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 the book) Darwin’s nineteenth-century writings laid the foundations for modern studies of evolution, and theoretical developments in the mid-twentieth century fostered the Modern Synthesis. Since […]
Read MoreThe 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 the research proposal is “Investigating how non-homologous recombination structures genes, proteins, operons, clusters, genomes and ecosystems”. Over a period of three years, this programme will […]
Read MoreThere is a post-doc position available in my research group in Ireland. The position is to continue our work on the origins and early evolution of eukaryotes. In this case, we are going to dig into the metabolism of early eukaryotes. We will spend time trying to reconstruct ancestral metabolisms, analysing the origins of eukaryote-specific […]
Read MoreCurrent State of Registrations: [wppb progress=100 option=”red candystripe” location=inside] We’re full. What?: Week-long, intensive phylogenetics course covering all aspects of bioinformatics and phylogenetics/phylogenomics. Where?: Department of Biology, National University of Ireland Maynooth. This is approximately 40 minutes from Dublin Airport (Aer Lingus, British Airways, Ryanair, American Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, etc.) , 25km from the centre […]
Read MoreIn late 2012, I got the idea that there were a few points to make about homology that were either not in the literature or they were there, but in relatively obscure places. I thought it was time to pull these ideas together and see if there was something to be said about how homology […]
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