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I completed my PhD at The University if Melbourne in 2008 researching epileptiform activity in in vitro models of temporal and absence epilepsies under the supervision of Profs David Williams and Terence O'Brien and Drs Chris Reid and Damian Myers. Subsequently I undertook a postdoctoral year with Prof. Gordon Lynch establishing an in vivo Ca2+ imaging technique for skeletal muscle. In 2010 I will be researching ketamine-induced network activity in schizophrenia in the laboratory of A.Prof. Didier Pinault at the University of Strasbourg (INSERM Unit U666), France.

I joined CSU as a lecturer in Anatomy and Physiology in July 2009.

Teaching

Current subjects taught

• BMS292
• BMS310
• BMS233
• BMS301

Research

• Electrophysiology and fluorescence imaging of neuronal network dynamics.
• Thalamocortical and hippocampal involvement in epilepsies.
• Transcriptional channelopathies underlying neuronal excitability
• Schizophrenia

Publications

• Adams BE, Kyi M, Reid CA, Myers D, Xu S, Williams DA, O'Brien TJ. Deep-layer cortical initiation of reciprocal 'seizure-like' network activity in a cortical-thalamic co-culture model. Exp Neurol (submitted)
• Adams BE, Reid CA, Myers D, Ng C, Powell K, Phillips AM, Zheng T, O'Brien TJ, Williams DA. Excitotoxic-mediated transcriptional decreases in HCN2 channel function increase network excitability in CA1. Exp Neurol. 2009 Sep;219(1):249-57.
• Adams BE, Reid CA, Myers D, O'Brien TJ, Williams DA. Sub region-specific modulation of synchronous neuronal burst firing after a kainic acid insult in organotypic hippocampal cultures. BMC Neurosci. 2008 Jul 2;9:59.
• Hodge JM, Kirkland MA, Aitken CJ, Waugh CM, Myers DE, Lopez CM, Adams BE, Nicholson GC. Osteoclastic potential of human CFU-GM: biphasic effect of GM-CSF. J Bone Miner Res. 2004 Feb;19(2):190-9.