Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

Autonomic Neuroscience, Pain & Sensory Mechanisms Laboratories

Co-directors: Assoc Professor James Brock and Professor John Furness


Furness Lab Staff
Members of the lab: (L to R):  R1. Leni Rivera, Dorota Ferens, Katsuyo Doi;  R2. Hima Abeysinghe, John Furness, Lei Yin, Michelle Thacker, Tina Cardamone;  R3. James Johnston, Patricia Castelucci, Kim Steegh, Emma James, Kirsty Turner;  R4. Billie Hunne, Louise Pontell, Romke Bron, Christopher Loo;  Absent: Trung Nguyen, Kulmira Nurgali


Principal investigators: Major Collaborators:


Welcome to the Autonomic Neuroscience, Pain and Sensory Mechanisms Laboratories.

We are a research group in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, Australia.


The lab has three main areas of focus:

  1. The enteric nervous system and the control of digestive function
  2. Pain and sensory mechanisms
  3. Autonomic disorders in Spinal Cord Injury


Our major research areas include:


Our methods include:

 

Australian Phenomics Network (APN)

We operate the University of Melbourne node of the APN. For more information and access click here.


Cell Physiology, Histology and Imaging
(Neurosciences Victoria Platform):

We operate this platform. For more information and access click here.

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