ZFIN Person: Alvarez, Yolanda

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-050429-2

Alvarez, Yolanda

Email:	yolanda.alvarez@ucd.ie
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Affiliation:	Kennedy Lab
Address:	Dept. Pharmacology Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research University College Dublin Belfield Dublin, 4 Ireland
Country:	Ireland
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

Ohnesorge, N., Sasore, T., Hillary, D., Alvarez, Y., Carey, M., Kennedy, B.N. (2019) Orthogonal Drug Pooling Enhances Phenotype-Based Discovery of Ocular Antiangiogenic Drugs in Zebrafish Larvae. Frontiers in pharmacology. 10:508

Glaviano, A., Smith, A.J., Blanco, A., McLoughlin, S., Cederlund, M.L., Heffernan, T., Sapetto-Rebow, B., Alvarez, Y., Yin, J., Kennedy, B.N. (2016) A method for isolation of cone photoreceptors from adult zebrafish retinae. BMC Neuroscience. 17:71

Reynolds, A.L., Alvarez, Y., Sasore, T., Waghorne, N., Butler, C., Kilty, C., Smith, A.J., McVicar, C., Wong, V.H., Galvin, O., Merrigan, S., Osman, J., Grebnev, G., Sjölander, A., Stitt, A.W., Kennedy, B.N. (2016) Phenotype-Based Discovery of 2-[(E)-2-(Quinolin-2-yl)vinyl]phenol as a Novel Regulator of Ocular Angiogenesis. The Journal of biological chemistry. 291(14):7242-55

Sapetto-Rebow, B., McLoughlin, S.C., O'Shea, L.C., O'Leary, O., Willer, J.R., Alvarez, Y., Collery, R., O'Sullivan, J., Van Eeden, F., Hensey, C., and Kennedy, B.N. (2011) Maternal topoisomerase II alpha, not topoisomerase II beta, enables embryonic development of zebrafish top2a-/- mutants. BMC Developmental Biology. 11(1):71

Alvarez, Y., Chen, K., Reynolds, A.L., Waghorne, N., O'Connor, J.J., and Kennedy, B.N. (2010) Predominant cone photoreceptor dysfunction in a hyperglycaemic model of non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Disease models & mechanisms. 3(3-4):236-245

Alvarez, Y., Astudillo, O., Jensen, L., Reynolds, A.L., Waghorne, N., Brazil, D.P., Cao, Y., O'Connor, J.J., and Kennedy, B.N. (2009) Selective Inhibition of Retinal Angiogenesis by Targeting PI3 Kinase. PLoS One. 4(11):e7867

Alvarez, Y., Cederlund, M.L., Cottell, D.C., Bill, B.R., Ekker, S.C., Torres-Vazquez, J., Weinstein, B.M., Hyde, D.R., Vihtelic, T.S., and Kennedy, B.N. (2007) Genetic determinants of hyaloid and retinal vasculature in zebrafish. BMC Developmental Biology. 7(1):114

Kennedy, B.N., Alvarez, Y., Brockerhoff, S.E., Stearns, G.W., Sapetto-Rebow, B., Taylor, M.R., and Hurley, J.B. (2007) Identification of a Zebrafish Cone Photoreceptor-Specific Promoter and Genetic Rescue of Achromatopsia in the nof Mutant. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science. 48(2):522-529

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS