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I am the principal investigator of the Genome Evolultion Laboratory in NUI Maynooth. We are primaily, but not exlusively, interested in the genomic evoultion of fungi .

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 researching nematode chemoreceptors.

I moved to the Conway Institute in October 2005 as an IRCSET postdoctoral fellow to work in Professor Geraldine Butler's lab. In 2008 I received a Health Research Board of Ireland postdoctoral fellowship. While in the Butler lab I worked on comparative genomics of pathogenic and nonpathogenic Candida species with special reference to Candida parapsilosis.

 

 

 
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