Dr Christine Shirras
Lecturer
Office B12, Biology Building
Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences
Faculty of Health and Medicine
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YQ
Tel: +44 1524 594811
Fax: +44 1524 593192
E-mail: c.shirras@lancaster.ac.uk
Academic Qualifications
1993 B.Sc. Chemistry, Lancaster University
1997 Ph.D. Molecular Biology, Lancaster University
2001 Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
2005 Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE)
Career History
1997-2000 Post Doctoral Research Associate, Lancaster University
2000 Lecturer in Eukaryotic Molecular Biology, University of Central Lancashire
2000-2001 Clinical Biochemist, Royal Lancaster Infirmary
2002-2004 Post Doctoral Research Associate, Lancaster University
2004-2007 Part-time lecturer, Lancaster University
2006 Part-time Post Doctoral Research Associate Lancaster University
2007 - Present. Teaching Fellow Lancaster University
Publications
R. Elwyn Isaac, Nazarius S. Lamango, Uma Ekbote, Christine A. Taylor, Debra Hurst, Robert J. Weaver, Ahmet Carhan, Susan Burnham, Alan D. Shirras (2007) Angiotensin-converting Enzyme as a Target for the Development of Novel Insect Growth Regulators. Peptides, 28(1): 153-162
Isaac, R.E., Taylor, C.A.M., Nassel, D and Shirras, A.D (2004). Proctolin in the post-genomic era: New insights and challenges. Invertebrate Neuroscience 5(2):51-64.
Harrison, L.M., Morris, J.A., Bishop, L.A., Lauder, R.M., Taylor, C.A.M. and Telford, D.R. (2004) Detection of specific antibodies in cord blood, infant and maternal saliva and breast milk to staphylococcal toxins implicated in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 2004 Sep 1; 42(1): 94-104
Taylor, C.A.M., Winther, A.M.E., Siviter, R.J., Shirras, A.D. and Isaac, R.E. (2003) Identification of a Proctolin Preprohormone gene (Proct) of Drosophila melanogaster: expression and predicted prohormone processing. J. Neurobiology 58(3):379-391
Siviter, R. J., Taylor, C.A.M., Cottam, D. M., Denton, A., Dani, M.P., Milner, M.J., Shirras, A.D. and Isaac, R.E. (2002) Ance, a Drosophila angiotensin-converting enzyme homologue, is expressed in imaginal cells during metamorphosis and is regulated by the steroid, 20-hydroxyecdysone. Biochem. J. 367, 187-193
Taylor, C.A.M. (summer 2001) Enhancing students' learning through assessment. TALL Tales (Lancaster University on-line journal)
Siviter, R.J., Coast, G.M., Winther, A. M. E., Nachman, R. J., Taylor, C. A. M., Shirras, A. D., Coates, D., Isaac, R. E. and Nassel, D. (2000) The expression and functional chracterisation of a Drosophila neuroendocrine peptide precursor with homology to mammalian preprotachykinin. J. Biol. Chem. 275, 23273-23280
Taylor, C. A. M., Stanley, K N. and Shirras, A. D. (1997). The Orct gene of Drosophila melanogaster codes for a putative organic cation transporter with six or twelve transmembrane domains. Gene 201, 69-74
Taylor, C. A. M., Coates, D. and Shirras, A. D. (1996). The Acer gene of Drosophila codes for an angiotensin -converting enzyme homologue. Gene 181, 191-197