Staff Directory

Professor Robin McAllen

Division Head

Autonomic Neuroscience

Dr Robin McAllen is a NHMRC Principal Research Fellow. He trained in Physiology in London and Birmingham and in Medicine at Birmingham (UK) before moving to the Florey in 1988. He is a neurophysiologist with an interest in the central nervous regulation of cardiovascular and autonomic functions, and has published extensively of this topic. More recently he has collaborated with FNI colleagues in neuroimaging experiments that aim to translate lessons learned from animal studies to the human brain. He currently serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Physiology, is a section editor for Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, and is a member of the Faculty of 1000.

Publications

Listed below are Professor Robin McAllen’s most recent publications.

1. McAllen R, Salo L, Paton J, Pickering A.
   Processing of central and reflex vagal drives by rat cardiac ganglion neurones: an intracellular analysis. J Physiol 1970-01-01;589(Pt 23):5801-18. PMID: 22005679
2. Tanaka M, McKinley M, McAllen R.
   Preoptic-raphé connections for thermoregulatory vasomotor control. J Neurosci 1970-01-01;31(13):5078-88. PMID: 21451045
3. Bratton B, Martelli D, McKinley M, Trevaks D, Anderson C, McAllen R.
   Neural regulation of inflammation: no neural connection from vagus to splenic sympathetic neurons. Exp Physiol 1970-01-01; PMID: 22247284