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Roles and Responsibilities

My current role is Deputy Head of Infrastructure in the Faculty of Medical Science. This is an exciting new role that brings together special projects in addition to managing the infrastructure of a large and diverse Faculty.

My previous role was Technical Manager within the Institute of Neuroscience where I led on

• Technical support
• Health and safety
• Estates/Space management
• Professional Registration

Within 缅北禁地 I am still involved with

• Joint Institutional lead with Linda Robinson on the Technician Commitment
• Joint lead with Linda Robinson on the Working in partnership forum - which supports the Technician Commitment in the north
• NU TechNet - Technician Network at 缅北禁地
• oint lead with Linda Robinson for the Technician Partnership Conference 2020, 24th June 2020 缅北禁地

GATSBY / Science Council

• Peer reviewer for Institutions self assessment form
• Reviewer for Professional Registration

Technician Commitment

• Co-Investigator UK Institute for Technical Skills and Strategy
• Associate lead for the Technician Commitment

Qualifications

• BSc.(Hons), MPhil, CSci

Memberships

• Fellow of the Institute of Science and Technology

Honours and Awards

• Chartered Scientist
• Abstract selected for oral presentation at BAP summer meeting 2002.
• Medical faculty graduate school poster winner 2002.
• Sortlisted for Outstanding Technician of the year THE awards 2019

Research Interests

• Effect of glucocorticoids on the function of the 5-HT system.
• A particular focus is the attenuation in somatodendritic 5-HT1A autoreceptor function following chronic corticosterone exposure.
• Expertise in Radioimmunoassay, HPLC, microdialysis, insitu hybridization, autoradiography, invitro electrophysiology.

Other Expertise

• Laboratory management.
• Health and Safety
• Estates/Space management

Keywords

• 5-HT, serotonin, 5-HT1A, depression, affective disorders.

Recently I was involved in a Business Improvement Project with Phil Ramsey, Amanda Wilson, Vic Christy tasked with improving the transition to university experience for new undergraduates.  The outputs of this project were:

• checklist so that internal units were consistent in their undergraduate induction content 
•  'Induction' channel on the 缅北禁地 App
• a webpage, written in a style to appeal to 18 year olds, about how to succeed at university  /pre-arrival/success/

• Articles

  • Gallagher P, Leitch MM, Massey AE, McAllister-Williams RH, Young AH. . Journal of Psychopharmacology 2006, 20(5), 643-649.
  • McQuade R, Leitch MM, Gartside SE, Young AH. . Journal of Psychopharmacology 2004, 18(4), 496-501.
  • Gartside SE, Leitch MM, McQuade R, Swarbrick DJ. . Neuropsychopharmacology 2003, 28(5), 821-829.
  • Leitch MM, Ingram CD, Young AH, McQuade R, Gartside SE. . Neuropsychopharmacology 2003, 28(1), 119-125.
  • Gartside SE, Johnson DA, Leitch MM, Troakes C, Ingram CD. . European Journal of Neuroscience 2003, 17(11), 2401-2408.
  • Gartside SE, Leitch MM, Young AH. . Neuropsychopharmacology 2003, 28(9), 1572-1578.
  • Fairchild G, Leitch MM, Ingram CD. . Neuropharmacology 2003, 45(7), 925-934.
  • V. Forrest, P. Ince, M. Leitch, E. F. Marshall and P. J. Shaw. Serotonergic neurotransmission in the spinal cord and motor cortex of patients with motor neuron disease and controls: Quantitative autoradiography for 5-HT1a and 5-HT2 receptors. Journal of the Neurological Sciences 1996, 139, 83-90.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Gartside S, Leitch M, Young A, Ingram C, Johnson D. . In: International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology: 26th Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum Congress (CINP). 2008, Munich, Germany: Cambridge University Press.
  • Leitch MM, Gartside SE, Hannant AP. . In: Journal of Psychopharmacology: Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. 2005, Harrogate, UK: Sage Publications Ltd.
  • Gartside SE, Leitch MM, Young AH. . In: 24th CINP Congress. 2004, Paris, France: International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology: Cambridge University Press.
  • Troakes C, Gartside SE, Leitch MM, Ingram CD. . In: Journal of Psychopharmacology: Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. 2003, Cambridge, UK: Sage Publications Ltd.
  • Gartside SE, Leitch MM, Young AH. . In: European Neuropsychopharmacology: 16th Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2003, Prague, Czech Republic: Elsevier BV.
  • Fairchild GF, Leitch MM, Gartside SE, Ingram CD. . In: Journal of Psychopharmacology: Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. 2003, Cambridge, UK: Sage Publications Ltd.
  • Ingram CD, Gartside SE, Leitch MM, Fairchild GF. . In: European Neuropsychopharmacology: 16th Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2003, Prague, Czech Republic: Elsevier BV.
  • Fairchild G, Leitch MM, Ingram CD. . In: Journal of Psychopharmacology: Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. 2002, Harrogate: Sage Publications Ltd.
  • Gartside SE, Leitch MM, Johnson DA, Ingram CD. . In: Journal of Psychopharmacology: Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. 2002, Harrogate: Sage Publications Ltd.
  • Leitch MM, McQuade R, Gartside SE, Young AH. . In: Journal of Psychopharmacology: Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. 2002, Harrogate: Sage Publications Ltd.
  • Leitch MM, McQuade R, Gartside SE, Young AH. . In: Journal of Psychopharmacology: Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. 2002, Harrogate: Sage Publications Ltd.

• Note

  • MARSHALL EF, LEITCH M. PLASMA SEROTONIN. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS 1994, 655(1), 167-168.