Professor Neil Millar - Lab Homepage

Dept. Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology
University College London

Professor Neil S. Millar BSc PhD FBPhS
Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, University College London
Vice-Dean (UCL Faculty of Life Sciences)

Research interests

We employ a range of molecular biological, pharmacological and electrophysiological techniques to examine the structural and functional properties of neurotransmitter receptors. Since the lab was established at University College London (UCL) in 1993, we have published studies examining a variety of neurotransmitter receptors, including those activated by acetylcholine, dopamine, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), glutamate and 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin). Currently, we have a particular interest in the allosteric modulation of ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) such as nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and other related pentameric LGICs. Our research interests include studies of human neurotransmitter receptors that are targets for therapeutic drug discovery and also invertebrate receptors that are targets for pesticides used in areas such as crop protection and human/animal disease control.

Revised structural model of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
(Newcombe et al. 2018)

Publications

Link to full list of publications

Contact details

Professor Neil S. Millar
Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology
University College London
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

Tel. +44(0)20-7679-7241
Email: n.millar@ucl.ac.uk

The lab is located in the Andrew Huxley building, University College London (UCL)

Link to UCL Departmental website

Lab members

(past and present UCL PhD students and postdocs)


Liz Baker	Anna Chatzidaki	Toby Collins

Sandra Cooper	Anne Doward	Ronnie Gee

JasKiran Gill	Patricia Harkness	Mike Kirwan

Seb Kračun	Stuart Lansdell	Zewen Liu

Joe Newcombe	Ian Parsons	Alin Mirel Puinean

Vic Sanders	Charlie Smelt	Gareth Young