Huge congrats to my PhD student Colleen Lawless on winning the audience favourite talk at the University College Dublin #thesisIn3. Very proud supervisor here!! Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc

Super proud of my PhD students Colleen Lawless and Louise Ryan for giving excellent talks at the 2024 Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc Postgrad seminar day. A great day of talks and some really cool research presented!

Huge congrats to Colleen Lawless for winning the audience choice for best speaker at the Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc postgrad seminar day! Doing the lab proud :D

🎉 Exciting news! The #ERGAPilot flagship paper is now published! 👏 This monumental effort, bringing together hundreds of researchers from 33 countries, is a must-read: nature.com/articles/s4418… Check out the press release for more details: erga-biodiversity.eu/post/better-to… 🌍

The #ERGAPilot paper has just been released! It describes how researchers from 33 countries, including myself & my PhD student Katie Herron, have come together to sequence the genomes of all of Europe’s biodiversity. Check it out: nature.com/articles/s4418… Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc UCD Research

Large-scale comparative analyses of Amphibians give insights into their genome structure and adaptability to climate change. Check out the latest work from an international team of scientists including UCD’s own Megan Power, PhD Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc UCD Research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Exciting news! The first access requests have been processed, and the members who submitted them now have access to all 103 assemblies! 🎉 Let’s work together 🦇💪🏽Zixia Huang M. Elise Lauterbur 🏳️‍🌈 @BastianFromm Francisco Castellanos GMHughes Huabin Zhao @LabDavalos David Ray and many, many more!!

Huge congrats to unmani jaygude on her first first-author paper from the Jeremy (Jez) Simpson and Hughes lab applying Rab network analyses to explore EMT in cancer metastasis. What a great way to end the year! Genomics Data Science - SFI CRT Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc doi.org/10.1093/bioadv…

Excited to share the Hughes Lab’s 1st 2025 paper, and Colleen Lawless’s first as first-author, exploreing cuttlefish ink as a chemical defence targeting shark olfactory systems. Great collab with John Finarelli and Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸! Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc UCD Research bit.ly/40z7Ype

🚨Bat1K Paper Alert🚨We’re excited to share "Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance", JUST published in Nature! 🦇📜Work led by Bat1K executive committee member Michael Hiller and Ariadna Morales🔥nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to share our new paper out in @nature, looking at the genomics of viral tolerance and immunity in #bats 🦇🧬with Zixia Huang, Emma Teeling and some incredible scientists as part of Bat1k Genome Project. Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc UCD Research. Check it out: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Great to see our lab’s latest work, led by my PhD student Colleen Lawless, myself, and John Finarelli, featured on UCD’s home page. Looking at how cuttlefish ink targets the shark sensory system! UCD Science UCD Research ucd.ie/newsandopinion…