Profile
Zoë Birtle
Assistant / Southampton
Practice & Professional Experience
Zoë specialises in all types of biological subject matter, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, molecular biology, gene sequences and their applications and bioinformatics.
Zoë joined D Young & Co 2007.
Qualifications
MA in Natural Sciences, specialising in Zoology, New Hall, University of Cambridge.
Master of Research in Bioinformatics, University of York.
DPhil in Bioinformatics investigating positive selection in the human genome, Department of Anatomy, University of Oxford.
Certificate of Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary College, University of London.
Memberships
Student Member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA).
Selected Publications
Oliver PL, Goodstadt L, Bayes JJ, Birtle Z, Roach KC et al.
Accelerated Evolution of the Prdm9 Speciation Gene across Diverse Metazoan Taxa. PLos Genet (2009) 5(12):
e1000753. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000753
Deanna M Church et al. Lineage-Specific Biology Revealed by a Finished Genome Assembly of the Mouse. PLoS
Biol. (2009) May; 7(5): e1000112
Birtle Z., Ponting C.P. Meisetz and the birth of the KRAB motif. Bioinformatics(2006) Dec 1;22(23):2841-5.
Birtle Z., Goodstadt L., Ponting C.P. Duplication and positive selection among hominin-specific PRAME genes.
BMC Genomics (2005) Sep 13;6:120.
