Invited Talks

2025    Cambridge Pharmacology Tea Club, University of Cambridge

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

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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.