SBES Researcher Recipient of Prestigious Award
Dr Jennifer Mc Elwain, researcher at the School of Biology and Environmental Science, was one of three UCD researchers to receive a prestigious ‘Ireland’s Champions of EU Research’ award, for her leadership of the OXYEVOL project on “Atmospheric oxygen as a driver of plant evolution over the past 400 million years”, ranked 1st in the European Research Council Starter Grant in the Ideas area.
While critical events in animal evolutionary history have been linked with shifts in atmospheric O2, the potential role of O2 as a driver of plant evolution has been almost completely overlooked; a knowledge gap addressed by this research project.
The ‘Ireland’s Champions of EU Research’ awards acknowledge the immense contribution of the winners, and of the additional 275 research project leaders from across Ireland (including 48 from UCD), to our national success in the €50 billion EU research fund known as the Seventh EU Framework Programme for Research (FP7).
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