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Foreword UCC at a Glance Academic Developments Teaching and Learning Research College Reports: Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Business and Law Medicine and Health Science, Engineering and Food Science Events Student Experience Sports and Recreation Buildings and Estates Cork University Press Finance Governing Body IRIS Appendix 48 College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) Research highlights • VALORAM: a research team in the School of BEES is involved in a five-year EU Seventh Framework Programme-funded project FP7/2007-2013; VALORAM - Valorizing Andean microbial diversity through sustainable intensification of potato-based farming systems. The project aims to promote the sustainable development of potato-based systems in the inter-Andean valleys and Altiplano areas to focus on cropping systems that will make use of natural microbial resources as inputs to improve production of high quality potato crops. The project team includes: Dr Barbara Doyle-Prestwich (PI), Dr Eileen O’ Herlihy (project manager), Dr Boguisa Janczura and Siva Linga Sasanka. Velivelli Valoram comprises of eight partners from: Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Ecuador, Germany, Peru and Ireland (UCC). • The Aquaculture & Fisheries Development Centre (AFDC) is based within the School of BEES and is affiliated to the Environmental Research Institute (ERI). The research commercialisation remit of the centre was demonstrated in 2009 by the development of Gourmet Marine Ltd, a UCC start-up company, now being run by Dr Gerry Mouzakitis one of the former researchers from the centre who has been developing its sea urchin aquaculture technology called the UrchinPlatter System. During 2009, the centre had ongoing research funding of €7.8m, with €1.9m funding secured for further projects commencing in 2010 and 2011 mainly from projects funded by EU FP7 and European Regional Development Funding such as the INTERREG programme. • ‘Ecosystem approach to fisheries management’ is a BEAUFORTfunded programme (€1.86m), led by Professor Gavin Burnell and ‘Fish population genetics’ (€2.7m) led by Professor Tom Cross. • €618,399 was awarded under the ERDF INTERREG 4A Ireland: Wales Scheme for a collaborative project with three Welsh universities on ‘Shellfish productivity in the Irish Sea: working towards a sustainable future’. • EU FP7 funded project (€730,894 for the AFDC component) looking at conservation of the native European oyster in Europe by controlling one of its main pathogens. • Professor Gavin Burnell, Acting Head of Zoology and Ecology in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science (BEES), was recently awarded an AUS$8,500 CRC Visiting Expert Fellowship to spend six weeks in Australia (June-July 2010) advising various state and industry bodies on ways in which they might improve networking and communication in the aquaculture and fisheries sectors. Awards and Honours (staff and students) • Professor John Gamble (Geology) was elected to the Royal Society of New Zealand. Professor John Gamble (Geology) was also elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. • Hugh O’Leary (BSc Geology) has been awarded the Cunningham Prize by the Geological Survey of Ireland for his BSc Geology thesis entitled ‘Geology of the Ben Heilam area, Sutherland’. • A special volume ‘Making and Breaking the Arc’ in honour of UCC’s Professor John Gamble (Geology) was issued by the prestigious Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research - An International Journal on the Geophysical, Geochemical, Petrological, Economic and Environmental Aspects of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Volume 190, Issues 1-2, Pages 1-248 (1 February 2010). • Tara Griffin (BSc Environmental Science) won the BSc Environmental Science Degree Undergraduate Award of Ireland and Northern Ireland 2010 for her winning essay in the category of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences entitled ’The Influence of Farming Practice on Water Quality in Ireland’ • Fabio Bacci (BSc Environmental Studies) won the Lord Mayor’s Perpetual Trophy and Fehily Timoney and Co Prize for Environmental Studies for best final year student.
Foreword UCC at a Glance Academic Developments Teaching and Learning Research College Reports: Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Business and Law Medicine and Health Science, Engineering and Food Science Events Student Experience Sports and Recreation Buildings and Estates Cork University Press Finance Governing Body IRIS Appendix 49 Department of Biochemistry Research Highlights Professor Rosemary O’Connor • The PhD Scholars Programme in Cancer Biology, led by Professor O’Connor (Biochemistry), established an External Advisory Board. Members of the Board include: Professor Gerard Evan (University of Cambridge, UK), Dr Helke Hillebrand (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany) and Professor Donald McDonnell (Duke University, USA). The programme currently has 10 PhD students working towards their PhD in Cancer Biology; the Programme is accepting applications for the next cohort of students to begin in October 2011. Professor Dimitri Papkovsky • Filed two patent applications: ‘Intracellular oxygen sensitive probe’ and ‘Method of toxicological assessment’. Both technologies were subsequently licenced to Luxcel ( September 2009). • Was awarded an FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Networks grant to the value of €518,000 for a programme entitled ‘Chebana - Chemical Bioanalysis’. • Was a recipient of the UCC Research Commercialisation awards (April 2010). Professor Tom Cotter • Received €370,000 for leukaemia research from the Irish Cancer Society and The Children’s Leukaemia Research Project. Dr Karen Keeshan • Awarded a Marie Curie EU-FP7-PEOPLE-IRG (international reintegration grant) 2009/2013. ‘Investigating Trib2-induced Acute Myeloid Leukaemia’ of €100,000. Professor Mary McCaffrey • Received SFI Principal Investigator Programme Grant Award entitled ‘Functional analysis of the Rab11 and Rab14 GTPases and their associated proteins in eukaryotic membrane trafficking’ of €857,618 awarded over a five-year period. Dr Ruaidhrí Carmody • Awarded a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant of €100,000 for ‘Transcriptional regulation of inflammation’. Dr Justin V. McCarthy • Received a SFI Principal Investigator grant €702,000 for the project, ‘Functional characterisation of presenilin-dependent regulated intramembrane proteolysis of cytokine receptors. Relevance to presenilin biology and immune systems’. The funding supports the research of a team including one postdoctoral fellow, one research assistant and two PhD students. • Received €75,000 from IRCSET for a project entitled ‘Role of regulated intramembrane proteolysis in cytokine signalling’. The funding supports the research of a PhD student • Through the College of Medicine and Health received a €1,000 grant from NAIRTL in 2009 to promote the training in research of an undergraduate medical degree student Pranshul Chauhan Dr Pavel Baranov (Biochemistry) and Professor Gregory Provan (Computer Science) • Proposed a novel hypothesis for the origin of the genetic code. The hypothesis has been tested in silico. This finding may help us better understand the origin of life and estimate the likelihood of its emergence elsewhere in the universe. The genetic code origin hypothesis was published in Baranov PV, Venin M, Provan G. (2009) Codon Size Reduction as the Origin of the Triplet Genetic Code. PLoS One, 4:e5708. Dr Pavel Baranov • A team of researchers lead by Dr Baranov (Biochemistry) have created a centralised computational resource on human RNA editing, DARNED database. Click here for more information. RNA editing has been suggested as a molecular process responsible for evolution of human intelligence, as its abundance directly correlates with the size and complexity of the nervous system. The two most popular Human Genome Browsers (UCSC in US and Ensemble in EBI, UK) now feature the data from DARNED. Awards and Honours Dr Conor Horgan • Biosciences ‘Researcher of the Year 2009’ was awarded to Dr Horgan, an SFI post-doctororal researcher in the Molecular Cell Biology laboratory.
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