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Research

Dr Breandán Kennedy BSc PhD

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Contact Details:

Title Senior Lecturer
Address School of Biomolecular &
Biomedical Science
Conway Institute
Belfield Dublin 4
Telephone: Ext. 6740
Email:
ei.dcu@ydennek.nadnerb

Biography:

‘Principal Investigator’

2003-present; UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN: College Lecturer in School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Sciences, Career-track Investigator, Conway Institute,

‘Postdoctoral Fellow’
   
2000-2003:  UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, USA: Senior fellow in Prof. James Hurley’s lab.  Projects analysed eye development using mutant zebrafish and investigated cone photoreceptor function using transgenic zebrafish. 

1999-2000, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, USA: Postdoctoral fellow in Prof. David Hyde’s lab.  Projects include characterization of promoters directing rod photoreceptor-specific expression in transgenic zebrafish. 

‘Graduate Student’
1994-1998, W. ALTON JONES CELL SCIENCE CENTER, NEW YORK, USA: Ph.D. thesis research under supervision of Dr. John Crabb.  Studies investigated the regulation of CRALBP transcription, targeted disruption of the mouse CRALBP gene, and identification and analysis of a mutation in CRALBP segregating with retinitis pigmentosa.