Nigel Unwin

Nigel Peter Nigel Tripp Unwin FRS is a British neuroscientist, Emeritus Scientist, and was Joint Head of Neurobiology Division, Laboratory of Molecular Biology from 2003 until 2008.^[1]

Life

He earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He was a scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, from 1968 to 1980. He was Professor of Cell Biology at Stanford University, from 1980 to 1988.^[2]

Works

• O'Brien J, Unwin N (2006), "Organization of spines on the dendrites of Purkinje cells" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:1575-1580
• Unwin N (2005), "Refined structure of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor at 4Å resolution", Journal of Molecular Biology 346:967-989
• Miyazawa A, Fujiyoshi Y, Unwin N (2003), "Structure and gating mechanism of the acetylcholine receptor pore" Nature 423:949-955

References

1. ^ http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?unwin
2. ^ http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/emeritus-scientists/n-unwin

External links

• home page

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