Biography:Aoife McLysaght

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Aoife McLysaght
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Alma materUniversity of Dublin (BA, PhD)
Awards
  • European Research Council Starting Researcher Award (2013–2018)
  • President of Ireland Young Researcher's Award Science Foundation Ireland (2005)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Dublin
University of California, Irvine
ThesisEvolution of vertebrate genome organisation (2002)
Doctoral advisorKenneth H. Wolfe[2]
Websitewww.gen.tcd.ie/molevol

Aoife McLysaght is a Professor in the Molecular Evolution Laboratory of the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, University of Dublin, Ireland.[1][3][4]

Education

McLysaght was educated at the University of Dublin where she was a student of Trinity College and awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Genetics in 1998, followed by a PhD in 2002 for research supervised by Kenneth H. Wolfe on the evolution of vertebrate genome organisation.[2][5][6][7]

Career and research

Following her PhD, she completed postdoctoral research at the University of California, Irvine[8] working with Brandon Gaut before returning to work in Dublin in 2003. Her research in molecular evolution and comparative genomics[1] has been published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals including Nature,[9] Nature Genetics,[10] Bioinformatics,[11] Genome Research,[12] PNAS[13][14] and the journal Yeast.[15]

She has served as senior editor and associate editor for the journals Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution, and is on the editorial board of the journal Cell Reports. She is a member of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) and The Genetics Society.[citation needed] She served as Treasurer of SMBE 2012–14 and was elected President of the Society in 2017.[16]

Outreach and media

McLysaght is a regular contributor to public events, and has spoken at IGNITE Electric Picnic,[17][18] TEDx, The Royal Institution, and on the BBC Radio Four programme The Infinite Monkey Cage.[19] She brought genetics to a wider audience in the Royal Institution 2013 advent calendar[8] where she featured in videos on human chromosome 1,[20] human chromosome 14,[21] mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)[22] and the Science Gallery, Dublin. In 2018 she was a guest lecturer with Alice Roberts at the televised Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.[23]

Awards and honours

McLysaght was awarded European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant 2018–23 and an ERC Starting Researcher grant from 2013 to 2018, and the President of Ireland Young Researcher's Award by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) in 2005.[24][25] She gave the J. B. S. Haldane lecture of The Genetics Society in 2016.[26]

Personal life

McLysaght is a grand-daughter of genealogist Edward MacLysaght.[27]

She is a mother of two children, a cat and a dog.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 McLysaght, Aoife (2002). Evolution of vertebrate genome organisation (PDF) (PhD thesis). Trinity College, Dublin. OCLC 842498402. Copac 11660313. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-11-06.
  3. ↑ Aoife McLysaght publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
  4. ↑ Aoife McLysaght publications from Europe PubMed Central
  5. ↑ Aoife McLysaght's Entry at ORCID
  6. ↑ Wolfe, Ken (2017). "Wolfe lab alumni". Archived from the original on 2017-07-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20170711122103/http://wolfe.ucd.ie/lab/yore.php. 
  7. ↑ "Academic Tree". 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 O’Connell, Claire (2014). "Professor brings science to life with flair". https://www.siliconrepublic.com/earth-science/professor-brings-science-to-life-with-flair. 
  9. ↑ Lander, Eric S.; Linton, Lauren M.; Birren, Bruce; Nusbaum, Chad; Zody, Michael C.; Baldwin, Jennifer; Devon, Keri; Dewar, Ken et al. (2001). "Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome". Nature 409 (6822): 860–921. doi:10.1038/35057062. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 11237011.  Free to read
  10. ↑ McLysaght, Aoife; Hokamp, Karsten; Wolfe, Kenneth H. (2002). "Extensive genomic duplication during early chordate evolution". Nature Genetics 31 (2): 200–204. doi:10.1038/ng884. ISSN 1061-4036. PMID 12032567.  closed access
  11. ↑ Pollastri, G.; McLysaght, A. (2004). "Porter: a new, accurate server for protein secondary structure prediction". Bioinformatics 21 (8): 1719–1720. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti203. ISSN 1367-4803. PMID 15585524. http://www.tara.tcd.ie/bitstream/2262/39594/1/Porter%20-%20a%20new%2c%20accurate%20server%20for%20protein%20secondary%20structure%20prediction.pdf. 
  12. ↑ Knowles, D. G.; McLysaght, A. (2009). "Recent de novo origin of human protein-coding genes". Genome Research 19 (10): 1752–1759. doi:10.1101/gr.095026.109. ISSN 1088-9051. PMID 19726446. 
  13. ↑ McLysaght, A.; Baldi, P. F.; Gaut, B. S. (2003). "Extensive gene gain associated with adaptive evolution of poxviruses". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (26): 15655–15660. doi:10.1073/pnas.2136653100. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 14660798. 
  14. ↑ Makino, T.; McLysaght, A. (2010). "Ohnologs in the human genome are dosage balanced and frequently associated with disease". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (20): 9270–9274. doi:10.1073/pnas.0914697107. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 20439718. 
  15. ↑ McLysaght, Aoife; Enright, Anton J.; Skrabanek, Lucy; Wolfe, Kenneth H. (2000). "Estimation of Synteny Conservation and Genome Compaction Between Pufferfish (Fugu) and Human". Yeast 1 (1): 22–36. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(200004)17:1<22::AID-YEA5>3.0.CO;2-S. ISSN 0749-503X. PMID 10797599. 
  16. ↑ "SMBE Council". Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution. 2019. http://www.smbe.org/smbe/ABOUT/Council.aspx. Retrieved 21 January 2019. 
  17. ↑ "Aoife McLysaght at IGNITE Dublin #1". YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gamEOe-ydkE. 
  18. ↑ "Aoife McLysaght at IGNITE at Electric Picnic". YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XET7qCTPKdk. 
  19. ↑ "Alfred Russel Wallace: The Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 8 Episode 5 of 6". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0375byy. 
  20. ↑ "Chromosome 1 – The Stuff of Life". YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IL-cHlVcKc. 
  21. ↑ "Chromosome 14 – Immunoglobulins: building our immune system". YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1XYe1tuvIE. 
  22. ↑ "Chromosome 24 – mtDNA, Lynn Margulis and the mitochondrial DNA". YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru7Wyt778QQ. 
  23. ↑ "CHRISTMAS LECTURES 2018: Who am I?". http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/2018-who-am-i. 
  24. ↑ "Professor Aoife Mclysaght". Accenture. https://www.accenture.com/ie-en/women-on-walls-aoife-mclysaght. 
  25. ↑ "Trinity Research: Professor Aoife McLysaght". https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=MCLYSAGA. 
  26. ↑ "JBS Haldane Lecture – Genetics Society". http://www.genetics.org.uk/medals-and-prizes/genetics-society-medals-and-lectures/jbs-haldane-lecture/. 
  27. ↑ The genetic imprint of Niall of the Nine Hostages, Apr 24, 2014, Aoife McLysaght, The Irish Times, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/the-genetic-imprint-of-niall-of-the-nine-hostages-1.1771373




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