Dr. Matthew Breen Biography

Dr. Matthew Breen graduated with honors in Genetics from the University of Liverpool U.K. in 1987. He completed his PhD working on cytogenetics of the Equidae in 1990 and was then employed as a Post Doctoral research scientist in Molecular Genetics at the U.K. Medical Research Council's Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh Scotland where he was responsible for developing improved fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) techniques as part of the Human Genome Mapping Project.
Dr. Breen then spent four years working at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia where he developed and applied markers for DNA based parentage testing for horses and extended this technology to other equine species.
In 1996 Dr. Breen returned to the U.K. working at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket where his laboratory developed molecular cytogenetics reagents resources and techniques for application to canine and equine genome mapping comparative cytogenetics and canine cancer studies.
In 2002 Dr. Breen relocated his laboratory to NCSU's College of Veterinary Medicine as part of their Genomics initiative. His research interests since that time have continued to focus on genomics genome mapping and the comparative aspects of canine cancer. In addition his lab is using high throughout molecular cytogenetics for anchoring emerging genome assemblies and for evaluating the changes to genome structure that occur during speciation. The lab is also developing new molecular assays for diagnostic and prognostic use in veterrinary medicine.

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