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Book Chapter: Pangenomes and Selection: The Public Goods Hypothesis
Authors James O McInerney, Fiona J Whelan, Maria Rosa Domingo-Sananes, Alan McNally, Mary J O’Connell. The evolution and structure of prokaryotic genomes are largely shaped by horizontal gene transfer. This ... -
Theory of Evolution book
Professor McInerney has contributed a chapter to a newly-published book on "The Theory of Evolution: Principles, Concepts, and Assumptions". Details on the book (extracted from the promotional material of ... -
Paper: Eukaryote Genes Are More Likely than Prokaryote Genes to Be Composites
Authors: Yaqing Ou and James McInerney. Abstract The formation of new genes by combining parts of existing genes is an important evolutionary process. Remodelled genes, which we call composites, have ... -
Manchester Evolution Symposium
This is the webpage of the Manchester Evolution Symposium, funded by the Templeton Foundation and the research Domain of Evolution, Systems and Genomics. Organiser: Professor James O. McInerney Key Administrator: ... -
SIBE meeting in Rome
The Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology (SIBE: Società Italia di Biologia Evoluzionistica) http://sibe2017.uniroma2.it/ held their annual meeting in Rome from August 28th-31st. Prof McInerney spoke at the meeting on the ... -
Short Video Explaining Pangenomes Paper
This is a short video to accompany our recent paper, published here: http://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201740 The citation is: McInerney, J.O., McNally, A and O'Connell, M.J. (2017) Why Prokaryotes Have Pangenomes. Nature Microbiology ... -
Prof. McInerney Speaking About Virgin Births (Parthenogenesis)
For the University of Manchester website, a short video on the subject of virgin births, or Parthenogenesis. Please share using the sharing buttons below. -
SciFri Talk at The Natural History Museum
On October 28th, 2016, Prof. McInerney gave a talk at The Natural History Museum, London on the subject of "Network Thinking". The specific title for the talk was "The dominant ... -
Prof. McInerney Becomes A Fellow of The Linnean Society
15th September 2016 Professor McInerney officially became an elected Fellow of the Linnean society of London at a meeting of the society on Thursday September 15th, 2016. Pictured is ... -
Latest Paper: Combined Analysis of Variation in Core, Accessory and Regulatory Genome Regions Provides a ...
Our latest paper has just been published. It is on the evolution of Escherichia coli, which is a pathogenic bacterium. The work was led by Dr. Alan McNally, who has just moved ... -
Latest Paper: Evolution A Four Billion Year Old Metabolism
The latest paper from the lab is a News and Views article entitled: Evolution: A four billion year old metabolism. The history of life on the planet is mostly the history ... -
Evolution/Bioinformatics Post-Doctoral Vacancies, Univ. Manchester UK, August 2016 #jobfairy
Bottom line: Send me a message through the form at the bottom of this page if you want to come work with me. JOB 1 We are looking for an ... -
Seminar by Todd Vision
Tuesday 14th June 2016 Today Dr. Todd Vision gave a seminar in the Michael Smith Lecture Theatre on the subject of phenotypes and phenotype databases. The talk focussed on the ... -
Templeton Foundation Confirms Funding
The John Templeton Foundation have confirmed the award of a two-year research grant to the laboratory of James McInerney at The University of Manchester. The grant will fund two post-doctoral ... -
BBSRC Grant Announcement
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have confirmed the award of £326,000 to the McInerney lab to investigate how recombination structures life on the planet. The title of ... -
Sir Henry Wellcome Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2016
We are actively looking for early-stage researchers to apply for Sir Henry Wellcome post-doctoral research funding. Preliminary application deadline: 3 May 2016 (5pm) Eligibility: You must be in the final year ... -
Professor McInerney Elected Fellow Of The Linnean society
On the 17th March 2016, Professor McInerney was elected as a fellow of the Linnean Society. From the linnean society website: The Linnean Society of London is the world’s ... -
Phylogenomics Summer School 2016 (May 29th-June3rd)
UPDATE: THE COURSE FOR 2016 IS NOW OVER Current status of registrations (since April 4th) What?: Week-long, intensive phylogenetics course covering all aspects of bioinformatics and phylogenetics/phylogenomics. Where?: Department of Biology, ... -
Davide Pisani Seminar on "Evidence that comb jellies are not the sister of all the ...
