Seth Grant - Curriculum Vitae#

Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8732-8735
Websites: http://www.genes2cognition.org, http://www.g2conline.org

Education
Clinically qualified (specialty neurology)

• 1984 – Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.) and Bachelor of Surgery (B.S.) with First Class Honours, University of Sydney, Australia
  
• 1980 – Bachelor of Science Medicine (BSc Med) with Distinction, University of Sydney, Australia
  

Publications

172 peer-reviewed publications, including Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, Neuron, Cell Reports and eLIFE among over 50 in the past 5 years.

Patents

WO2001/077170, WO1997/046877, EP1272517, CA2405311, AT411341, DE69830422, EP1609856, WO9746877, US2005003477, GB1517219.0

Databases

Research: Genes to Cognition (G2C), http://www.genes2cognition.org. Provides proteomic, genetic and large-scale electrophysiology and behavioural data, as well as brain-wide atlases of synapse numbers and catalogues of synapse types and subtypes.
Education and public understanding of science: G2Conline in collaboration with the Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA, http://www.g2conline.org.

Reviewer and editorial boards

I am a member of ten UK and 13 international research council committees and scientific advisory boards, on the editorial board of 13 academic journals (including Learning and Memory, Neuroscience, Genes, Brain and Behavior, PLoS, Proteomics), and a reviewer/referee for 24 national and international funding bodies, seven universities and 37 academic journals.

Membership of scientific societies

• Academy of Medical Sciences
  
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  
• American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
  
• Biosciences Federation (BSF)
  
• British Neuroscience Association (BNA)
  
• European Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society
  
• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
  
• International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS), founder member
  
• International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO)
  
• Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society, founder member and Executive Committee member
  
• Royal Society of Edinburgh
  
• Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
  
• The Physiological Society
  
• UK Centre for Brain Medicines Research, founding Board member
  
• World Innovation Foundation (WIF), International Consulting Fellow

Invited presentations

I present at ~25 national and international meetings annually.

Training and teaching

I have supervised 19 graduate students at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, UK. As Director of the Centre for Neuroscience at Edinburgh University, I was responsible for the PhD and MSc programmes in Neuroscience and the Neuroscience Honours course. I have taught on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Biological Sciences, Medicine and Veterinary and Informatics.

Public understanding of science

I have a long-standing commitment to public understanding of the brain and its disorders. In addition to engagement via G2Conline, I participate regularly in public lectures and debate in the UK (including the Edinburgh Science Festival) and internationally, including with school students, online interviews, podcasts, newspaper and magazine articles. Television and radio interviews in 2018 include BBC Radio 4 Today programme, BBC Wales, BBC Scotland, BBC World Service and on the Sky TV Sunrise morning show. Print and online press coverage in 2018 included the Express, Independent, Daily Mail, Metro and Herald.