Prof. Bob Burgoyne University of Liverpool, UK

Bob Burgoyne completed a PhD at the University of Birmingham as a microbiologist and had periods of postdoctoral training at the Open University, UK, and the MRC National Institute of Medical Research in London before moving to Liverpool in 1983 to establish his research group. Prof. Burgoyne is interested in... read morethe way in which calcium signals lead to changes in cellular function, particularly in neurons and neuroendocrine cells, including the activation of neurotransmitter release. A major theme has been to understand the protein machineries involved in these calcium signaling pathways.