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Diarmaid Ó Foighil
- Professor
Director and Curator, Museum of Zoology
Associate Chair for Museum Collections - Ph.D. Biology, University of Victoria (Canada), 1987
Contact information
- University of Michigan
1025 Museums Building
1109 Geddes Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 - Phone: (734) 647-2193
- Fax: (734) 763-4080
- Email: diarmaid@umich.edu
Fields of study
Invertebrate evolution and systematics, malacology
Academic background
Diarmaid Ó Foighil obtained a B.Sc. (hons) in zoology from NUI Galway (Ireland) in 1981 and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Victoria (Canada) in 1987. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Friday Harbor Laboratories (University of Washington); Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, B.C.); and a research scientist at the University of South Carolina prior to joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995. He has served as the president of the American Malacological Society and on the editorial boards of Evolution and Malacologia.
Graduate students
Celia Churchill, Jingchun Li, Cindi Bick
U-M Museum of Zoology, Mollusk Division
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Museum of Zoology
Related news
Over the next eight months, about five million specimens from the U-M Museum of Zoology's "wet" collection will be moved from the Ruthven Museums Building on central campus to a new off-campus storage facility.
We are pleased to announce the new undergraduate and graduate associate chairs and two new associate chairs for the museum collections.
Using century-old reference specimens from the U-M Museum of Zoology collection, Professor Diarmaid Ó Foighil and colleagues were able to confirm the identity of a freshwater limpet last seen more than 60 years ago and presumed extinct.
