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Genomics of the longest lived mammal
This week the genome and transcriptome of the Bowhead whale was published in the journal Cell reports. For more please see our publications page for the pdf or click here This work was carried out by Dr Andrew Webb (first author) and Dr Mary O’Connell in collaboration with an international team of experts and was led by…
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Graduation time for Dr Andrew Webb and Dr Kathryn McRae
It was freezing and there was a northerly wind whipping through DCU campus but that wasn’t going to keep us from smiling ! We had a double celebration in our group today with the graduation of Dr Andrew Webb and Dr Kathryn McRae photographed here with our president Prof Brian Mac Craith. Kathryn was supervised…
Heterogeneous Models place the Root of the Placental Mammal Phylogeny.
[dropcap style=”normal or inverse or boxed”]H[/dropcap]ow are mammals related to one another ? This question has puzzled biologists for decades. In our most recent publication we describe how, using sequence data and sophisticated phylogenetic models, we have resolved this issue. Our analysis shows that the root of the placental mammal phylogeny is the common ancestor…
Inadvertent Paralog Inclusion Drives Artifactual Topologies and Timetree Estimates in Phylogenomics
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.…
Irish Times Nov 5th 2014
Our research was featured in the Irish times today (5th November 2014). I think it is wonderful to bring fundamental research to the general audience. The business of understanding life and how it works underpins all of our therapies and treatments for the future … this is where it all begins … http://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/great-scientific-mysteries-the-researchers-puzzle-it-out-1.1964445
Launch of Our Leeds Omics Virtual Institute
Save the date: 21st June for the launch of Leeds Omics. You are invited to the launch of Leeds Omics on Tuesday morning (21st June) at 10.00am. Please register for this event using the following link: http://leedsomicslaunch.eventbrite.co.uk Leeds Omics is a cross faculty initiative between the Faculty of Biological Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine…
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