HUGE congratulations to UCD School Ag & Food animal science alum John Francis O' Grady who was been awarded the Fulbright Ireland scholarship He will now conduct part of his Genomics Data Science - SFI CRT PhD at the CU Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) with Casey Greene Well done John 👏

Our scientific committee is led by Micheál Ó Dálaigh (Micheál Ó Dálaigh)! 🥼 Micheál works on improving our understanding of disease progression in leukaemia by developing methods to identify cancer cells in scRNA-seq datasets 🩸 #VIBE2024 #ICBG2024

Our next committee member is Bianca Alexandra Pasat (Bianca Pasat)! 🐈‍⬛ Bianca has a bachelor's in Biology, a master's in Biochemistry and Bioentrepreneurship and is a Genomics Data Science - SFI CRT PhD student. Her PhD is in cancer research, specifically triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) 🔬

Great work- well done Zain A 👏👏👏

Meet our next committee member, Harrison Anthony (Harrison Anthony)! 🧑‍🔧 Harrison is a Genomics Data Science - SFI CRT PhD student at Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway, focusing on methods to infer microsatellite instability status from next-generation sequencing data and modelling tumor evolution. #VIBE2024 #ICBG2024

Congratulations Uri - fantastic achievement👏👏👏And congrats to CRT co-director Pasha Baranov Biochemistry UCC who was also elected as EMBO member today👏👏👏

Delighted to be a part of the organising committee for VIBE/ICBG 2024, Ireland's largest bioinformatics conference!🧬 Registration and abstract submission are coming soon! Watch this space VIBE/ICBG Conference 2024 Genomics Data Science - SFI CRT

The beautiful Iamnumber17.ie exhibition is on in the Orbsen building until the end of July. Did you know that 1 in 17 people will be affected by rare disease at some point in their life? Come and get to know the inspiring stories of the 17 change makers RARE Ireland

Introducing another one of our amazing committee members: Anna Großbach (Anna Grossbach)! ☀️ Anna has a masters in Anthropology and is now working on epigenetic changes throughout early development with Andrew Simpkin and Dr Erin Dunn 👶 #VIBE2024 #ICBG2024

BIOHACKATHON: Call for Challenges! The CRT is looking for challenges that can be “hacked” by teams of Science Foundation Ireland students to generate solutions while providing students with experience of working on real world challenges: Call for Biohackathon challenges - Genomics Data Science

See our website genomicsdatascience.ie/call-for-chall… for more details and to submit a challenge!

Beautiful photo exhibition currently on in the Orbsen building Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway by Rare Diseases Ireland and #IAmNumber17 changemakers raising awareness of people living with rare diseases.

The next member of our student-led committee is Shir Dahan (Shir)! ✨ Shir is a Genomics Data Science - SFI CRT PhD student and is investigating brain connectivity patterns in psychiatric disorders and their underlying genetic correlates. 🧠 #VIBE2024 #ICBG2024

Delighted to have had U.S. National Science Foundation PhD students Gianna Gathman UCSB BIOE and Irma Vlasac Dartmouth 🌲 on summer placements with CRT PI's Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway. Thanks to Science Foundation Ireland and U.S. National Science Foundation for supporting student placements and network building as part of their student mobility programs.

Fantastic to see some of our Cohort 1 students graduating at the recent Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway conferrings - congrats to Helen Horkan and Rebecca Mahoney! 👏🧑‍🎓

Well done to Amanda Forde the first student from Cohort 2 to pass her viva! 👏Amanda did her PhD project Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway on "More accurate and unbiased associations in genetic association studies with applications to Mendelian Randomization" under the supervision of John Ferguson

REMINDER - Submit your real world CHALLENGE to the CRT BIOHACKATHON! For more information see genomicsdatascience.ie/call-for-chall… Call open until 30th Sept

A big congratulations to Jack Tierney who passed his viva today 👏👏👏. Jack's PhD research project was on "Graph based data structures for the representation of protein coding loci" under the supervision of Pasha Baranov Biochemistry UCC . Fantastic work Jack and well deserved!

WELL DONE to cohort 2 student Kane Collins who passed his PhD viva today! 👏👏👏Kane worked on "The role of genetic burden in kidney function and kidney transplant outcome" under the supervision of Gianpiero Cavalleri RCSI . Congratulations Kane!

CONGRATS to Donal o’Shea who passed his viva today👏👏👏Donal’s research project was on “Methods and tools for cell-type gene set analysis” under the supervision of Cathal Seoighe Maths, University of Galway Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway Well done Dr O’Shea!!!