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March issue of Conway Focus now available

The latest edition of the Conway Focus newsletter is now available. The Conway Focus Issue 13 March 2011 highlights research and innovation achievements from the past three months including:

Towards personalised nutrition - Dr Lorraine Brennan is developing the use of metabolomics to discover potential dietary biomarkers

First Wellcome Trust funding for Irish based PhD programme - Profs. Geraldine Butler & Denis Shields have been awarded €3 million towards a four-year structured UCD PhD programme in Computational Infection Biology.

Proteomics underpinning research across diverse disciplines - The UCD Conway Mass Spectrometry Resource (MSR) instrumentation and expertise are being utilised in a diverse range of projects from agriculture to nanoscience.

Novel regulator of photoreceptor gene expression - Dr Breandan Kennedy and his team have identified a transcriptional regulator that is sufficient to enhance the initiation of photoreceptor specific gene expression.

Specific effect of cigarette smoke on innate immune cells - Professor Donal O’Shea and the obesity research group show that cigarette smoke extract (CSE) has a specific effect on a minor subset of immune cells and this may contribute to the role of cigarette smoke in the development of cancer.

IDDN announce new industrial partnership with Arch Therapeutics - The Irish Drug Delivery Network (IDDN) led by Prof. David Brayden will collaborate with Boston-based Arch Therapeutics to optimise the development of novel products for surgery and trauma. 

Recognising excellence in research - A number of Conway graduate and postdoctoral researchers have recently been recognised for outstanding research in national and international competitions.

New 3-D visual of intestinal growth promoting peptide - Dr Chandralal Hewage has determined the 3D solution structure of glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) for the first time using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and molecular modelling.

New biochemistry applications for iTunes store - Prof. J. Paul G. Malthouse has developed three iPhone applications intended as experimental planning aids for researchers and revision aids for undergraduate and postgraduate students.