Dr Eamonn Mallon

Associate Professor of  Evolutionary Biology

Associate Dean for Research (College of Life Sciences)

• +44 (0) 116 252 3488
• ebm3@le.ac.uk
• Lab 219, Adrian Building
• Social Epigenetics Lab
• @eamo1974
• Google Scholar
• fax: +44 (0) 116 252 3330

Personal details

BA Hons. (Mod.), PhD

I was born in Dublin. After completing a BA(mod) in Zoology at Trinity College, Dublin, I studied for a PhD in ant colony self organisation with Professor Nigel Franks at the University of Bath. A move to Switzerland and bumblebees followed, where I worked with Professor Paul Schmid-Hempel at the ETH Zurich. At the ETH, I studied the role of immunity in pollinator behaviour. This continued when I took up my position at the University of Leicester. My current research involves studying epigenetic factors in social insects.

• 2001-2004: TMR Research Fellow, ETH Zurich
• 1997-2001: PhD, University of Bath (Supervisor: Nigel Franks)
• 1992-1997: BA (Hons), Trinity College Dublin, Natural Sciences (Zoology)

• Full C.V.

Websites/social media

Social Epigenetics Lab
@eamo1974
Google Scholar

Need a reference? (from the webpage of Yannick Wurm, QMUL)

Publications

Recent

• Pozo, M., Hunt, B.J., Mallon, E.B. et al. (2021) The effect of DNA methylation on bumblebee colony development. BMC Genomics 22, 73
  
• Marshall, H.  van Zweden, J.S., Van Geystelen, A., Benaets, K., Wäckers, F., Mallon, E.B. & Wenseleers, T. (2020) Genome-wide search for parent-of-origin allele specific expression in Bombus terrestris. Evolution Letters 4 (6), 479-490

• Marshall, H., Jones, A.R.C., Lonsdale, Z.N., & Mallon, E.B. (2020) Bumblebee worker castes show differences in allele-specific DNA methylation and allele-specific expression. Genome Biology and Evolution 12 (8), 1471-1481
• Jones, A.R.C. & Mallon, E.B. (2020) Evidence of capacitation in the parasitoid wasp, Nasonia vitripennis and its potential role in sex allocation Ecology and  Evolution 0:1-9

• Hunt, B.J., Mallon, E.B. & Rosato E. (2019) In silico identification of a molecular circadian system with novel features in the crustacean model organism Parhyale hawaiensis. Frontiers in Physiology.10, p 1325
• Marshall, H.,  Lonsdale, Z.N., & Mallon, E.B. (2019) Methylation and Gene Expression Differences Between Reproductive Castes of Bumblebee Workers. Evolution Letters. 3(5), pp 485-499.
• Harrison, M.C., Mallon, E.B., Twell, D. & Hammond, R.L. (2019) Deleterious mutation accumulation in Arabidophis thaliana pollen genes: a role for a recent relaxation of selection. Genome Biology and Evolution Volume 11, Issue 7 Pages 1939–1951.
• Bebane, P., Hunt, B.J. Pegoraro, M., Jones, A. M., Marshall, H., Rosato, E., & Mallon, E.B. (2019) The neonicotinoid, imidicloprid affects gene expression and methylation in the buff-tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 286 (1905)
  
• Price, J., Harrison, M.C., Hammond, R.L., Adams, S., Gutierrez-Marcos J.F., & Mallon, E.B. (2018) Alternative splicing associated with phenotypic plasticity in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris Molecular Ecology 27 (4) pp 1036-1043
• Lonsdale, Z.N., Lee, K.D., Kyriakidou, M., Amarasinghe, H.E., Nathanael, D., O'Connor, C.J. & Mallon, E.B. (2017) Allele specific expression and methylation in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris . PeerJ 5:e3798
• Pegoraro, M., Marshall, H., Lonsdale, Z.N., & Mallon, E.B. (2017) Do social insects support Haig's kin theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting? Epigenetics 12(9) pp 725 - 742
• Mallon, E. B., Amarasinghe, H. E., & Ott. S.R (2016) Acute and chronic gregarisation are associated with distinct DNA methylation fingerprints in desert locusts. Scientific reports 6, 35608; doi: 10.1038/srep35608
• Haniza M.Z.H., Adams S., Jones E.P., MacNicoll A., Mallon E.B., Smith R.H., Lambert M.S. (2015) Large-scale structure of brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) populations in England: effects on rodenticide resistance. PeerJ 3:e1458
• Amarasinghe, H. E., Toghill, B.J., Nathanael D. & Mallon, E.B  (2015) Allele specific expression in worker reproduction genes in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris . PeerJ 3: e1079
  
• Toghill B.J, Saratzis A., Harrison S.C., Verissimo A.R.,  Mallon E.B., Bown M.J. (2015) The potential role of DNA methylation in the pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysm. Atherosclerosis. 241(1) pp 121-129
  
• Harrison, M.C., Hammond, R.L. & Mallon, E.B. (2015) Reproductive workers show queen-like gene expression in an intermediately eusocial insect, the buff-tailed bumble bee Bombus terrestris Molecular Ecology 24 (12) pp 3043 - 3063  (preprint available on BioRxiv, peer reviewed manuscript available on LRA)
• Sadd BM, Barribeau SM, Bloch G, de Graaf DC, Dearden P, Elsik CG, et al. (2015) The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organisation. Genome Biol 16:76

For a full list of publications have a look at our lab webpage or Google Scholar

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