Lab News
December 2024
Huge congrats and many thanks to our team as we end the year on a high:
Eva Woods was awarded the Sarah Purser Medical Research Fund, and Meher Sabharwal and Eoin O'Connor jointly won the Barbara Ryan prize for best in JS Neuroscience.
Etain O'Meara who was awarded the Tom Connor Medal for best in SS Neuroscience and has continued pursuing ALS research in the Academic Unit of Neurology; Seamus O'Sullivan moved on to pursue research in Oxford to pursue research; and Abby Field was given a place on the graduate medicine program in Limerick. We are very proud of their achievements and wish them all the best in their new roles.
Narin Suleyman presented a preliminary analysis of her PhD data, and Roisin McMackin gave a talk at the 35th Annual MNDA Symposium in Montreal.
In collaboration with colleagues in the Academic Unit of Neurology and the HDAI, Eva Woods and Roisin McMackin successfully organized the first HD PPI Day.
Eva Woods' research was featured in HDAI's Hope and the Imaging Working Group's newsletters, and Narin Suleyman's research was featured in the IMNDA's Connect newsletter and in TCD's School of Medicine Annual Overview of Doctoral Research.
November 2024
Narin Suleyman spoke to people with ALS and their caregivers about her research at the second ALS PPI Day.
A warm welcome to Edoardo D'Agustino, who moved here from the University of Turin to complete his Master's thesis in bioengineering.
October 2024
Welcome to SS Neuroscience students Meher Sabharwal and Eoin O'Connor, who will be completing their undergraduate capstone projects with us.
Congratulations to Eva Woods, who recently took on a position as Director of Women in Research Ireland.
September 2024
Narin Suleyman, Eva Woods, Seamus O'Sullivan and Roisin McMackin attended the BrainBox Initiative's 2024 conference in London and presented some of their work on EEG in ALS and TMS in Huntington's Disease.
Eva Woods presented her poster on neuroimaging and TMS in Huntington's Disease at the EHDN conference in Strasbourg.
August 2024
Congratulations to summer research students Meher Sabharwal of the BA Neuroscience and Peace Onakoya of the BSc. Human Health and Disease on the succesful completion of their summer research projects. We look forward to seeing what they do next!
Congratulations to Karen Muthiah on the successful completion of her master's thesis! We wish her the best of luck in the next chapter of her career.
July 2024
Our HD Research Day is in Trinity School of Medicine's Pulse magazine! Check it out here.
Congratulations to Claudia Miret Esque on the successful completion of her undergraduate thesis!
June 2024
PhD Students Eva Woods and Narin Suleyman attended the MND Global Awareness Day Event by the IMNDA at Salesforce, presenting some of their research on MND/ALS.
PhD Student Eva Woods presented some of her Huntington's Disease research to children at a Soapbox Science event in Dublin.
Thanks to UG Erasmus student Claudia Miret Esque for her valuable contributions to our lab and congratulations on the successful completion of her capstone project. We wish her the best of luck on the next chapter of her career
May 2024
Join us for HD Awareness Day at Trinity College Dublin on 21 May, for a day of talks from researchers and clinicians in Huntington's Disease.
Congratulations to Narin Suleyman for winning the Derry and Phyllis Kelleher Travel Fellowship from Trinity College Dublin. The Fellowship enables medical graduates who are pursuing clinical research careers to travel abroad to enhance their research experience.
Congratulations to final-year PG Medicine Student Yasmine Tadjine, who will be re-joining our lab in July to complete her Academic Track research. We are very excited to have her back on board.
April 2024
Thanks to UG students Abby Field, Faye Keenan, Séamus O'Sullivan, and Etain O'Meara, for their valuable contributions to our lab and congratulations on the successful completion of their capstone projects. We wish them the best of luck on the next chapter of their careers.
March 2024
PhD Students Eva Woods and Narin Suleyman were selected, along with 13 other women from a diverse array of fields, to present their research at the Women in Research Ireland Research Showcase 2024. Congrats to Eva Woods for winning Best Presentation!
Huge congrats to Eva Woods whose paper Accelerating P300-based neurofeedback training for attention enhancement using iterative learning control: a randomised controlled trial just got published in the Journal of Neural Engineering. Eva co-authored this paper while working on Brain-Computer Interfaces under the supervision of Prof Tomás Ward and Prof John V. Ringwood as an undergrad at Maynooth University.
February 2024
Welcome to Claudia Miret Esque! Claudia is an Erasmus student from Spain, who will work on ERP analysis of SART and MMN data as part of her capstone project.
November 2023
A warm welcome to BA Human Health and Disease student Abby Field and BA Physiology student Faye Keenan who will be completing their capstone projects with us. Abby will use EEG to analyse how depression and anxiety affect theory of mind. Faye's project will focus on the effects of audiovisual stimuli on TMS.
October 2023
A warm welcome to our new lab members! Karen Muthiah (MSc. Biomedical Engineering) will be analysing MRI data in healthy volunteers. BA Neuroscience students Séamus O'Sullivan and Etain O'Meara will complete their capstone projects with us, analysing data from an EEG language task and investigating the effects of medication on event-related potentials in Multiple Sclerosis, respectively.
August 2023
Huge congratulations to Dr Roisin McMackin for receiving the Neuroscience Ireland Early Career Investigator Award and to Yasmine Tadjine for successfully presenting her work on "The effects of background audiovisual processing on the TMS measures of coritical excitability for biomarker research in ALS" at the Neuroscience Ireland Conference 2023.
Congratulations to Dr Roisin McMackin on receiving a grant from The ALS Association! This grant will help us measure nervous system function of individuals with C9orf72 mutations but no ALS symptoms.
Congratulations to Eva Woods for receiving a travel bursary to attend the Autumn School at Ulster University in October! Eva will be attending the school from 24-28 October to learn more about Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Neuro-inspired AI.
June 2023
Congratulations to Séamus O'Sullivan for receiving an HRB Summer Student Scholarship! We are excited to have Séamus in our team this summer. Séamus is a third-year neuroscience student who will work with us to determine whether baseline EMG amplitude affects single- and paired-pulse TMS measures.