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Diarmaid Ó Foighil
Professor and Curator
Ph.D., Biology, University of Victoria (Canada), 1987
U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Museum of Zoology
Contact information
University of Michigan
1025 Museums Bldg.
1109 Geddes Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
Phone: (734) 647-2193
Fax: (734) 763-4080
Email: diarmaid@umich.edu
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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 post-doctoral 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 on the editorial boards of Evolution and Malacologia.
Postdoctoral fellows
Taehwan Lee
Graduate students
Celia Churchill, Jingchun Li
Ó Foighil home page
U-M Museum of Zoology, Mollusk Division
News
Cover story in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
A research team headed by Professor Diarmaid Ó Foighil published “Prehistoric inter-archipelago trading of Polynesian tree snails leaves a conservation legacy” in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The team included Taehwan Lee, assistant research scientist, and Professor Emeritus John B. Burch, among others. Their findings, which were published online Sept. 12 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, show how the aesthetic preferences of prehistoric Polynesians, enacted through inter-archipelago trading routes, have present day conservation implications for endemic tree snails.
Read the U-M News Service press release.
Tahitian tree snails may still have a future, U-M study suggests
Despite the recent mass extermination of Tahiti's colorful tree snails, it may still be possible to preserve much of their original genetic diversity in the wild, research by Professor Diarmaid Ó Foighil, U-M mollusk expert, and collaborators suggests.
The work, which relied on 600 vials of freeze-dried samples collected in 1970 and left untouched in a U-M freezer for more than 30 years, is reported in the July 3 2007 issue of Current Biology.
Collaborators include Taehwan Lee, Professor emeritus John B. Burch, Younghun Jung, Trevor Coote and Paul Pearce-Kelly.
Feature story: Mountain surprise for threatened snails, Current Biology.
U-M News Service press release
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