James O. McInerney

James O. McInerney is an Irish-born microbiologist, computational evolutionary biologist, professor, and former head of the School of Life Sciences[1] at the University of Nottingham.

[citation needed] After completing his PhD, McInerney worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Diagnostics Centre in Galway and in the Department of Zoology at The Natural History Museum, London.

In 2016, McInerney was appointed as the Director of the Research Domain of "Evolution, Systems and Genomics" in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester.

[4] McInerney's early research career focused on the study of codon usage in a variety of organisms including Trichomonas vaginalis and Borrelia burgdorferi.

Currently, the McInerney lab focusses on understanding the origins of eukaryotes,[11] and on understanding horizontal gene transfer, and prokaryotic pangenomes and the assemblage of genes within them[12][13] McInerney has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Leverhulme Trust, The European Molecular Biology Organisation, and Science Foundation Ireland and with start-up funding from both the University of Manchester and the University of Nottingham.