CCB News

  • Eykelenboom and Gannon win IRCSET EMPOWER postdoctoral awards

    CCB postdoctoral fellows John Eykelenboom (Lowndes lab) and Anne-Marie Gannon (Lahue lab) were awarded 2010 IRCSET EMPOWER postdoctoral awards. Funding is highly competitive, with 32 awards nationwide from 340 eligible applications. Awards are made “to researchers from all nations who are at an early stage of their postdoctoral research career and who wished to further their research in the sciences, engineering or technology, at an Irish research institution.”

  • Cell biologists awarded Beckman Fellowships

    Beckman Fellowships were awarded to postgraduate students Nadine Quinn and Agnieszka Kaczmarczyk, both members of the Laboratory for Cell Biology working with Prof. Kevin Sullivan. For Agnieszka's work, the fellowship will enable acquisition of novel reagents to study spindle checkpoint behavior. The award will allow Nadine to travel to Germany to carry out experiments on protein complex assembly in living cells using specialized microscopic equipment. Their studies are part of the Cell Biology laboratory's efforts to understand how human cells replicate their centromeres during the proliferative cell cycle.

  • Spillane research group becomes 11th member of CCB

    Recently recruited Professor of Plant Science Charlie Spillane has joined the Centre for Chromosome Biology, becoming our 11th member research group. Research in the Spillane Genetics and Biotechnology Lab focuses on functional genomics and epigenetics of genomic imprinting, dosage effects, non-coding RNAs and genome evolution in both plants and animals.

  • Kevin Sullivan's research group wins SFI Image of Year award

    Kevin Sullivan and his team won the inaugural Science Foundation Ireland "Image of the Year" award at the 2009 SFI Summit with an image entitled 'Chromosomes in Trouble'. Kevin received the award from the Minister for Science, Conor Lenihan, at the 2009 SFI Summit. > See NUI Galway press release

  • Noel Lowndes awarded Biochemistry Society's Irish Area Section medal

    Head of the CCB, Prof. Noel Lowndes was recently awarded the 2010 annual medal for contribution to Irish science by the Irish Section of the Biochemical Society.

  • EMBO workshop on DT40 cell techniques to be held at CCB in June

    Prof Ciaran Morrison is organising a course in DT40 cell techniques from Jun 12-19th 2010 at the CCB in Galway. DT40 is a transformed chicken B-cell line that allows permitting gene targeting into its genome with very high efficiency. The workshop will teach participants the skills to carry out DT40 gene targeting experiments and perform the phenotypic analysis of their targeted cells. > See EMBO workshop website

Seminar events

The Centre for Chromosome Biology has an enthusiastic seminar programme with a regular series of international speakers. These are usually held on Fridays at 1pm in McMunn theatre but times can vary depending on speaker availability.

Seminars are usually held in conjunction with the Department of Biochemistry or National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science semianr programmes. Full details of seminar times are given in their listings: