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: Marian Halfpenny Strategic Funding Team Support: Dr. Daniel Jameson Thursday 14th December, Kanaris Theatre 10:30 Arrival, Registration & Coffee 11:00-11:30 Mark Wilkinson ‘Post Phylogenetic Systematics’ […]
Read MoreThe 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 first day,on the topic of “The importance of mergers and acquisitions in evolution”. The meeting is a very diverse meeting in terms of content. The […]
Read MoreOn 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 role of mergers in evolutionary history” and the talk took place in the Neil Chalmers seminar room.
Read MoreTuesday 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 Phenoscape database, how it has been assembled and what kinds of knowledge can be extracted from the database. You can find a variety of posters […]
Read MoreConference 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). The recipients, from a variety of professional and academic backgrounds, were given the awards for bidding and hosting an international conference or event in Dublin. […]
Read MoreNASA 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/
Read MoreProf. 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 “Re-Conceptualizing the Origin of Life”. Sara Imani Walker and George Cody were the principle organisers, though a large organising committee put the programme together. Prof. […]
Read MoreA 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 graphs, Epaktologs and generally the subject of introgression. The timetable for the meeting was as follows: The Phylogenetic Network Workshop (27 – 31 […]
Read MoreAlthough I am the current secretary of the society, I am very much writing this as a personal perspective. I think I saw a lot as one of the co-organisers of SMBE 2012 in Dublin and maybe this will help somebody make up their mind about what is involved. First of all, this whole process […]
Read MoreProfessor McInerney is to give the plenary lecture at the Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva meeting in Barcelona on July 1st. This meeting is the premier evolution meeting in Spain and this year it is being organised by the Societat Catalana de Biologia. You can see more information about this meeting here: http://blogs.iec.cat/scb/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2014/05/XIV-JORNADA-DE-BIOLOGIA-EVOLUTIVA2014.pdf […]
Read MoreProf. McInerney is a joint-organiser and one of the speakers at SMBEME, the satellite meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. Program Sunday, 27th April, Zoological Museum Kiel 16:00 – 18:30 Registration 18:30 – 21:00 Opening session Moderator: Tal Dagan 18:30 – 18:45 Greetings Vice President Prof. Dr. Birgit Friedl, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel […]
Read MoreProfessor McInerney has been invited to speak at the International Union of Microbiology Societies annual meeting in Montréal, Canada from July 27th-August 1, 2014. This meeting is collectively known as the International Congress of Microbiology and it consists of three separate congresses: the XIVth International Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology, the XVIth International Congress of Virology and the XIVth International […]
Read MoreVIBE – The Virtual Institute of Bioinformatics and Evolution, which is a loose community of research groups in Ireland, held its annual get-together in Galway recently and was attended by several of our past and current members. It was a superb meeting, organised in Galway by Prof. Cathal Seoighe and Dr. Tim Downing.
Read MoreSeveral members of the Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution Unit attended the second “Mechanisms of Protein Evolution” meeting in Denver Colorado in February 2013. The agenda for the meeting is here: http://www.proteinevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Agenda_MPEII_5Feb13.pdf During the meeting a video was made where a number of the speakers gave a brief overview of what they were speaking […]
Read MoreThe society for Molecular Biology and Evolution held their annual meeting in Dublin from June 23-26 in the Convention Centre Dublin. The meeting was attended by 1,300 delegates, 44 from Irish institutions and the rest were from international institutions. The value to the Irish economy is estimated at approximately €3,000,000. Some of the outcomes of […]
Read MoreThe research unit decamped to Colorado this week to attend the first MMPE (Molecular Mechanisms of Protein Evolution), which was held in the University of Colorado Denver medical school and the 12th ISCB Regional Meeting, which was held in Snowmass Colorado in the Silvertree Hotel. Speaking at the meeting were: Dr. Davide Pisani, Dr. James […]
Read MoreThe annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution will be held in Dublin next June from the 23rd to the 26th. In the coming week we will make the decisions on which symposia will be included in the final programme. This will be a great thing on one hand, because we get […]
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