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CRISTIAN O'FLAHERTY

Assistant Professor – Department of Surgery

Associate Member – Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine

 

Contact information:

Telephone: (514) 934-1934 ext: 35410
e-mail address: cristian.oflaherty@mcgill.ca
website: http://www.surgery-research.mcgill.ca/projects/project_detail.php?itemId=45

 

Projects for Thesis Supervision:

1. Redox signaling in sperm activation.

2. Alteration of mechanisms associated with male infertility.

3. Impact of oxidative stress in spermatogenesis and epididymal maturation.


Recent Publications:

O'Flaherty, C. and de Souza, R. (2010)
Hydrogen peroxide modifies human sperm peroxiredoxins in a dose-dependent manner. Biol. Reprod. In Press.

O'Flaherty, C., Hales, B., Chan, P. and Robaire, B. (2009)
Impact of chemotherapeutics and advanced testicular cancer or Hodgkin's lymphoma on sperm DNA integrity. Fertility and Sterility 94: 1374-1379.

O'Flaherty, C., Vaisheva, F., Hales, B., Chan, P. and Robaire, B. (2008)
Sperm chromatin quality is affected in testicular cancer and Hodgkin's lymphoma patients before chemotherapy. Hum. Reprod. 23: 1044-1052.