MODERN DNA LABORATORY ADDRESS:
Molecular Population Genetics
Smurfit Institute of Genetics
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
ANCIENT DNA LABORATORY ADDRESS (for archaeological samples):
Archaeological Genetics
Smurfit Institute of Genetics
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
RESEARCH INTEREST:
My postgraduate research is on ancient DNA from domesticated animals. The project aims to investigate the changes in population dynamics at times of artificial selection by ancient and historical herders. It is hypothesized that at times of sharp selection the variability in Y lineages will greatly decrease due to the culling and castration of most males in the livestock population. The project aims to test this hypothesis by comparing genetic variability and investigating if the reductions in variability are specific to the male lineage.
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:
2000 to date: Postdoctoral Fellow, Trinity College Dublin University
June to August 2014: Worked in the Wayne lab, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Main project on Drosophila population genetics and Drosophila sigma virus.
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS:
2015 to 2020: PhD Bradley lab, Trinity College Dublin
2011 to 2015: BA in science (genetics), Trinity College Dublin
Thesis title: The Bioinformatics of Parchment
Supervisor: Dan Bradley
OTHER Merits:
Awarded the Vincent scholarship from Trinity College Dublin, School of genetics in 2013.
Awarded postgraduate research scholarship from the Irish Research Council in 2015.