Dr. Davide Pisani from the University of Bristol spoke today about his work using molecular phylogenetics in order to resolve the earliest branches on the Animal tree of life. His ... -
Nadine Ziemert Visit And Talk On Secondary Metabolite Gene Evolution
Professor Nadine Ziemert of the University of Tuebingen spoke at the university of Manchester today, 8th February, 2016. The title of her talk was "Diversity and Evolution of Secondary Metabolites ... -
EMBO Course On Phylogenomics in Iquitos Peru
Many many years ago, a group of us put together a course on phylogenetic analysis and took this course to South America, using funding obtained from various places in Europe ... -
Professor McInerney Conferred With Irish "Conference Ambassador" Award
Conference Ambassador Recognition Awards Fáilte Ireland has honoured 79 ‘Conference Ambassadors’ at its inaugural Conference Ambassador Recognition Awards ceremony at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham this evening (Thursday, 21st January 2016). ... -
NASA Astrobiology Report on Carnegie Origin Of Life Meeting
NASA Astrobiology report from the Origin of Life meeting held in November 2015 at the Carnegie Institute of Washington is now online. You can find it here: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/seeking-new-insight-into-lifes-origin/ -
Prof. McInerney Speaks At The University of Tübingen, Germany
Professor McInerney gave a research seminar at the University of Tübingen, Germany on November 24th. The title of the seminar was "Merging of biological objects of different kinds is a ... -
Prof. McInerney Speaks At Carnegie Institution of Washington
Prof. McInerney spoke at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW), Washington DC on Friday 13th November 2015. The conference was organised by CIW and the theme of the meeting was ... -
Three PhD studentships available for September 2016
Three PhD studentships are available through a BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Doctoral Training Programme. The focus will be on ‘Interdisciplinary Training’, ‘Enabling New Ways of Working’ and ... -
Prof McInerney Becomes Scientific Associate of The Natural History Museum London
The head of the Department of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum London, Dr. Tim Littlewood, has confirmed that Professor McInerney is to be appointed as a Scientific Associate ... -
Sir Henry Wellcome Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2015
We are actively looking for early-stage researchers to apply for Sir Henry Wellcome post-doctoral research funding. Eligibility: You must be in the final year of your PhD studies or have no ... -
Maynooth University Holds Farewell Party For Prof. McInerney
On Friday September 11th, 2015, The Department of Biology, Maynooth University held a farewell celebration for Professor McInerney. Prof. McInerney had worked in the department of biology for 16 years, ... -
Phylogenetics In The -Omics Era: EMBO Course in Perú
From the 10th - 17th of January 2016, there will be an EMBO-funded phylogenomics course in Iquitos, Peru. Iquitos is the world's largest city that is NOT accessible by road. ... -
Short Video On Recent Paper In Nature
The paper can be found here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14963.html -
Bill Martin Interviewed About Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer Into Eukaryotes
Short interview with Bill Martin about the manuscript in Nature that deals with the different kinds of gene transfer that we typically see in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. -
Prof McInerney Speaks At Phylogenetic Workshop At National University of Singapore
A workshop on the subject of phylogenetic networks was held at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Prof. McInerney spoke at the meeting on the subject of N-rooted fusion ... -
Prof. McInerney Inducted Into American Academy of Microbiology
At a luncheon at the New Orleans Mariott Hotel, Prof McInerney was inducted into the American Academy of Microbiology as a Fellow. In total, 79 fellows were elected this year. ... -
Prof McInerney Interviewed for RTE "Bright Sparks" Radio Series
In late 2014, Prof. McInerney was interviewed for the RTE radio series "Bright Sparks" which sought to highlight the work of a wide variety of Irish scientists. This particular excerpt ...
