Dr Helen O’Sullivan

Research Fellow

 

 

 

 

    Contact Information

 

     Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics

     Hartley Grove, Urrbrae

     Postal PMB 1, Glen Osmond SA 5064

     Phone +61 8 8303 7167    fax  +61 8 8303 7102

     e-mail helen.osullivan@acpfg.com.au

 

    Mailing Address

 

     Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
     University of Adelaide
     Waite Campus
     Glen Osmond,
     South Australia 5064

     Australia

 

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science (Honours) Biology, University of Cardiff (1999)

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Bristol (2006) Thesis title: ‘Association Genetics in Wheat and Development of Single Nucleotide Polymorphic Markers from Expressed Sequence Tags’.

 

 

 

 

Expertise and Research Interests

·          Association studies

·          Linkage Disequilibrium analysis

·          SNP development

·          High throughput genotyping methods

 

Other Expertise

During my PhD at Bristol University I was involved in tutoring and presenting practical sessions to undergraduate students and supervision of undergrads during their final year project.

 

 

 

Memberships

Genetics society

 

 

 

Publications

Barker, G., J. Batley, H. O'Sullivan, K. J. Edwards and D. Edwards (2003). "Redundancy based detection of sequence polymorphisms in expressed sequence tag data using autoSNP." Bioinformatics 19(3): 421-2.

Batley, J., G. Barker, H. O'Sullivan, K. J. Edwards and D. Edwards (2003). "Mining for single nucleotide polymorphisms and insertions/deletions in maize expressed sequence tag data." Plant Physiology 132(1): 84-91.

Batley, J., R. Mogg, D. Edwards, H. O'Sullivan and K. J. Edwards (2003). "A high-throughput SNuPE assay for genotyping SNPs in the flanking regions of Zea mays sequence tagged simple sequence repeats." Molecular Breeding 11(2): 111-120.

O'Sullivan, H. (2006). GrainGenes: A Genomic Database for Triticeae and Avena. Plant Bioinformatics: Methods and Protocols. D. Edwards. NJ USA, Humana Press Inc. (In Press)

 

 

 

Funding Received

  • Sainsbury Summer Student Scholarship (ten weeks-1998)
  • Wain International Travel Fellowship (one year-2006-2007)

 

Previous Positions

 

2001-2002 Research Assistant, Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, UK.

 

 

 

Languages

 

 

English

 

Reading, Writing and Speaking

 

 

 


Profile Details

 

 

 

Last Updated:

 

06.09.06

 

 

 

Search Keywords

 

Association studies, Linkage Disequilibrium analysis, SNP development, High throughput genotyping methods

 

 

 

 

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