Janet McCormack

Dr Slamon the man whose research led to Herceptin. His work saves tens of thousands of women’s lives per year. Giving an open lecture @HerbertParkH Dublin Weds Sept 24 600pm. Free registration Karen.Culhane@ccrt.ie. Sponsored by @CCRTIreland @DCU

🧵 Cut From The Same Cloth: The Fabric of our Lives A vibrant textile & multimedia exhibition by Lorna Donlon, created with local communities. 📍 Pearse Museum, Rathfarnham 🗓️ 15 July – 14 Sept  In partnership with @UCDConway #IrishArt #TextileExhibition #CommunityArt

Delighted to share our paper led by an amazing post doc @donagh_egan and Dr Kate Glennon who developed a framework to temporally order HGSOC tumour samples based on their proteomic expression profiles providing novel insights into metastatic progression. nature.com/articles/s4169…

🎉 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

Delighted to share our recent paper using #cerebralorganoids to study prenatal cocaine exposure. Thanks to @UCD_SBBS, @ucdscience, @UCD_Conway, Crean & Murphy labs & coauthors @ShaneClerkin12 @NiallTreacy5. nature.com/articles/s4139…

Very proud of our own Prof. Aoife McLysaght @aoifemcl whose pioneering research in Genetics is being honoured by An Post @Postvox via her own stamp. What a way to celebrate #InternationalWomensDay and #WomenInSTEM @tcddublin @DeptofFHed

Prof Donal Brennan @sysbioire @PrecisionOncIre discusses cutting-edge advances in ovarian cancer surgery, the impact of obesity on treatment, and innovative approaches in surgical oncology on the @EMJReviews Onc Now Podcast! Don't miss the episode!

In October 2017, I had a mental breakdown, which resulted in me spending time in a psychiatric hospital. After receiving some incredible help, both in the hospital and in the community, I recovered and started enjoying life like never before. Unfortunately, in October 2023, I found myself back in the same hospital for the same reason. This is something that I had never anticipated or even contemplated. I kept convincing myself that I was coping until, eventually, I couldn't cope anymore. I knew I was f*cked. I had 2 choices, and thankfully, I chose the right one. I asked for help. This time was different, though. It hit much harder. I didn't think it was possible to feel worse than I did the last time, but I couldn't have been more wrong. My time in hospital was really, really tough, both on me and my family, and it was no better when I got home. I struggled so hard to try to get better. I could see the effect my illness was having on my family, but I couldn't be there for them. It really hurts to know that you're the reason for their upset and worry, and yet you're useless to them. Thankfully, they never gave up on me, and even though there were some really testing times, they kept supporting me and always had my back. Because of this and the unwavering help of doctors, nurses, and an amazing psychotherapist, I am much better and once again feeling positive about my future. I've come from utter despair and hopelessness to enjoying the good times, but more importantly, coping well with the not so good times. If things are tough for you, please ask for help even if you think it's pointless. Trust in yourself, trust in others, and trust in the process. Let go and let others look after you for a while. It's not an easy thing to do, but sometimes it's your only choice. Ask for help, and before you know it, that little glimmer hope will return, and with that hope, anything and everything is possible. ❤️ #MentalHealth

Up next in #CLASS: Dr Daniel Crean, UCD. In this seminar Dr Crean will discuss ‘How do we assess, and what is the impact of, research integrity teaching'. All welcome. Tuesday 26th November at 12pm

Thank you to @hrbireland for HRB EIA funding to validate the use of #extracellular_vesicles #EVs as a blood based-liquid biopsy for prediction of Immunotherapy response in Multiple Myeloma in collaboration with @UCD_Conway @ucddublin the @MaterDublin and Vejle Hospital Denmark

Ah thanks Hannah! I couldn’t have done it without the amazing team I work with and of course, Noodle the Poodle 🐩. Champagne in falcon tubes was a must 😂🥂

Join us at the Virtual I2K meeting next week! Lots of image analysis tutorials - including 3 about QuPath & 1 about InstanSeg 😀💻🔬

Find out more about InstanSeg from Thibaut himself at his Virtual I2K tutorial next week! Register at i2kconference.org/virtual.html

Delighted our collection of gene disruptions/analysis of sulphur regulation in Candida parapsilosis is out in @NatureComms. Led by Lisa Lombardi, with Letal Salzburg, @EoinOCinneide @FlorentMorio @drkevinbyrne and more. @UCD_SBBS @ucdscience @UCD_Conway rdcu.be/dXZzl

Congrats to Gold Medal Runner Up @ruth_haverty 👏🎉 Her study reveals that SARS-CoV-2 can infect human brain cells, revealing potential mechanisms behind COVID-19 neurological effects. 🧠🔬 #conwayfest24 #COVID19 #Neuroscience #Research

What is neuroinflammation, and will we be able to learn to control it one day? The image below shows a neuron being attacked (or helped?) by glial cells. Markers: neuron/pTau-blue, microglia/iba1-gold, astrocytes/gfap-purple. What kind of help makes things worse? #neuroscience

Second QuPath v0.6.0 release candidate now available for testing at github.com/qupath/qupath/… This speeds up InstanSeg for complex annotations *and* adds much improved support to read & write OME-Zarr - @openmicroscopy

👇Read more about our celebration last week for Amgen Biotech Experience's milestone achievement of reaching > 1 million students! Including special guests Taoiseach @SimonHarrisTD & @Amgen CEO Bob Bradway. #ABE1M @ABEProgOffice @abe_ireland @UCD_Conway ucd.ie/sbi/news/newsf…

Wow @SimonHarrisTD!😍And we thought we had a busy morning! A TikTok first for us @HelenMRoche @sysbioire Thanks to @AmgenFoundation @Amgen @templecarrigGS for hosting. 🤝

Thank you to #ECI2024 for the opportunity to present our translational research on the immune response in HER2+ breast cancer! It’s been an amazing few days of immunology in Dublin @CCRTIreland @DCUFSH @DCU_Research @DCU_LSI @DcuBiotech