Role
Dr Chris Lloyd Mills is a Senior Lecturer in Physiology and Pharmacology. Since arriving at NTU he has taught on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules on our Biosciences courses. His current teaching includes
- Module leader for Introduction to Pharmacology (level 4)
Contributions to other modules include
- Living Systems (Level 4)
- Practical Techniques (level 4)
- Human Physiology (level 4)
- Immunopharmacology (level 5)
- Current Topics in Pharmacology (level 6)
- BSc (level 6) and MSc (level 7) project students
Career overview
Career overview
Dr Lloyd Mills did an undergraduate degree in Zoology at the University of Liverpool, where he developed an interest in environmental physiology. This was followed by a PhD at the University of Southampton on environmental physiology. His first postdoc position, at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff was on developing a cellular model of Cystic Fibrosis and investigating potential drug treatments. His second postdoc was on calcium signalling at the University of Liverpool. He joined NTU in 1998. During his time at NTU Dr Lloyd Mills has been the course leader for Both BSc and MBiol Pharmacology degree courses, supervised several PhD students, acted as internal and external PhD examiner, and peer reviewed papers for a variety of journals
Research areas
Dr Lloyd Mills main areas of research interest are:
- Crustacean Ecophysiology
- Physiological environmental adaptations
- Invasive species
- aquatic pollution
- Cellular Physiology
- Mechanisms of heavy metal toxicity
- Calcium signalling
Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil / PhD exist in all the areas identified above and in associated interdisciplinary areas. Further information may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School.
External activity
- Member of the Society for Experimental Biology
Publications
Selected publications
- Parasite infection manipulates sodium regulation in the freshwater amphipod Gammarus pulex (L.). Brooks SJ and Lloyd Mills C, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 2011, 159, 247-252, DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.03.011
- Osmoregulation in the hypogean freshwater amphipod, Gammarus pulex (L.). Brooks SJ and Lloyd Mills C, Journal of Crustacean Biology, 2011, 31, 332-338, DOI: 10.1651/10-3336.1
- Cation regulation and alteration of water permeability in the amphipod Dikerogammarus villosus: an indicator of invasion potential. Brooks SJ, Platvoet D and Lloyd Mills C, Fundamental and Applied Limnology, 2008, 172, 183-189. DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2008/0172-0183
- Reduced tubulin tyrosination as an early marker of mercury toxicity in differentiating N2a cells. Lawton M, Iqbal M, Kontovraki M, Lloyd Mills C and Hargreaves AJ, Toxicology in vitro, 2007, 21 (7), 1258-61
- Gill Na+, K+-ATPase in a series of hyper-regulating gammarid amphipods. Enzyme characterisation and the effects of salinity acclimation. Brooks SJ and Lloyd Mills C, Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 2006, 144A, 24-32
- Development of a new low cost high sensitivity system for behavioural ecotoxicity testing. Lloyd Mills C, Shukla DH and Compton GJ, Aquatic Toxicology, 2006, 77, 197-201