REFEREED  PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS – in print

Learning and Teaching
1. Skingsley, D., Bradley, EJ, and Nolan, P. Neuropharmacology and Mental Health Nurse Prescribers. Journal of Clinical Nursing 15(8):989-997 (2006)
2. Skingsley DR Review of The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Act 2001 Talisman (2005). Ed P Orsmond (in-house publication)
3. LTSN Bioscience Bulletin. Skingsley DR. “A reply to an Audit of Disability Provision” Summer 2002 (6): 9 (2002)
4. Skingsley, D.R. Graduate teaching on the internet: a resource driven environment? SEB abstracts ACP2.2. EBO.(1997) http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00898/meeting/cant97/acp2-abs.htm

FTIR
1. Sule-Suso, J., Skingsley, D., Sockalingum, GD., Kohler, A., Kegelaer, G., Manfait, M., and El Haj, AJ. FT-IR microspectroscopy as a tool to assess lung cancer cells response to chemotherapy. Vibrational Spectroscopy 38:179-184 (2005)
2. Skingsley DR. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic methods for low volume analysis of oral mucus (P2840). European Respiratory Journal 22 (supplement 45): 446s (2003)
3. Gengs C., Leung H-T., Skingsley DR., Lovchev, MI., Yin, Z., Semenov, EP., Burg, MG., Hardie, RC., and Pak WL. The target of Drosophila photoreceptor synaptic transmission is a Histamine-gated chloride channel encoded by ort (hclA). The Journal of Biological Chemistry 277(44): 42113-42120 (2002)
4. Skingsley DR. and Sheffield D. Investigation of human oral mucus using Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy (1128). European Respiratory Journal 20 (supplement 38): 175s (2002)
5. Skingsley, D.R., White A.J. and Weston A. Analysis of Pulmonate mucus by infrared spectroscopy. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 66: 363-371 (2000)
6. Skingsley, D.R., and White AJ. Infrared analysis of invertebrate mucins. Biochemical Society Transactions 28(3)A86: 72 (2000)

Invertebrate studies
1. Smith P.J. and Skingsley D.R. Oil beetles (Col: Meloidae) on the soft cliffs of Prawle Point, South Devon. Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists’ Society 66(474):188-194 (2007)
2. Skingsley D.R. Snail density measurements from hedgerows at East Prawle (Devon). Mollusc World 4 (March): 6 (2004)
3. Staffordshire Tipulidae a Provisional Atlas: Ed D.R Skingsley. Staffordshire University press. ISBN 0897898533 (1999)
4. Skingsley, D.R. Provisional coincidence map and adult flight chronology of the Tipulidae of Staffordshire. North Staffs Field Club Transactions 22: 25-29 (1997)
5. Webb M.R., Mitchell, P. and Skingsley D.R. Invertebrate Survey, Whiston Eaves Staffordshire. A report to Hepworth minerals & Chemicals PLC (1996)
6. Skingsley, D.R., and Elliott, C.J.H. Laser ablation of identified neurones within the respiratory pattern generator circuit of Lymnaea stagnalis. Journal of Physiology (Lond): 483-P: 219P (1995)
7. Skingsley, D.R., Hardie, R.C., Laughlin, S.B. Properties of the histamine-gated chloride channels in large monopolar cells (LMCs) of the Dipteran compound eye: a comparative study. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 176:611-623 (1995)
8. Skingsley D.R., Bright, K., Santama, N., van Minnen J., Brierley, M.J., Burke, J.F., Benjamin, P.R. A molecularly defined cardio-respiratory interneurone expressing SDPFLRF/GDPFLRFamide in the snail Lymnaea: Monosynaptic connections and pharmacology. Journal of Neurophysiology 69(3):915-927 (1993).
9. Skingsley D.R., Hardie, R.C., Laughlin, S.B. A comparative study of histamine-gated chloride channels in isolated large monopolar cells (LMCs) in Diptera: Tuning synapses to visual ecology. Journal of Physiology (Lond) 473:193 (1993)
10. Santama, N., Wheeler, C.H., Skingsley, D.R., Yeoman, M.S., Bright, K., Kaye, I., Burke, J.F., Benjamin, P.R. Identification, distribution and physiological activity of three novel neuropeptides of Lymnaea: EFLRIamide and pQFYRIamide encoded by the FMRFamide gene, and a related peptide. European Journal of Neuroscience 7: 234-246 (1995)

WORKSHOPS, ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTERS:

