Evolution of life history variation \(\bullet\) Metapopulation dynamics and the influences of life history variation \(\bullet\) Genomics of local adaptation with gene flow \(\bullet\) Conservation genetics \(\bullet\) Sampling effects on population genetics inferences \(\bullet\) Population structure \(\bullet\) Salmonids \(\bullet\) Speciation \(\bullet\) Phylogeography \(\bullet\) Local adaptation \(\bullet\) Computational biology \(\bullet\) Bioinformatics
2015 - present - Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University Colleage, Cork Fish popultion genetics
2009 - 2015 - Ph.D Conservation Genetics , Queen’s University, Belfast
2005 - 2009 - Bsc. Hons. Zoology, Queen’s University, Belfast
2014 - Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL), Northern Ireland Assembly, Special Research Award, Awarded to Paulo A. Prod\(\"{o}\)hl and Kevin Keenan, £30,000.
2011 - University of Washington, Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics tution scholarship, Awarded to Kevin Keenan, $2,750
2011 - Queen’s University, Belfast, Alan Graham Fund Travel Scholarship, Awarded to Kevin Keenan, £800
May 2015: Invited to coordinate and present a 3-day workshop entitled, “Modern population genetics analyses in R” at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal (Hosted by Dr. Rita Castilho)
2013-present: Instructor, ‘Summer School in Computation Biology: Statistical and Computational method to analyze high-dimensional data in Biology’, Queen’s University, Belfast.
2009-2014: Teaching assistant in MEEG: Molecular Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, Queen’s University, Belfast.
2009-2013: Teaching assistant in GEN105: Introduction to Genetics and Molecular Biology, Queen’s University, Belfast.
2013: Co-cordinator and Instructor, ‘Introductory data analysis using R’ post-graduate course, Queen’s University, Belfast.
2013: Teaching assistant, ‘Introduction to R for geological and ecological data analysis’, School of Geography, Archeology and Paleoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast. (Instructed by Professor Steve Juggins, Newcastle University).
2012: Co-supervisor of Ms. Catherine Arrell, BSc. (Hons.), The curious case of the monomorphic trout revisited. Principal supervisor- Prof. Paulo A. Prod\(\"{o}\)hl.
K Keenan\(^{\$}\), L Sundqvist, M Zackrisson, & PA Prod\(\"{o}\)hl (in prep) divMigrate-online: A web application allowing for the detection and visualisation of complex gene flow pattern among diploid populations
L Sundqvist\(^{\$\$}\), K Keenan\(^{\$\$}\), M Zackrisson, PA Prod\(\"{o}\)hl, & D Kleinhans (submitted) Directional Genetic Differentiation and Relative Migration
K Keenan, CR Bradley, JJ Magee, RA Hynes, RJ Kennedy, WW Crozier, R Poole, TF Cross, P McGinnity and PA Prod\(\"{o}\)hl, (2013), Beaufort trout MicroPlex: a high-throughput multiplex platform comprising 38 informative microsatellite loci for use in resident and anadromous (sea trout) brown trout Salmo trutta genetic studies. Journal of Fish Biology, 82:6, pp 1789-1804. (1 citation)
K Keenan, P McGinnity, TF Cross, WW Crozier, PA Prod\(\"{o}\)hl, (2013), diveRsity: an R package for the estimation and exploration of population genetics parameters and their associated errors., Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4:8, pp 782-788 (32 citations)
Tak Fung, K Keenan, (2014), Confidence Intervals for Population Allele Frequencies: The General Case of Sampling from a Finite Diploid Population of Any Size. PLoS ONE, 9:1, e85925 (2 citations)
\(^{\$\$}\) Authors contributed equally to the work
\(^{\$}\) Manuscript is prepared for submission following the acceptance of Sundqvist et al (submitted), since it implements methods presented in that paper.
2014: Poster presentation - \(47^{th}\) Population Genetics Group Meeting, University of Bath, Improving the reproducibility of data analyses in population genetics, using the R and the diveRsity package.
2014: Oral presenation - Institute of Fisheries Management symposium, Galway, Ireland, Population and Conservation Genetics of Brown trout (Salmo trutta) in Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland.
2014: Oral presenation - Lough Neagh Dollaghan trust meeting, Antrim, Northern Ireland, Population and Conservation Genetics of Brown trout (Salmo trutta) in Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland.
2013: Workshop - Introduction to Genomics, University of Sheffield.
2013: Oral presentation - Ecological Genetics Group, Queen’s University, Belfast, diveRsity: An R package for the estimation and exploration of population genetics parameters and their associated errors
2012: Workshop - Summer institute in Statistical Genetic, University of Washington, Modules completed; - Population Genetic Data Analysis - Computing for Statistical Genetics - Population Genetics - Introduction to QTL Mapping - Advanced QTL Mapping
2011: Oral presentation - \(8^{th}\) Annual Marine Biological Association postgraduate conference, Queen’s University, Belfast, Microsatellite Power analyses: implications for the conservation of a large pelagic marine species.
2010: Oral presentation - Beaufort Fish Population Genetics Mini-symposium, Newport, Ireland, Population Genetics and Genetic Stock Identification of Brown trout (Salmo trutta) from Lough Bunaveela, Ireland
2010: Poster presentation - Ecological Genetics Group, University of Stirling, Brown trout (Salmo trutta) population genetics in Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland.
Prof. Paulo Prod\(\"{o}\)hl
Professor of Population and Evolutionary Genetics,
School of Biological Sciences,
Institute for Global Food Security,
Queen’s University, Belfast.
Email: p.prodohl@qub.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 2267
Prof. Tom F. Cross
Emeritus Professor,
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University College Cork,
Ireland,
Email: t.cross@ucc.ie
Tel: +353 21 4904652
Dr. Chris Harrod
Titular Professor in Fish and Aquatic Ecology,
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Alexander Von Humboldt,
Universidad de Antofagasta,
Avenida Angamos 601, Antofagasta,
Chile
Email: chris@harrodlab.net
Tel: +56 55 2637400
Dr. Rosaleen Hynes
Researcher in Fish population Genetics,
School of Biological Sciences,
Institute for Global Food Security,
Queen’s University, Belfast.
Email: r.hynes@qub.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 2055
Dr. Philip McGinnity
Principal Investigator
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Beaufort Marine Research Award In Fish Population Genetics,
University College Cork,
Ireland
Email: p.mcginnity@ucc.ie
Tel: +353-21-490-3000