ANNUAL REVIEW master Final3a - St Vincent's University Hospital

The bioinformatics group moved with Professor O’Farrelly to Trinity College Dublin in September 2007. This
means that collaborations with other SVUH groups and consultancy about bioinformatics matters will be
difficult or impossible in the future. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work in the dynamic environment
of the ERC over the last 7 years.
Invited talks
May 2007 Bovine & Avian Immunogenomics Workshop. “Comparative Immunomics: Integrated approaches
to analyzing immune reactivity to microbes” Cliona O’Farrelly
May 2007 Bovine & Avian Immunogenomics Workshop. “Novel antimicrobial peptide discovery in chickens
and cattle” Paul Cormican
International Visits
May 2007 Wellcome Trust, London. ImmunoGO consortium meeting. Cliona O’Farrelly and Andrew Lloyd
June 2007 European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK. ImmunoGO consortium meeting. Cliona
O’Farrelly and Andrew Lloyd
Posters
September 2007. Irish Society of Immunology. Dublin. “β-defensin evolution – a broader perspective” Paul
Cormican
September 2007. Conway Festival of Research. UCD. “β-defensin evolution – a broader perspective” Paul
Cormican
Education and outreach.
February 2007 We ran a half day course in Essential Bioinformatics for researchers at the ERC. Andrew
Lloyd, Paul Cormican, Kieran Meade.
May 2007. “Genetics key to healthy chickens” Relay eNewsletter (www.relayresearch.ie) Andrew Lloyd.
Consultancy and collaboration
The Bioinformatics Group was available to consult with and advise other research groups in the ERC about
all aspects of bioinformatics and molecular evolution. Andrew Lloyd continued his collaboration with the
Colon Cancer Group in analysing Microarray Comparative Genome Hybridisation (Array CGH) data. He also
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