In support of Teaching and Learning
1. Skingsley DR: Second year laboratory based group work as an aid to undergraduate project preparation. University of Birmingham HEA reps forum (10-11th September 2009). www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/repforum09.aspx
2. Merry S, Skingsley DR and Orsmond P. Fostering lifelong learning within a social constructivist environment. The 17th Improving Student Learning Symposium, Imperial College London (7th to 9th September 2009). http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/isl/isl2009/papers/session4/merry.html
3. Skingsley DR, Merry S and Orsmond P. The role of second year laboratory based group work in undergraduate project preparation. Science Learning and Teaching Conference, Herriott Watt University and the HEA (16th to 17th June 2009) http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/ftp/events/sltc09/presentations/o6skingsley.pdf
4. Skingsley DR. Invited facilitator: Moderator Networks: A personal view of the 2006-2007 moderation process. OCN Annual regional moderators forum (Wolverhampton 6th Nov 2007)
5. Skingsley DR . Workshop organiser – The use of controlled drugs in non medical prescribing. The 6th annual conference - Non-medical prescribing in mental health. South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Hoar Cross Hall, Staffordshire, 28th November 2006)
6. Skingsley DR. Nursing, Effectiveness & Strategic Development Directorate South Staffordshire Health Trust. Presentation on the Development of Neuropharmacology teaching for mental health nurses (25th July 2006)
7. Skingsley DR. Staffordshire University (Nursing): Mental health conference on Depression (22nd September 2005, Stafford). Neuropharmacology of anti depressants.
8. Skingsley DR. Invited Speaker - Staffordshire Adult Mental Health Standard Leads Meeting (20th July 2005, Stafford). Neuropharmacology teaching.
9. Skingsley DR. HEA Forensic Science Conference (July 2005, Lincoln). The use of block practicals in undergraduate forensic biology.
10. Skingsley DR. Invited workshop organiser – Non-medical prescribing in mental health. Examining the impact of non-medical prescribing in mental health care. Alton Towers Hotel (4-5th November 2004). SSNHSPCT
11. Skingsley DR. Establishing supplementary nurse prescribing in Oxleas NHS Trust. Bracton Conference Centre (29th October 2004)
12. Skingsley DR. South-East London non-medical prescribing network nurse and pharmacist prescribing conference. Avonmouth House Elephant and Castle London (4th October 2004)
13. Skingsley DR. Disability Awareness in Health and Social Care, Sadlers Wells, London (7th September 2004)
14. Skingsley DR. LTSN “New legislation New opportunities: Implementing the new disabilities legislation” (Loughborough University 8th April 2002). Disability audit – its usefulness in laboratory design and refurbishment
15. Skingsley DR. LTA exposition day, Staffordshire University 19th April 2001. Use of the Intranet in student assessment as part of the BLC project of Julie Adams (Staffordshire University ITS).
16. Skingsley DR. Graduate Careers in Physiology and Human Biology. Staffordshire University Preparing for work programme (25th Feb 2000)
17. Skingsley DR. School of Sciences LTA exposition day. Staffordshire University (29th April 1998) Using student derived internet pages for synoptic assessment.
18. Skingsley DR SEB Annual meeting (7th-11th April 1997. University of York): Abstracts interactive multi-media biology-experimental biology online symposium ACP2.2: 63. Graduate teaching on the internet: a resource driven environment?
19. Neurology for Neuroscientists, Magdelen College Oxford (27-28th March 1995)

In support of Disability
1. Skingsley DR. ‘Assessment and professional competencies’. Aligning assessment to current trends in HE. Staffordshire University (23rd May 2008)
2. Skingsley DR. Disability and Award Development. “Disability and Placements” and “Disability and award structure”. Staffordshire University (17th April 2008)
3. Skingsley D.R. ‘Measuring participation: datasets and disabled learners’. Embedding Disability? Action on Access, Aston University Lakeside Conference Centre. (13th September 2007) http://www.actiononaccess.org/?p=2_3_11
4. Skingsley D.R.Invited speaker and panel member – Braille Transcription Disability Awareness Event: Access for all. Presentation on: Breaking down the barriers data evaluation. Britannia Stadium Stoke-on-Trent (28th June 2006)
5. Skingsley DR. Staffordshire Adult Mental Health Standard Leads Meeting (July 2005, Stafford). Analysis of progression data for adults with Mental Health difficulties into HE.
6. Skingsley DR. Faculty of Health and Sciences one day workshop “Supporting laboratory and practice based learning for disabled students in sport, health and exercise” (4th July 2003 Staffordshire University).. Examples of good practice.
7. Skingsley DR. Law and Sciences Learning and Teaching Half day Workshop (20th November 2002 Staffordshire University) Disability and award outcome.

