Dr Gabriela Wagner
Project Manager
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+44 (0)1224 438616
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g.wagner@abdn.ac.uk
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Room 315, Zoology Building
Tel. 01224 / 27-2888 office
-2866 or -4396 lab
-2396 Fax
Research Assistant, Teaching Fellow, Project Manager for Full4Health at RINH
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Teaching Responsibilities
My teaching activites cover physiological topics with an emphasis on biological rhythms in courses from Level 1 through to Honours level.
- Level 1: Field Course for sixth century course "Natural World"
- Level 2: Vertebrate Zoology, Cells in Action
- Level 3: Reproductive Biology, Animal Behaviour
- Course Coordinator for Animal Physiology
- Level 4: Course Coordinator for Biological Timing
- Supervision of Honours students
- Co-Supervision of PhD students
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External Responsibilities
2010 - 2011
Committee member of North of Scotland Research Ethics Service (NoSRES)
2009 - present
Parents Plus representative for the University's Rocking Horse Nursery
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Invited Lectures
- 5th Symp. of the Austrian Neuroscience Association (ANA) in Pernegg, Austria
- 8th Young Neuroscientists' Meeting (YNM) in Trieste, Italy
- 7th Symp. of the ANA in Seggau, Austria
- 1st Meeting of the German Clock Club in Frankfurt, Germany
- 10th YNM in Trieste, Italy
- CNRS "Neurobiologie de rhythmes" in Strasbourg, France
- British Clock Club at the LMB Cambridge, UK
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Professional Memberships
- European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS)
- Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
- British Neuroscience Association (BNA)
- British Society for Neuroendocrinology (BSN)
- Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR)
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
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Scientific Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
FUSTIN J.M., DARDENTE H., WAGNER G.C., CARTER D.A., JOHNSTON J.D., LINCOLN G.A., HAZLERIGG D.G. (2009) Egr1 involvement in evening gene regulation by melatonin. FASEB J. 23 (3): 764-73.
WAGNER G., JOHNSTON J.D., CLARKE I., LINCOLN G., HAZLERIGG D. (2008) Redefining the Limits of Day Length Responsiveness in a Seasonal Mammal. Endocrinology 149 (1): 32-39.
WAGNER G., JOHNSTON J.D., TOURNIER B.B., EBLING F. J. P., HAZLERIGG D. (2006) Melatonin induces gene-specific effects on rhythmic mRNA expression in the pars tuberalis of the Siberian hamster (Phodopus sungorus). European Journal ofNeuroscience 25: 485-490.
LINCOLN G., JOHNSTON J., ANDERSSON H., WAGNER G., & D. HAZLERIGG (2005) Photorefractoriness in Mammals: Dissociating a Seasonal Timer from the Circadian-Based Photoperiod Response. Endocrinology 146 (9): 3782-3790.
BERTOLUCCI C., WAGNER G., FOA A., GWINNER E. & R. BRANDSTAETTER (2003) Photoperiod modulates amplitude but not duration of in vitro melatoninproduction in the ruin lizard (Podarcis sicula). Journal of Biological Rhythms 18 (1):63-70.
WAGNER G., BRANDSTAETTER R. & A. HERMANN (2000) Adrenergic and cholinergic regulation of in vitro melatonin release during ontogeny in the pinealgland of Long Evans rats. Neuroendocrinology 72:154-161.
Invited Review
HAZLERIGG D., WAGNER G. (2006) Seasonal photoperiodism in vertebrates: from coincidence to amplitude. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 17 (3): 83-91.
Book chapters
JOHNSTON J.D., HAZLERIGG D., WAGNER G. (2006) Melatonin Receptors in Neuroendocrine Development. In: Melatonin: From Molecules to Therapy. Eds. S.R. Pandi-Perumal, D.P. Cardinali
Published Abstracts
WAGNER G., BRANDSTAETTER R. & A. HERMANN (1998) Cholinergic modulation of pineal cell activity and melatonin synthesis in the rat. European J. Neurosci., suppl. 10: p.401.
WAGNER G., BRANDSTAETTER R. & A. HERMANN (2000) Neurotransmitter Mediated Changes in Pineal Activity as Revealed by Cytosensor Microphysiometry. European J. Neurosci., Vol.12, Supplement 11: p.392.
WAGNER G., BRANDSTAETTER R. & A. HERMANN (2002) Neurochemical organization of the avian pineal gland. FENS Abstracts vol 1, A012.26.
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