COVID-19 Vaccines 🇮🇪 (Tuesday / 29-06-21) ‣ At least one dose: 2,443,921 (+1,035,816) ‣ Fully vaccinated: 1,665,553 (+1,150,195) ‣ Total: 4,109,474 (+2,186,561) ‣ 16+ with at least one dose: ~62.5% ‣ 16+ fully vaccinated: ~42.6%

Day 1 of the UCD Inherited Blindness Summer School is off to a fantastic start with an excellent introductory lecture from Alison Reynolds on "What is inherited blindness?" Stay tuned to see what we will be getting upto during the week 🔬👁 Breandán Kennedy UCD UCD SBBS Fighting Blindness

To kick off day 2 of the Inherited Blindness Summer School, we are absolutely delighted to have @PhDWithLaura from the Farrar lab in Trinity College Dublin talking to us about her research journey so far, and the Genetics of Inherited Blindness 👁👩‍🔬

For the past 2 days, we have had our students extremely busy in the lab! Yesterday we worked with zebrafish models of inherited blindness, and behavioural assays used to test vision. We also showed how some of the compounds we work with in the lab can restore visual function 🐟

🚨 Recruitment now open for our latest TOAST study 🚨 Contact Tatiana or Gareth at [email protected] for more details.

So happy to share my first 1st author paper from my secondment with 3DNEONET Consortium CRYSTAL3 CONSORTIUM from Ocupharm Research Group to UCD Conway Institute Ocular Pharmacology Huge thanks and congrats to all of the co-authors and supervisors whose contributions are invaluable! Breandán Kennedy UCD Yolanda Alvarez

Still recruiting!! Are you 18-25 years old short-sighted? If yes, you could volunteer for this study. A fee of 20€ will be paid for each visit! Contact us at [email protected] 😊

When a optometrist goes to a zebrafish lab, amazing things happen, like she develops methods to assess visual acuity & contrast sensitivity in the fish. Proudly published in Open Research Europe open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/1-92 Ocupharm Research Group Ocular Pharmacology Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions European Research Executive Agency #InvestEUResearch

Delighted to share the morning with such an amazing group of young scientists. Thanks Alicia Gómez Husvinee and all female researchers in 3DNEONET Consortium and CRYSTAL3 CONSORTIUM 🐟🧬🧫♀️♂️🔬👏 AMPA Ponce de León Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #InvestEUResearch

When "smoke gets in your eyes" issue is not the tears "you cannot hide", but Macular Degeneration, Cataracts, Optic Nerve Damage and other severe #EyeDisease We are working on different models that confirm it. #quitsmoking #MacularDegeneration #DryEyeDisease #InvestEUResearch

🚨 Last chance to buy tickets tomorrow at 1pm! On sale in the Conway Institute foyer. We are now 10 days out from our Spring Soirée! 🥳

We are really excited about this training school in computational chemistry organised by UCD Chemistry BiOrbic Research Ireland Centre for Bioeconomy Cresset and CRYSTAL3 CONSORTIUM Hybrid event (limited in-person spaces). Free registration👇 cresset-group.com/about/events/u… #Compchem #InvestEUResearch #MSCA #H2020

And alongside the #CompChem workshop organised by UCD Chemistry BiOrbic Research Ireland Centre for Bioeconomy Cresset and CRYSTAL3 CONSORTIUM we are hosting an industry-academia forum⚛️More details in the flyer Registration: 👉cresset-group.com/about/events/c… #InvestEUResearch #MSCA European Research Executive Agency EU Science & Innovation 🇪🇺

We are delighted to see our paper on Rab28 published and available online in the FASEB journal doi.org/10.1096/fj.202…. A collaborative project between researchers in UCD, UCLA and Radboud UMC, led by Ailis Moran highlighting the requirement of Rab28 in the zebrafish retina 👁🐟

📢¡Necesitamos que twitter haga su magia antes del 15 de mayo! ¡Ayúdanos a convertirnos en ganadores! "ClimateMakeUp" esta nominado al premio de la excelencia en FP "VET Excellence Awards". Vota por nosotros👉🏻 ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runne…, pinchando en "Europa agencies" Educación JCyL

3DNEONET final meeting was celebrated today. 67 Fellows have been exchanged within the consortium over the last 5 years Big Thanks to ALL our #MSCA #Fellows who made this possible. Some shared their amazing work at the meeting👏👁️🐟🔬💊🧫🧪🧬 #InvestEUResearch #H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Zebrafish are used to investigate the biology of vision to aid understanding of eye diseases, drug delivery & cancer. Alicia Gómez and Yolanda Alvarez explore a new method helping to assess visual activity in a more effective and affordable way. ➡️ bit.ly/3DJuijG

Co-authors of a new #MethodArticle introduce a more efficient and cost effective way of assessing optokinetic responses of Zebrafish, in turn aiding our understanding of vision and blindness in humans. Read the full interview: spr.ly/6018P5pjE Alicia Gómez