Celebrating Evelyn Doyle on her last #SBES School meeting as Head of School! Thanks for your leadership and support over the last 5 years! UCD Science

We were very lucky to have Evelyn Doyle as head of school. She led us through Covid AND the move to a different building, and despite these and other challenges of last few years Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc is still a great place to work😊 thanks Evelyn!!

Nice view of the old Science West building today

New major version of SPAdes - very exciting! github.com/ablab/spades Unicycler isn't under active development anymore (as you can see from all the unanswered issues 😢), but I did just push a quick fix to make it work with SPAdes v4: github.com/rrwick/Unicycl…

🌍 Exciting news! Our new #EarthComment series, providing expert comment, opinion + explainers on environmental, climate + sustainability issues 🌊 First up: Dr Grace Cott Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc on saltmarshes as major ally in mitigating + adapting to climate change ucd.ie/earth/comment/…

with Ryan Cook we have updated the list of complete phage genomes we can find in Genbank . millardlab.org/home/bacteriop… for the month

Some weekend reading…great to see GROND, our new database for long-read amplicon sequencing of the ribosomal operon, is out. Congrats ⁦Calum Walsh 🇮🇪🇦🇺⁩ ⁦Meghana Srinivas⁩ ⁦DvS Research Group⁩ ⁦Paul Cotter⁩ ⁦Tim Stinear⁩ ⁦⁦ microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Great to see this finally published! GROND is a new 16S-ITS-23S rRNA database that will allow the full potential of long read sequencing be applied to amplicon-based metataxonomics

Registration is open for the ⁦Microbiology Society⁩ Annual Irish Meeting. A great speaker line up and very supportive of ECRs ⁦Nicky O'Boyle⁩ ⁦⁦Dr Kate Reddington⁩ Guerrino Macori⁩ ⁦Aoife Mulry⁩ Teagasc Food Research Programme⁩ ⁦⁦APC Microbiome Ireland⁩ microbiologysociety.org/event/full-eve…

If you are a microbiologist or have an interest in microbes, please spend 10 minutes of your time to share with us some information! You have time until the end of August to fill this form: forms.gle/v3NBs7YtGbDJYf… Thank you!! #microbialdiversity #taxonomy #ECCOmeeting2024

Does your work deal with microbes? What's your view on microbial biodiversity and taxonomy? Please complete the survey prepared by the Scientific Committe of ECCO XLII Meeting eccomeeting2024.org: until end of August forms.gle/v3NBs7YtGbDJYf… PLS retweet

Job Opportunity 22-Month Research Scientist Position at UCD working on phenotypic and genotypic techniques to enhance our understanding of bacterial communities using sequencing shorturl.at/qQwpm #JobOpportunity #ResearchScientist #DNASequencing #Microbiology #ResearchJobs

Nice to be back running 🏃 at parkrun Ireland Brickfields parkrun! 🐾🌳 #Parkrun #Running #Dublin #BrickfieldsPark #WeekendVibes

Kick off of 10th year of our MSc programme in Biological and Biomolecular science! Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc

Following the live stream of the BSc Degree (Hons) conferral ceremony! 📺 Such a proud moment for all the graduates. Inspiring speech by the former Head of School Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc 🎓 Prof Evelyn Doyle Evelyn Doyle Watch it live here: vimeo.com/event/4526777# #Graduation #UCDScience

Beautiful Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc Annual Medal Award Ceremony today celebrating students who have excelled in their undergraduate studies! 🏅✨ Congratulations to all the #futurescientists awarded by head of subject Prof Carl KY Ng, Baars, Stewart, Yearsley Rainer Melzer #UCD

It’s only 8 and the science building at University College Dublin is very busy on the first day of the academic year! Best of luck to all the students. Welcome also to the #BBNL MSc from Ireland and all over the world. Excited to see what you’ll achieve! 🌍📚Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc

Recovery of 1559 metagenome-assembled genomes from the East China Sea’s low-oxygen region nature.com/articles/s4159…

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Are you living in Ireland? Interested in chemical exposures? Our chemical awareness survey takes approx. 10 minutes to complete, and it helps us prioritise chemicals of concern for assessment. Closing next week, the 25th Sep! #survey #chemicals #Ireland #exposurescience