Dave's research has been concerned with the embryological development of motor nerves, the innervation of skeletal muscle, and the regeneration of nerves following injury, with a particular emphasis on the role of Schwann cells. His technical specialty is structure-function correlations using a combination of light- and electron- microscopy, the study of intracellular calcium with fluorescent microscopy, and electrophysiology.
David Davey gained his PhD from the Department of Physiology, McGill University in 1970, and then undertook two years of post-doctoral training in Anatomy at McGill, and then Zoology at the University of Bristol as a Fellow of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. After a Year at Monash University, he moved to The University of Sydney in 1974, first as a Lecturer in the Department. Apart from a year as Visiting Professor back at McGill, he remained at Sydney until 2000. For several years he was Head of Department, and then Associate Dean of the School of Biomedical Science when the latter was formed in 1999, until his retirement in 2001. Dave was particularly active in establishing the computer network within the Department and Faculty of Medicine.
Since 1984, Annick Ansselin has been an important research collaborator. Initially she was a research affiliate of the Department, and then became a member of the Department after she accepted an appointment in the Electron Microscope unit and membership of the Faculty of Medicine. Annick & Dave have collaborated in a number of studies, grants and student supervisions. In 2001 she became an Honorary Senior Lecturer upon her retirement.
Honorary Associate Professor David Davey Department of Physiology The University of Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIAEmail: daved@physiol.usyd.edu.au