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Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology

Biotechnology & Synthetic Biology

Investigating the application and manipulation of biological materials and systems for their specific utilities in processes and products, biotechnology is the application of living systems to make or modify products or processes for specific use.  All of the basic subject areas of the BSc and MSc programmes in SBBS are intertwined with biotechnology.  The research efforts of the investigators in the School cover medical, industrial and environmental biotechnology.

Our researchers in the area of biotechnology are based in state-of-the-art labs within highly collaborative environments.

Research Interests:  Antibiotics; Antifungals; micro-organisms; synthetic boiology

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Research Interests: Protein interactions; network biology; synthetic biology; bioinformatics; mass spectrometry

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Research Interests:  NMR Spectroscopy; mocecular modelling; peptides; structural biology; diabetes; antimicrobial; GIP structure; GPCR structure.

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Research Interests: Mechanisms of Disease; Cancer; Blood and bone cancer; Tumour microenvironment, Extracellular vesicles (EVs), EV-based liquid biopsy, Multiomics; Peptidyl prolyl isomerases; Cyclophilin A; Bcl-2 proteins.

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Research Interests: biochemical mechanisms behind Prion diseases; Therapeutics; link between Prion disorders and Alzheimer's disease; aging; oxidative stress.

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Research Interests: Host pathogen interaction, streptococci, staphylococci, E. coli, platelets, glycolipids, lipoteichoic acid, lipopolysaccharide, CD36, infection biology.

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Research Interests:  biotherapeutics; biotechnology;  activity of the calcium binding protein secretagogin in neuronal cells; protein networks.

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Research Interests: biocatalysis and metabolic engineering; biodegradable polymer synthesis by bacteria; Enzymes as biocatalysts in the transformation of aromatic and aliphatic substrates.

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Research Interests: Absorptive capacities in the biotechnology industry;  CEO leadership of biotechnology firms; Supervenience as a model to reconnect absorptive capacity to the individual.

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Contact the UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science

H1.38 O’Brien Centre for Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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