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October 2025
October 2025
Keyes group collaborated on a paper published this month, "Spatial N-glycan rearrangement on α5β1 integrin nucleates galectin-3 oligomers to determine endocytic fate" by Massiullah Shafaq-Zadah et al
The study led by Prof Ludger Johannes was published in Nature Communications this month and sheds new light into the mechanisms of recognition of N-glycans at integrin by galectin 3 which plays a role in integrin endocytosis.
October 2025
October 2025
Keyes Group Members, Past and Present at the Irish Biological Inorganic Chemistry Society Symposium, NUIM, 31st Oct.
September 2025
September 2025
Keyes Group publication
"Visualizing stress granule dynamics with an RNA guanine quadruplex targeted ruthenium(ii) peptide conjugate, Rhianne C. Curley, Lorcan Holden and Tia E. Keyes,
features as a front cover in RSC Chemical Biology
Funding: Research Ireland, IPIC, and EPSRC-CDT
September 2025
September 2025
Congratulations to Vi Ly who won first place, along with her team, in the INSIGHT AI Training Week on Constraint Programming in UCC
Funding: Research Ireland INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics & CRT AI
July 2025
July 2025
Keyes Group Members attended the UK & Ireland Early Career Blood-Brain Barrier Symposium 2025 on 17th July 2025 at Trinity College Dublin.
Top: Nirod Kumar Sarangi, bottom; Subrata Mondal who presented a flash presentation on the Memsense amyloid aggregation model
Funding: Research Ireland Insight Centre for Data Analytics & Neuroinsight.
June 2025
June 2025
Keyes Group Members presented at 76th Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquium 16th & 17th June 2025 at Maynooth University Department of Chemistry;
Left, Colm Smith presented a poster on his work and RightRyan Madden a poster and flash presentation.
June 2025
June 2025
Collaborative Keyes group publication; “Rational Design of Polymeric Core Shell Ratiometric Oxygen-Sensing Nanostructures,” Aisling Byrne, Jaco Jacobs, Christopher S. Burke, Aaron Martin, Andreas Heise, and Tia E Keyes, Analyst 2017, 142, 3400 will feature again in the 11th edition of the core analytical chemistry textbook "Quantitative Chemical Analysis tenth addition by Daniel C Harris & Charles A Lucy", chapter 19, to be published in 2026.
MaY 2025
MaY 2025
Tia Keyes was guest speaker at DCU Chemistry Day, May 16th.
Thanks to postgraduate-association-chemistry for a great day!
MaY 2025
MaY 2025
Ryan Madden represented Keyes group as a judge at SciFest 2025 @ Dublin City University May 8th.
Ryan volunteered as a judge for projects from Gaelcholáiste where projects were presented in The Irish Language.
Dec 2024
Dec 2024
Many congratulations to Rhianne Curley who was successfully defended her PhD thesis "Charge transfer luminophores: theranostic probes of the cellular environment" on December 12th.
Rhiannes project was supported through The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage (PIADS) through Taighde Éireann (Science Foundation Ireland) and 18/EPSRC-CDT/3585 and 12/RC/2276_P2.
Dec 2024
Dec 2024
Congratulations to Rhianne Curley who was awarded the IBICS Postgraduate Gold Medal Award 2024. Rhianne gave her award seminar and received the medal from Prof Luca Ronconi at the 8th IBICS Symposium in UCC on December 6th.
Dec 2024
Dec 2024
Keyes group partcipated in IBICS Symposium in UCC on December 6th. Rhianne Curely and Ryan Madden (Left) gave presentations and Colm Smith presented a poster.
Sept 2024
Sept 2024
Rhianne Curley attended The ESACT Practical course on INTRODUCTION TO CELL BIOREACTOR PRODUCTION AND MONITORING: Application to protein & virus processes
Département Génie Biologique, IUT Lyon, France, 23rd to 27th Sept
Thanks to IPIC for funding
August 2024
August 2024
Keyes Group members; Tia Keyes, Nirod Kumar Sarangi and Subrata Mondal attended The Insight Scientific Plenary at UCD 27th August.
August 2024
August 2024
Congratulations to Lorcan Holden, who successfully defended his PhD Thesis on 22nd August entitled "Guanine Quadruplex Targeted Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Luminophores for Imaging and Therapeutics"
Lorcan's project was funded through Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship GOIPG/2019/2426 and Science Foundation Ireland [19/FFP/6428]
July 2024;
July 2024;
Keyes group latest paper published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition:
Holden, Curley et al; Targeting Mitochondrial Guanine Quadruplexes for Photoactivatable Chemotherapy in Normoxic and Hypoxic Environments
July 2024;
July 2024;
Members of Keyes group attended the 4th Frontiers in Photochemistry Conference, 10 - 13 July in Portugal. Ryan (top) and Rhianne (middle) presented their work, in oral and poster form and Tia (bottom) gave an invited lecture; Many thanks to the conference committee; Professors Claudia Turro, Sylvestre Bonnet and Elena Jakubikova for the invitation and for a great meeting.
July 2024;
July 2024;
Tia Keyes had the honor of giving an invited seminar at the 9th EuChemS Chemistry Congress IBICS mini-symposium July 9th at the Convention Centre in Dublin. Many thanks to Professor Celine Marmion (RCSI) for organizing the event, IBICS for the invitation and Professor John Kelly (TCD) for chairing.
June 2024;
June 2024;
Congratulations to Rhianne Curley on her double success this month;
Rhianne was awarded best student oral presentation at The second annual All-Ireland RNA Society Conference in Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, June 21st (left).
