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

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

🎉ENGAGE Finalist Spotlight! ⭐ 📢Introducing Finalist #2: Ciarán Carey🧫 🫁 Ciarán explores how a deadly bacterium adapts in the low-oxygen lungs of people with cystic fibrosis—and how to fight it 📅 Register to see him live on April 16 in UCD or online👇 www.ucd.ie/sbbs/newsand... #AccessibleScience

🎉 Just 1 week to go until ENGAGE 2025 Final! We are delighted to spotlight each of our 6 finalists this week, starting with Felix Joel Brooke🎤! Felix is brewing a solution to food waste—using microalgae to turn brewery leftovers into omega-3 and biofertiliser! See him on April 16👇 lnkd.in/dh9QeYbx

🎉 Just 2 weeks to go until ENGAGE 2025! Wishing the very best to our six brilliant finalists as they prepare to share their research with the world. 🎤🧬🎼🐟 📅 April 16 | 📍 UCD Moore Auditorium & online 🔗 Register: https://www.ucd.ie/sbbs/newsandevents/2025/engage2025/ #ENGAGE2025 #ScienceForAll #UCD

🎉 Meet the ENGAGE 2025 Finalists! 🎤 Taking the stage on April 16: 🧪 Felix Brooke 🧫 Ciaran Carey 🎗️ Molly Davies 🔬 Emma Doyle 👁️ John Fehilly 🎼 Clodagh Murphy 🎤 Open to the public! Register to attend in person or online ⤵️ 🔗 bit.ly/3EUekHj #ENGAGE2025 #ScienceCommunication #UCD

✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025! ✨​ Women around the globe are driving change and shaping the future. This year's theme, #AccelerateAction, emphasises the need for swift progress toward gender equality. ​ 💐​ #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction #WomensDay

6 weeks to go! Our #ENGAGE public science comms event is coming, and our #PhD students are preparing for the preliminary rounds! 🏆 Who will make it to the grand final? Stay tuned as we reveal the 6 finalists! Open to the public⭐April 16: Save the date & register now! 👉 bit.ly/3EUekHj 🧠📈💊🦠🧫🧬🧪🌾

🚨 One week left to apply! 🚨 Calling #Science undergrads! Join Acclimatize 2 Summer Studentships 2025 @ucdscience.bsky.social and gain hands-on field & lab experience tackling pollution in Dublin Bay! 🌊🔬 💰 €300/week | 📅 June 3 – Aug 22 ⏳ Deadline: 7th March Apply now! 👉 bit.ly/3CSCYHP

ENGAGE 2024 winner Claire Hughes wowed us with her research on how cannabis compounds enhance chemotherapy efficacy in ovarian cancer treatment. Who will claim the title this year? Stay tuned as we announce the 6 finalists for the ENGAGE 2025 final on April 16! Register here👉 bit.ly/3EUekHj

🎉And we’re now on BlueSky!🎉 Launching with #ENGAGE2025 our school's public science comms event where PhD students showcase their cutting-edge research in a clear & accessible way🧬 📅 5pm Wed April 16 |📍UCD & Online Open to general public. Don't miss out! Learn more & register here👉 bit.ly/3EUekHj