Prof Thomas Meagher

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3347

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3364

Email

trm3@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Plant evolutionary biology, genealogical reconstruction and analysis (likelihood-based paternity and parentage analysis), quantitative genetics, sexual dimorphism, linkages between molecular variation and phenotypic evolution, ecological and genetic bases for population differentiation and speciation, conservation biology and biodiversity, risk assessment of gene flow and its consequences in genetically modified organisms, public understanding of science.

PhD supervision

• Zeren Yang

Selected publications

• Open access

  Bringing bioinformatics to schools with the 4273pi project

  Bain, S., Plaisier, H., Anderson, F., Cook, N., Crouch, K., Meagher, T. R., Ritchie, M. G., Wallace, E. & Barker, D., 20 Jan 2022, In: PLoS Computational Biology. 18, 1, 12 p., e1009705.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  DNA sonification for public engagement in bioinformatics

  Plaisier, H., Meagher, T. R. & Barker, D., 15 Jul 2021, In: BMC Research Notes. 14, 4 p., 273.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Do s genes or deleterious recessives control late-acting self-incompatibility in Handroanthus heptaphyllus (Bignoniaceae)? A diallel study with four full sib progeny arrays

  Bianchi, M. B., Meagher, T. R. & Gibbs, P. E., 7 May 2021, In: Annals of Botany. 127, 6, p. 723–736 mcab031.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Maintaining momentum for collaborative working groups in a post-pandemic world

  Srivastava, D. S., Winter, M., Gross, L. J., Metzger, J. P., Baron, J. S., Mouquet, N., Meagher, T. R., Halpern, B. S. & Pillar, V. D., 1 Sept 2021, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 5, 9, p. 1188-1189 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Open access

  Using sound to understand protein sequence data: new sonification algorithms for protein sequences and multiple sequence alignments

  Martin, E., Meagher, T. R. & Barker, D., 23 Sept 2021, In: BMC Bioinformatics. 22, 17 p., 456.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Daniel S. Milo. Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society

  Meagher, T. R., 1 Dec 2020, In: Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. 4, 1, p. 183-186 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

• Open access

  Design, delivery and evaluation of a bioinformatics education workshop for 13-16-year-olds

  Bain, S., Meagher, T. R. & Barker, D., 26 Dec 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Biological Education. Latest Articles, 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Plotting a future for Amazonian canga vegetation in a campo rupestre context

  Zappi, D. C., Moro, M. F., Walker, B., Meagher, T., Viana, P. L., Mota, N. F. O., Watanabe, M. T. C. & Nic Lughadha, E., 5 Aug 2019, In: PLoS ONE. 14, 8, 19 p., e0219753.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Best practices for virtual participation in meetings: experiences from synthesis centers

  Hampton, S. E., Halpern, B. S., Winter, M., Balch, J. K., Parker, J. N., Baron, J. S., Palmer, M., Schildhauer, M. P., Bishop, P., Meagher, T. R. & Specht, A., 3 Jan 2017, In: The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 98, 1, p. 57-63 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Extinction risk and threats to plants

  Nic Lughadha, E., Canteiro, C., Bachman, S., Baines, D., Gardiner, L., Meagher, T. R., Rivers, M., Shuiteman, A., Williams, E. & Hargreaves, S., 2017, State of the World's Plants 2017. Willis, K. J. (ed.). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, p. 72-77 6 p. 11

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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