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2025 | News and Outreach

Li and Elle's viva dinner

We had a lovely evening celebrating our newest doctors, Li and Elle!

11 April 2025

Congratulations Dr Elle Loughran!

Congratulations to Dr Elle Loughran who passed her PhD viva today. We are so proud of you and will miss you as you begin your new research position!

9 April 2025

Carlingford Research Retreat

The lab had a great weekend of hiking, science chats, and great food at our research retreat in Carlingford!

7 April 2025

Congratulations Dr Yuanshuo Li!

Congratulations to Dr Li who passed his PhD viva yesterday. We are all so proud of you Li!

25 March 2025

An Post Women in STEM Stamp Launch

An Post has launched two stamps celebrating Women in STEM ahead of International Women's Day - with our very own Prof. Aoife McLysaght featured! Click the links to read RTÉ and Trinity's coverage of the stamp launch. We are very proud of you Aoife!

6 March 2025

Spring Festival celebration

This week we joined forces with the Wellmer lab to host a Spring Festival celebration for the department's monthly beer review event. It was an enjoyable evening and great fun was had by all! Shoutout to Marge from the Wellmer lab for making the brilliant poster!

30 January 2025

Photo via @VIBE/ICBG on X.

VIBE/ICBG 2024

The team had a great two days at the 2024 VIBE/ICBG conference. Congratulations to Lukasz who won best poster!

6 December 2024

Welcome to the lab Peter!

Dr Peter Mulhair has joined the bioinformatics team as a postdoctoral researcher. We're delighted to have Peter on our team!

15 November 2024

Congratulations Dr Casey!

Congratulations to Dr Dearbhaile Casey, who graduated with her PhD today.

31 October 2024

Photo via Government of Ireland

Aoife Mcysaght appointed Government Science Advisor

Aoife's appointment to the role of Government Science Advisor was announced today. Read more here.

8 October 2024

Photo credit: Ralph_PH, licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

Aoife chats to Blindboy

Click here to listen to Aoife's interview on the Blindboy Podcast!

10 January 2024

This archive was compiled in 2024 to showcase some news and outreach from over the years as we set up our new website - it is not exhaustive!

Aoife on the 2 Johnies Podcast

Click here to listen to Aoife's interview on the 2 Johnies Podcast!

13 November 2023

Coverage of our paper on the shared whole-genome duplication in the sturgeon-paddlefish ancestor

You can read Trinity's coverage of our research here.

31 May 2023

The Royal Institution Christmas Lecture

Aoife was the 2018 guest lecturer for the Royal Institution Christmas lecture. You can watch the full video here.

8 February 2019

Aoife's interview with Trinity News

Click here to read Aoife's interview with Trinity News for International Women's Week on her scientific journey.

11 March 2018

IGNITE at the Science Gallery, September 2009

Click here to see a clip of Aoife speaking at the first IGNITE Dublin event in the Science Gallery.

8 October 2009

"Genes that only humans have"

Click here to read the New Scientist article on our discovery of novel human genes.

5 September 2009

"Our extra something special that sets us apart"

Click here to read the Irish Times opinion piece by science editor Dick Ahlstrom covering our discovery of novel human genes.

2 September 2009

"TCD researchers make 'significant' gene discovery"

Click here to listen to interview on Morning Ireland (RTE) interview on novel human genes.