University of Tasmania, Australia

Lecturer

BSc(Hons), PhD(UTAS)

Teaching Responsibilities

• Neuroscience
• Gastrointestinal physiology

Units Coordinated

• CAM304 - Fundamentals of Clinical Science 3

Units Taught

• CAM102 - Foundations of Medicine 2
• CAM202 - Fundamentals of Clinical Science 2
• CAM304 - Fundamentals of Clinical Science 3
• CAM305 - Functional Clinical Practice
• CHP208 - Human Physiology
• CHP311 - Neuroscience A
• CHP312 - Neuroscience B
• CHG105 - Human Bioscience A
• CHG106 - Human Bioscience B

Publications

• Mitew S, Kirkcaldie MTK, Dickson TC, Vickers JC. Altered synapses and gliotransmission in Alzheimer's disease and AD model mice. Neurobiology of Aging, in press 2013.
• Hannan AJ, Kirkcaldie MTK. Constituents, organisation and processes of the human brain (review chapter). In Miller SM (ed.) The Constitution of Visual Consciousness: Lessons from Binocular Rivalry. Advances in Consciousness Research vol 90. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, in press 2013.
• Kirkcaldie MTK. Neocortex. In Watson C, Paxinos G, Puelles L (eds.) The Mouse Nervous System. San Diego: Academic Press, 2012.
• Kirkcaldie MTK, Morris M. Drugs and the brain. In Ashwell KWS (ed.) The Brain Book. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Watson C, Kirkcaldie MTK, Paxinos G. The Brain: An Introduction to Functional Neuroanatomy (textbook). San Diego: Academic Press, 2010.
• Mitew S, Kirkcaldie MTK, Halliday GE, Shepherd CE, Vickers JC, Dickson TC. Focal demyelination in Alzheimer’s disease and transgenic mouse models. Acta Neuropathologica, 2010;119(5):567–77.
• Paxinos G, Watson C, Carrive P, Kirkcaldie MTK, Ashwell KWS. Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Rat Brain (research book), second edition. Academic Press, 2009.

Web Access Research Portal (WARP)

Additional Information

Research Interests

• Cerebral cortex
• Neuronal cytoskeleton
• Pathology of the central nervous system