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BSc, MSc & PhD programmes spanning key areas of biomolecular & biomedical science;Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Biotherapeutics, Infection Biology, Regulatory Affairs & Toxicology. https://www.ucd.ie/sbbs
🔬 Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Proud of the women in Biomolecular & Biomedical Science: researchers, mentors, and leaders inspiring the next generation.
Science is stronger when everyone belongs.
#WomenInScience #STEM
🔬International Day of Women and Girls in Science
On February 11, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science celebrates their impact and calls for opportunities, and recognition across STEM. www.un.org/en/observanc...
#WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #STEMEquity #February11 #sbbs #ucdscience
On #InternationalMensDay we conclude our series with 2 tributes honouring family and academic mentorship:💙Matteo Prencipe, honoured by Maria Prencipe & 💙Prof. Breandán Kennedy, honoured by Camilla Fontana.
Thank you to everyone for their stories celebrating men and mentors ➡️https://bit.ly/4oNueWe
For #InternationalMensDay we share 4 more stories from our SBBS series celebrating Men & Mentors:
💙 Jay Campbell on Prof. John Crean
💙 Eoin McCabe on Prof. Paul McCabe
💙 Caoimbhe Burke on Dr Arman Rahman
💙 Clodagh Murphy on Prof. William Gallagher
Read all four tributes: http://bit.ly/4r1Dtng
Day 2 of our #InternationalMensDay series highlights these mentors, nominated by our community, for their help shaping and inspiring the work of early-career scientists:
💙 Dr Gary Brennan
💙 Prof. Breandán Kennedy
💙 Prof. David O’Connell
Read their SBBS mentees' stories➡️:
http://bit.ly/4r1Dtng
Today we are delighted to begin our #InternationalMensDay series, celebrating mentors who’ve inspired our SBBS community:
💙 Cormac Murphy’s tribute to his father
💙 Mario Manresa honouring Cormac Taylor
💙 A student honouring their father’s resilience
Read full stories here ➡️http://bit.ly/4r1Dtng
🧫Celebrating #ScienceWeek!
We begin with a 2025 school highlight! Undergrads help discover 2 new yeast species-Cyberlindnera hibernica & Barnettozyma discipulorum. Now in the scientific record ➡️
🔗 https://microbiologysociety.org/blog/new-to-science-the-latest-species-discovered-around-the-world.html
Exciting recognition for UCD undergraduate research!
The @microbiologysociety.org has featured the discovery of 2 new yeast species our students helped uncover:Cyberlindnera hibernica (“of Ireland”)& Barnettozyma discipulorum(“of students”)discovered in Glengarriff Woods🍃📄 🔗 bit.ly/3LiJonn
🏅 Huge congratulations to Dr Tess McCann from SBBS & UCD Conway Institute — winner of the 2025 UCD Conway Festival Gold Medal for discovering a new gene mutation linked to inherited blindness, with Prof Breandán Kennedy’s team. 👏
#UCDResearch #SBBSUCD #WomenInSTEM
Books on shelves in the UCD James Joyce Library, showing coloured tape on the book spines.
Borrowing books from the James Joyce Library?📚 We've permanently merged the Short Loan and Reference collections into the main book collection on Levels 2 & 4. Look for the tape on the book spines!
More information about our Library Development Project is on our website: www.ucd.ie/library/cont...
🔜⏳👀Coming soon, 6-10 Oct '25! This interactive art installation by artist Olga Diego explores the issue of plastic pollution. Part of the ‘Imagined Sustainabilities’ project led by Eva Bru-Dominguez & Ana Vera, co-funded by the Humanities Institute & UCD Sustainability Seed Funding Schemes.
Celebrating the #ClassOf2025! 🌍🚀
🎓 Congrats to our top BSc students awarded medals yesterday:
🥇Aoife McLoughlin – Biochemistry
🥇Maryna Startseva – Biochemistry Project
🥇Seán O’Reilly – Genetics
🥇Alanna Doherty – Microbiology
🥇Clíodhna de Brún – Neuroscience
🥇Toni Oladimeji – Pharmacology
#UCD
A HUGE CONGRATS to the #Classof2025 graduating today from across our 5 BSc degrees:
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 🧬
Genetics 🔬
Microbiology 🦠
Neuroscience 🧠
Pharmacology 💊
We are so proud of what you have achieved. Well done to our incredible graduates! 🎉🎓✨
#UCDGraduation #BelieveInScience
👏 Congrats to @conwayer1.bsky.social on a major @genesdev.bsky.social publication!
In collab with @adrianbracken.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social & Dr Orla Deevy @ucdscience.bsky.social, the team showed how EZH2 mutations disrupt PRC2, driving Weaver syndrome🧬
📖 Read more here ▶️bit.ly/3HL0YiI
🎓 A huge congratulations to our newest PhD graduates @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social 🌟
These researchers are tackling global challenges in health, disease, & the environment. We are incredibly proud of their achievements & the impact they’ve made in our research community. 👏🌍🧪🔬
#ScientificDiscovery #STEM
Postdoc position in new area for lab on yeast biodiversity. See www.findapostdoc.com/search/job-d.... Please forward! @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social
UCD student Simran Khatri and TCD student Kevin O’Leary are the joint winners of the 2025 science communication award, which was founded to honour the life and legacy of science journalist and author Mary Mulvihill.
