Carol Aherne

Thanks @siliconrepublic for featuring a piece of what is happening in The Aherne lab and in particular highlighting the #CutFromTheSameCloth programme. It’s a pleasure to support engagement in science #scienceweek2024.

@DooleyLab @UCD_Conway @CiaraWalsh_1 @UCDMedicine @ucddublin @UCD_CHAS @UCD_Research Great day!! Congratulations @DooleyLab and @CiaraWalsh_1 !!

So proud of @CiaraWalsh_1 who successfully became Dr. Walsh this week! 🥳🥂 The future is bright! 🤩 @UCD_Conway @UCDMedicine @ucddublin @UCD_CHAS @UCD_Research

@SumaginLab @leukocytebiol Congratulations @SumaginLab!!

⁦@leukocytebiol⁩ conference is done. Strong showing from the ⁦@SumaginLab⁩ very proud of my team two awards and a runner up.

@DooleyLab @Researchirel @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @ucddublin @UCD_Research Great to see this really important work continuing! Congratulations @DooleyLab !

Really grateful to have been awarded one of these awards from @Researchirel to continue our work on #glial cells and #neuroinflammation after #spinalcordinjury Watch this space for exciting new positions in my lab in 2025! 🧠 🔬 @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @ucddublin @UCD_Research

Great to see this important topic being discussed. Very disappointed to be missing #GTSRC24!

One day to go!!! Come join us to learn about what’s going on in IBD research @UCD_Conway @mario_manresa @TheCollinsLab @UCDMedicine @UCD_SBBS @IBDireland

@TheMastersonLab @DrSineadRyan @jacionline @MaynoothBiology @stjamesdublin @ChildrensColo @CUAnschutz @scienceirel Congratulations @TheMastersonLab. Look forward to reading it!

Congrats @DrSineadRyan Paper accepted @jacionline Important role for #HIF driven #metabolic dysfunction in #epithelial differentiation defects in #EoE Thanks to collaborators @MaynoothBiology @stjamesdublin @ChildrensColo @CUAnschutz funding @scienceirel tinyurl.com/yptttw6h

Come join us to talk all things #IBD research with @TheCollinsLab @mario_manresa. Meet the teams and find out what we are up to @UCD_Conway @UCDMedicine @ucdscience.

🗓️Register and save the date! Tues, 03 Sept, 5-7pm 🚪🔬Open house event. 🤝Meet our researchers working on IBD - inflammatory bowel disease. Hear the latest research and check out the tools behind discoveries.  Places limited ⌛#PPI #PatientVoice eventbrite.com/e/ibd-research…

Delighted to see this out @UCD_Conway @scienceirel: my (Twitterless) colleague Haruka Miki from @UNIV_TSUKUBA_EN and I review current literature on fibroblast diversity, in this piece hot off the press in @JPhysiol! physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP… What do we discuss? thread👇

From our Vice President for Global Engagement, Prof Dolores O'Riordan: Wishing our students, staff, alumni, and partners a joyous Thanksgiving filled with warmth, laughter, and the company of loved ones. 💙💚💛🤍 #ucdglobal

Congratulations to @scienceirel and @IrishResearch for an engaging summit on a people centred research environment for the future. Particularly useful discussions on including voices not already in the room championed so eloquently by @katrionaos

Huge Congrats @midlandsscience, one of the hardest working teams in science outreach! Jackie, Pauline & Croidan ran 70+ events for Science Week 2023 bringing joy, curiosity and excitement to young and old for the 10th Midlands Science Festival. Amazing! @ucdscience @scienceirel

Reminder today is the last day to get your abstracts in for the School of Medicine Graduate Research Symposium! If you would like to present your work in a poster or 10 minute talk make sure to submit your abstract by 5pm today! @UCDMedicine

@OI_Coleman @AdamSorbie @kaehde @baerboletta @nklkhlr Fantastic work Olivia!

