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We have a vacancy for a part time PhD studentship, with an opportunity to combine a part time Teaching Assistant role. The PhD studentship is advertised at [findaphd.com/phds/project/p…) and the Teaching Assistant at [ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/](ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/), vacancy 018929.

A wet but fantastic day tagging and collecting behavioural data from the newborn fawns at the Phoenix Park! Thank you to the team at @UCD_Wildlife for allowing us to help out! @UCDSBES @ucdvetmed

See below for an exciting PhD studentship!

Our ERC Synergy project will begin on 1st June, so we took the opportunity to meet up at the Diamond Synchrotron today and meet the scientists working at the soft x-ray microscope at Beamline 24. Can’t wait to get started! @ERC_Research @ucddublin @UCD_Conway

Exciting news for the lab! 🎉 @HBrown0890's PhD paper is now out in @SciReports! We explore how to enhance HEV infection using polarised in vitro models: rdcu.be/ecbQM Congrats to the team & our collaborators! 👏 #HepatitisEVirus #Zoonosis #OneHealth

🎄Merry Christmas 🎄 & ✨Happy New Year ✨

🚀 UCD's Dr Nicola Fletcher has secured a €6M ERC Synergy Grant for the NanoX project! 👏This groundbreaking research aims to revolutionise clinical diagnostics by using advanced x-ray technology to visualise tissue at unprecedented detail. #Innovation #Research #OneHealth

Read more about the project here: ucd.ie/newsandopinion…

We're thrilled to celebrate @NerdyNic and her collaborators at @UniHeidelberg & @DiamondLightSou for securing an @ERC_Research Synergy Grant! The award reflects their dedication and incredible expertise. We can't wait to see what NanoX achieves! 🎉✨ #ERCSyG #NanoX

👩‍🔬🩸 Exciting news! Congratulations to infectious disease expert Assistant Professor Nicola Fletcher, one of only two Ireland-based recipients of the coveted ERC Synergy Grant this year. Her groundbreaking project, NanoX, will receive over €6 million in funding to better understand the pathophysiology of hepatitis E infectWell done, Nicola 🗣️ Professor Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice President for Research, Innovation and Impact: "Her achievement exemplifies the excellence of our researchers who are building strong international collaborations to drive innovation and address global challenges.” Soft X-ray microscopy is a new imaging technique that allows the visualisation of cells in great detail, but it has not yet been applied to imaging whole tissues. NanoX seeks to merge the skillsets of international experts in infectious disease, physics and structural biology to develop new techniques that can image tissue micro-biopsies. 🗣️ Assistant Professor Nicola Fletcher, Ad Astra fellow at UCD School of Veterinary Medicine and Fellow of the UCD Conway Institute: "I am confident that this project will deliver new ways to diagnose and treat a wide range of diseases in humans and animals." “I’m passionate about One Health, the idea that animal, human and environmental health are all linked, and we must consider all of them when trying to improve the health of anyone. This project fits perfectly within One Health and will benefit all species.” "The UCD Conway Institute is home to the world’s first commercially available laboratory scale soft x-ray microscope, built and designed by Sirius XT. Together with the University of Heidelberg and the Diamond Light Source in Oxford, we have the state-of-the-art facilities we need to develop new ways to image tissue biopsies in exquisite detail. This will allow us to characterise diseases at the cellular level.”

If you're going to #ConwayFest24, the Gold Medal talks are tomorrow with both @HBrown0890 & @ruth_haverty sharing their work! 🤩 (2pm, Conway lecture theatre) We also have posters from @cte606 & @AmyHFitzpatrick at tomorrows session at 11:30am👀 Let us know your thoughts!

This week @cte606 will be at the @MicroscopySoc 🔬#Microscopy & #Microanalysis meeting in Cleveland 🇺🇸 He will be presenting in the Correlative Microscopy Using Light, Electron, and X-ray Microscopy session (C05.1) Go and say hello if you're there 👋 #CorrelativeMicroscopy #HEV

The team are also currently out and about 🌏 @NerdyNic is in Japan 🇯🇵 visiting the #IVReD at the University of Hokkaido. Last week she met with Prof Gabriel Gonzalez and and Prof Yukari Itakura to hear about their latest research #ZoonoticDiseases #OneHealth #InfectiousDiseases

@david_machugh @Jiangang_Han @ucddublin @ucdagfood @UCD_Conway @ucdvetmed @JuhaKantanen @FairTrudee @steve_myco Congratulations @Jiangang_Han 🎉

Congratz to @Jiangang_Han on defending his @ucddublin #FunctionalGenomics PhD thesis. Excellent work!👏🍾👍 Co-supervisor #Lin_Jiang @ #IAS #CAAS Support from @ucdagfood, @UCD_Conway & @ucdvetmed #CAAS #IAS & thanks to Exam Committee @JuhaKantanen, @FairTrudee & @steve_myco

A huge congratulations to @ruth_haverty on her first first-author publication! 🎉🥂 Her study investigates which cell types within the CNS support productive #SARSCoV2 infection & the role of ACE2 in these infections #Neuroscience #Virology

We're thrilled to share that our study reporting #SARSCoV2 seropositivity in urban deer in Dublin, Ireland, will be published in @CDC_NCEZID🦌✨ A huge group effort involving many hours unforgettable field work! #OneHealth #PublicHealth #WildlifeResearch