Great day out visiting a few of our river sites before the sampling work is set to begin. Happy to be joined by Frode Fossoy from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research NINAnature, his insights and knowledge were invaluable.
#eDNA #metabarcoding #WaterDay

Research spotlight! Michael Connell and Robert Moise, our PhD students in the lab, ready to present their ambitious research on the integration of DNA-based methods applied to #freshwater monitoring. 🗣️

#eDNA #metabarcoding

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Make sure you have a look at this exciting PhD opportunity in Queens University focusing on the critically endangered flapper skate before the submission deadline hits.

First Seminar of the Spring Series, tomorrow, 1PM, Ag building, room G0.8. #SBES Andrew Tighe and Paola Campos will share the spotlight!@UCD_Research UCD Science

Congrats to A52's and the Finarelli group's latest MSc Courtney Collins!
#UCDSBES #UCDearth

Followed by an African standoff.

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Lab milestone alert! 🎉
Join us in celebrating Dr. John Byrne as he defended his #PhDthesis today. 🎓
Congratulations JB, your dedication to research and tireless efforts in the lab have truly paid off. 🤝
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Not even Storm Debi could stop us getting lake water samples from Fota Wildlife Park with our 4th year student.
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#metabarcoding

Busy day in the field, collecting #eDNA samples at Fota Wildlife Park in Cork. 🧬🍂

Sampling session today at Dublin Zoo alongside other 4th year students working on their projects involving #eDNA analysis. 🧬

Check out our new paper about gene duplication associated with mammalian longevity in GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution)!
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Aoife getting her hands messy for her project on elephant diet using metabarcoding.
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Louise taking samples to see if we can detect primate eDNA from water!
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Olga and Michael being watched by a nosy hippo while they take eDNA samples from her pool...
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Area 52 at the zoo! Brilliant day sampling for our fourth year students. Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc

Have humans been selectively bred to want to control nature? My new essay published with the Long Now Foundation goes into why I think we might...

longnow.org/ideas/controll…
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Smalltooth sandtiger stranding in Ireland and the UK. A52 geneticists called into duty to genetically confirm the species. Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc UCD Earth Institute
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Just back from a brilliant few weeks in the field in Kenya on our elephant project working with Wildlife Research & Training Institute in Arabuko Sokoke forest.

LYNN NJERI NJUGUNA 𝕊𝕒𝕞𝕞𝕪 𝕎𝕒𝕞𝕓𝕦𝕒 (𝗧𝗮𝘁𝗮) Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc UCD Research Pwani University

Read here IFI's statement regarding fish kill in Co Clare: fisheriesireland.ie/news/press-rel…

PhD opportunities in the SFI-GIDAS project!
gmit.ie/research/postg… with the Atlantic Technological University