Kathryn Mary Murphy

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{{short description|Canadian neuroscientist}}

Kathryn Mary Murphy is a Canadian neuroscientist and professor who studies development and plasticity of the brain.

She has been a professor at McMaster University since 1994, where she founded the neuroscience program and prior to that was at McGill University where she won a University Research Fellowship{{cite journal |last1=Kavanagh |first1=Robert J. |title=The NSERC Program of University Research Fellowships |journal=Canadian Journal of Higher Education |date=31 August 1987 |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=59–77 |doi=10.47678/cjhe.v17i2.183015 |url=http://journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.php/cjhe/article/view/183015 |language=en |issn=0316-1218|doi-access=free }} from NSERC and a Sloan Research Fellowship{{cite web |title=Sloan Research Fellowships |url=https://sloan.org/fellowships/ |website=sloan.org}} from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, she grew up in Burlington, Ontario attending the University of Western Ontario for her bachelor's degree and Dalhousie University for her Masters and Ph.D. degrees.  While at Dalhousie she held a Ross C. Purse scholarship{{cite web |title=The Ross C. Purse Doctoral Fellowship |url=https://inca.ca/en/about-usawards/ross-c-purse-doctoral-fellowship?region=on |website=CNIB |language=en}} from the CNIB and an NSERC Doctoral scholarship.{{cite web |last1=Government of Canada |first1=Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |title=Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral Program and NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships-Doctoral Program |url=http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/BellandPostgrad-BelletSuperieures_eng.asp |website=Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) |date=28 June 2016}}

Her academic training took her to the University of California, Berkeley School of Optometry on postdoctoral fellowships from Fight For Sight and NSERC.  For ten years (2007-2017), she was the Director of the McMaster Integrated Neuroscience Discovery & Study program (MiNDS).

Her research includes studying developmental and lifespan changes in the human brain.{{cite journal |last1=Murphy |first1=Kathryn M. |last2=Beston |first2=Brett R. |last3=Boley |first3=Philip M. |last4=Jones |first4=David G. |title=Development of human visual cortex: A balance between excitatory and inhibitory plasticity mechanisms |journal=Developmental Psychobiology |date=2005 |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=209–221 |doi=10.1002/dev.20053 |pmid=15772972 |language=en |issn=1098-2302}}{{cite journal |last4=Livingstone |first4=Margaret S. |last2=Frosch |first2=Matthew P. |last3=Murphy |first3=Kathryn M. |last1=Duffy |first1=Kevin R. |title=Cytochrome Oxidase and Neurofilament Reactivity in Monocularly Deprived Human Primary Visual Cortex |journal=Cerebral Cortex |date=1 June 2007 |volume=17 |issue=6 |pages=1283–1291 |doi=10.1093/cercor/bhl038 |pmid=16831856 |pmc=2628812 |language=en |issn=1047-3211}}{{cite journal |last4=Murphy |first4=Kathryn M. |last2=Jones |first2=David G. |last3=Hornby |first3=Kyle R. |last1=Pinto |first1=Joshua G. A. |title=Developmental changes in GABAergic mechanisms in human visual cortex across the lifespan |journal=Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience |date=2010 |volume=4 |page=16 |doi=10.3389/fncel.2010.00016 |pmid=20592950 |language=English |issn=1662-5102|pmc=2893712 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last4=Murphy |first4=Kathryn M. |last2=Williams |first2=C. Kate |last3=Jones |first3=David G. |last1=Pinto |first1=Joshua G. A. |title=Characterizing synaptic protein development in human visual cortex enables alignment of synaptic age with rat visual cortex |journal=Frontiers in Neural Circuits |date=2015 |volume=9 |page=3 |doi=10.3389/fncir.2015.00003 |pmid=25729353 |language=English |issn=1662-5110|pmc=4325922 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last4=Murphy |first4=Kathryn M. |last2=Jones |first2=David G. |last3=Balsor |first3=Justin L. |last1=Siu |first1=Caitlin R. |title=Classic and Golli Myelin Basic Protein have distinct developmental trajectories in human visual cortex |journal=Frontiers in Neuroscience |date=2015 |volume=9 |pages=138 |doi=10.3389/fnins.2015.00138 |pmid=25964736 |pmc=4408849 |language=English |issn=1662-453X|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last4=Murphy |first4=Kathryn M. |last2=Jones |first2=David G. |last3=Beshara |first3=Simon P. |last1=Siu |first1=Caitlin R. |title=Development of Glutamatergic Proteins in Human Visual Cortex across the Lifespan |journal=Journal of Neuroscience |date=21 June 2017 |volume=37 |issue=25 |pages=6031–6042 |doi=10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2304-16.2017 |pmid=28554889 |pmc=6596503 |language=en |issn=0270-6474}}{{cite journal |last2=Murphy |first2=Kathryn M. |last1=Siu |first1=Caitlin R. |title=The development of human visual cortex and clinical implications |journal=Eye and Brain |volume=10 |pages=25–36 |date=24 April 2018 |language=English|doi=10.2147/EB.S130893 |pmid=29760575 |pmc=5937627 |doi-access=free }}  She has served as a Chair, Scientific Officer and Reviewer for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) grant selection panels and was the editor of the Synaptosomes book ({{ISBN|978-1-4939-8738-2}}) published in 2018 in the NeuroMethods Series by Springer-Nature.