Chris Ashley is Professor of Physiology at the University of Oxford. He has made pioneering contributions to the study of intracellular signalling. In particular, he was the first to demonstrate unequivocally, that calcium acts as a vital second messenger, linking events at the surface membrane to the cell’s physiological activities. He showed that a minute and rapid change in free calcium is the prime linking event in striate muscle. His recent work has used photolabile caged calcium to illuminate the workings of cardiac muscle in health and disease.
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Back to directory listingProfessor Christopher Ashley FMedSci
Job Title
Emeritus Professor of Physiology & Medical Studies,Corpus Christi College
Department
Physiology and Corpus Christi College Oxford
Institution
University of Oxford
Year elected
2002
Interests
Specialitiesbiophysics, cell signalling, physiology, skeletal and cardiac muscle activation and relaxation mechanisms, second messengers and the role of calcium, bio-luminescence-aequorin