Michael F. Barry
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Michael F. Barry
The third of four names on the Adelaide paper that first filmed human fertilisation after sperm injection.
Michael F. Barry is the third author of the 1997 Human Reproduction paper in which Dianna Payne, Sean Flaherty, Barry and Colin Matthews filmed 50 human eggs after intracytoplasmic sperm injection. The University of Adelaide's own record of the paper gives his name in full. The authors worked in the Reproductive Medicine Unit of the University of Adelaide at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The paper does not describe each author's part, and little else about his role is on public record.
Over the following two decades, a Michael F. Barry appears again on papers from Adelaide's reproductive laboratories. He is listed on a 2002 study of genetic testing of embryos for beta-thalassaemia from the same hospital's Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Later, at Fertility SA in Adelaide, he co-wrote a 2019 study on collapsing mouse blastocysts before freezing and a 2020 randomised trial of a growth factor added to blastocyst culture medium. These papers suggest a long career at the laboratory bench, though none of them states that he is the same person as the 1997 author.
Also see: Dianna Payne, Sean P. Flaherty, Colin Matthews
About the sources
- University of Adelaide Digital Library, record 2440/8231 (the 1997 paper, with authors given in full as Dianna Payne, Sean P. Flaherty, Michael F. Barry, Colin D. Matthews).
- Payne D, Flaherty SP, Barry MF, Matthews CD. Preliminary observations on polar body extrusion and pronuclear formation in human oocytes using time-lapse video cinematography. Human Reproduction 1997;12(3):532–541. PubMed 9130755.
- Rose RD, Barry MF, Dunstan EV, Yuen SM, Cameron LP, Knight EJ, Norman RJ, Hull ML. The BlastGen study: a randomized controlled trial of blastocyst media supplemented with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor. Reproductive BioMedicine Online 2020;40:645–652. PubMed 32220517 (author given as Michael F. Barry, Fertility SA).
- Frank LA, Rose RD, Anastasi MR, Tan TCY, Barry MF, Thompson JG, Brown HM. Artificial blastocyst collapse prior to vitrification significantly improves Na+/K+-ATPase-dependent post-warming blastocoel re-expansion kinetics without inducing endoplasmic reticulum stress gene expression in the mouse. Reproduction, Fertility and Development 2019;31:294–305. PubMed 30099982.
- Hussey ND, Davis T, Hall JR, Barry MF, Draper R, Norman RJ, Rudzki Z. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for beta-thalassaemia using sequencing of single cell PCR products to detect mutations and polymorphic loci. Molecular Human Reproduction 2002;8:1136–1143. PubMed 12468648 (author given as Michael F. Barry).
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