Nowak completed an MSc in Bioscience Enterprise at Cambridge University, and then moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories as a postdoctoral researcher (ex PhD student)
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.	Anette Magnussen is working as a postdoctoral Researcher at University College London Cancer Institute.	Arjun Krishnakur is now undertaking a PhD at the University of Cork, having completed his MSc with us.
Liz Waine was a Urology Registrar/Visiting Clinical  Research Fellow . She completed her MD and is now working as a Specialist Registrar in Surgical Urology.	Dr  Andy Benest took a position as a junior team leader with Hellmut Augustin's laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leeds Institute for Molecular Medicine Tumour Angiogenesis Signal Transduction and Cancer Group . (ex PhD student)	Dr  Heather Bevan took a postdoctoral research associate position at the Academic Renal Unit at Southmead Hospital working with Dr Simon Satchell, and recently emigrated to Australia. (ex PhD student)
Mr Rowan Pritchard- Jones was the 2005-6 Hunterian professor of Surgery and is now Consultant/Senior Lecturer in Liverpool	Dr Olga Konopatskaya is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate 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
Tris Pocock is now a teaching fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester	Dr Rachel Perrin undertook postdoctoral research at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California, with Prof Sarah Yuan, and is now International Development Officer for the Meningitis Research Foundation (ex PhD student)	Dr Becky Foster took a postdoctoral research associate position at the Academic Renal Unit working with Profesor Peter Mathieson. She has recently been awarded a BHF Intermediate Fellowship to run her own group at Southmead Hospital. (ex PhD student)
Dr Kavita Joory undertook a medical degree at the University of Birmingham, graduating in 2009 and is now a senior house officer in the West Midlands (ex PhD student)	Dr  Jacqui Shields is a postdoctoral research scientist in Melody Swartzs laboratory in Lausanne (ex PhD student)	Dr Wenying Wang is currently working as a research scientist for Novobiotech in Beijing (ex PhD student)
Dr Andrew (Tai-Gen) Cui is now working at the Institute of Nephrology in Beijing	Cheryl Whittles is working in the Department of Biochemistry	Nicky Hillman (Now Nicky Cook) teaches biology in Leicester

Dr Bates' personal links

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

Department Page

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