Festschrift in honour of K Michael Spyer, 16 March 2008
- Date:
- 16 March 2008
- Reference:
- SA/PHY/D/2/13
- Part of:
- The Physiological Society
- Archives and manuscripts
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'A festschrift was held at the University of Leeds... in honour of Professor Mike Spyer, UCL Vice Provost (Enterprise), whose career as a neuroscientist has produced extensive research into the central nervous system’s control of the heart, circulation and ventilation. At the event, sponsored by the journal Experimental Physiology, leading academics from the field paid tribute to Professor Spyer in short speeches touching on his work on the brainstem and mechanisms for heart control and the regulation of other body systems.' Information taken from https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0803/08031802 [accessed 8 November 2016].
Disc 1 contents: Welcome and opening remarks; John Coote - Those Brummie Years; Brunello Ghelarducci - Chasing cats and recording vestibular responses under the Leaning Tower; Robin McAllen - The SOS (School of Spyer): blazing trails through the brainstem; Janusz Lipski - A message from Auckland; Mike Gilbey - Early years at the Free - Respiratory Modulation of Preganglionic neuronal activity.
Disc 2 contents: James Schwaber - Nucleus ambiguus versus dorsal vagus - that is the question; Julian Paton - What do milk powder, veal calves and deep throat stimulation all have in common?; Diethelm Richter - Reminiscing about Mike; Luis Silva-Carvalho - Mike Spyer's influence in Portuguese Science; David Paterson - Inspired by Spyer; Sue and Jim Deuchars - Romance on the brain... stem and spinal cord; Alex Gourine - Last years at the Free. ATP resurgence in Mike's Lab; Messages from colleagues and friends.
Disc 3 contents: 13 photographs of event.