Education

PhD, University of Cambridge, UK, 1989

Current position

Professor of Experimental Anatomy, Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK

Publications (since 2016)

1. Sharman, J., Faccenda, E., SHarding, S., Pawson, A., Southan, C., Davies, J. A. and IUPHAR, N. C. (2018). Accessing expert-curated pharmacological data in the   IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY. Current Protocols in Bioinformatics, in press.
2. Davies, J. A. (2017). Organizing organoids: stem cells branch out. Cell Stem Cell, in press.
3. Harding, S. D., Sharman, J. L., Faccenda, E., Southan, C., Pawson, A. J., Ireland, S., Gray, A. J. G., Bruce, L., Alexander, S. P. H., Anderton, S., Bryant, C., Davenport, A. P., Doerig, C., Fabbro, D., Levi-Schaffer, F., Spedding, M., Davies, J. A. and Nc, I. (2018). The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2018: updates and expansion to encompass the new guide to IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY. Nucleic Acids Res 46(D1): D1091-D1106.
4. Alexander, S. P., Kelly, E., Marrion, N. V., Peters, J. A., Faccenda, E., Harding, S. D., Pawson, A. J., Sharman, J. L., Southan, C., Davies, J. A. and Collaborators, C. (2017). THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Transporters. Br J Pharmacol 174 Suppl 1: S360-S446.
5. Alexander, S. P., Fabbro, D., Kelly, E., Marrion, N. V., Peters, J. A., Faccenda, E., Harding, S. D., Pawson, A. J., Sharman, J. L., Southan, C., Davies, J. A. and Collaborators, C. (2017). THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Enzymes. Br J Pharmacol 174 Suppl 1: S272-S359.
6. Alexander, S. P., Fabbro, D., Kelly, E., Marrion, N. V., Peters, J. A., Faccenda, E., Harding, S. D., Pawson, A. J., Sharman, J. L., Southan, C., Davies, J. A. and Collaborators, C. (2017). THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Catalytic receptors. Br J Pharmacol 174 Suppl 1: S225-S271.
7. Alexander, S. P., Kelly, E., Marrion, N. V., Peters, J. A., Faccenda, E., Harding, S. D., Pawson, A. J., Sharman, J. L., Southan, C., Davies, J. A. and Collaborators, C. (2017). THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Other ion channels. Br J Pharmacol 174 Suppl 1: S195-S207.
8. Alexander, S. P., Kelly, E., Marrion, N. V., Peters, J. A., Faccenda, E., Harding, S. D., Pawson, A. J., Sharman, J. L., Southan, C., Buneman, O. P., Cidlowski, J. A., Christopoulos, A., Davenport, A. P., Fabbro, D., Spedding, M., Striessnig, J., Davies, J. A. and Collaborators, C. (2017). THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Overview. Br J Pharmacol 174 Suppl 1: S1-S16.
9. Alexander, S. P., Christopoulos, A., Davenport, A. P., Kelly, E., Marrion, N. V., Peters, J. A., Faccenda, E., Harding, S. D., Pawson, A. J., Sharman, J. L., Southan, C., Davies, J. A. and Collaborators, C. (2017). THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: G protein-coupled receptors. Br J Pharmacol 174 Suppl 1: S17-S129.
10. Alexander, S. P., Peters, J. A., Kelly, E., Marrion, N. V., Faccenda, E., Harding, S. D., Pawson, A. J., Sharman, J. L., Southan, C., Davies, J. A. and Collaborators, C. (2017). THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Ligand-gated ion channels. Br J Pharmacol 174 Suppl 1: S130-S159.
11. Alexander, S. P., Striessnig, J., Kelly, E., Marrion, N. V., Peters, J. A., Faccenda, E., Harding, S. D., Pawson, A. J., Sharman, J. L., Southan, C., Davies, J. A. and Collaborators, C. (2017). THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Voltage-gated ion channels. Br J Pharmacol 174 Suppl 1: S160-S194.
12. Alexander, S. P., Cidlowski, J. A., Kelly, E., Marrion, N. V., Peters, J. A., Faccenda, E., Harding, S. D., Pawson, A. J., Sharman, J. L., Southan, C., Davies, J. A. and Collaborators, C. (2017). THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Nuclear hormone receptors. Br J Pharmacol 174 Suppl 1: S208-S224.
13. Mills, C. G., Lawrence, M. L., Munro, D. A. D., Elhendawi, M., Mullins, J. J. and Davies, J. A. (2017). Asymmetric BMP4 signalling improves the realism of kidney organoids. Sci Rep 7(1): 14824.
14. Munro, D. A. D., Hohenstein, P., Coate, T. M. and Davies, J. A. (2017). Refuting the hypothesis that semaphorin-3f/neuropilin-2 exclude blood vessels from the cap mesenchyme in the developing kidney. Dev Dyn 246(12): 1047-1056.
15. Cachat, E., Liu, W. and Davies, J. A. (2017). Synthetic self-patterning and morphogenesis in mammalian cells: a proof-of-concept step towards the goal of synthetic tissue development. IET Engineering Biology J Biol Eng 8(1): 26.
16. Davies, J. A. (2017). Adaptive self-organization in the embryo: its importance to adult anatomy and to tissue engineering. J Anat.
17. Davies, J. A. (2017). Self-Organizing Anatomy. Commentary for Gray’s Anatomy supplement e-book. In press.
18. Davies, J. A. (2017). Binding Assets in Drug Design. Eureka.
19. Munro, D. A. D., Hohenstein, P. and Davies, J. A. (2017). Cycles of vascular plexus formation within the nephrogenic zone of the developing mouse kidney. Sci Rep 7(1): 3273.
20. Davies, J. (2017). Pax2: A "Keep to the Path" Sign on Waddington's Epigenetic Landscape. Dev Cell 41(4): 331-332.
21. Davies, J. (2017). Using synthetic biology to explore principles of development. Development 144(7): 1146-1158.
22. Ghanizadeh Tabriz, A., Mills, C. G., Mullins, J. J., Davies, J. A. and Shu, W. (2017). Rapid Fabrication of Cell-Laden Alginate Hydrogel 3D Structures by Micro Dip-Coating. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 5: 13.
23. Martin, K. C., Yuan, X., Stimac, G., Bannerman, K., Anderson, J., Roy, C., Glykofrydis, F., Yin, H. and Davies, J. A. (2017). Symmetry-breaking in branching epithelia: cells on micro-patterns under flow challenge the hypothesis of positive feedback by a secreted autocrine inhibitor of motility. J Anat 230(6): 766-774.
24. Davies, J. A. (2016). Anatomical complexity is acquired at an exponential rate during mouse embryonic development. Matters.
25. Davies, J. A. (2016). Machines for living in: connections and contrasts between designed architecture and the development of living forms. Invited review for Architectural Research Quarterly 20.1: 45-50.
26. Davies, J. A. and Cachat, E. (2016). Synthetic biology meets tissue engineering. Biochem Soc Trans 44(3): 696-701.
27. Cachat, E., Liu, W., Martin, K. C., Yuan, X., Yin, H., Hohenstein, P. and Davies, J. A. (2016). 2- and 3-dimensional synthetic large-scale de novo patterning by mammalian cells through phase separation. Sci Rep 6: 20664.