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Dr Mark Lynch Graduates
Dr Mark Lynch graduates with his PhD from DCU today the 5th November 2014. Jointly supervised by Professor Christine Loscher and Dr Mary J. O’Connell. Huge congratulations on a job well done !;-)
Dr Mary O’Connell on Extinction at TEDx DCU
So I took to the stage to talk about evolution and mass extinction for the TEDx DCU event in 2015. It was pitched for the general audience and was really good fun. It is a real challenge to get these concepts across and not bore people to death ! I am not sure I have…
Dr O’Connell becomes Associate Editor for GBE
Dr O’Connell has been invited to the board of associate editors for Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE). GBE is an Oxford University Press journal owned by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, and is in the top ten evolutionary biology journals internationally and has an impact factor of 4.2. “I feel honoured to have been…
Dr Ray Moran Graduates from DCU with PhD
We are very excited and proud to announce that Ray has successfully defended his PhD on Friday 11th August 2017. Dr Ray Moran graduated from DCU on the 2nd November 2017. Here is a photo of our very proud looking and newest Doctor !;-)
Elected as Fellow of the Linnean Society
On May 21st 2017 I was officially elected as Fellow of the Linnean Society. I am very excited to receive this honour and look forward to the ceremony. “Founded in 1788, the Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus… It is the oldest active biological society… As it moves into its third…
EMBO phylogenomics course in the Amazon
I had the tremendous pleasure of teaching a very talented and motivated bunch of students on an EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation) funded course. The course was delivered in the amazon jungle city of Iquitos Peru, the largest jungle city in the world unconnected by road to the rest of the world. It was…
Fresh rustic ideas for your interior
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Functional consequence of positive selection revealed through rational mutagenesis of human myeloperoxidase
Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is a member of the mammalian heme peroxidase (MHP) multigene family. Whereas all MHPs oxidize specific halides to generate the corresponding hypohalous acid, MPO is unique in its capacity to oxidize chloride at physiologic pH to produce hypochlorous acid (HOCl), a potent microbicide that contributes to neutrophil-mediated host defense against infection.