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UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science

Scoil na hEolaíochta Bithmhóilínigh agus an Bithleighis UCD

Research in SBBS

SBBS has 3 established research themes which fully represent the strengths in the school's research activities. Please click on the links below for further information and research profiles of the group's academics:

 Different Looks by Yolanda Alvarez We are performing a mutagenesis screen for mutations affecting eye development. In the picture a wild type 5 day old zebrafish larva with two normal eyes on the right, and three different mutants: joined-eyes at the bottom, four eyes on the left and a cyclop at the top.
 Disease Mechanisms:
(i) Cancer
(ii) Diabetes & Vascular Biology
(iii) Neuroscience
 Candida parapsilosis colonies with different morphologies by Tristan Rossignol Yeast Candida parapsilosis undergoing spontaneously colony phenotype switching when growing on ypd medium containing phloxine B. Three different phenotypes distinguishable by colony morphology are visible on this picture.

 Infection Biology
 D.Walsh & D. Selkoe, 2004

 Structural Biology
SBBS 'Lab Skills: Three Places at Once' by Marco Monopoli