Dr Richard Barnes
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University Senior Lecturer in Physiology, Senior Tutor, Director of studies in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and Admissions Tutor at Emmanuel College
I have been a University lecturer in Physiology for some years now and have lectured in almost every course, even including a very brief contribution to the Neurophysiology course. I have been a Fellow of Emmanuel since 1974 and have held various posts, including tutor to graduates.
Key responsibilities
Current key responsibilities are
Chair of the University AIDS Working Group
Chairman of Group III Medical Admissions
Course Organiser Human Reproduction, MVST 1B
Course Organiser Physiology, NST 1B
Lectures in Part 1A Homeostasis (Cardiovascular system and the Autonomic Nervous System), Human Reproduction (maternal and fetal Physiology in pregnancy, Parturition, Lactation, Parental Behaviour and Neonatal Physiology), Part 1B Veterinary Reproduction (Lactation and Passive Immunity), Part II Physiology, Module 4, (Introduction To Methods In Fetal Physiology, Placental Blood Flow, Maturation Of Liver And Lung), Part II Physiology, Module 3, (Advanced Cardiovascular Physiology and the Limitations to Human Aerobic Endurance) .
Department or workgroup
Current research centres on human athletic performance and the menstrual cycle
Lectures to part 1B Reproduction
This is the index page for all three sets of questions.
This is the index page for all three sets of questions.
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Biology
The above e-mail address always gets through to me, although just sometimes I may ignore messages, but don't we all?.
http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/~rjb4/index.html
One College telephone,01223 334254
one in the lab, 01223 333839.
Perinatal cardiovascular adjustments
A study of the adaptation of the heart to the changed pressures and flows of the immediate postnatal period. The importance lies in the susceptibility of new born animals to heart failure and respiratory problems, at least part of which may be due to the problems faced while the right side of the heart is still stronger than the left. A complete understanding of the transition period during which the left side of the heart becomes pregressively stronger is both interesting and important for medical care of premature infants.
The effects of noradrenaline and NPY on resistance and capacitance vessels
We are trying to find out what advantage there might be in having the nerves which control the circulation releasing two different chemicals in varying amounts, depending on the pattern of activity in the nerves. We are examining the effects on the different parts of the vascular system in response to those two different sympathetic transmitters. We are particularly interested in the relationship between the two, antagonism and potentiation, because we think there might be great benefits in intensive care treatment of some forms of circulatory collapse, in using different mixtures of noradrenaline and NPY.
Surprisingly, this section is still under development!
Now there's a question for you? What is RJB interested in in his spare time? Obviously tennis, with three tennis playing children. Sport too, football, having got married at a Church almost within sight of Old Trafford. Other sports also figure - American Football, Squash, Rugby (Union and League), Athletics, Hockey, Netball, Kayaking (through another daughter). But also theatre and films and literature and crosswords. I also enjoy Northern California, Marin County and the Bay Area in particular, having lived there for a year in the 1980's.
I like meddling and have variously been County Secretary for tennis, Chair of the Governors of a local Primary School, Governor of one of the local Comprehensive Schools and a founder member of the Association of Cambridgeshire Parent Governors.
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