The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Professor Michael Calford
Preferred name: Mike
School: School of Biomedical Sciences
Commenced with Institution: 10-JUL-2000
Personal URL:

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Dr Neil Spratt;Professor John Rostas;Professor Michael Calford 1 National Health & Medical Research Council Equipment/Infrastructure - Equipment Grant Hypoxic culture chamber and low-pressure gas regulators   11500  
Professor Michael Calford;Dr Carl Parsons 2007 1 American Tinnitus Association Project - Research Grant Neuroplasticity, behaviour and therapeutic training in an animal model of tinnitus   97171  
Dr Carl Parsons;Professor Michael Calford 2007 1 University of Newcastle Project - Near Miss Investigating neuroplasticity underlying tinnitus   20000  
Professor Michael Calford;Professor G Donnan;Professor Stephen Davis;Professor Graeme Hankey;Dr David Howells 2007 5 National Health & Medical Research Council Program - Program Grant (Shared) Improving stroke outcomes: New targets and therapies   1229800  
Professor Michael Calford;Assoc. Prof John Morley;Assoc. Prof Trichur Vidyasagar 2006 1 University of Newcastle Project - Near Miss Is correlated neural activity necessary for developmental brain plasticity?   20000  
Professor Vaughan Carr;Assoc. Prof Amanda Baker;Professor Michael Calford;Professor Trevor Day;Professor Peter Dunkley;Professor Michael Hazelton;Professor Andrew Heathcote;Professor Brian Kelly;Conjoint A/Prof Chris Levi;Professor Patricia Michie;Professor David Pow;Professor John Rostas;Assoc. Prof Ulrich Schall;Professor Alistair Sim;Professor Michael Startup 2006 3 University of Newcastle Centre - Priority Research Centre PRC - Priority Research Centre for Brain & Mental Health Research (CBMHR)   206000  
Dr Carl Parsons;Professor Michael Calford 2006 1 University of Newcastle Project - Near Miss Investigating the link between auditory cortex plasticity and chronic tinnitus   20000  
Professor Michael Calford 2005 1 University of Newcastle Equipment/Infrastructure - Research Infrastructure Block Grant (RIBG) 2005 RIBG allocation   85000  
Dr Carl Parsons;Professor Michael Calford 2005 1 Hunter Medical Research Institute Project - Project Grant Investigating the link between auditory system plasticity and chronic tinnitus   13400  
Professor Michael Calford;Professor B Dreher 2004 3 National Health & Medical Research Council Project - Project Grant (Shared) Role of cortico-cortical connections in plasticity   25500  
Professor Michael Calford 2003 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant International Brain Research Organisation Congress. Prague 10-16 July 2003   2500  
Conjoint Pr Loris Chahl;Professor Vaughan Carr;Dr Paul Tooney;Dr Carmel Loughland;Professor Michael Calford 2003 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Assessment of somatosensory function in subjects with schizophrenia: touch, pain and axon reflex flare.   11000  
Professor Michael Calford;Dr Carl Parsons;Professor Ellak Von Nagy-Felsobuki 2002 3 National Health & Medical Research Council Project - Project Grant Neurosteroid modulation of GABA-inhibition in vivo: central auditory pathway models   330000  
Professor Michael Calford 2002 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, USA 2 - 8 November 2002   2500  
Professor Michael Calford 2001 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Structural changes, new neurons and stem cell implantation in adult cerebral cortex.   10000  
Professor Michael Calford;Professor Ellak Von Nagy-Felsobuki 2001 1 Hunter Medical Research Institute Project - Research Grant Sampling of brain synthesised steroids involved in increasing inhibition in anxiolytic response.   20000  
Professor Michael Calford 2001 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Movement and Sensation - International Symposium, Queensland 2-6 September 2001   1482  
Professor Michael Calford 2001 3 National Health & Medical Research Council Project - Project Grant Bilateral Interactions in Adult Brain Plasticity.   210285  
Professor Michael Calford 2000 1 National Health & Medical Research Council Project - Project Grant Models of inhibitory plasticity: adult somatosensory cortex and auditory midbrain.   31226  
Professor Michael Calford 2000 1 Australian Spinal Research Trust Project - Research Grant New Neurons in Neural Repair and Plasticity.   20000  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Chemistry) Principal Supervisor Analysis of Trace Metals and Metalloproteins in Brain Tissue after Experience Dependent Plasticity

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
PhD 0.200

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Saalmann Y B, Kirkcaldie Matthew Taylor, Waldron Shannon, Calford Michael Brian, ’Cellular distribution of the GABA(A) receptor-modulating 3 alpha-hydroxy, 5 alpha-reduced pregnane steroids in the adult rat brain’, Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 19 272-284 (2007) [C1]

Young J M, Waleszczyk W J, Wang C, Calford Michael Brian, Dreher B, Obermayer K, ’Cortical reorganization consistent with spike timing but not correlation-dependent plasticity’, Nature Neuroscience, 10 887-895 (2007) [C1]

Saalmann Y B, Morgan I G, Calford Michael Brian, ’Neurosteroids involved in regulating inhibition in the inferior colliculus’, Journal of Neurophysiology, 96 3064-3073 (2006) [C1]

Klineberg I, Calford Michael Brian, Dreher B, Henry P, Macefield V, Miles T, Rowe M, Sessle B, Trulsson M, ’A consensus statement on osseoperception (Concensus)’, Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, 32 145-146 (2005) [C3]

