Dr. John D. Kirwan
Dr. John D. Kirwan

Bioinformatics Scientist

About Me

I am a life science researcher, interested in invertebrate vision, scientific data analysis and scientific communication. I carried out my doctoral research on spatial vision in simple visual systems at Lund University, Sweden. I am a postdoc at Arquimea Research Centre, La Laguna, Spain.

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Interests
  • Data Science
  • Computational Biology
Education
  • PhD Sensory Biology

    Lund University

  • MSc Molecular Evolution

    University College Dublin

  • BSc (Hons) Zoology

    University College Dublin

📚 My Research
My current research focuses on data science in the life science domain.
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2023). A Model of Decentralized Vision in the Sea Urchin Diadema africanum. iScience.
(2021). Run and Hide: Visual Performance in a Brittle Star. Journal of Experimental Biology.
(2020). Chicken colour discrimination depends on background colour. Journal of Experimental Biology.
(2020). Extraocular Vision in a Brittle Star Is Mediated by Chromatophore Movement in Response to Ambient Light. Current Biology.
(2019). A millipede compound eye mediating low-resolution vision. Vision Research.
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