Dr. Lucy Byrnes

• Career history
  2007 - present Senior lecturer; Biochemistry Department, National University of Ireland, Galway
  1996 - 2007 Lecturer; Biochemistry Department, National University of Ireland, Galway
  1994 - 1996 Lecturer; Zoology Department, University College Dublin
  1992 - 1994 Post-doctoral Scientist; National Diagnostics Centre, BioResearch Ireland, National University of Ireland, Galway.
  1987 - 1991 Ph.D. student; Microbiology Department, National University of Ireland, Galway.
  1986 - 1987 Research Technician; Cell Biology Department, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
  1982 - 1986 B.Sc.; Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway.
  
  Convener of INDB (established in 2002)
  
  
• Research interests
  . Developmental role of vertebrate IGF signalling (zebrafish);
  . Gene expression at the midblastula transition in vertebrates (zebrafish and salmonids)
  
  
• Key publications
  
  Harnett L, Glynn C, Nolan CM, Grealy M and Byrnes L, (2010)
  Insulin-like growth factor-2 regulates early neural and cardiovascular system development in zebrafish embryos.
  Int. J. Dev. Biol. 54 573-583
  

  Tsalavouta M, Astudillo O, Byrnes L and CM Nolan (2009)
  Regulation of expression of zebrafish (Danio rerio) insulin-like growth factor 2 receptor: implications for evolution at the IGF2R locus.
  Evol. Dev. 11 547-559

  Martin ED, Moriarty MA, Byrnes L, M Grealy (2009)
  Plakoglobin has both structural and signalling roles in zebrafish development.
  Dev. Biol. 327 83-96 [PubMed]
  
  Moriarty MA, Martin ED, Byrnes L, M Grealy (2008)
  Molecular cloning and developmental expression of plakophilin 2 in zebrafish.
  Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 367 124-129 [PubMed]

          O'Boyle S, Bree RT, McLoughlin S, Grealy M, Byrnes L (2007)
          Identification of zygotic genes expressed at the midblastula transition in zebrafish.
          Biochem Biophys Res Comm 358 462-268  [PubMed]  

           
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• Lectures/ courses
  Director for 2nd Science Biochemistry BI204 'Biomolecules in the Cell' and  BI205 ’The Cell Factory’.
  2nd year Science’Structure of nucleic acids; replication, transcription and translation’ 
  Medicine 'Nucleic acids in the cell' .
  3rd year Science ’Regulation of gene expression’
  4th year Biochemistry and Biotechnology ’Epigenetic mechanisms in gene regulation’.
  
  
• Contact details
  Telephone: 353-91-524411 ext. 2416 or 353-91-492416 (direct line).
  
  
• Useful links
• British Society for Developmental Biology
• Society for Developmental Biology
• ZF-Models
• European Molecular Biology Organisation
• The zebrafish information network (ZFIN)
• Zebrafish Gene Collection 
• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Zebrafish Sequencing Project 
• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Zebrafish Genome Open Door Workshop URLs
• Ensembl zebrafish genome server
• EUFishBioMed

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