Rate My Professor Mike Gill

Dr Mike Gill serves as a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Physiology at the University of Otago. He is affiliated with the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences within the Health Sciences Division. Dr Gill contributes significantly to undergraduate education, lecturing in several foundational physiology courses. These include PHSL233 Cellular, Gastrointestinal and Renal Physiology, where he is listed as a lecturer alongside colleagues such as Mr Matthew Logue, Dr Toni-Ann Alsop, Dr Rebecca Bird, and Associate Professor Lyn Wise. He also lectures in PHSL231 Neurophysiology and PHSL232 Cardiovascular and Respiratory Physiology. Additionally, Dr Gill acts as a primary student support contact in the department, based in Room G08d of the Lindo Ferguson Building, reachable at telephone +64 3 479 5988.

Dr Gill's scholarly output centers on epithelial transport physiology, with publications examining ion channels and secretion mechanisms in the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) small intestine. His peer-reviewed paper, 'The distribution and expression of CFTR restricts electrogenic anion secretion to the ileum of the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula,' appeared in the Journal of Experimental Biology (2011, 214(Pt 11): 1943-1954). Other works include 'Identification of K⁺ channels involved in electrogenic HCO₃⁻ secretion by the possum ileum' in Proceedings of The Physiological Society (2010, 19), 'Electrogenic and electroneutral HCO₃⁻ secretion in the possum ileum: A model HCO₃⁻ secreting epithelium' (2009, 16), and conference contributions such as verbal presentations and abstracts on electrogenic anion secretion and HCO₃⁻ secretion at the Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry (2009) and ComBio2009. Further publications cover topics like electrogenic Cl⁻ secretion absence due to low NKCC1 expression (2009), secretagogue-stimulated HCO₃⁻ secretion via Na/HCO₃ cotransporter (2009), and localisation of ion transporters in the possum colon (2009). Prior to his academic appointment, Dr Gill held the position of Technical Support at ADInstruments in Dunedin from February 2001 to March 2007, supporting physiology education tools.