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Dr Mary O'Leary
Senior Lecturer
4759
Richards Building RB104b
Richard's Building, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK
Overview
Mary is a Senior Lecturer working within the BioActivEx research group. They are currently working on research projects investigating the effects of bioactive compounds on exercise-induced muscle damage, adipose tissue inflammation and musculoskeletal ageing. Mary has expertise in integrated human physiology and uses techniques such as proteomics and primary human cell culture to provide mechanistic insights into the physioloigcal effects of bioactives on humans in vivo.
Mary has received research funding from industrial and public/governmeal sources, including Innovate UK, The US Highbush Blueberry Council, Pukka Herbs, The Torbay Medical Research Fund, Lallemand and PepsiCo.
Mary is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Mary completed a Wellcome Trust supported MRes/PhD programme at the University of Birmingham in 2018. Their PhD work investigated the role of adipose and skeletal muscle derived cytokines in in vitro human myogenesis and was supervised by Dr Simon Jones and co-supervised by Dr Graham Wallace and Dr Kostas Tsintzas.
Mary completed a Medical Degree (MB BCh BAO) at University College Cork and Master's Degrees at the Universities of Nottingham and Birmingham.
Qualifications
2011 - MB, BCh, BAO, University College Cork. First Class Honours.
2013 - MSc Integrated Physiology, University of Nottingham.
2014 - MRes Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham.
2018 - PhD, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham.
- 'The role of adipose and skeletal muscle derived cytokines in human myogenesis: implications for ageing skeletal muscle.'
Research
Publications
Journal articles
Conferences
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Teaching
Modules
2023/24
Supervision / Group
Postgraduate researchers
- Elsa Greed
- Celeste Lugtmeijer
- Vlad Razvan Sabou
Alumni
- Jimmy Wangdi