Invited Talks
2024 Pain Mechanisms and Therapeutics Conference, Verona, Italy
2024 Stanford University, Stanford Medicine, USA
2024 Keystone Symposium on “Mammalian Somatosensation: Mechanisms of Itch, Touch, Pain and Interoception in Health and Disease", Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2023 Keynote speaker, Centre for Pain Research Symposium, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
2021 National Institute of Health (NIH) Pain Seminar Series, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
2021 Centenary Seminar Series, Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid
2021 “Chronic Pain and Itch: Mechanisms and Circuits” International Workshop, Alicante
2021 British Neuroscience Association Festival of Science, Brighton
2021 BritSpine 2021, British Pain Society, Glasgow
2020* BritSpine 2020, British Pain Society, Glasgow
2020* Keynote speaker: Centre for Pain Research Symposium, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
2020* Centenary Seminar Series, Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid
2020* FENS2020 satellite symposium: “Manipulating Neuronal Activity Using Chemo- and Optogenetics”, University of Glasgow
2019 Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
2019 Montreal Pain Circuits Congress, Montreal, Canada
2019 7th International Congress on Neuropathic Pain (NeuPSIG), London
2018 17th World Congress on Pain (IASP), Boston, USA
2018 Pain Mechanisms and Therapeutics Conference, Taormina, Sicily
2017 Anatomical Society winter meeting, Dundee
2017 Pittsburgh Pain Centre Seminar Series, University of Pittsburgh, USA
2017 Department of Physiology Seminar Series, McGill University, Canada
2016 16th World Congress on Pain (IASP), Yokohama, Japan
2016 Pain Mechanisms and Therapeutics Conference, Taormina, Sicily
2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, USA
2015 Neurogastroenterology Group, Queen Mary University of London, London
2014 Grand Rounds - Neuropathology, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow
2012 Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Australia
2012 Sensory Neuroscience Symposium, University of Western Sydney, Australia
2012 14th World Congress on Pain (IASP), Milan
2010 School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Australia
2010 Scottish Neuroscience Group Meeting, University of Strathclyde Glasgow, Scotland
* Postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic
Invited talks: Industrial Sector and Research Charities
2019 Lilly Centre for Collaborative Neuroscience Symposium, Eli Lilly, UK
2019 Crohn’s and Colitis UK: Pain Collaborative Network, London
2017 Quebec Pain Research Network, Quebec City, Canada
Invited Reviews and Book Chapters
2022 Visualizing synaptic connectivity using confocal and electron microscopy: neuroanatomical approaches to define spinal circuits. In: Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Pain. Series: Neuromethods, 178. Humana: New York, pp. 181-201. ISBN 9781071620380
2020 Inhibitory interneurons in the spinal dorsal horn. Special issue on Pain: Aligning New Approaches to Accelerate the Development of Analgesic Therapies. Neurotherapeutics 17: 874-885.
2020 Projection neuron axon collaterals in the dorsal horn: placing a new player in spinal cord pain processing. Invited review for Frontiers in Physiology 11: Article 560802.
2020 Defining populations of dorsal horn interneurons. Pain 161: 2434-2436.
2019 Rewards, perils, and pitfalls of untangling spinal pain circuits. Current Opinion in Physiology 11: 35-41.