Shigeki Nakagome

Shigeki received his Ph.D. at The University of Tokyo in 2010 with the focus on the evolutionary pressures on alleles associated with Crohn's disease. As a postdoctoral researcher, He first joined The Institute of Statistical Mathematics from 2011 to 2014 where he was awarded a competitive Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for Young Scientists and developed a new statistical method, kernel Approximate Bayesian Computation. He obtained further postdoctoral training at University of Chicago from 2013 to 2016 as JSPS Overseas Research Fellow. During this training, he has acquired expertise in population and functional genomics to develop statistical approaches for understanding selective pressures on immunity genes and to connect genetic polymorphisms to their functional consequences in the immune system. Since 2016, he has worked as Ussher Assistant Professor in Genomic Medicine at School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin.

Lab Alumni

Bruno Esteban Romero Gonzalez

Bruno completed his bachelor's degree in Biotechnology Engineering from Universidad Andres Bello in 2020. During and after his bachelor's, he worked as a plant biologist, microbiologist, molecular biologist, and chemist/quality control. His first-hand experience with computational biology came during his bachelor's thesis where I did structural variation calling on a plant species called Cistanthe longiscapa. He is now working on ancient genomics in East Asia.

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We always welcome any inquiries from students or postdoctoral candidates.

Madeleine Murray 

Madeleine completed her PhD in the lab in 2025. Her research focused on ancient genomes from Copán, Honduras, investigating the origins and demographic history of Classic Maya populations.

Niall Cooke 

Niall completed his PhD in the lab 2022 (co-supervised by Dan Bradley at School of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin). His research looked at using ancient genomic data to learn more about early human demography and evolution in East Asia, with a particular focus on the Japanese archipelago. He is now a postdoc at Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Keerthana Saravanarajan

Keerthana completed her M.Sc. in Molecular Medicine at Trinity College Dublin in 2018. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology from Anna University, with a thesis on mapping antibiotic resistance genes in microorganisms isolated from Mastitis samples in Chennai area, at TANUVAS, India. She joined the lab in 2018 for her M.Sc. project with a specific focus on genomic profiling of immune activity. She further worked as a Research Assistant to continue to work on her immunogenomics study.