Canadian neuroscientist
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] NSERC and a Sloan Research Fellowship[ 2] 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] 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] 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
^ 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 . ^ "Sloan Research Fellowships" . sloan.org .^ "The Ross C. Purse Doctoral Fellowship" . CNIB .^ 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) . ^ 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 . ^ 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 . ^ 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 . ^ 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 . ^ 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 . ^ 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 . ^ 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 .