In support of Research into mucus
1. Skingsley DR. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic methods for low volume analysis of oral mucus. European Respiratory Society Annual Congress (September 27th to 1st October 2003 Vienna).
2. Skingsley DR. and Sheffield D. “Investigation of human oral mucus using Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy”. European Respiratory Society Annual Congress (September 14th to 18th 2002 Stockholm):
3. Skingsley, DR. Hot mucus and molluscs. Biological Sciences Research Seminar (University of Sunderland 6th March 2002).
4. Skingsley DR. FTIR analysis of molluscan mucus. Ecology Centre University of Sunderland (6th March 2001)
5. White, A.J., Skingsley, D.R. and Beddoes A.F. IR-spectroscopy of molluscan mucus. SEB Annual meeting (7th-11th April 1997. University of York): Abstracts animal and cell biology C9.7: 113.

In support of Research into Lung disease
1. Manfait M., Sockalingum G. D., Skingsley D., Kohler A., Jeannesson P., El Haj J., and Sulé-Suso J. Vibrational Microspectroscopy as a New Tool to Assess Response of In Vitro Growing Lung Cancer Cells to Gemcitabine. Proc 97th Amer Assoc Cancer Res, Abstract No: 1390; 1-5 April, Washington, USA, 2006.
2. Sulé-Suso J., Skingsley D., Sockalingum G. D., Kohler A., Manfait M., and El Haj A. J. Effect of Gemcitabine to in vitro growing lung cancer cells measured with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopy. International workshop on data analysis and biospectroscopy: - DataSpec 2005 (June 2005 Rheims, France).
3. Manfait M., Sockalingum G. D., Skingsley D., Kohler A., El Haj A. J., and Sulé-Suso J. Infrared Spectroscopic Study of the Effects of Gemcitabine on In Vitro Growing Lung Cancer Cells. American Association for Cancer Research (Feb 2005, San Diego).
4. Sulé-Suso J., Skingsley D., Sockalingum G. D., Kohler A., Manfait M., and El Haj A. J. Sensitivity of in vitro growing lung cancer cells to gemcitabine measured with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopy. British Thoracic Oncology Group (26-29th Jan 2005, Dublin).
5. Sulé-Suso J, Skingsley DR, Sockalingum, GD, Kohler, A, Kegalaer, G, Manfait, M and El Haj, E. FTIR microspectroscopy as a tool to assess tumour response to chemotherapy in lung cancer cells. SPEC 2004. Shedding new light on disease: Optical diagnosis for the new millennium. (19th to 23rd June 2004, Newark, NJ, USA).
6. Sulé-Suso J, Skingsley DR, Sockalingum, GD, Kohler, A, Kegalaer, G, Manfait, M and El Haj, E. Spectroscopy, chemotherapy and lung cancer. International workshop on biospectroscopy and chemometrics (26th and 27th May 2004. Norwegian Food Research Institute and NHL (Matforsk), Aas, Norway).
7. Sulé-Suso J and Skingsley DR. Effects of chemotherapy on lung cancer cells measured with microscopic FTIR spectroscopy. University of Reims (February 2004)

