Colin Ingram

Keynote lecture

Will talk about: Working in the clouds: creating an e-science collaborative environment for neurophysiology

Professor Colin Ingram is a neurobiologist who obtained his PhD from Cambridge University in the field of neuroendocrinology. In 1986 he moved to Bristol University where he held successive positions as an MRC Training Fellow and Royal Society University Research Fellow, before being appointed as Reader in Neurobiology.  His main area of research has been in the neurobiology of stress and depression, including work on the neuropharmacological regulation of serotonergic transmission. In 2000 he took up the Chair of Psychobiology at Newcastle University and in 2004 was appointed the Director of the newly created Institute of Neuroscience.  Professor Ingram was responsible for creating the Institute which brings together over 60 faculty staff covering a wide range of basic and clinical neuroscience fields. In directing the Institute he has been involved in a wide range of projects and initiatives to support neuroscience. Since 2006 he has been lead for the EPSRC-funded neuroinformatics project to develop a web-based platform for analysis and storage of neurophysiological data, CARMEN. He is a member of the steering group for the UK Node of INCF and is current Honorary Secretary of the British Neuroscience Association, the UK's principal society serving the neuroscience community.