Kathryn Mary Murphy

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Kathryn Mary Murphy is a Canadian neuroscientist and professor who studies development and plasticity of the brain.

She has been a professor at McMaster University since 1994, where she founded the neuroscience program and prior to that was at McGill University where she won a University Research Fellowship [1] from NSERC and a Sloan Research Fellowship [2] from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, she grew up in Burlington, Ontario attending the University of Western Ontario for her bachelor's degree and Dalhousie University for her Masters and Ph.D. degrees.  While at Dalhousie she held a Ross C. Purse scholarship [3] from the CNIB and an NSERC Doctoral scholarship. [4]

Her academic training took her to the University of California, Berkeley School of Optometry on postdoctoral fellowships from Fight For Sight and NSERC.  For ten years (2007-2017), she was the Director of the McMaster Integrated Neuroscience Discovery & Study program (MiNDS).

Her research includes studying developmental and lifespan changes in the human brain. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]   She has served as a Chair, Scientific Officer and Reviewer for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) grant selection panels and was the editor of the Synaptosomes book ( ISBN   978-1-4939-8738-2) published in 2018 in the NeuroMethods Series by Springer-Nature.

References

  1. Kavanagh, Robert J. (31 August 1987). "The NSERC Program of University Research Fellowships". Canadian Journal of Higher Education. 17 (2): 59–77. doi: 10.47678/cjhe.v17i2.183015 . ISSN   0316-1218.
  2. "Sloan Research Fellowships". sloan.org.
  3. "The Ross C. Purse Doctoral Fellowship". CNIB.
  4. Government of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (28 June 2016). "Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral Program and NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships-Doctoral Program". Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
  5. Murphy, Kathryn M.; Beston, Brett R.; Boley, Philip M.; Jones, David G. (2005). "Development of human visual cortex: A balance between excitatory and inhibitory plasticity mechanisms". Developmental Psychobiology. 46 (3): 209–221. doi:10.1002/dev.20053. ISSN   1098-2302. PMID   15772972.
  6. Duffy, Kevin R.; Frosch, Matthew P.; Murphy, Kathryn M.; Livingstone, Margaret S. (1 June 2007). "Cytochrome Oxidase and Neurofilament Reactivity in Monocularly Deprived Human Primary Visual Cortex". Cerebral Cortex. 17 (6): 1283–1291. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhl038. ISSN   1047-3211. PMC   2628812 . PMID   16831856.
  7. Pinto, Joshua G. A.; Jones, David G.; Hornby, Kyle R.; Murphy, Kathryn M. (2010). "Developmental changes in GABAergic mechanisms in human visual cortex across the lifespan". Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 4: 16. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2010.00016 . ISSN   1662-5102. PMC   2893712 . PMID   20592950.
  8. Pinto, Joshua G. A.; Williams, C. Kate; Jones, David G.; Murphy, Kathryn M. (2015). "Characterizing synaptic protein development in human visual cortex enables alignment of synaptic age with rat visual cortex". Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 9: 3. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2015.00003 . ISSN   1662-5110. PMC   4325922 . PMID   25729353.
  9. Siu, Caitlin R.; Jones, David G.; Balsor, Justin L.; Murphy, Kathryn M. (2015). "Classic and Golli Myelin Basic Protein have distinct developmental trajectories in human visual cortex". Frontiers in Neuroscience. 9: 138. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00138 . ISSN   1662-453X. PMC   4408849 . PMID   25964736.
  10. Siu, Caitlin R.; Jones, David G.; Beshara, Simon P.; Murphy, Kathryn M. (21 June 2017). "Development of Glutamatergic Proteins in Human Visual Cortex across the Lifespan". Journal of Neuroscience. 37 (25): 6031–6042. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2304-16.2017. ISSN   0270-6474. PMC   6596503 . PMID   28554889.
  11. Siu, Caitlin R.; Murphy, Kathryn M. (24 April 2018). "The development of human visual cortex and clinical implications". Eye and Brain. 10: 25–36. doi: 10.2147/EB.S130893 . PMC   5937627 . PMID   29760575.