Emma Teeling Speaker & Booking Information

Prof. Emma Teeling is a tenured lecturer at University College Dublin, Ireland since 2005 where she holds a prestigious Science Foundation Ireland, President of Ireland's Young Investigator Award. Her academic career started when she graduated with a first class honours Zoology degree from University College Dublin, Ireland where she specialized in field biology and mate choice behaviour of female fallow deer. She then pursued an M.Sc. in animal behaviour at the University of Edinburgh and at the Cochrane Ecological Institute, Canada where she investigated the captive behaviour of the endangered swift fox. Unable to answer evolutionary questions using ecology and behaviour alone she pursued a Ph.D. in molecular phylogenetics at Queen's University of Belfast and at the University of California Riverside, USA. Excited by the potential of using evolutionary unique animals to enhance man's understanding of his own genome, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at National Institutes of Health, Maryland USA. Her integrative research in the fields of comparative genomics and conservation biology uncovers the genetic signatures of survival that enables species to adapt to an ever-changing environment. The two mains goals of her research are: to inform medicine and molecular biology to enable a better understanding of the structure and function of the human genome; to understand and therefore conserve natural populations and environments to promote ecosystem well-being and functioning. To achieve both of these goals she has established and manages a large research team that studies diverse organisms in a comparative genomic framework both in the laboratory and in the field. She also is the Founder and Director of the Center for Irish Bat Research that is a cross border initiative between Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland and University College Dublin, Ireland.