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Overview

Ian C. Forster is affiliated with the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and neuroscience. Their research focuses on cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, molecular biology, psychiatry and mental health, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Forster has published numerous papers with a concentration on epilepsy research and treatment, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, ion channel regulation and function, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, genomics and rare diseases, neuroscience and neural engineering, and cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias.

Recent publications include:

  • "Cation leak underlies neuronal excitability in an HCN1 developmental and epileptic encephalopathy" (2021, Brain)
  • "Biophysical analysis of an HCN1 epilepsy variant suggests a critical role for S5 helix Met-305 in voltage sensor to pore domain coupling" (2021, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology)
  • "Antidepressant-like activity of a brain penetrant HCN channel inhibitor in mice" (2023, Frontiers in Pharmacology)
  • "Impaired Color Recognition in HCN1 Epilepsy: A Single Case Report" (2022, Frontiers in Neurology)
  • "Cation leak: a common functional defect causing HCN1 developmental and epileptic encephalopathy" (2023, Brain Communications)

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Chaseley E. McKenzie
  • Christopher A. Reid
  • Ming S. Soh
  • Andrew Hung
  • Lauren E. Bleakley

Forster's work is often published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Brain, Frontiers in Pharmacology, and Brain Communications.

Their multidisciplinary expertise spans a range of topics related to ion channel regulation, epilepsy, genetics, neuroscience, and cardiac physiology, reflecting a comprehensive approach to understanding mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental and neurological disorders.

Best Publications

  • Proximal Tubular Phosphate Reabsorption: Molecular Mechanisms

    Heini Murer;Nati Hernando;Ian Forster;Jürg Biber

  • Characterization of a murine type II sodium-phosphate cotransporter expressed in mammalian small intestine

    Helene Hilfiker;Olaf Hattenhauer;Martin Traebert;Ian Forster

  • Mutations in SLC20A2 link familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification with phosphate homeostasis.

    Cheng Wang;Yulei Li;Lei Shi;Jie Ren

  • The sodium phosphate cotransporter family SLC34.

    Heini Murer;Ian Forster;Jürg Biber

  • Phosphate transporters: a tale of two solute carrier families.

    Leila V. Virkki;Jiirg Biber;Heini Murer;Ian C. Forster

  • Proximal tubular handling of phosphate: A molecular perspective

    I.C. Forster;N. Hernando;J. Biber;H. Murer

  • Autosomal-Recessive Mutations in SLC34A1 Encoding Sodium-Phosphate Cotransporter 2A Cause Idiopathic Infantile Hypercalcemia

    Karl P. Schlingmann;Justyna Ruminska;Martin Kaufmann;Ismail Dursun

  • Phosphate transporters of the SLC20 and SLC34 families

    Ian C. Forster;Nati Hernando;Jürg Biber;Heini Murer

  • Regulation of phosphate transport in proximal tubules

    J. Biber;N. Hernando;I. Forster;H. Murer

  • The Na+-Pi cotransporter PiT-2 (SLC20A2) is expressed in the apical membrane of rat renal proximal tubules and regulated by dietary Pi

    Ricardo Villa-Bellosta;Silvia Ravera;Victor Sorribas;Gerti Stange

  • Regulation of Na/Pi Transporter in the Proximal Tubule

    Heini Murer;Nati Hernando;Ian Forster;Jürg Biber

  • Phosphate transporters and their function.

    Jürg Biber;Nati Hernando;Ian Forster

  • Nucleotide recognition by the cytoplasmic domain of the human chloride transporter ClC-5

    Sebastian Meyer;Sara Savaresi;Ian C Forster;Raimund Dutzler

  • A multiple electrode cochlear implant

    Graeme M. Clark;Y. C. Tong;R. Black;I. C. Forster

  • The SLC34 family of sodium-dependent phosphate transporters.

    Carsten A. Wagner;Nati Hernando;Ian C. Forster;Jürg Biber

  • Erythropoietin modulates intracellular calcium in a human neuroblastoma cell line.

    Roberta Assandri;Marcel Egger;Max Gassmann;Ernst Niggli

  • Mechanisms of phosphate transport.

    Moshe Levi;Enrico Gratton;Ian C Forster;Nati Hernando

  • THE VOLTAGE DEPENDENCE OF A CLONED MAMMALIAN RENAL TYPE II NA+/PI COTRANSPORTER (NAPI-2)

    Ian Forster;Nati Hernando;Jürg Biber;Heini Murer

  • Deciphering PiT transport kinetics and substrate specificity using electrophysiology and flux measurements

    Silvia Ravera;Leila V. Virkki;Heini Murer;Ian C. Forster

  • Posttranscriptional regulation of the proximal tubule NaPi-II transporter in response to PTH and dietary Pi

    Heini Murer;Ian Forster;Nati Hernando;Georg Lambert

Frequent Co-Authors

Heini Murer
Heini Murer University of Zurich
Jürg Biber
Jürg Biber University of Zurich
Carsten A. Wagner
Carsten A. Wagner University of Zurich
Steven Petrou
Steven Petrou Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
François Verrey
François Verrey University of Zurich
Graeme M. Clark
Graeme M. Clark University of Melbourne
Christopher A. Reid
Christopher A. Reid Monash University
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne
John M. Bekkers
John M. Bekkers Australian National University
Christel Depienne
Christel Depienne Essen University Hospital

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