In support of Research into Entomology
1. Skingsley DR, Workshop Organiser – Green City Festival (BBC Stoke-on-Trent). Lead a workshop on leaf litter organisms (9/10th June 2007)
2. Skingsley DR, Workshop Organiser – BBC Springwatch Stoke-on-Trent. A workshop on leaf litter invertebrates (3rd June 2006).
3. Skingsley DR. Fly Vision Derbyshire Natural History Society: (June 2004)
4. Society for Neuroscience 31st annual meeting (San Diego 10-15 Nov 2001). Yin, Z, Skingsley DR, Geng C, Koliantz G, Bowman J, Hardie RC and Pak WL. The Drosophila ort gene encodes a subunit of a novel histamine-gated chloride channel
5. Skingsley DR, Workshop organiser – City of Stoke-on-Trent Community Services Section ‘Heath Watch Event’ Park Hall CP Stoke (19th Sept 1999)
6. Invited Delegate – Local Biodiversity Network launch – Blue Planet Aquarium, Ellesmere Port (14th Nov 1998)
7. Skingsley DR, Invited Speaker. “How and what flies see”. Dipterists Forum AGM (2nd November 1996, NHM London).
8. Skingsley DR. The actions of various pharmacological agents on the histamine-gated chloride channel of Drosophila LMCs. SERC invertebrate initiative symposium, University of Sussex (8th-10th September 1993).
9. Skingsley, DR, Hardie, RC and Laughlin SB. Tuning synapses to visual ecology in the Dipteran compound eye: A comparative study of histamine-gated chloride channels. (pp360)Göttingen Neurobiology Conference: Genes, brains and behaviour. (4th-6th June 1993).
10. Skingsley DR, Hardie, RC and Pak, WL. A histamine-gated chloride channel from Drosophila: a patch-clamp study on identified visual interneurones. (pp546)
11. Skingsley DR. Patch-clamp analysis of identified visual interneurones in Drosophila mutants lacking electroretinogram (ERG) transients.Göttingen Neurobiology Conference: Rhythmogenicity in neurones and networks. (12th-14th June 1992). SERC invertebrate initiative symposium, University of Manchester (6th-7th September 1992).
12. Skingsley DR, Hardie, RC, Pak, WL and Bowman J. Some characteristics of the histamine-gated chloride channel in the eyes of Diptera.
13. Skingsley and Hardie. The histamine-gated chloride channel in the visual system of Drosophila melanogaster. Bristol University symposium on ion channels and cellular calcium (20th-21st May 1992. Department of Physiology). European Neuroscience Association satellite symposium on photoreceptors. Cambridge (1991).
14. Skingsley DR, Hardie, RC, and Pak, WL. Some characteristics of the histamine-gated chloride channel, in identified visual interneurons in Drosophila. (No 32) Neuroscience Seminar University of Cambridge (10th December 1991)
15. Skingsley DR, Hardie, RC and Pak, WL. Characterisation of the histamine-gated chloride channel, in identified visual interneurones of Drosophila. SERC invertebrate initiative symposium, University of Southampton (19th-20th September 1991).
16. Skingsley DR, Hardie, RC and Pak, WL. Characterisation of the histamine-gated chloride channel, in identified visual interneurones of Drosophila. European Neuroscience Association. Photoreceptor Satellite symposium (13th September 1991 University of Cambridge).

In support of Research into Molluscan neuroscience
1. Skingsley D.R. and Elliott CJE. Axonal photoinactivation demonstrates that the two branches of VD4 interneurone exhibit different effects on the postsynaptic cell RPeD1, in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis. 4th International Congress in Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry. (Birmingham Aug 1995). Poster A5.14.
2. Skingsley DR and Elliott CJH. Photoinactivation of cardio-respiratory interneurones in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis. Physiological Society winter meeting (19th-21st December 1994, University of Birmingham) Journal of Physiology 219P: C195
3. Skingsley DR.Novel peptidergic systems in Lymnaea stagnalis: A pharmacological study. Northern Neurobiology Meeting (Leeds Sept. 1994).
4. Skingsley DR. Molluscan neuropharmacology. Neuroscience Club Seminar, Leeds University (8th December 1993).
5. Skingsley DR and Elliott CJH. Laser ablation of molluscan interneurones. Physiological Society meeting Southampton (27-29th Sept 1993)
6. Skingsley DR and Benjamin PR. Pharmacological and morphological study of a centrally acting FMRFamide containing interneurone, the visceral white interneurone (VWI), in the model CNS of Lymnaea stagnalis. International Molluscan Neurobiology Symposium, Symon III. Vrije Univeriteit Amsterdam, Holland (20th-24th August 1990). Poster II-10
7. Skingsley, DR and Benjamin, PR. Pharmacological investigation of FMRFamide-related peptides in the model invertebrate system of Lymnaea stagnalis.Society of Experimental Biology AGM, University of Warwick (19th-23rd March 1990). A7.11
8. Skingsley DR and Benjamin PR. Synaptic actions of a FMRFamide containing interneurone.Society of Experimental Biology AGM, University of Edinburgh (3rd-7th April 1989) A6.1
9. Invited to attend “Microelectrode techniques for cell physiology”. Marine Biology Association. Completed September 1987

In support of Research into Endocrine disruptors
1. Acknowledgement: The seven year itch – progress in research on endocrine disruption in aquatic invertebrates since 1999 Ecotoxicology Eprint - 2007
2. Smith H and Skingsley DR. Poster session 3D: The effects of 4-Nonylphenol on the life cycle and development of Lymnaea stagnalis. 3rd SETAC World Congress (21-15 May 2000) Global Environmental Issues in the 21st Century: Problems, causes and solutions.
3. Smith H, Skingsley DR, and Thorndyke M. The effects of oestrogenic compounds on the life cycle of the Great pond snail (Lymnaea stagnalis). BES winter meeting, Leeds University (20-22nd Dec 1999): Ecotoxicology section poster Q/1:
4. Smith H and Skingsley DR. Poster presentation: The effects of 4-Nonylphenol on the life cycle and development of the Great pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis. Endocrine Disrupters in the Environment: The analytical challenge. (NW Water Warrington, 11-12 Oct 1999).