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Dr Katie Harvey

Lecturer In Biomedical Sciences

School of Life, Health & Chemical Sciences

katie.harvey@open.ac.uk

Biography

Professional biography

I am a Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences in the School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences. I am also the Biomedical Sciences qualification lead.

Research interests

My research focusses on collaborating with private IVF clinics with a view to optimise assisted reproductive technology (ART) protocols to improve pregnancy outcomes. I am particularly interested in improving outcomes for patients that have a poor prognosis or who have a limited number of embryos.

External collaborations

I collaborate with colleagues from the University of Greenwich and the University of Essex. I also collaborate with private IVF clinics.

Publications

Journal Article

Morphokinetic Profiling Suggests That Rapid First Cleavage Division Accurately Predicts the Chances of Blastulation in Pig In Vitro Produced Embryos (2024)

Double vitrification and warming of blastocysts does not affect pregnancy, miscarriage or live birth rates (2024)

Reassessing the conventional fertilisation check: leveraging PGT-A to increase the number of transferrable embryos (2024)

Rescue of late maturing oocytes in poor prognosis patients: delayed intracytoplasmic sperm injection (DICSI) results in more viable embryos (2024)

Sperm morphology differences associated with pig fertility (2022)

Supplementation of porcine in vitro maturation medium with FGF2, LIF, and IGF1 enhances cytoplasmic maturation in prepubertal gilts oocytes and improves embryo quality (2022)

The role of apoptosis in cryopreserved animal oocytes and embryos (2021)

Identification of optimal assisted aspiration conditions of oocytes for use in porcine in vitro maturation: A re‐evaluation of the relationship between the cumulus oocyte complex and oocyte quality (2021)

UV-filter pollution: current concerns and future prospects (2021)

Cryopreservation produces limited long-term effects on the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (2020)

Eukaryotic response to hypothermia in relation to integrated stress responses (2020)

The role of chromosome segregation and nuclear organisation in human subfertility (2019)

The production of pig preimplantation embryos in vitro: Current progress and future prospects (2018)

Jurassic spark: Mapping the genomes of birds and other dinosaurs (2018)

Canine recommended breed weight ranges are not a good predictor of an ideal body condition score (2018)

Upgrading short-read animal genome assemblies to chromosome level using comparative genomics and a universal probe set (2017)

Time-lapse embryo imaging and morphokinetic profiling: Towards a general characterisation of embryogenesis (2016)

Cryopreservation of animal oocytes and embryos: Current progress and future prospects (2016)

Multicolor detection of every chromosome as a means of detecting mosaicism and nuclear organization in human embryonic nuclei (2016)

Upgrading molecular cytogenetics to study reproduction and reproductive isolation in mammals, birds, and dinosaurs (2016)

Third Report on Chicken Genes and Chromosomes 2015 (2015)

20th International Chromosome Conference (ICCXX) (2015)

Reconstruction of gross avian genome structure, organization and evolution suggests that the chicken lineage most closely resembles the dinosaur avian ancestor (2014)

Genome wide analysis reveals single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with fatness and putative novel copy number variants in three pig breeds (2013)

Novel approach for deriving genome wide SNP analysis data from archived blood spots (2012)

Analyses of pig genomes provide insight into porcine demography and evolution (2012)

Comparative genomics in chicken and Pekin duck using FISH mapping and microarray analysis (2009)

Presentation / Conference

Assembling and comparing avian genomes by molecular cytogenetics (2015)