Catherine Mulholland, PhD.

e-mail: catherine.mulholland@uochb.cas.cz
phone: +420 220183434


Born 05.10.1983 in Belfast (Ireland).

Scientific CV:
2002-2006 undergraduate study, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, Biomedical and Forensic Science, BSc. Hons. Degree with major in Forensic Toxicology (supervisor Prof. Dr. Karen Scott).
2006-2007 graduate study, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, Forensic Science, MSc degree with major in Forensic Toxicology (supervisor Prof. Dr. Karen Scott).
2010-2015 PhD study, School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (supervisor Prof. Dr. Bryan Markey).
2008-2016 Assistant Scientific Officer, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Molecular Virology Department (supervisor Dr. Michael Welsh).
2016-2018 Postdoctoral Stay, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (supervisor Dr. L. Ogorzaly).
2017 Internship SELEX methods, Bonn University, Germany (supervisor Prof. Dr. Gunter Mayer).
since 2018 Postdoctoral Stay, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (supervisor Dr. M. Hocek)


List of publications:

3.	Mulholland, C.; Jestřábová, I.; Sett, A.; Ondruš, M.; Sýkorová, V.; Manzanares, C. L.; Šimoncík, O.; Muller, P. and Hocek, M.: "The selection of a hydrophobic 7-phenylbutyl-7-deazaadenine-modified DNA aptamer with high binding affinity for the Heat Shock Protein 70" Commun. Chem. 2023, 6, 65.
2.	Mulholland, C.; Hoffmann, B.; McMenamy, MJ.; Korthase, C.; Earley, B.; Markey, B.; Cassidy, JP.; Allan, G.; Welsh, MD.; McKillen, J.: "The development of a real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) assay using TaqMan technology for the pan detection of bluetongue virus (BTV)" J. Virol. Methods 2017, 245, 35 - 39.
1.	Mulholland, C; McMenamy, MJ.; Hoffmann, B.; Earley, B.; Markey, B.; Cassidy, JP.; Allan, G.; Welsh, MD.: "The development of an accelerated reverse-transcription loop mediated isothermal amplification for the serotype specific detection of bluetongue virus 8 in clinical samples" J. Virol. Methods 2014, 202, 95 - 100.

Patents:

1.	Mulholland, C.; Jourdan, S.; Ogorzaly, L.: Patent filing of patent Lu/101073 with the title "DNA aptamers specific of Adenovirus types" filed the 21st of December 2018 at the Luxembourg Patent Office.