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Modern Anatomy is about placing function in a structural context and providing adequate spatial and temporal resolution of cellular events.

Postgraduate students will be expected to complete a research project within one of our areas of interest using the extensive range of technologies available in the discipline of Anatomy. Students are required to take a number of taught modules.

Additionally, it is envisaged that postgraduate students will participate in scientific cross-over with intra-institutional and external laboratories. It is also expected that the PhD students would contribute to teaching activities of the discipline.

Admission to our research programmes requires prior approval of the discipline.

Research Areas

• Reproductive Biology
• Neurobiology
• Matrix Biology
• Chromosome Biology
• Cardiovascular Biology
• Tissue Engineering
• Development
• Glycobiology
• Medical Imaging

Specialised areas of interest

• Integrative reproduction: structure / function of human endometrium, environmental endocrine disruption, fetomaternal interface
• In vivo and in vitro study of human diseases
• Normal and pathological development
• Role of the extracellular matrix, of matrix receptors and signalling in vivo
• Phenotypic analysis of models
• In vitro model systems-cell micropatterning and microfluidics
• Biomaterials tissue interactions
• Neuroscience: spinal cord development and injury
• Cellular responses to DNA damage
• Specific contribution to national biophotonics and imaging platform
• Education, molecular and cellular imaging, imaging technology cores
• Neuroimaging: Understanding the biological basis of mood and anxiety disorders and psychosis

Technologies available

• Sampling design; Stereology; Image analysis
• Microscopy: Confocal / ambient and low temperature Electron Microscopy
• Immunocytochemistry
• In situ hybridization (at the light and electron microscopical level)
• PCR
• Lectin Histochemistry
• Behavioural/phenotypic Characterisation (Organ/cell)
• Cell culture models and/or 3D cell culture systems
• In vivo and post-mortem human brain imaging using structural and diffusion MRI, advanced MR image analysis such as non-tensor based tractography