DrDaniel Murphy

I have been working in the field of bioinformatics since 2007, having spent time in academic, public and private sectors. I completed my PhD in bioinformatics in 2012, under the supervision of Prof. Aoife McLysaght in The Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin. I then moved to Cambridge to work for the Ensembl project in both The Wellcome Sanger Institute and The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), where I annotated vertebrate genomes, defining the reference gene sets for several different species. In 2017 I returned to Dublin to take up a role in The Mater Hospital as a clinical bioinformatician, specialising in diagnostics and rare diseases. I then spent a couple of years as the Head of Genomics for an Irish MedTech startup company. Since 2023 I have been a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics in UCD as part of the Guangzhou Dublin International College (GDIC) initiative, which involves spending a semester each year teaching bioinformatics and scientific communication in South China Agricultural University (SCAU) in Guangzhou, China. My research interests are in genomics, transcriptomics, clinical bioinformatics and precision medicine.


Employment history:
2023 - Present: Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics, School of Biology and Environmental Science, UCD.
2021 - 2023: Head of Genomics, Akkure Genomics, NexusUCD.
2018 - 2021: Clinical Bioinformatician and Information Scientist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.
2017 - 2018: Medical Writer, National Rare Diseases Office (NRDO), Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.
2014 - 2017: Senior Software Engineer, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, UK.
2013 - 2014: Senior Bioinformatician, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.

Education:
2007 - 2012: PhD in Bioinformatics, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin.
2008 - 2009: Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin.
2003 - 2007: B. A. Mod. Hons. in Genetics, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin.