🌈 Happy Pride Month! We celebrate the diversity of our university community and our commitment to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is able to be themselves. Together, we can help ensure our university is a welcoming place for all. #PrideMonth #LGBTQIA #Allyship #InclusionMatters

🏆 Congrats to #SBBSRD2026 Prize Winners! 🏅 Luke Conroy 🏅 David John 🏅 Sarah Balfe Brilliant PhD presentations showcasing SBBS talent at UCD. 🎉 Sticker Rally winners: Kate Lawless, Niamh C., Irene Jurado Martín 👏 Thanks to organisers, judges & sponsors! #UCDResearch #PhDLife lnkd.in/e2-WFaug

Congratulations to ENGAGE 2026 winner Rianna Magee who's final research presentation was on 'How cannabidiol and anticancer drug can work smarter, not harder, against prostate cancer'. www.ucd.ie/sbbs/newsand...

We are delighted to confirm the six PhD researchers who will compete in the ENGAGE 2026 Grand Final on Wednesday, 15 April. Register for free for a spot in the Moore Auditorium www.eventbrite.com/e/engage-gra... OR join the webinar: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Come along and support our 6 PhD finalists in our annual event, ENGAGE Grand final. Learn more and register to attend for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/engage-gra... 📅 Wednesday 15th April 2026 🕥 17:00 📍 Moore Auditorium, UCD O’Brien Centre for Science 🍽️🍷 Followed by food and wine Free Registration

🔬 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

International Day of Women and Girls in Science | United Nations

The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls.

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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

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

UCD co-lead breakthrough discovering genetic mechanism driving Weaver syndrome

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Delighted that our work on EZH2 dominant negativity in Weaver syndrome is now out in Genes & Development! This exciting work on chromatinopathies 🧬 was in collab with @adrianbracken.bsky.social and spearheaded by Orla Deevy. @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

🎓 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

PostDoc | Job Details - Postdoctoral fellow level 1 in yeast biodiversity at Conway Institute, University College Dublin

Postdoctoral fellow level 1 in yeast biodiversity at Conway Institute, University College Dublin, listed on FindAPostDoc.com - A jobs site exclusively listing postdoctoral research posts.

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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.

TCD, UCD students share Mary Mulvihill award for explorations of life and loss

Students from across Ireland entered the science communication competition this year, with submissions including illustrated essays, videos and manga.

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🎉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

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Last morning of the conference with Molly Davies talking about how PAX8 coordinates oncogenic transcription independently of stable interactors in high-grade serous ovarian cancer #Epigenetics2025

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