Andrew Plested
Professor Of Cellular Biophysics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Brown's Town, Saint Ann, Jamaica
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Top SchoolAndrew Plested is a Professor of Cellular Biophysics with 15 years of experience probing ion channel receptors central to nervous system function, including glutamate and glycine receptors. Based at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a Junior Group Leader in the NeuroCure cluster, he combines electrophysiology techniques—patch clamp, rapid solution exchange, and single-channel recording—with molecular biology to dissect activation mechanisms and structure–function relationships. His long-term research aims to reveal molecular mechanisms of receptor activation and modulation and to link these processes to normal brain activity and disease. Trained with an MSci and PhD from Imperial College London, he runs a lab at the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, bridging rigorous biophysics with translational neuroscience. Less obvious is his sustained focus on rapid solution exchange methods, a niche experimental strength that enables kinetic insights other approaches miss.
15 years of coding experience
MSci, MSci at Imperial College London
Italian, German
Github Skills (12)
tuner7
wave7
macos7
variance6
testing6
noise6
qt5
linux5
electrophysiology5
signal-processing4
theory1
calculation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aplested/DC-Stats
May 2017 - May 2026
Null Hypothesis Significance Testing by Randomization, Fieller's test and Effect size calculator, based on David Colquhoun's stats tools. Qt5 GUI for macOS, Win & Linux
Contributions:17 PRs, 87 pushes, 11 branches in 9 years 1 month
linuxmacosqttesting
aplested/aligator
Apr 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
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