It’s been a long road, so I’m very happy to share the preprint of our newest story showing that ATF6 activation alters colonic lipid metabolism causing tumor-associated microbial adaptation. Great team effort @AdamSorbie @kaehde @baerboletta @nklkhlr et al!biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to Alfie O'Sullivan @UCD_Research @UCDMedicine for winning a poster prize at the recent @MicrobioSoc Irish Division meeting. Thank you to @ScientificLabs for sponsoring the prize.

💙💛 UCD Conway Institute marks 20 years at the leading edge 🎉 Over 500 alumni, staff, students, and guests gathered to celebrate 20 years of research, innovation, and impact at the UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research. Ireland’s leading biomedical research institute, Conway was established as an interdisciplinary research centre focused on high-quality ‘blue skies’ innovative research in the biosciences, and on developing novel therapies for chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and obesity as well as neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s, depression, and autism.  Reflecting on this mission, and its exceptional research environment, Professor Helen Roche, UCD Vice President for Research, Innovation and Impact said the “greatest achievement of the Institute to date has been in nurturing people and providing a research culture and environment in which they are supported to deliver on their potential and ambitions.” To celebrate the last 20 years, Conway alumni joined current staff, postgraduate students, and postdoctoral researchers, as well as representatives of industry, charities and the UCD community, to share stories of their career journeys and the impact the Institute had for them. Among the hundreds that attended the anniversary event to mark the occasion were Maureen and Hilary Daly, the daughter and granddaughter of the late Professor E.J. Conway, FRS who is the Institute namesake and first Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology at University College Dublin. Other Conway alumni and previous staff who attended included Professor Philip Nolan, Director General, Science Foundation Ireland; Professor Helen Roche, UCD VP Research, Innovation & Impact; Dr Noelle Griffin, Vice-President & Head of Global Medical Affairs, Pfizer; Dr Sarah McLoughlin, Public & Patient Involvement Coordinator, Cancer Trials Ireland; Professor Donal Brennan, UCD Professor of Gynaecological Oncology & Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and Mr Michael O’Sullivan, Director of Operations, UCD Conway (2000-2021). Delegates were encouraged in a video message from Professor Hugh Brady, President of Imperial College London to “celebrate the Institute and its remarkable achievements over the last two decades.”  It was the past UCD President who co-authored the original funding proposal to establish the Institute, and he praised the late Chuck Feeney, the Irish American philanthropist, who in partnership with the Irish Government, through The Atlantic Philanthropies under the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI), provided the funding for Conway. Institute Director, Professor Breandán Kennedy acknowledged the vision of Professor Brady and his co-authors, UCD Emeritus Professors Michael Ryan and Paul Engel saying they “imagined the type of environment where research excellence would thrive and convinced their peers, policy makers and funders that this vision could be a reality that would allow Irish science to compete on the global stage”. The UCD Conway Institute was one of several projects at UCD funded by the Irish American philanthropist that helped transform the face of Irish university research. These included the UCD Institute of Criminology; Michéal O'Cleirigh Institute; Institute for British Irish Studies; UCD Geary Institute, and Chairs in American Studies; Equality Studies and Food Safety. As part of the anniversary event, Professor Roche presented the prestigious Conway Festival Gold Medal for outstanding research to doctoral candidate Ciara Walsh for her work on immunomodulatory. Findings from Ciara’s research on the potential of GelMA hydrogels as a therapeutic platform for preclinical spinal cord injury were published earlier this year in the scientific journal, Advanced Healthcare Materials. Her PhD supervisor is Dr Dearbhaile Dooley, UCD School of Medicine and Fellow, UCD Conway Institute.

@SumaginLab @LenoreYalom Congratulations Ronen!!! Very well deserved.

@LenoreYalom Thanks Lenore. Great shot :)

Congrats Dr. Ronen Sumagin (my PI) for the 2023 Cotran Early Career Investigator Award!!! @asippath @SumaginLab

➡️Today at 5pm, we're hosting a webinar to introduce the new Science streams, Computer Science, Sustainability and Actuarial & Financial Studies. @ucd_global @myucd 🎟️Places can be reserved at: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

During the Conway festival we reflected a lot on the past 20 yrs. Words like community came up so often. To me this picture means “belonging”. To be part of something special. Various generations of trainees, and trainees of trainees of the Taylor lab 🤩