For the University of Manchester website, a short video on the subject of virgin births, or Parthenogenesis. Please share using the sharing buttons below.
Read MoreFor the University of Manchester website, a short video on the subject of virgin births, or Parthenogenesis. Please share using the sharing buttons below.
Read MoreOn 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 oldest active biological society. Founded in 1788, the Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) whose botanical, zoological and library collections […]
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 MoreShort 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.
Read MoreIn 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 is from a program that was broadcast on Sunday May 24th, 2015.
Read MoreProfessor McInerney has been named as one of six researchers shortlisted this year for the Irish Laboratory Awards. The winner will be announced on Wednesday the 3rd of December at an event held in the DoubleTree by Hilton Dublin. The other shortlisted scientists are: Alexander Von Kriegsheim, Systems Biology Ireland, University College Dublin Lester Ho, […]
Read MoreProf. McInerney – in keeping with the public engagement ethos of the research unit – spoke last night at the Odessa club and restaurant on Dame Court in Dublin as part of a city-wide series of events called the Pint of Science talks. He spoke about horizontal gene transfer and how it seems to have […]
Read MoreIn 2009 I got an email from the Beijing Genomic Institute asking me if I would like to become involved in a project they are beginning, where they were going to sequence the genome of a polar bear. They asked me if I was interested in the project and if so, what I might contribute […]
Read MoreEd Yong has written an excellent article on Eukaryote Origins. Professor McInerney was interviewed as part of the article and the article also includes interviews with several other people involved with trying to understand the origin of the eukaryote cell. In this article, Yong makes a distinction between the “slow fuse” type of hypothesis governing […]
Read MoreLucas Brouwers has written a very nice account, entitled “How genetic plunder transformed a microbe into a pink, salt-loving scavenger” about the Halophile work we published in PNAS. You can read it here: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/2013/04/22/how-genetic-plunder-transformed-a-microbe-into-a-pink-salt-loving-scavenger/
Read MoreLucas Brouwers has written an article on ths Scientific American Website about our work on the origin of vision. You can read the article here: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/2012/11/20/animal-vision-evolved-700-million-years-ago/
Read MoreHere I reproduce our letter in the Irish Times: Sir, – Ireland’s poor success rate in winning grants from the European Research Council (Business+Technology, August 16th) comes as no surprise to many of us in the Irish scientific community, given recent warnings from a number of international funding agencies. What is of particular concern […]
Read Moreby Dick Ahlstrom, Irish Times Financial returns from Ireland’s expenditure in research have easily outstripped the original investment, according to a study released on 19 September. It claims that while the Exchequer put in almost €1.2 billion over the period 2000-2006 the returns amounted to about €1.8bn. The study by PA Consulting said that the […]
Read MoreThe BBC have reported on the recent manuscript in PNAS by James Cotton and James McInerney. The article is here.
Read MoreCarl Zimmer has written a very nice article for Scientific American where he discusses the influence of evolution on cancer. He interviewed Dr. McInerney about his work with Dr. Mary O’Connell of DCU on how natural selection influences genes that are known to be involved in cancer. The article can be read by clicking on […]
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