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…
Super treat in the lab this week. The journal Science decided to feature one of our publications in its “Editor’s Choice” section. The author of the little piece is Laura Zahn and she chose to feature the work, which was published in Molecular Biology and Evolution. It is always a real thrill to have work…
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…
“Evolution of sweet taste perception in hummingbirds by transformation of the ancestral umami receptor” Baldwin et al Science 2014 Why study birds to understand sensory perception? Birds are a group of therapod dinosaurs that evolved during the mid Mesozoic era (~150 million years ago). They represent one of the most diverse extant vertebrate clades…
Today we published a manuscript that summarises the current knowledge of the evolutionary history of the cellular life forms on the planet. This is not an easy task and involved evaluating a lot of manuscripts to see what they had to say on the matter. Fortunately, there are many different kinds of data that can be…
Abstract Background: miRNA profiling performed in myogenic cells and biopsies from skeletal muscles has previously identified miRNAs involved in myogenesis. Results: Here, we have performed miRNA transcriptome profiling in human affinity-purified CD56+ myoblasts induced to differentiate in vitro. In total, we have identified 60 miRNAs differentially expressed during myogenic differentiation. Many were not known for being differentially…
[lead]Abstract:[/lead] Recent advances in molecular biology and computational power have seen the biomedical sector enter a new era, with corresponding development of Bioinformatics as a major discipline. Generation of enormous amounts of data has driven the need for more advanced storage solutions and shared access through a range of public repositories. The number of such biomedical…
