Clarke Peter
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of Fundamental Neurosciences
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Peter Clarke was Associate Professor at the Department of Cell Biology and Morphology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Following a first degree in Engineering Science (1968) at the University of Oxford, he did a PhD with philosopher-neurobiologist Donald MacKay at the University of Keele (UK), then postdoctoral jobs in Oxford and St. Louis (USA), before moving to Lousanne in 1977. His research focussed on neuronal death - occurring naturally in development, or pathologically in cerebral ischemia and hypoxia. He has been awarded two international prizes (the Ingle Writing Award and the Demuth Foundation Award for Medical Research). Peter Clarke was Associate Editor of the journal Science and Christian Belief and lectured widely on science and religion, mainly on questions relating to the brain. He was very active promoting science-religion dialogue in the French-speaking world and was a founding member of the Reseau des Scientifiques Evangeliques. He was a member of an evangelical church in Lausanne. He was a memeber of the Faraday Institute's Advisory Board until his death in October 2015.
Research Interest
Research interest includes neurobiology, optic nerve disorders related research,drug target oriented ischemic studies and excitotoxicities etc.,
Publications
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Lecci S, Fernandez LM, Weber FD, Cardis R, Chatton JY, et al., (2014). Coordinated infraslow neural and cardiac oscillations mark fragility and offline periods in mammalian sleep. Science Advances. 3: e1602026.
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Ginet V, Pittet MP, Rummel C, Osterheld MC, Meuli R, Clarke PG, et al., (2014).Dying neurons in thalamus of asphyxiated term newborns and rats are autophagic. Annals of neurology. 76: 695-711.
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Descloux C, Ginet V, Clarke PG, Puyal J, Truttmann AC. (2015). Neuronal death after perinatal cerebral hypoxia-ischemia: focus on autophagy—mediated cell death. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience. 45: 75-85.
