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.: Stewart, Michael G.

Schools Committee Member

Michael G. Stewart, BSc.PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
Dept. of Biological Sciences,
The Open University
Milton Keynes,
MK7 6AA, UK
Phone: +44(0) 1908 653448
Fax: +44-(0)1908 65416
E-mail: m.g.stewart@open.ac.uk

Field of Interest

Morphological plasticity of the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS), and the effects of ageing and disease on the CNS.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal

DOB 21st April, 1949

Education

1972
BSc Zoology, Queen’s University Belfast,
1975
PhD, Queen’s Belfast
1975
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Open University (with Prof S. Rose)
1977
Lecturer in Biology Open University
1998
Professor of Neuroscience Open University

Honours and Awards

EDAB member since 2003
affiliated professor University of Haifa 2005

Organizing Chair

FENS 2000 Brighton

Teaching

Biopsychology and human biology in Open University
Distance learning in medicine, Bangladesh

Selected Publications

  • Dhanrajan, T.M., Lynch, M.A, Kelly, A, Popov, V.I., Rusakov, D.A., Stewart M.G.,.(2004) Expression of long term potentiation in aged rats involves perforated synapses but dendritic spine branching results from high frequency stimulation alone. Hippocampus 14, 255-264.
  • Mezey, S., Doyčre,V., Souza, I., Harrison, E., Cambon, C., Kendal,C.E., Davies, H.A., Laroche, S., Stewart, M.G. (2004). Long-term synaptic morphometry changes after induction of LTP and LTD in the dentate gyrus of awake rats are not simply mirror phenomena. Europ. J. Neurosci 19, 2310 -2318.
  • Stewart, M.G., Davies, H.A., Sandi, C., Kraev I.V, Rogachevsky V.V., Rodríguez J. J,. Cordero I. M,. Donohue H. S, Gabbott P. L.A. Peddie, C.J., Popov, V.I. (2005) Stress suppresses and learning induces expression of ultrastructural plasticity in CA3 of rat hippocampus: a 3-dimensional ultrastructural study of thorny excrescences and their post synaptic densities. Neuroscience 131: 43-54.
  • Stewart M.G. Medvedev N.I., Popov V.I., Schoepfer, R., Davies H.A., Murphy K., Dallérac G.M, Kraev I.V., Rodríguez J.J.(2005) Chemically induced long term potentiation increases the number of perforated and complex post-synaptic densities but does not alter dendritic spine volume in CA1 of adult mouse hippocampal slices. Europ.J.Neurosci . 21, 3368-3378, 2005.
  • Nikolakopoulou A.M, Davies H.A.,Stewart M.G (2006) Passive avoidance training decreases synapse density in the hippocampus of the domestic chick. Europ. J. Neurosci 23(4):1054-62.
  • Tigaret, C. M. Thalhammer, A. Rast, G. F.. Specht, C.G Auberson, Y. P. Stewart M.G., Schoepfer, R. (2006) Subunit dependencies of NMDA receptor-induced AMPA receptor internalization. Molecular Pharmacology 69: 1251-1259.
  • Donohue H.S., Gabbott P.L.A., Davies H.A., Rodriguez J.J., Cordero M.I.,. Sandi C, Medvedev N.I, Popov V.I.,, Colyer F.M., Peddie C.J., Stewart M.G. (2006). Chronic restraint stress induces changes in synapse morphology in stratum lacunosum-moleculare CA1 rat hippocampus: a stereological and three-dimensional ultrastructural study. Neuroscience 140, 597-606