Delighted to present at the Tripartite Symposium on Farm Animal Production and Quality Qingdao Agricultural University, China in March 2024
New paper - this time in pedagogy. Click the link to see why it is critical that Animal Scientists become engaged players in One Health
Congratulations to Dr Susana Flores on successfully defending her PhD - smiles all round! 15th Aug 2022
 (June 2022)
​Congratulations to Alexia Tessier from France (University of Tours) who successfully defended her Masters on work she did in Ireland
10 week research visit from Dr Giovanna De Matteis from CREA, Italy started today with our group in UCD
New UCD MSc in Animal Science - great excitement to launch this in 2022. Internationally recognised discipline leaders, new content,  flexible and part-time learning options, what's not to love??
Congratulations Laura - another paper accepted in BMC genomics! April 26th 2022
Congratulations Dr Donnellan! Eimear just passed her viva. Thanks To Liz Ryan (UL) and John Bromfield (UoF) for doing the honours. 18/10/2021
Congratulations to Susana - An in vivo vitamin D supplementation trial now out!
Congratulations Cian - first paper published in Scientific Reports on Immune phenotyping!
Congratulations to Sanjay - final paper from his PhD published in JDS, 2021 (doi: 10.3168/jds.2021-20305). 7 papers and a review (just accepted in Frontiers) from his PhD, huge achievement, congrats!
Congratulations to Megan, not one, not two but three papers published in 2021 due to her work!
Click on link to see Kieran's talk at the USC School of Agriculture Seminar Series 2021 on harnessing host immunity in cattle
Two new Doctors in one day - huge congrats Dr Megan O' Brien and Dr Laura Parreno!! May 13th 2021. Two bright futures lie ahead. 

Massive thanks to Professor Dirk Werling from Royal Vet College and to Cliona O' Farrelly TCD. Also to Dr Sebastian Galuska Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology,, Dummerstorf and Dr Liz Ryan, UL. 
Congratulations to Tamsin for her paper accepted to Scientific Reports! Nov 2020. 
Congrats to Amy Brewer on her paper being accepted to scientific Reports! Oct 2020
Congratulations to Sanjay (again), another paper from his PhD in the University of Guelph accepted by BMC Genetics.
Congratulations to Sanjay, another paper from his PhD in the University of Guelph accepted by BMC Veterinary Research.
Congrats to Malena Boylan, did an undergraduate project in our laboratory and got her work published!

The Next Adventure Begins

Today (April 30th, 2020) is our last day in Teagasc, Grange. A massive thank you to all our friends and colleagues as we move into the next chapter in UCD.
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Congrats to Megan on her paper being accepted to VII. We had a lab lunch out to celebrate!
Congrats to Paul Kelly on his methods paper being accepted by Veterinary Research Communications - a lovely paper for future reference. 
Congratulations to Nick - well done on defending your PhD!Dec 10th 2019.
Congrats to Sanjay - successfully defended his PhD in the University of Guelph! And on Thanksgiving too - Nov 2019.
Scientific collaboration trip to Boston 2019
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Science week 2019 - We organised a primary school event, a secondary school event and a public seminar which was chaired by Minister Helen McEntee. All went off well, even the native Irish trees from Coillte helped us do our part for climate action!
08/10/2019

​What an amazing site that Devenish have bought in Dowth. I was delighted to be hosted by Dr Eva Lewis and Dr Emma McDonald for a meeting which included a guided tour of the newly discovered 5,500 year old burial grounds on the site! Amazing. 
Not every day that you meet someone who has created flu-resistant chickens! Great to meet Prof Helen Sang @roslininstitute at the #avtrw_ire in @teagasc ​
What a great visit we had to INRA in September 2019.

Thanks to Dr Sabine Riffault, Director of Research in INRA - lots of common interestes to develop in innate immunity phenotypes.
What a fabulous trip to the world famous Pasteur Institute in Paris where we talked about human and bovine immunology. July 2019. 
Latest paper published on serum protein profiling in cows with endometritis! 
Latest paper accepted in BMC genomics - transcriptomics analysis of the salivary gland. Great insights into how we might boost immunity in the oral cavity! Well done Sanjay.
Congrats to Paul Kelly - his paper has been accepted in Frontiers in Immunology!
Defensins and the microbiome review now published in Frontiers in Immunology!!
Congrats to Dr Brewer - our latest graduate!
Happy 2019!
Happy Christmas to all our students and collaborators - thank-you for your hard work during 2018 and here is to even greater progress in 2019!!
Dec 12th 2018

Kieran gave talk in Roslin, Edinburgh.

What an amazing place - such a concentration of animal scientists in Royal (Dick) Uni, Roslin and SRUC
B-defensin review accepted in Frontiers in Immunology!!! title: B-defensins: farming the microbiome for homeostasis and health

Upcoming vivas: Good luck to Amy Brewer who defends her thesis soon.

Congratulations to Paul Kelly and Tamsin lyons - two more Doctors!!!
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New lab member: Welcome to our new postdoc - Sajad Bhat.

Megan goes global:

Congratulations to Megan who secured a travel bursary to spend a period working in Tennessee visiting the lab of Dr Gina Pigetti (University of Tennessee, USA) until December 2018