Dr. Ewan St. John Smith

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsMolecular and Cellular Neurology and Neuropathology,Pharmacology,Sensory and Behavioural Biology
KeywordsIon Channels, Pain, Acidosis, Sensitisation and nociceptors

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityCambridge
InstitutionUniversity of Cambridge
InstituteDepartment of Pharmacology
Homepagehttp://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/Smith

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gary LewinMax-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2008

Programme(s)

2008Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2012Liudmila Lapatsina, Julia A. Jira, Ewan St. J. Smith, Kate Poole, Alexey Kozlenkov, Daniel Bilbao, Gary R. Lewin and Paul A. Heppenstall: Regulation of ASIC channels by a stomatin/STOML3 complex located in a mobile vesicle pool in sensory neurons. In: Open Biology, 2012, 120096
2012Ewan St. John Smith, Bettina Purfürst, Tamara Grigoryan, Thomas J. Park, Nigel C. Bennett and Gary R. Lewin: Specific paucity of unmyelinated C-fibers in cutaneous peripheral nerves of the African naked-mole rat: Comparative analysis using six species of bathyergidae.. In: Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2012, 2785-2803
2011Ewan St. John Smith, Damir Omerbašić, Stefan G. Lechner, Gireesh Anirudhan, Liudmila Lapatsina, Gary R. Lewin The Molecular Basis of Acid Insensitivity in the African Naked Mole-Rat. In: Science, 2011, 1557-1560
2010Ewan St. John Smith, Gregory R C Blass, Gary R Lewin and Thomas J. Park: Absence of histamine-induced itch in the African naked mole-rat and 'rescue' by Substance P. In: Molecular Pain, 2010, 29
2010Annika Stürzebecher, Jing Hu, Ewan St. John Smith, Silka Frahm, Julio Santos-Torres, Branka Kampfrath, Sebastian Auer, Gary R Lewin, Ines Ibañez-Tallon: An in vivo tethered toxin approach for the cell-autonomous inactivation of voltage-gated sodium channel currents in nociceptors.. In: The Journal of Physiology, 2010, 1695-1707
2010Antje Brand, Ewan St. J. Smith, Gary R. Lewin, Thomas J. Park: Functional Neurokinin and NMDA Receptor Activity in an Animal Naturally Lacking Substance P: The Naked Mole- Rat. In: PLoS One, 2010, e15162
2009Ewan St. John Smith and Gary R. Lewin: Nociceptors: a phylogenetic view. In: Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2009, 1089-1106