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Dr Dan Brierley
Room 420
Rockefeller Building
Dept of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology
London
United Kingdom
WC1E 6BT
Appointment
- Senior Research Fellow
- Neuro, Physiology & Pharmacology
- Div of Biosciences
- Faculty of Life Sciences
Research Themes
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The Brierley lab investigates how neuronal circuits in the gut-brain axis control behaviour, particularly the regulation of appetite and bodyweight. We use in vivo and ex vivo systems neuroscience techniques (such as chemogenetics & optogenetics) in transgenic mice to characterise the neuroanatomy and physiological function of gut-brain circuitry, and determine how dysfunction in these circuits contributes to metabolic diseases such as obesity and cachexia.
Teaching Summary
I lecture on modules PHAR0002 (Introduction to the Mechanisms of Drug Action), PHAR0015 (Psychopharmacology), NEUR0009 (Metabolic Neuroscience) and host final year project students from a variety of MSci / MRes courses including Neuroscience, Biosciences and Biomedical Sciences.
