Role
Module Leaderships in Practical Techniques in:
- Biology (level 1)
- Dugs and Tissues (level 2)
- Applied Molecular Physiology (level 2)
- Cellular Physiology and Toxicology (level 3)
Teaching contributions to other modules are:
- Essential of Living Systems (level 1)
- Human Systems (level 1)
- Introduction to Pharmacology (level 1)
- Integrative Human Physiology (level 2)
- Current Topics in Pharmacology (level 3)
- Current Topics in Physiology (level 3)
- Pharmacology (Masters level)
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
- Member of the European Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Sponsors and collaborators
- Royal Society
- Dr Jamie Dick (Queens University, Belfast)
- Dr Alison Dunn (Leeds University)
- Dr Dirk Plavoet (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
- Dr Paul Wood (Loughborough University)
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