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School of Life Sciences

Background

Bruno G. Frenguelli
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EDUCATION

Higher Education

1989 – 1993 Ph.D. Neuropharmacology, University of Birmingham, UK

1985 – 1989 B.Sc. Honours (Ist Class), Physiology, University of Glasgow, UK


School Education

Trinity High School

St James' Primary School


EMPLOYMENT

  • 2007 – Present Professor of Neuroscience

    The School of Life Sciences, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

  • 2002 – 2007 Senior Lecturer

    Neurosciences Institute, University of Dundee, UK

  • 1997 – 2000 Caledonian Research Foundation & Royal Society Edinburgh Research Fellow

    Dept Pharmacology & Neurosciences, University of Dundee, UK

  • 1996 - 2002 Lecturer

    Dept Pharmacology & Neurosciences, University of Dundee, UK

  • 1993 - 1996 Wellcome Trust Prize International Travelling Research Fellow

    Cold Spring Harbor Lab, NY, USA and Dept Anatomy, Bristol University, UK


RECENT ESTEEM & OUTREACH

2014

Invited Speaker: Purines 2014, Bonn, Germany


2013

Member, NC3Rs expert working group on epilepsy models

Invited Speaker: UK/Korean Neuroscience Symposium, Bristol

Invited Speaker: Preclinical Stroke Models, Leicester
Invited Speaker: Epilepsy Models, Sheffield

Meet Brain Boffins down the pub - public engagement event as part of Brain Awareness Week


2012

Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Epilepsy Research UK
Invited Speaker: Neuroepigenetics, Baeza, Spain
Co-organiser, Cognitive Enhancers meeting, official satellite to SfN meeting
Invited Speaker: German Purine Group meeting, Aachen


2011

Editor-in-Chief, Neuropharmacology
Member, Sub-panel A4: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, REF 2014
Secretary, British Neuroscience Association
External Examiner, BSc & MScI, Neuroscience, Bristol University
A Career in Academia, talk to A-level students at local secondary school


2010

Chair, British Science Festival/BNA event, on emotions & the brain
Director and Member, Scientific Advisory Panel of Sarissa Biomedical Ltd
Director, British Neuroscience Association
Member, BBSRC Pool of Experts
Talks to Yr 10 and Yr 12 science students at local secondary school,
Talk to Yr 12 Students of Teach First Schools, UoW


2009

Organised Shakespeare on the Brain event at Warwick University
Speaker, Shakespeare meets Science event, UoW
Speaker, Aim Higher Schools’ event: Science meets Shakespeare, UoW


2008

Organised cognitive enhancers events with Professor Gary Lynch at UoW & Dana Centre, London
Kevin Moffat speaking on our collaboration on BBC Radio 4 Material World programme


2007 – present BNA National Committee Member. External examiner of national and international PhD theses; Invited national and international talks; Symposium organizer, national and international meetings; UG/PG Teaching & external examining.