🎉Huge congratulations to Simran Khatri, Stage 3 Pharmacology student,who has been named joint winner of the 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award. Her essay “In Life for Life – A Monologue from the Heart of a Young Researcher,” is a powerful reflection on the ethics of animal research in science.
bit.ly/4mtiwPR
📢Introducing our 5 exceptional Plenary Speakers for #ICSB2025: Dong-Yup Lee, Ines Thiele, Kathryn Lilley, Rune Linding & Sabrina Spencer.
For more info & the list of Invited Speakers icsb2025.com
@linding.bsky.social @inesthiele.bsky.social @precisiononcire.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
🎉 Huge congrats to our 3 #PhD students
⭐Grace Ruddin ⭐
⭐Rhys Orimaco⭐
⭐Molly Davies⭐
who each won a prize for their presentations at yesterday’s SBBS Research Day 2025 🏆🧪
🔗 lnkd.in/e2-WFaug
@ucdscience.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
#SBBSRD2025 #UCDResearch
🎉 SBBS Research Day 2025 is here!
An internal UCD event celebrating our research in:
🔬Infection Biology
🧠Disease Mechanisms
💊Drug Discovery
🧫Biomedical Models
🧪Biotech & Synthetic Biology
Talks, posters & more! Stay tuned for highlights from our community throughout the day 📈🦠 🧬🌾
lnkd.in/e2-WFaug
Awesome to be able to share our work on PAX8 in high-grade serous ovarian cancer, super job @daviesmolly13.bsky.social! Thanks for the opportunity to share @gensocuk.bsky.social
@ucd-sbbs.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social
Brilliant poster presentations today from our 36 #MSc #Biotherapeutics students at @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social ! Impressive use of #proteomics, #statistics and #bioinformatics to tackle challenges in #drugdevelopment. Thanks to all the poster judges and for their support!
Delighted to announce our #ENGAGE2025 winners:
🏆🥇Clodagh Murphy–Orchestrating a Treatment for Lung Cancer
🥈 Molly Davies–UnPAXing DNA Structure in Ovarian Cancer
📊 Best Poster: Caoimbhe Burke
🥈 Runners-Up: Braden Miller & Climate Change Poster
Huge thanks to all who joined us in person & online!🙏
🎤 It’s nearly showtime…
TOMORROW is the ENGAGE 2025 Grand Final!
📍 UCD Science Centre Wed 16th April 5PM
💻 Or join us online
Open to the public 👩👩👦👦
6 science stories that will inform, inspire & entertain 🧬🎭
Register to attend in person or online👉 bit.ly/3EUekHj
#ENGAGE2025
👋 Last week we introduced the 6 finalists for ENGAGE 2025…Now it’s time to meet our host & judges!
🎤 MC: @claireoconnell.bsky.social
🧠Judges: @Stephen Flanagan, Joan Mahon, Kate Gajewska
Open to the public join us this Wed April 16 at 5pm in person or online⬇️
🔗 bit.ly/3EUekHj
#AccessibleScience
Our ENGAGE Finalist Spotlight concludes!
Introducing Finalist #6: Clodagh Murphy⭐🎼
🫁 Clodagh’s work uses long non-coding RNAs to silence cancer genes in lung tumours—a new wave in RNA-based therapies
Catch Clodagh live at UCD or online April 16 @5pm👇
www.ucd.ie/sbbs/newsand...
#AccessibleScience
🎉ENGAGE Finalist Spotlight! ⭐
📢Introducing Finalist #5: John Fehilly⭐
John uses zebrafish🐟to study genetic eye conditions and bring new hope for vision research 👁️🗨️
📅 See his talk in person or online next Wed 5pm April 16👇
www.ucd.ie/sbbs/newsand...
#AccessibleScience
🎉ENGAGE Finalist Spotlight! ⭐
📢Introducing Finalist #4: Emma Doyle 🧬
🔬 Emma explains CRISPR gene editing and how it’s unlocking powerful discoveries in biomedical research
📅 Catch her live in UCD or online at 5pm Wed April 16👇
www.ucd.ie/sbbs/newsand...
#AccessibleScience @conwayer1.bsky.social
🎉ENGAGE Finalist Spotlight!⭐
📢Introducing Finalist #3: Molly Davies 🎗️
🧬 Molly investigates how ovarian cancer rewires DNA structure—giving new insights into tumour behaviour🧫
📅 Don’t miss her talk at the ENGAGE Final, 5pm April 16 at UCD or online👇
www.ucd.ie/sbbs/newsand...
#AccessibleScience
