Carol Aherne

Scientist, lecturer, principal investigator @ucddublin. Our lab studies gut barrier function in #IBD. Opinions expressed are my own.

[Carol Aherne @TheAherneLab]

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.

[UCD Conway Institute @UCD_Conway]

Thanks @siliconrepublic for featuring @TheAherneLab #IBDresearch #CutFromTheSameCloth @PVCR_Ireland #scienceweek2024
Gut feelings: How science communication can help health research https://t.co/no0xHDSzP0 via @siliconrepublic

[Carol Aherne @TheAherneLab]

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

[Carol Aherne @TheAherneLab]

@SumaginLab @leukocytebiol Congratulations @SumaginLab!!

[Carol Aherne @TheAherneLab]

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

[Carol Aherne @TheAherneLab]

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

[Carol Aherne @TheAherneLab]

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

[UCD Conway Institute @UCD_Conway]

🎟️Grab your seat on the #IBD lab tour! https://t.co/fljYcvVUZU
🗓️Tues, 03 Sept, 5-7pm
🤝Meet the team @TheCollinsLab @mario_manresa 
Tell a friend @spunout @ibdireland @CrohnsColitisFn @svuh @HSELive

[Carol Aherne @TheAherneLab]

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

[Carol Aherne @TheAherneLab]

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.

[UCD Conway Institute @UCD_Conway]

🎟️Grab your seat on the #IBD lab tour! https://t.co/fljYcvVUZU
🗓️Tues, 03 Sept, 5-7pm
🤝Meet the team @TheCollinsLab @mario_manresa 
Tell a friend @spunout @ibdireland @CrohnsColitisFn @svuh @HSELive

[UCD Conway Institute @UCD_Conway]

🗓️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
https://t.co/fTbY6aS8e9

[The Manresa lab @mario_manresa]

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!
https://t.co/o1ommmPzqR
What do we discuss? thread👇

[UCD Global @ucd_global]

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

[Carol Aherne @TheAherneLab]

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

[ℂ𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕘 𝕊𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕪 @craigslattery]

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

[UCD GRAM @GRAM_UCD]

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

[Carol Aherne @TheAherneLab]

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

[Gerald @geraldmbarry]

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.

[University College Dublin @ucddublin]

💙💛 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.

[Carol Aherne @TheAherneLab]

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

[UCD Science @ucdscience]

➡️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: https://t.co/vroXnU1aEk

[The Manresa lab @mario_manresa]

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 🤩