Dr. Mulhair completed his PhD in 2020, which was primarily focused on analysing the role of gene fusion events in novel gene genesis across animal evolution. Peter is currently working at the University of Oxford as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project, annotating and analysing genes in arthropod genomes.
Dr. Ann McCartney graduated from the O’Connell lab in 2018 and is currently a visiting fellow in the Genome Informatics Section at NIH/NHGRI where she works on understanding the “dark matter” of the human genome and how genome structure has evolved.
Ray finished his PhD in 2017 in the O’Connell lab when it was at Dublin City University. Ray is now a Senior Solutions Engineer at DNAnexus, a US-based company that combines expertise in cloud computing and bioinformatics to create the global network for genomic medicine.
Science is a diverse pursuit and scientists are diverse. We do better science when we have more diversity – diversity in thought, diversity in skills, diversity in lived experience. Our lab welcomes and celebrates diversity. We believe in including everybody, and we strive to improve access to scientific research. We recruit students and post-doctoral researchers solely on the basis of their science, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability. You will be welcome in our group and we will do our very best to help you to reach your full potential.
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In work lead by Dr Karen Siu Ting she addresses an important question in phylogenomics using 18 amphibian species. She chose to work on this Lissamphibian group because there is significant conflict over their relationships to one another, and because transcriptomes are increasingly being used to overcome the lack of genomic data for this clade.…
