Dr Elisa Hill
AMEB AMusA (Violin) BSc (Hons) PhD (Melb)
Howard Florey Centenary Fellow
Ion Channels and Human Diseases Group
Contact Details
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Phone: | +61 (0)3 8344 1954 (office) |
Phone: | +61 (0)3 8344 0461 (laboratory) |
Mobile: | +61 (0)434 052 127 |
Fax: | +61 (0)3 9347 0446 |
Research Interests
- Thalamo-cortical mechanisms underlying Febrile Seizures
- Role of Interneurons in Cortical Networks
Laboratory Techniques
- Patch clamp electrophysiology
- Single cell RT-PCR
- Immunohistochemistry
- Image Analysis
- Behavioural Analysis
Additional Information
Prizes/Fellowships
- 2006 Howard Florey Centenary Fellowship (NHMRC)
- 2006 French Lessons for Scientists (French Embassy of Canberra, Australia)
- 2002-03 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Poste Rouge (CNRS, France)
- 2001-02 Fondation de Recherche Medicale Fellowship (FRM, France)
- 2000 Ayse Berke and Liana Colvill Award
- 2000 AMRAD Student Travel Bursary
- 1996 Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship
Publications and Articles
Selected Publications
Férézou I, Hill E, Cauli B, Hamel E, Rossier J, Lambolez B. A cellular mechanism for µ-opioid involvement in neocortical nicotine effects. Cerebral Cortex.; [Epub ahead of print] (Oct 26; 2006).
Férézou I, Cauli B, Hill E, Hamel E, Rossier J, Lambolez B. Serotonergic synaptic excitation of neocortical VIP/CCK interneurons mediated by 5-HT3 receptors. J Neurosci. 17:7389-97 (2002).
Hill, E., Kalloniatis, M. and Tan, S-S. Cellular diversity in mouse neocortex revealed by multispectral analysis of amino acid immunoreactivity. Cerebral Cortex, 11:679-690 (2001).
Hill, E., Kalloniatis, M. and Tan, S-S. Glutamate, GABA and precursor amino acids in adult mouse neocortex: cellular diversity revealed by quantitative immunocytochemistry. Cerebral Cortex, 10:1132-1142 (2000).
About
Addiction
Harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption is estimated to have caused 3,290 deaths in Australia in 1997, as well as 72,302 hospitalisations.