Education
BSc Hons Neuroscience, 2015 (Dalhousie University, Canada)
MSc Neurosciences, 2017 (Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, University of Göttingen, Germany)
DPhil Ion Channels and Disease, 2022 (Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK)
Colleges
Allison Barry
BSc MSc DPhil
Academic Visitor
pain neurobiology, proteomics, bioinformatics
Biography
Ali has a background in sensory physiology and bioinformatics. They did their DPhil at the University of Oxford with Prof. David Bennett and Prof. Georgios Baskozos, looking at the molecular profiling of murine primary afferents in neuropathic pain.
They currently split their time with the University of Vienna and University of Texas at Dallas using multi-omic methods to understand pain pathophysiology. Their work focuses on human DRG proteomics, as well as a combination of spatial compartmental approaches including spatial proteomics through laser capture microdissection, proximity labelling, and synaptosome profiling.
Through Oxford, this research focus translates to studying the molecular profiling of DRG neurons and iPSC derived nociceptors across painful conditions and model systems. Processed sequencing data can be found on our database (DRG Directory).
Research groups
Funding
Current
NIH
Previous funders
Medical Research Council
Versus Arthritis
Wellcome Trust
GTC MSDTC Scholarship
NSERC
Key publications
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Multi-omic integration with human dorsal root ganglia proteomics highlights TNFα signalling as a relevant sexually dimorphic pathway
Journal article
Barry AM. et al, (2025), Pain
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Predicting ‘pain genes’: multi-modal data integration using probabilistic classifiers and interaction networks
Journal article
Zhao N. et al, (2024), Bioinformatics Advances, 4
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Deep RNA-seq of male and female murine sensory neuron subtypes after nerve injury
Journal article
Barry AM. et al, (2023), Pain, 164, 2196 - 2215
Recent publications
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NKG2D receptor ligands are cell surface biomarkers for injured murine and human nociceptive sensory neurons
Preprint
Wang S. et al, (2025)
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Ultra-sensitive metaproteomics redefines the dark metaproteome, uncovering host-microbiome interactions and drug targets in intestinal diseases
Journal article
Xian F. et al, (2025), Nature Communications, 16
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Proximity labelling reveals the compartmental proteome of murine sensory neurons
Preprint
Sondermann JR. et al, (2025)