!!Sandip Patel - Curriculum Vitae
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__Education:__
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*1995 PhD Pharmacology (Supervisor: Colin W. Taylor) University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK\\
*1992 BSc Medical Biochemistry (2.1), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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__Recent Grants (selected):__
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*2020 Switching the selectivity of an ion channel on demand. £620,461 (BBSRC)\\
*2016 Membrane contact sites between endolysosomes and the ER as novel hubs in Ca2+ signalling. £529,035  (BBSRC)\\
*2013 Role for a novel animal endo-lysosomal Ca2+/H+ exchanger in Ca2+ signalling and chemotaxis. £529,119 (BBSRC)\\
*2009 The molecular basis for calcium release by NAADP. £515,603 (BBSRC)
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__Recent Talks (selected):__
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*2020 International Conference on Calcium Signaling: ‘Regulatory mechanisms to impact on health and diseases’, New Delhi, India\\
*2020 EMBO Symposium “Calcium Signaling: Molecular Mechanisms to role in health and diseases” Bangalore, India\\
*2019 CD38 and NAD Meeting, Shenzhen, China\\
*2019 Calcium Signaling Conference, Fez, Morocco \\
*2019 Open Calcium Signalling Conference, (Speaker and Session chair) Milton Keynes, UK \\
*2019 FASEB Science Research Conference, Dublin, Ireland\\
*2019 UK-Qatar Health Research Forum ‘Joining Forces' Doha, Qatar\\
*2019 Gordon Research Conference, Galveston, Texas, USA\\
*2018 15th International Meeting of the European Calcium Society, Hamburg, Germany\\
*2018 Physiological Society Symposium "Lysophysiology" (Session chair) London, UK\\
*2018 Open Calcium Signalling Conference, Milton Keynes, UK (Session chair)\\
*2017 20th International Symposium on Calcium Binding Proteins and Calcium Function in Health and Disease, Awaji, Japan\\
*2017 International Workshop “Molecular mechanisms of autophagy and their application to Disease” Sao Paulo, Brazil\\
*2016 14th International Meeting of the European Calcium Society (Session chair), Valladolid, Spain\\
*2015 Biochemical Society Meeting "Organelle Crosstalk in Membrane Dynamics and Cell Signalling" Edinburgh, UK\\
*2015 Physiological Society Symposium "Endo-lysosomal channels: Form, function and failure"  (Organiser), Cardiff, UK\\
*2015 Gordon Research Seminar “Ca2+ signalling” (Discussion Leader) Maine, USA\\
*2015 EFOR 2015, Paris, France
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__Committees (selected):__
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*2019 Grant Assessment Panel member: FWO, Research Foundation Flanders (MED1)\\
*2017 External Evaluation Committee: Cyprus Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education\\
*2016 Grant assessment panel member: Parkinson’s UK\\
*2009 Signalling Theme Panel, Biochemical Society, UK (Vice chair: 2009 - 2012)
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__Editorial Boards:__
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*Faculty of 1000, Contact, Messenger (Associate editor), Biochemical Journal, Cell Calcium\\
*Biology of the Cell (2003 - 2006)\\ \\