Inadvertent Paralog Inclusion Drives Artifactual Topologies and Timetree Estimates in Phylogenomics
In work lead by Dr Karen Siu Ting she addresses an important question…
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Return to the sea, get huge, beat cancer: an analysis of cetacean genomes including an assembly for the humpback whale…
In the May issue of MBE we have published the outcome of a…
Paternally Expressed Imprinted Genes under Positive Darwinian Selection in Arabidopsis thaliana.
In this paper in MBE we examined the selective pressure variation across genomically…
Cover of Structure (Cell Press)
In a recent collaboration with Joe Cockburn et al published in Structure –…
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I am looking for two highly motivated computational evolutionary biologists with excellent programming…
Dr Ray Moran Graduates from DCU with PhD
We are very excited and proud to announce that Ray has successfully defended…
Elected as Fellow of the Linnean Society
On May 21st 2017 I was officially elected as Fellow of the Linnean…
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“Minding the gaps in cellular evolution”
Our latest article we discuss some recent work from Thijis Ettema’s group on discovery…
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Brain structure that tracks negative events backfires in depression
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Launch of Our Leeds Omics Virtual Institute
Save the date: 21st June for the launch of Leeds Omics. You are…
Workaholism tied to psychiatric disorders
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Crisis Hotline Approach Is Changing the Way We Deal With Stress
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Memory through optogenetics
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Brainwaves could be the next health vital sign
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Neuroscience study identifies brain chemicals
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Stress receptor in brain only used for emergencies
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A new protein with potential to modify brain functions
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Poverty marks a gene, predicting depression
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“Sloths’ ancestors may have crossed Atlantic”
by Chris Bunting, Senior Press Officer The family tree of the largest group…
EMBO phylogenomics course in the Amazon
I had the tremendous pleasure of teaching a very talented and motivated…
Dr O’Connell becomes Associate Editor for GBE
Dr O’Connell has been invited to the board of associate editors for Genome…
Placental Mammals and the limits of phylogenetic inference
More support for Atlantogenata. This week an international collaborative effort has tackled a…
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The origin of Eukaryotes and the Ring of Life
In our latest work on the origin of eukaryotes published in a special…
Dr Mary O’Connell on Extinction at TEDx DCU
So I took to the stage to talk about evolution and mass extinction…
Graduation time for Dr Andrew Webb and Dr Kathryn McRae
It was freezing and there was a northerly wind whipping through DCU campus…
Genomics of the longest lived mammal
This week the genome and transcriptome of the Bowhead whale was published in…
A matter of Taste
“Evolution of sweet taste perception in hummingbirds by transformation of the ancestral umami…
Irish Times Nov 5th 2014
Our research was featured in the Irish times today (5th November 2014). I…
Dr Mark Lynch Graduates
Dr Mark Lynch graduates with his PhD from DCU today the 5th November…
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A consilient view on Eukaryotic Origins
Today we published a manuscript that summarises the current knowledge of the evolutionary history…
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Simultaneous miRNA and mRNA transcriptome profiling…
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Heterogeneous Models place the Root of the Placental Mammal Phylogeny.
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The Landscape for Epigenetic/ Epigenomic Biomedical Resources
[lead]Abstract:[/lead] Recent advances in molecular biology and computational power have seen the biomedical…
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A phylogenetic approach to test for evidence of parental conflict or gene duplications associated with protein-encoding imprinted orthologous genes in placental mammals
There are multiple theories on the evolution of genomic imprinting. We investigated whether…
Selection and the cell cycle: Positive Darwinian Selection in a well-known DNA damage response pathway
Cancer is a common occurrence in multi-cellular organisms and is not strictly limited to…
A case-by-case analysis of imprinted retrogenes
Retroposition is a widespread phenomenon resulting in the generation of new genes that are…
A role for TLR4 in Clostridium difficile infection and the recognition of surface layer proteins
Clostridium difficile is the etiological agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (AAD) and pseudomembranous colitis…
The public goods hypothesis for the evolution of life on Earth.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile the observed extent of horizontal…
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.…
Arabidopsis thaliana codon volatility scores reflect GC3 composition rather than selective pressure
Synonymous codon usage bias has typically been correlated with, and attributed to translational…
Colon Cancer Genes Exhibit Signatures of Positive Selection at Functionally Important Sites
Cancer, much like most human disease, is routinely studied by utilizing model organisms.…