Category Archives: Experimental Design

2023-2025 Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions available in our team (vacancies closed)

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Gary Mirams

N.B. Applications now closed. We are looking for new members to join our Wellcome-funded team of cardiac electrophysiology modellers, to develop mathematical models of ion channel currents and cardiac cells for assessing the safety of new pharmaceutical drugs. You’ll be … Continue reading →

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Our new review on fitting cardiac models

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Gary Mirams

A reasonably short post to let you know about our recently published paper in WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine on parameter fitting in cardiac ion channel and action potential models with David Christini. There is an accessible introductory news article … Continue reading →

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Job Available: Statistical inference for mechanistic models

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Gary Mirams

N.B. Applications for this position are now closed. We are offering a 3 year position as a research fellow in statistical inference for mechanistic models. This is offered at either Postdoc or Senior postdoc level (equivalent grade to Assistant Professor) … Continue reading →

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Three potassium channel modelling papers

Posted on September 8, 2019 by Gary Mirams

Just a quick note to tell you about our latest batch of papers in the “Heart By Numbers” special issue of Biophysical Journal which arose from a meeting in Berlin last year. They are all about IKr, the rapid-delayed rectifying … Continue reading →

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Postdoctoral Research Positions Available

Posted on December 15, 2018 by Gary Mirams

N.B. 16th Jan 2019 – the applications for these positions are now closed. This post is to let people know about some opportunities for postdoctoral research here in the Centre for Mathematical Medicine & Biology, based in Mathematical Sciences, University … Continue reading →

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Short and rich voltage-clamp protocols

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Gary Mirams

This is a quick post to tell you all about Kylie’s new paper on sinusoidal-wave based voltage clamp protocols that has been published in the Journal of Physiology, and there’s an associated commentary from Ele Grandi. In the paper, some … Continue reading →

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Postdoc position available

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Gary Mirams

N.B. This position is now closed. Another short post, just to advertise a postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) position available to work with me. It’s a two year position, based at the Centre for Mathematical Medicine & Biology at the University … Continue reading →

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