Denis Burdakov BA, DPhil

Dr. Denis studied medicine and physiology at Oxford (Gibbs Prize, 2001). Remaining at Oxford, he completed his PhD in the Department of Physiology, with Frances Ashcroft FRS. He then worked with Alex Verkhratsky at Manchester, and in 2004, was awarded a Royal Society Research Fellowship to establish a research programme on biophysics of sleep and appetite networks, which he held first at Manchester and then at Cambridge.

His publications are as follows:
Apergis-Schoute, J; Iordanidou, P; Faure, C; Jego, S; Schöne, C; Aitta-Aho, T; Adamantidis, A and Burdakov, D (2015) Optogenetic evidence for inhibitory signaling from orexin to MCH neurons via local microcircuits. Journal of Neuroscience 35, 5435-5441.
Kosse, C; Gonzalez, A and Burdakov, D (2015) Predictive models of glucose control: roles for glucose-sensing neurones. Acta Physiologica 213, 7-18.
Patel, AX and Burdakov, D (2015) Mechanisms of gain control by voltage-gated channels in intrinsically-firing neurons. PLOS ONE 10, e0115431.
Belle, MDC; Hughes, ATL; Bechtold, DA; Cunningham, P; Pierucci, M; Burdakov, D and Piggins, HD (2014) Acute suppressive and long-term phase modulation actions of orexin on the mammalian circadian clock. Journal of Neuroscience 34, 3607-3621.
Burke, LK; Doslikova, B; D'Agostino, G; Garfield, AS; Farooq, G; Burdakov, D; Low, MJ; Rubinstein, M; Evans, ML; Billups, B and Heisler, LK (2014) 5-HT obesity medication efficacy via POMC activation is maintained during aging. Endocrinology 155, 3732-3738.