Dr Una Fitzgerald B.Eng, M.Sc, Ph.D
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Biography:
| BE (Industrial), NUIG 1983; MSc (Biotechnology) NUIG 1985; PhD (Immunology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) 1993. Sanofi Elf Bioresearch 1986-1987; Celltech Ltd (now Lonza) 1987-1990; PhD 1990-1993; Postdoc Beatson Inst. for Cancer Research, Glasgow 1993-1997; Postdoc Dept Neurology and Medical Oncology University of Glasgow 1997-2002; Senior Researcher Cell Stress and Apoptosis Research Group, NCBES, NUIG 2002-2005; Lecturer (fixed term) Biomedical and Engineering Science NUIG. |
Book Chapters
| FitzGerald U., Gorman A.M., Samali A. 'Heat shock proteins in regulation of neural apoptosis' In: Richter-Landsberg, C (eds). Heat Shock Proteins in Neural Cells. [Details] |
| Gill C., Meyer M., Samali A. 'Molecular basis of inhibition of apoptosis by Heat shock proteins' In: Sreedhar, A.S (eds). Stress response: a molecular Biology approach. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Spence, H.J., Johnston, I., Ewart, K., Buchanan, S.J., FitzGerald, U, Ozanne, B.W. (2000) 'Krp1, a novel kelch related protein that is involved in pseudopod elongation in transformed cells'. Oncogene, 19 :1266-1276. [Details] |
| FitzGerald, U., and Barnett, S.C. (2000) 'AP-1 activity during the growth, differentiation, and death of O-2A lineage cells'. Mol Cell Neurosci, 16 :453-469. [Details] |
| Stenson-Cox, C.M., FitzGerald, U., Samali, A. (2003) 'In the cut and thrust of apoptosis, serine proteases come of age'. Biochem Biopharm, 66 :1469-1474. [Details] |
| O'Mahoney, M., Logue, S., Szegezdi, E., FitzGerald, U., Samali, A. (2003) 'Hypoxia and Ischemia induce nuclear condensation and caspase activation in cardiomyocytes'. Annals N.Y. Acad. Sci, 1010 :728-732. [Details] |
| Concannon G., Holmberg C., FitzGerald, U., Szegezdi E., Sistonen, L. and Samali A. (2005) 'CD95-mediated alteration in Hsp70 levels is dependent on protein stabilisation'. Cell Stress and Chaperones, 10 :59-65. [Details] |
| Sinclair C. Kirk J., Herron B., Fitzgerald U., McQuaid S. (2007) 'Absence of aquaporin-4 expression in lesions of neuromyelitis optica but increased expression in multiple sclerosis lesions and normal-appearing white matter'. Acta Neuropathol Berlin, 113 :187-194. [Details] |
| Samali A., Fitzgerald U., Deegan S., Gupta S. (2010) 'Methods for Monitoring Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and the Unfolded Protein Response'. International Journal of Cell Biology, Int J Cell Biol, 830307 . [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Kraskiewicz H. and FitzGerald U. (2011) 'Partial XBP1 knockdown does not affect viability of oligodendrocyte precursor cells exposed to new models of hypoxia and ischemia in vitro'. JNR, . [Details] |