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Dr. Barbara Anne Murphy is the BAgrSc Animal Science – Equine Programme Director and Head of Subject for Equine Science within the School of Agriculture and Food Science at UCD. Her academic research related to equine chronobiology led to the development of a multi-award winning technological innovation - the Equilume Light Mask - that has profoundly impacted equine husbandry within the multi-billion Euro global horse breeding industry, had significant reputational impact for UCD and resulted in the spin-out of the successful UCD start-up company, Equilume.
Following a BSc in Equine Science from the University of Limerick, she spent a year working within the Thoroughbred industry before pursuing a PhD in Veterinary Science at the prestigious Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky. Her widely read PhD Dissertation entitled “Investigations of circadian regulation and immune-circadian interaction in the horse” shone light for the first time on a new area of equine science research – chronobiology. Her current scientific research relates to studying how environmental cues, primarily photoperiod, regulate biological rhythms (i.e. the body clock) in animals. Specifically, her studies investigate how circadian and circannual rhythms are involved in important reproductive phenomena and how disruption of these rhythms impacts growth, health and performance in the equine and bovine species. An important output from her UCD research was the finding that low intensity blue light could profoundly influence equine physiology when administered to a single eye. This led to the development of the Equilume Light Mask and its subsequent widespread assimilation into global breeding practices.
Barbara is also CSO at Equilume Ltd, head-quartered in Co Kildare, Ireland and drives the research and development of innovative Agri-tech. A native of West Cork on the Wild Atlantic Way, her childhood around ponies and subsequent experience working for leading equine breeding operations in the US and Ireland, in addition to her extensive academic equine science background, helps fuel her role as both successful educator and entrepreneur.
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Journal of biological rhythmsno. 3 (2024): 237-269
ANIMALSno. 6 (2024)
Journal of Equine Veterinary Science (2023): 104774-104774
ANIMALSno. 14 (2023): 2335-2335
PLoS ONEno. 5 (2023): e0294089-e0294089
JOURNAL OF EQUINE VETERINARY SCIENCE (2022)
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