Post:	Professor of Neuroscience
Location:	JMS Building 3B14
Email:	M.O-Shea@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	8508
UK:	(01273) 678508
International:	+44 1273 678508

Biography

BSc (Leicester) PhD (Southampton) Director Sussex Centre for Neuroscience

Research

Analysis of neural circuits in the brain of relatively simple invertebrate animals; neural mechanisms of insect vision; molecular biology of chemical neurotransmission; the role of nitric oxide and other gaseous transmitters in neural information processing. See also the Sussex Centre for Neuroscience, Learning and Memory Group page.

Teaching

Course Organiser
Neuronal Transduction & Transmission
Functional Neuroanatomy

Publications

Philippides, A., Ott, SR., Husbands, P.,. Lovick. TA., and O'Shea, M. (2005) Modeling co-operative volume signaling in a plexus of nitric oxide synthase-expressing neurons. Journal of Neuroscience, 25: 6520-6532

Korneev, SA., Straub, V., Kemenes, I., Ott, SR., Benjamin, PR. and O'Shea, M. (2005) Timed and targeted differential regulation of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and anti-NOS genes by reward conditioning leading to long-term memory formation. Journal of Neuroscience 25: 1188-1192

Kemenes, I, Kemenes, G., Andrew, RJ., Benjamin, PR, and O'Shea, M. (2002) Critical time window for cGMP dependent LTM formation after one-trial appetitive conditioning. J. Neuroscience. 22: 1414-1425

Smith T., Husbands P., Layzel P and O'Shea M (2002) Fitness landscapes and evolvability.  Evolutionary Computation 10: 1-34