Ping Yip, PhDSenior Lecturer in NeuroscienceCentre: Neuroscience and TraumaEmail: p.yip@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: 020 7882 2273ProfileTeachingResearchPublicationsProfileDr Ping Yip completed his PhD in studying metabotropic glutamate receptors in rodent models of epilepsy under the supervision of Prof Brian Meldrum and Dr Marcus Rattray at the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London). He spent much of his post-doctoral time studying neuropathic pain and spinal cord injury at King's College London working under Prof Stephen McMahon. Thereafter, he went to work with Prof Adina Michael-Titus and Prof John Priestley at Queen Mary University of London, where he later became a Non-Clinical Lecturer in Neuroscience. His research group focuses on neuroregeneration, neuroplasticity, neuroprotection, neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation in neuroinjury. He has a substantially wide in vitro and in vivo technical knowledge and abilities, which enabled him to publish research articles in the field of pain, motor neurone disease, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.Teaching Co-module lead for (A100) Brain & Behaviour Year 2 MBBS Co-module lead for (ICM6013) Disconnected Pathways/ (BMD361) Repair and Regeneration Co-module lead for (ICM6015) Core Laboratory Methods Co-module lead for (ICM6011) Brain & Mind/ (BMD369) Perspectives in brain disorders Co-module lead for (BMD365) Biomarkers in Neuroscience Co-module lead for (ICM6016) iBSc Laboratory Research Projects Co-module lead for (BMD650) BSc (Hons) Neuroscience laboratory Research Projects Co-module lead for (ICMM927) MSc Neurotrauma & Stroke Co-module lead for (ICMM932) MSc Neuroscience laboratory Research Projects Lectures BSc (Hons) Neuroscience BSc (Intercalated) Neuroscience BSc (Intercalated) Experimental Pathology MSc Neuroscience & Translational Medicine MBBS Medicine Problem Based Learning Year 1 MBBS Year 2 MBBS Year 1 GEP MBBS Tutorials BSc (Hons) Neuroscience iBSc (Hons) Neuroscience MSc Neuroscience & Translational Medicine Academic Tutor Year 1 BSc (Hons) Neuroscience Year 2 BSc (Hons) Neuroscience Year 3 BSc (Hons) Neuroscience BSc (Intercalated) Neuroscience SSC2a Year 2 MBBS MSc Neuroscience & Translational Medicine Laboratory-based project Supervisor Year 3 BSc (Hons) Neuroscience BSc (Intercalated) Neuroscience SSC4 Year 4 MBBS SSC5 Year 5 MBBS MSc Neuroscience & Translational Medicine Non-laboratory-based project Supervisor Year 3 BSc (Hons) Neuroscience SSC2 Year 2 MBBS SSC4 Year 4 MBBS ResearchResearch Interests:Research Group Members Eleanor Sams (PhD student) Vennila Ponnusamy (PhD student) Ruth Angus (PhD student) Richard Ip (Research Assistant) Sofia Bitsios (iBSc student) Bethan Bishop (iBSc student) Jessica Marashi (BSc student) Asma Ali (BSc student) Derya Ulupinar (BSc student) PublicationsKey Publications Yip P.K., Chapman G.E., Sillito R.R., Ip T.H.R., Akhigbe G., Becker S.C., Price A.W., Michael-Titus A.T., Armstrong J.D., Tremoleda J.L.Studies on long term behavioural changes in group-housed rat models of brain and spinal cord injury using an automated home cage recording system.(2019) J. Neurosci. Methods. 1;321:49-63. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.04.005. Yip P.K., Bowes A.L., Hall J.C.E., Burguillos M.A., Ip T.R., Baskerville T., Liu Z.H., Mohamed M.A.E.K., Getachew F., Lindsay A.D., Najeeb S.U., Popovich P.G., Priestley J.V. & Michael-Titus A.T.Docosahexaenoic acid reduces microglia phagocytic activity via miR-124 and induces neuroprotection in rodent models of spinal cord contusion injury.(2019) Hum. Mol. Genet., pii: ddz073. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddz073. Ponnusamy V & Yip P.K.The role of microRNAs in newborn brain development and hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy.(2019) Neuropharmacol., doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.11.041. Shah D.K. Ponnusamy V., Evanson J., Kapellou O., Ekitzidou G., Gupta N., Clarke P., Michael-Titus A.T. & Yip P.K. Raised plasma neurofilament light protein levels are associated with abnormal MRI outcomes in newborns undergoing therapeutic hypothermia.(2018) Front. Neurol., https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.00086 Yip P.K., Carrillo-Jimenez A., King P., Vilalta A., Chau C.C., Egerton A.M., Liu Z.H., Shetty A.J., Tremoleda J.L., Davies M., Deierborg T., Priestley J.V., Brown G.C., Michael-Titus A., Venero J.L. & Burguillos M.A.Galectin-3 released in response to traumatic brain injury acts as an alarmin orchestrating brain immune response and promoting neurodegeneration.(2017) Sci. Rep., doi: 10.1038/srep41689. All Publications