Zoë Birtle

Associate / Southampton

zeb@dyoung.co.uk

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.
European Patent Attorney 2010.
Chartered Patent Attorney 2011.

Memberships

Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA).
European Patent Institute (epi).

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).
Deanna M Church et al. Lineage-Specific Biology Revealed by a Finished Genome Assembly of the Mouse. PLoS
Biol. (2009) May; 7(5).
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.