John Graham Nicholls

John Graham Nicholls (2007)

John Graham Nicholls (born December 19, 1929 in London ) is a British - Swiss doctor and physiologist .

Life

John G. Nicholls is a retired professor of physiology. He received his doctorate from Charing Cross Hospital as Dr. med. and received his PhD from the Department of Biophysics at University College London in 1955 . He then worked at University College London and the Universities of Oxford , Harvard , Yale and Stanford . In 1983 he was appointed professor of pharmacology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel . Since his retirement in 1998 he has been professor of neurobiology at SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) in Trieste. The International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) named a research grant after him in his honor. He is also a member of the Royal Society .

Act

John G. Nicholls is known for his research in the field of neurobiology. He investigated synaptic transmission in the nervous systems of invertebrates and mammals as well as the problem of why neurons in the brain and spinal cord can no longer regenerate after an injury . For his studies he developed a novel method for the preparation of the central nervous system (CNS) of mammals, which allowed an investigation of the mechanisms of neurite growth and CNS regeneration. With the help of this method he was able to show that a complete restoration of function is possible in very young animals. In recent years he has been working on how the breathing rhythm is generated by the nervous system. He is also the main author of the book "From Neuron to Brain", which is already in its fifth edition.

Awards

• 1988 member of the Royal Society
• 2003 John Nicholls Fellowship
• 2007 D.Sc. Honoris Causa, University of Trieste
• 2010 Award for Education in Neuroscience
• 2011 Donated John G. Nicholls Lecture

Publications (selection)

• Muller KJ, Tsechpenakis G, Homma R, Nicholls JG, Cohen LB, Eugenin J: Optical analysis of circuitry for respiratory rhythm in isolated brainstem of fetal mice . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences . 364, No. 1529, September 2009, pp. 2485-91. doi : 10.1098 / rstb.2009.0070 . PMID 19651650 . PMC 2865113 (free full text).
• Nicholls JG, Baylor DA: Specific modalities and receptive fields of sensory neurons in CNS of the leech . In: Journal of Neurophysiology . 31, No. 5, September 1968, pp. 740-56. PMID 5711143 .
• Kuffler SW, Nicholls JG, Orkand RK: Physiological properties of glial cells in the central nervous system of amphibia . In: Journal of Neurophysiology . 29, No. 4, July 1966, pp. 768-87. PMID 5966434 .
• Nicholls J, Saunders N: Regeneration of immature mammalian spinal cord after injury . In: Trends . 19, No. 6, June 1996, pp. 229-34. PMID 8761958 .

Web links

• John Graham Nicholls on the emeriti page of the Biozentrum Basel. Retrieved July 1, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John G. Nicholls: From Neuron to Brain . Sinauer Associates, Inc. ,, ISBN 0878936092 , p. 621. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . . Retrieved June 30, 2014.  
2. ^ Royal Society . Retrieved June 30, 2014
3. ^ The John G. Nicholls IBRO Fellowship . International Brain Research Organization . September 29, 2003. Archived from the original on January 24, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 24, 2014. 
4. ^ University of Trieste. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 30, 2014. 
5. ^ Award for Education in Neuroscience Presented to John Nicholls . Society for Neuroscience . November 14, 2010. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
6. ↑ July 18, 2012: The John G. Nicholls Endowed Lectureship in Neural Systems and Behavior: "Growth Factors and Memory Formation" . Marine Biological Laboratory . July 18, 2012. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 24, 2014.