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
Postdoctoral Neuroscientist
pain neurobiology, transcriptomics, bioinformatics
Biography
I have a background in sensory physiology and bioinformatics. I previously worked under Prof. Ian Meinertzhagen and Dr. Vic Rafuse at Dalhousie University (Halifax, CA) before completing my MSc in pain systems biology at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine (Göttingen, DE) with Prof. Manuela Schmidt. I did my DPhil at the University of Oxford with Prof. David Bennett and Dr. Georgios Baskozos, looking at the molecular profiling of murine primary afferents in neuropathic pain..
My current research focuses on 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
Medical Research Council
Versus Arthritis
Previous funders
Wellcome Trust
GTC MSDTC Scholarship
NSERC
Recent publications
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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
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Deep RNA-seq of male and female murine sensory neuron subtypes after nerve injury
Preprint
Barry AM. et al, (2022)
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Nav1.7 is required for normal C-low threshold mechanoreceptor function in humans and mice
Journal article
Middleton SJ. et al, (2021), Brain
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Studying human nociceptors: from fundamentals to clinic
Journal article
Middleton SJ. et al, (2021), Brain, 144, 1312 - 1335
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Vti1b promotes TRPV1 sensitization during inflammatory pain.
Journal article
Sondermann JR. et al, (2019), Pain, 160, 508 - 527