only the best die young! new paper online featuring our amazing #Molossus which break just about every rule, including aging. Zixia Huang Emma Teeling Conor Whelan aging-us.com/article/103725… #aging #bats #Myotis

Oh my word - its here!! Bat1k Genome Project Emma Teeling UCD BatLab Michael Hiller Eugene W Myers Jr Zixia Huang @nature

📢🎉The work of #Bat1K is featured on the cover in the latest issue of @nature: “Six reference-quality #genomes reveal evolution of #bat adaptations” 🦇🧬 #bats Our thread 👇 on the paper:nature.com/articles/s4158… 📸: Olivier Farcy(1/n)

My heart goes out to the assaulted woman Shirley Xuedan Xiong. Make no mistake this was an assault. I'll be contacting Garda Commissioner this week on the Community Garda Program. This is far from the first assault case on the canal stretches. Let's work to making it the last.

Well done Dr Mengzhen Yue for passing your viva on Friday - a magnificent performance! We are proud of your success and congratulate you particularly for passing our first ever ‘Virtual Viva’. Pictured: ⁦University College Dublin⁩ (top), an excellent thesis (middle), Mengzhen (bottom)

Wow! Telomere length in tissues from 952 individuals. Key findings: 1) Telomere length is correlated across tissues; 2) Telomeres shorten with age in most but not all tissues. 3) Individuals of African ancestry have longer telomeres than Europeans. science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65…

UCD's own Bat Woman Prof Emma Teeling contributes her leading expertise in the field of bat zoology & immunology in The Irish Times today, in a fascinating but scary piece about another bat-borne zoonotic virus we should be worried about! #UCDResearchLeaders irishtimes.com/news/science/t…

Opening for a Research Assistant to work with UCD BatLab & Emma Teeling on uncovering the molecular mechanisms and evolution behind longer healthspan in bats! Closing date for applications: 7th Dec #bats #academictwitter #researchassistant bit.ly/38y5vRs

🦉🦢🦜🦚 #BirdBonanza!! 🕊️🐦 Today, we are releasing 267 newly sequenced bird genomes and comparative resources for 363 bird species in @nature! This was a huge collaborative effort - expand to read more! (1/8) nature.com/articles/s4158…

Why #Bats? - Lessons from the host defences of bats, a unique viral reservoir Nature 589, 363–370 (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41586… #batpapers rdcu.be/cdU5K

What a breakthrough !!! nature.com/articles/s4158…

An interesting diversion from my main body of research, delving into the mechanisms underlying convergent evolution of metamorphic competence in molluscan larvae. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📣 A fully funded PhD position is available in my lab at University College Dublin Ireland, aiming to explore ‘noncoding RNA regulation in longevity’. The deadline of the application is 12th January 2023. Anyone with relevant background/skills is welcomed. findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Could bat genomes get any stranger? Our new paper in Cell uses pluripotent cells to explore viral-host relationships in bats! UCD Research Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Check out our new paper about gene duplication associated with mammalian longevity in GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution)! Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc Joanna Kacprzyk Sarahjane

Delighted to share our latest publication on NUMT evolution in mammals in Molecular Biology and Evolution. Huge thanks to Marek Uvizl,SJ Puechmaille,Sarahjane,Martin Pippel, Samual Carthy, Wilfried Haerty,Eugene W Myers Jr,Emma Teeling for their contributions! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41… Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc

First paper of 2024! Our Sensommatic pipeline for mining sensory genes is out now. Led by PhD student Louise Ryan, with input from Colleen Lawless, this is the culmination of many hours of brainstorming, coding and benchmarking. Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc Genomics Data Science - SFI CRT tinyurl.com/bjpafx26