Research Associates
Geraldine Kelly
Geraldine Kelly graduated from Trinity College Dublin 2004 with a BA (Hons) Natural Sciences, Moderatorship Zoology. She recently submitted her PhD thesis entitled 'The Study of Bone Cell Mechanobiology and its Regulation by the Cell Cycle', which she completed under the joint supervision of Prof. Suzi Jarvis and Prof. Patrick Prendergast (TCD). This research investigated the cell cycle modulation of bone cell mechanobiology and utilised the combined AFM and confocal microscope system in order to investigate the mechanical properties of synchronised osteoblast cells. Futhermore, her PhD research also examined the real-time intracellular responses of mechanically stimulated cells. See Single Cell Mechanobiology. Geraldine is currently working as a research associate with the Nanoscale Function Group, and is involved various aspects of the Amyloid project.
Direct mechanical measurement of geodesic structures in rat mesenchymal stem cells, Maguire, P., Kilpatrick, J. I., Kelly, G., Prendergast, P. J., Campbell, V. A., O'Connell, B. C., and Jarvis, S. P., HFSP Journal, 1, 181-191, (2007). [PDF]