Staff
| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Kelly, Aine | |
| College Address | School of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Institute |
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| Main Department | Physiology | |
| College Title | Associate Professor & Head of Physiology | |
| aikelly@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 3794 | |
| Web | http://people.tcd.ie/aikelly | |
| Biography | |
| Aine Kelly graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1995 with a first class honours degree in Science, specialising in Physiology. She was awarded her PhD in Neuroscience in 1998 and was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Physiology in 2002. | |
| Professional Qualifications | |
| Qualification | Institution | Class of Degree | Title of Dissertation | Date Conferred |
| B.A. (Mod) | University of Dublin, Trinity College | I | 1995 | |
| Ph.D. | University of Dublin, Trinity College | A study of the role of nerve growth factor in long-term potentiation in the rat hippocampus | 1998 |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Fellow, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland | ||
| Member, Physiological Society | ||
| Member, British Neuroscience Association | ||
| Member, Society for Neuroscience |
| Research Institutes / Centres / Groups | |
| Research Institutes / Centres / Groups | Description of Role | Date From | Date To |
| Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | 15-JUL-06 | 15-JUL-06 | |
| Trinity Biomedical Sciences |
| Description of Research Interests |
| The roles of the neurotrophin family of proteins in learning and memory, neuronal cell survival and death and exercise-induced cognitive enhancement and neuroprotection |
| Research Interests | |||
| Ageing, memory and other cognitive processes | Neurochemistry and neuropharmacology | Neurodegeneration | Neurophysiology |
| Neuroscience | Physiology |
| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Amy M. Birch, Niamh B. McGarry and A ´ ine M. Kelly, Short-term environmental enrichment, in the absence of exercise, improves memory, and increases NGF concentration, early neuronal survival and synaptogenesis in the dentate gyrus in a time-dependent manner, Hippocampus, 2013 DOI |
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| Griffin, E.W., Bechara, R., Birch, A., Kelly A.M., Exercise enhances hippocampal-dependent learning in the rat: evidence for a BDNF-related mechanism, Hippocampus, 19, (10), 2009, p973 - 980 | |
| Larkin, A.E., Fahey, B., Gobbo, O., Callaghan, C.K., Cahill, E., O'Mara, S.M., Kelly, Á.M., Blockade of NMDA receptors pre-training, but not post-training, impairs object displacement learning in the rat, Brain Research, 1199, 2008, p126 - 132 Url |
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| Hennigan, A.,Trotter, C. and Kelly, Á.M. , Lipopolysaccharide impairs long-term potentiation and recognition memory and increases p75NTR expression in the rat dentate gyrus, Brain Research , 1130, 2007, p158 - 166 | |
| Hennigan, A., O’Callaghan, R.M. and Kelly, Á.M. , Neurotrophins and their receptors: roles in plasticity, neurodegeneration and neuroprotection, Biochemical Society Transactions , 35, (2), 2007, p424 - 427 | |
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