Mr Will Owen
Academic Background
I studied for my first degree in Physiological Sciences at Hertford College, Oxford. Towards the end of my degree I worked in the Department of Pharmacology for a year investigating aspects of cardiac myocyte function; during that time I started teaching Physiology and Pharmacology in Hertford College and supervising pharmacology practical classes. I am currently studying clinical medicine on the graduate-entry course.
Undergraduate Teaching
Medicine: Physiology and Pharmacology (first year); Integrated Systems Physiology (second year). I have also taught Neurophysiology for first year undergraduate psychology students at the College.
Research Interests
I am interested in the ways cardiac myocytes regulate the actions of calcium, particularly looking at the actions of the novel calcium mobilising agent NAADP and its potential physiological importance. Following the discovery of a putative NAADP receptor in other cell types we have been using a number of imaging and electrophysiological techniques in various animal models to establish the presence and localisation of this channel in cardiac myocytes, and to investigate whether it may serve a significant functional role in the heart. Given the importance of calcium in both the excitation and contraction of the heart, it is clear that the future development of effective new cardiac drugs will depend on better understanding of the ways in which calcium is handled at a cellular level in both health and disease.
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Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College: Medicine
