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, transcriptomics, bioinformatics
Biography
I have a background in sensory physiology and bioinformatics. 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. I currently split my time with the University of Vienna and University of Texas, Dallas using multi-omic methods to understand pain pathophysiology.
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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Predicting “pain genes”: multi-modal data integration using probabilistic classifiers and interaction networks
Preprint
Zhao N. et al, (2024)
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Peripheral nerve injury results in a biased loss of sensory neuron subpopulations
Journal article
Cooper AH. et al, (2024), Pain
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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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Studying human nociceptors: from fundamentals to clinic
Journal article
Middleton SJ. et al, (2021), Brain, 144, 1312 - 1335
Recent publications
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B cells drive neuropathic pain–related behaviors in mice through IgG–Fc gamma receptor signaling
Journal article
Lacagnina MJ. et al, (2024), Science Translational Medicine, 16
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A role for leucine-rich, glioma inactivated 1 in regulating pain sensitivity
Journal article
Farah A. et al, (2024), Brain