Associate Professor
University of Galway, Ireland
Dr. Elaine Dunleavy is a Senior Lecturer based at the Centre for Chromosome Biology at the University of Galway, Ireland. Dr. Dunleavy is a cell biologist and geneticist interested in the molecules and machinery that control how cells divide. Her particular research-interest lies in the specification and regulation of centromeres, key chromosomal loci that oversee proper chromosome segregation at cell division. She uses the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as an experimental system to explore such mechanisms. Recently, her laboratory has begun to investigate centromere function in bovine oocytes, sperm and blastocysts generated by in vitro fertilisation.