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I am currently working as a Health Research Board of Ireland postdoctoral fellow in Professor Geraldine Butler's lab. I graduated with a Bachelors degree in biology from NUI Maynooth in the year 2000. I subsequently embarked on a PhD in bioinformatics in the lab of Dr James McInerney. After my PhD studies I spent just over a year in the lab of Professor Ann Burnell.

I moved to the Conway Institute in October 2005 as an IRCSET postdoctoral fellow. I am currently undertaking a comparative genomic study of pathogenic Candida species with special reference to Candida parapsilosis. I am also interested in fungal phylogenomics and the role horizontal gene transfer plays in shaping Candida evolution.

 

 
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