Joanne Wallace

PhD Student Final YearJoanne Wallace

Primary Supervisor: Sasha Gartside
Research group: Psychobiology

  • Email: joanne.wallace@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44(0)191 222 5529
  • Address:
    Institute of Neuroscience
    Framlington Place, Newcastle University
    Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH

Introduction and area of work:

I work in the psychobiology research group with my supervisors Dr Sasha Gartside and Dr Richard McQuade. My research is jointly funded by the MRC and MSD. My PhD project uses animal models to investigate cognitive abnormalities in psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and the underlying neurobiological changes that cause these abnormalities.

Additional roles:

Training member of the British Association for Psychopharmacology
Member of ION Postgraduate Student Committee
ION representative on the Medical faculty Research Students Committee 08-11
North East Postgraduate Conference organizer 2009

Qualifications:

Upper second class Biomedical Science BSc University of Sheffield 2008

Techniques:

In vitro electrophysiology
Behavioral testing (Attentional set shifting task)
Immunohistochemistry

Awards and bursaries:

Poster Prize BAP Summer meeting, July 2011
Poster prize Institute of Neuroscience Research Day, Jan 2011
Recipient of the British Association for Psychopharmacology Preclinical certificate bursary

Publications and conferences:

  1. J. Wallace, R. McQuade, H.M. Marston, S. E. Gartside
    Subchronic flattening of the glucocorticoid rhythm induces performance deficits in the attentional set shifting task
    BAP Summer meeting, Harrogate, UK, 2011
  2. J. Wallace, R. McQuade, H.M. Marston, S. E. Gartside
    Differential patterns of cognitive function impairment in animal models of psychiatric disorders IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience, Florence, 2011
  3. J. Wallace, R. McQuade, H.M. Marston, S. E. Gartside
    Serotonergic modulation of field potentials in the medial prefrontal cortex
    BAP Summer Meeting, Harrogate, UK, 2010
  4. J. Wallace, R. McQuade, H.M. Marston, S. E. Gartside
    5-HT inhibits field potentials in the medial prefrontal cortex
    ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Workshop for Young Scientists, Nice, France 2010