Morrison Anthony Arthur, Paul Mitchell Christopher, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Ab initio and DFT cation affinity study of selected neurosteroids’, Journal of Molecular Structure-Theochem, 723 85-93 (2005) [C1]

Tailby C, Wright L L, Metha A B, Calford Michael Brian, ’Activity-dependent maintenance and growth of dendrites in adult cortex’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102 4631-4636 (2005) [C1]

Calford Michael Brian, ’Degree of adaptability of the somatosensory cortex to change: Prospects for integration of bone-mounted dental prostheses’, Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, 32 115-118 (2005) [C1]

Calford Michael Brian, Chino Y M, Das A, Eysel U T, Gilbert C D, Heinen S J, Kaas J H, Ullman S, ’Neuroscience - Rewiring the adult brain’, Nature, 438 E3-E3 (2005) [C1]

Paul Mitchell Christopher, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Multi-elemental analysis of brain tissue from healthy Wistar rats using sector field inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry’, Spectrochimica Acta Part B - Atomic Spectroscopy, 59 1485-1490 (2004) [C1]

Waleszczyk W J, Wang C, Young J M, Burke W, Calford Michael Brian, Dreher B, ’Laminar differences in plasticity in area 17 following retinal lesions in kittens or adult cats’, European Journal of Neuroscience, 17 2351-2368 (2003) [C1]

Calford Michael Brian, Wright Layne, Metha Andrew B, Taglianetti Vivian, ’Topographic Plasticity in Primary Visual Cortex Is Mediated by Local Corticocortical Connections’, The Journal of Neuroscience, 23 6434-6442 (2003) [C1]

Young Jm, Waleszczyk Wj, Wang C, Calford Michael Brian, Dreher B, Burke W, ’Discharge Field Incongruity of Binocular Cortical Neurones Outside the Projection Zone of a Monocular Retinal Lesion’, Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, 13 224 (2002) [C3]

Calford Michael Brian, ’Dynamic Representational Plasticity in Sensory Cortex’, Neuroscience, 111, No 4 709-738 (2002) [C1]

Burke W, Waleszcyk Wj, Wang C, Young Jm, Calford Michael Brian, Dreher B, ’Laminar differences in plasticity in striate cortex of cats’, Journal of Physiology - Cellular Physiology, n/a 69P (2002) [C3]

Young Jm, Waleszczyk Wj, Burke W, Calford Michael Brian, Dreher B, ’Topographic reorganization in area 18 of adult cats following circumscribed monocular retinal lesions in adolescence’, Journal of Physiology, 541.2 601-612 (2002) [C1]

Dreher B, Burke W, Calford Michael Brian, ’Cortical plasticity revealed by circumscribed retinal lesions or artificial scotomas’, Progress in Brain Research, 134 217-246 (2001) [C1]

Calford Michael Brian, ’Mechanisms for Acute Changes in Sensory Maps’, Movement and Sensation, 0 11 (2001) [C4]

Conference Publication

Paul Mitchell Christopher, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Changes in metal fluxes in the cerebral cortex of wistar rats after reduced sensory input by vibressectomy’, 6th RACI Conference on Physical Chemistry (CPC2007). Program Book, Adelaide (2007) [E3]

Bardy C, Wang C, Fitzgibbon T, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Dreher B, ’Matching contextual modulation through lesioned and normal eyes: presumptive reorganization of cortical wiring to binocular cells in the primary visual cortex (Poster)’, 7th IBRO 2007 World Congress of Neuroscience Program, Melbourne (2007) [E3]

Paul Mitchell Christopher, Allen J, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Quantification and characterization of metallothioneins by measurement of Cd, Cu, S and Zn using on-line HPLC / ICP-SF-MS and FTICR-MS’, 6th RACI Conference on Physical Chemistry (CPC2007). Program Book, Adelaide (2007) [E3]

Vickery R M, Parsons C H, Kirkcaldie M T K, Chelvanayagam D K, Calford Michael Brian, Morley J M, ’Binocular interactions in single area 17 neurons following a monocular retinal lesion’, Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Sydney (2006) [E4]

Parsons Carl Harold, Rajan R, Calford Michael Brian, ’Monoaural cochlear lesions induce changes in binaural processing in cat auditory cortex’, Society for Neuroscience, Unknown (2005) [E3]

Dreher B, Young J M, Waleszcxyk W J, Wang C, Calford Michael Brian, Obermayer K, ’Non-Hebbian effects in patterns of topographic reorganization in cat visual cortex’, Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience, Unknown (2005) [E3]

Parsons Carl Harold, Paul Mitchell Christopher, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, Calford Michael Brian, ’High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Measurement of Zn and Trace Metal Response Functions in Barrel Cortex Following Vibrissal Lesions’, Proceeding of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Melbourne, Australia (2004) [E3]

Paul Mitchell Christopher, Morrison Anthony Arthur, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, ’The cation affinity of neuroactive steroids: molecular orbital calculations and in vitro emi-ms measurements’, Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Melbourne, Australia (2004) [E3]

Paul Mitchell Christopher, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Multi-Elemental Analysis of Brain Tissues using Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry: Healthy Wistar Rats’, 4th International Conference on High Resolution Sector Field ICPMS, Venice, Italy (2003) [E3]

Calford Michael Brian, ’Mechanisms for Acute Changes in Sensory Maps’, Sensorimotor Control of Movement and Posture, Cairns, Qld, Australia (2002) [E1]

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