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Friday Feeling Seminar
SNS Friday Feeling Science Seminars 2023
Professor Alan Ryder is organising a seminar series for Friday afternoons here at the University of Galway as part of hte School of Natural Sciences. The goal is to bring SNS researchers and the wider community together and showcase the great science here in the University. The format will be principal investigators delivering a keynote talk about their research with some of their lab members also contributing talks. The topics will rotate around Physics, Earth & Ocean Sciences, and Biological Sciences (thre three constituent disciplines in SNS). We will be covering everything from parasites and rocks, to medical devices and drug manufacture....so something for everyone. The preliminary schedule is as follows:
Date |
Topic |
Speaker(s) |
| 13/01/2023 | MS Teams Masterclass/Workshop | Prof. Alan Ryder (Physics) |
| 20/01/2023 | MRI Applied to Alzheimer's disease, sleep glymphatics and neurodegeneration | Dr. Niall Colgan (Physics) |
| 27/01/2023 | Parasites in my Blood | Prof. John Dalton (Zoology) |
| 03/02/2023 | Soil to Life: Remote Sensing the Critical Zone | Dr. Eve Daly (EOS) |
| 10/02/2023 | Spineless beasts, and why I study them. | Dr. Christopher J. Coates (Zoology) |
| 17/02/2023 | “The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall… “: how the university has taken the lead in shallow geothermal use in Ireland. | Dr. Tiernan Henry (EOS) |
| 24/02/2023 | Burying my head in the sand: Researching the origins of sediment. | Dr. Shane Tyrrell (EOS) |
| 03/03/2023 | ‘The Galway Venom System Lab: Seven years of research on the Noble false widow spider’ | Dr. Michel Dugon (Zoology) |
| 10/03/23 | ‘Time, stings, and longevity: The macroecology of time perception, venom potency and animal life history strategies.' | Dr. Kevin Healy (Zoology) |
| 24/03/23 | ‘Ultrashort laser pulses: Reimagining applications for laser material interactions.’ | Prof. Ger O'Connor (Physics) |
| 31/03/2023 | Polarized fluorescence for protein analysis: the multidimensional approach to fast analytics. | Prof. Alan Ryder (Physics) |
Venue: Larmor Lecture Theatre, Arts/Science Concourse
Time: 3pm every Friday
