BSc(Hons) – UTAS, PhD – UTAS

Lecturer in Human Physiology
Co-ordinator, CAM304 Clinical Sciences

Website: Neuroscience at UTAS
Website: Neuroscience Discussion Forum

Research Projects

• Synaptogenesis and kindling in the aftermath of cortical injury (Dr Tracey Dickson, Prof James Vickers, Dr Jerome Staal, Dr Olivier Bibari)
• Neurofilament triplet expression during development of mammalian brains (Prof James Vickers, Dr James Bourne)
• Chemoarchitecture of rodent brains (Prof George Paxinos, Prof Charles Watson)

Research Interests

• Development and evolution of the cerebral cortex
• Sensory systems of mammalian brains
• Neurofilament triplet proteins and their functions in neurons

Teaching

• Cerebral cortex
• Learning and memory
• Sleep and consciousness
• Synaptic transmission and plasticity
• Autonomic nervous system
• Glia
• Enteric nervous system
• Gastrointestinal tract
• Muscle structure and function
• Cardiovascular physiology
• Respiratory physiology

Units

• CAM102 - Foundations of Medicine 2
  
• CAM202 - Fundamentals of Clinical Science 2
  
• CAM304 - Fundamentals of Clinical Science 3
  
• CAM305 - Functional Clinical Practice
  
• CHP207 - Human Physiology
  
• CHP208 - Human Physiology
  
• CHP311 - Neuroscience A
  
• CHP312 - Neuroscience B
  

Selected Publications:

• Paxinos G, Watson C, Carrive P, Kirkcaldie MTK, Ashwell KWS., 2008, 'Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Rat Brain.
  [link]', Elsevier
• Chelvanayagam DK, Vickery RM, Kirkcaldie MTK, 2008, 'Multichannel surface recordings on the visual cortex: towards development of a neuroprosthesis
  [link] ', Journal of Neural Engineering, 5, pgs. 125–132
• Kirkcaldie MTK, Kitchener PD., 2007, 'When brains expand: mind and the evolution of cortex
  [link]', Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 19, pgs. 139–148
• Saalmann Y, Kirkcaldie MTK, Waldron SA, Calford MB, 2007, 'Cellular distribution of 3α,5α-reduced pregnane steroids in the rat brain
  [link]', J Neuroendocrinology, 19(4), pgs. 272–84
• Kirkcaldie MTK, Dickson TC, King CE, Grasby DJ, Riederer BM, Vickers JC. , 2002, 'Neurofilament triplet proteins are restricted to a specific subset of neurons in the rat neocortex.
  [link]', Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, 24(3), pgs. 163–171