Dr Kevin Daly

CONTACT DETAILS:

E-mail : dalyk1 [at] tcd [dot] ie
Tel : +353-(0)1-896-1265
Fax : +353-(0)1-679-8558

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 research interests are the domestication of livestock animals from their wild predecessors, population change in livestock animals through time via wild and inter-population admixture, and caprine genetics. Towards those ends, my research has exploited archaeogenomic techniques to directly sample prior to, during, and after key events in the domestication history of goats. I am also interested in the introduction of domestic animals to Europe, the origins of herding in the Zagros Mountains of Iran and its environs, and the development of livestock populations in the Levant and SW Asia.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

2019 - to date: Postdoctoral Fellow, Trinity College Dublin University

July 2014 - September 2014: MacArthur Lab, Broad Institute/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Supervisor: Monkol Lek. Project: Exome analysis of rare Neuromuscular disease.

June 2013 - August 2013: MacArthur Lab, Broad Institute/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Supervisor: Monkol Lek. Project: Exome analysis of rare Neuromuscular disease.

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS:

2014 - 2019: PhD , Trinity College Dublin

2010 - 2014: BA in Science (Genetics), Trinity College Dublin; First Class Honours
Thesis Title: Ancient DNA of the Giant Irish Deer
Supervisor: Daniel Bradley

OTHER MERITS:
Elected to Scholar of Trinity College Dublin, April 2013
Dawson Prize, September 2013
Vincent Scholarship, September 2012
Naughton Scholarship Silver medal winner, September 2010