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Position
Burnet Senior Fellow, Burnet Institute
Honourary Senior Lecturer, Monash University
Contact The Centre for Population Health
The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health
PO Box 2284, Melbourne, Victoria 3001
AUSTRALIA
Tel: 03 85062334
Email: alyssa.barry@burnet.edu.au
Web: www.burnet.edu.au/home/inthealthresearch/staff/alyssabarry
Research interests
Malaria, Genomics, Population Genomics, Molecular Epidemiology, Immuno-Epidemiology, Bioinformatics, Surface Antigens
Qualifications
BSc.(Hons.), PhD.
Ten Most Significant Publications
1. du Sart, D., Cancilla, M., Earle, E., Mao, J., Tainton, K., Kalitsis, P., Martyn, J., Barry, A. and Choo, K.H.A. A functional neocentromere formed through activation of a latent human centromere and consisting of non-alpha-satellite DNA. Nature Genetics 16: 144-153 (1997) [Impact Factor (IF): 25.797]
2. Cancilla, M., Tainton, K., Barry, A., Larionov, V., Kouprina, N., Resnick, M., Du Sart, D. and Choo, K.H.A. Direct cloning of human 10q25 neocentromere DNA using transformation associated recombination (TAR) in yeast. Genomics 47: 399-404 (1998) [IF: 3.181]
3. Barry, A., Howman, E., Cancilla, M., Saffery, R. and Choo, K.H.A. (1999). Sequence analysis of an 80-kb human neocentromere DNA. Human Molecular Genetics 8: 217-227 (1999) [IF:7.764]
4. Barry, A., Bateman, M., Howman, E.V., Cancilla, M.R., Tainton, K.M., Irvine, D., Saffery, R. and Choo, K.H.A. The 10q25 Neocentromere and its Inactive Progenitor have Identical Primary Nucleotide Sequence: Further evidence for epigenetic modification. Genome Research 10:832-838 (2000) [IF: 10.139]
5. Volkman, S.*, Barry, A.*, Lyons, E.J., Thomas, S., Nielsen, K., Day, K.P., Wirth, D.F., and Hartl, D. Recent Origin of Plasmodium falciparum from a Single Progenitor. Science 293(5529): 416-7 (2001) [IF: 30.927]
*these authors contributed equally to this paper
6. Hartl, D.L., Volkman, S.K., Nielsen, K.M., Barry, A., Day, K.P., Wirth, D.F. and Winzeler,E.A. (2002) The paradoxical population genetics of Plasmodium falciparum. Trends in Parasitology 18(6): 266-272. (2002) [IF: 4.526]
7. Barry, A., Leliwa, A., Choi, M., Nielsen, K., Hartl, D., and Day, K.P. Artifacts in sequence data from the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 130 (2): 143-7. (2003) [IF: 2.733]
8. Barry, A.E., Leliwa-Sytek, A., Kasper, J., Hartl, D. and Day K.P. (2006) Variable SNP density in aspartyl protease genes of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Gene 376(2):163-73 [IF:2.694]
9. Volkman, S.K., Lozovsky, E., Barry, A.E., Bedford, T., Bethke, L., Myrick, A., Day, K.P., Hartl, D.L., Wirth, D.F., Sawyer, S.A. (2007) Genomic heterogeneity in the density of noncoding single-nucleotide and microsatellite polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum. Gene 387(1-2):1-6 [IF: 2.694]
10. Barry, A.E., Leliwa-Sytek, A., Tavul, L., Imrie, H., Migot-Nabias, F., Brown, S.M., McVean, G., Day, K.P. (2007) Population genomics of the immune evasion (var) genes of Plasmodium falciparum. PLoS Pathogens 3(3): e34 [IF: not available]
Currently Held Grants
Victorian Endowment for Science Knowledge and Innovation Fellowship
NHMRC Project Grant # 488221 Population genomics of Plasmodium falciparum surface antigen genes
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