Colin W. Taylor
Professor
Pharmacology
University of Cambridge
United States of America
Biography
Colin read Natural Sciences at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and then completed a PhD in insect physiology with Mike Berridge. He completed postdoctoral work with Jim Putney in the USA, before returning to Cambridge as a research fellow of St John's College and a Royal Society Locke Research Fellow. He was appointed to a lectureship in pharmacology soon afterwards, and then to a Lister Institute Research Fellowship. He was appointed Professor in Cellular Pharmacology in 2001. Colin has served on various editorial boards, and committees of funding agencies and societies, including chairing the board of Gordon Research Conferences. He is a member of Academia Europaea, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator. His lab is interested in calcium signalling.
Research Interest
Pharmacology
Publications
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Saraiva, N., Prole, DL, Carrara, G, Johnson, BF, Taylor, CW, Parsons, M & Smith, GL (2013) hGAAP promotes cell adhesion and migration via the stimulation of store-operated Ca2+ entry and calpain 2. J. Cell. Biol. 202, 699-713.
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Thurley, K, Tovey, SC, Moenke, G, Prince, VL, Meena, A, Thomas, AP, Skupin, A, Taylor, CW & Falcke, M (2014) Reliable encoding of extracellular stimuli within random sequences of Ca2+ spikes. Sci Signal. 7, ra59.
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Srivats, S, Balasuriya, D, Pasche, M, Vistal, G, Edwardson, JM, Taylor, CW, & Murrell-Lagnado, R. (2016) Sigma 1 receptors inhibit store-operated Ca2+ entry by attenuating coupling of STIM1 to Orai1. J. Cell Biol. 213, 65-79.