Rhianne was also awarded best oral presentation at the PIADS CRT Conclave Queens University Belfast for her seminar "Phototoxicity; using light to activate cancer therapy"
May 2024;
May 2024;
Congratulations to Ruben Arturo Arellano Reyes who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Synthesis and photophysical studies of BODIPY Sensitizers for for TTA-UC and cell imaging/phototherapy."
Ruben's project was funded through EU ITN Logiclab Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 813920.
May 2024;
May 2024;
Keyes group participation in Chemistry Day 2024 @ Dublin City University.
Ryan Madden, left and Rhianne Curley, right gave poster and oral presentations respectively.
Congratulations to Rhianne who was awarded Colin Barnes award for her presentation.
May 2024;
May 2024;
SciFest 2024 @ Dublin City University.
Tia was one of 45 judges evaluating the innovative projects of > 250 second level students at DCU on May 8th.
May 2024;
May 2024;
Ryan Madden Introduced undergraduate chemistry at DCU to transition year students at TY Open Day May 2nd.
april 2024;
april 2024;
Tia Keyes is very honored to be the 2024 recipient of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Boyle Higgins Gold Medal and Lecture Award.
Tia gave her award lecture and was presented with the Boyle Higgins medal by Professor Patrick Guiry (ICI President) at the ICI AGM event at UCD on 18th April.
March 2024;
March 2024;
Tia Keyes gave an invited presentation at XVI EUROPT(R)ODE 2024, chaired by Dr Ruchi Gupta, University of Birmingham, 24th-27th March
March 2024;
March 2024;
March 8th, Ryan Madden, left, gave an outreach presentation to 5th and 6th year chemistry students at Gaelcholáiste Reachrann, Donaghmede. Ryan spoke about his research and studying chemistry at DCU - As Gaeilge!
December 2023;
December 2023;
Keyes group attended The 7th Annual Symposium of the Irish Biological Inorganic Chemistry Society on Dec 16th in UCD.
Rhianne Curely (top) gave a presentation and Philip Morgenfurt (bottom) delivered a poster and flash presentation.
September 2023;
September 2023;
Rhianne Curely beside her entry to the "The Research on Walls" visual competition for DCU research students 27th Sept.
August 2023;
August 2023;
Joint group meeting/lunch with Machine Learning Group INSIGHT
July 2023;
July 2023;
25th International Symposium on the Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds; ySPPCC and ISPPCC 6th Universitat Ulm
Philip Morgenfurt delivered a seminar and poster, respectively, entitled "Ultrafast light switch properties of G-Quadruplex Probe"
June 2023;
June 2023;
ISABC23- 16th International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ioannina Greece 11th to 14th June .
Keyes Group had a strong presence at the meeting; Karmel Gkika (right), Meenaxi Saini, Lorcan Holden (left) and Rhianne Curely (bottom) all presented their work.
June 2023;
June 2023;
74th ICI Chemistry Colloquium at NUIG; June 14th and 15th.
Congratulations to Ryan Madden who was awarded the poster prize for his work "The synthesis, structural characterization and separation of two geometric isomers of a novel Ru(II) ‘switch-on’ theranostic probe"
June 2023;
June 2023;
Keyes group participation in The 74th ICI Chemistry Colloquium at NUIG; June 14th and 15th.
Ruben Arturo Arellano Reyes (left) gave a seminar on his PhD work, and Ryan Madden a poster at the meeting.
June 2023;
June 2023;
Tia Keyes gave an invited seminar at FASEB Meeting on Optical Probes, June 4th to 9th in Palm Springs, USA. (Thanks to Prof Phoebe Glazer for pic).
MAY 2023;
MAY 2023;
Keyes group participation at DCU Chemistry day; Ramu Vadde (right) presented a seminar, Lorcan Holden (mid) a flash presentation and Karmel Gikka, Rhianne Curley and Philip Morgenfurt presented posters: Congratulations to Rhianne (right) and Lorcan who were awarded prizes for their presentations.
May 2023;
May 2023;
Congratulations to Amrutha Prabhakaran who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Unravelling Triplet Triplet Annihilation Upconversion at Liposomes and Pore Suspended Biomembrane"
Amruthas project was funded through EU ITN Logiclab Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 813920.
May 2023;
May 2023;
Lorcan, Ryan and Rhianne attend the SuPer-Resolution time-resolved ImagiNg and speTroscopy (BBSRC SPRINT) Event at University of Strathclyde.
May 2023;
May 2023;
Keyes Group participated in a number of outreach actives this Month; Lorcan Holden demonstrated luminescence, flame tests and banana DNA extraction using household items (shown left) to 5th class students at St Pats Boys National School.
Tia Keyes participated as a judge at SciFest@College in DCU May 10th
Ryan Madden presented a series of seminars to transition year students on studying chemistry at DCU.
March 2023;
March 2023;
Dr Karmel Gkika presents an invited lecture at Women in STEMM Summit 2023 | Oxford | Dublin
Dr Karmel Gkika presents an invited lecture at Women in STEMM Summit 2023 | Oxford | Dublin
February 2023;
February 2023;
Tia Keyes presents invited lecture at Interaction Wins 2023
Tia Keyes presents invited lecture at Interaction Wins 2023
December 2022;
December 2022;
Keyes Group Members presented at the IBICS-6 Symposium; Philip Morgenfurt, Meenaxi Saini, Lorcan Holden, Karmel Gkika and Rhianne Curley.
Keyes Group Members presented at the IBICS-6 Symposium; Philip Morgenfurt, Meenaxi Saini, Lorcan Holden, Karmel Gkika and Rhianne Curley.
December 2022;
December 2022;
Keyes Group co-hosted IBIC-6 Irish Biological Inorganic Chemistry Society symposium at DCU on Dec 8th along with Pryce and Kellet groups. The organising committee are shown, thanks to all of the events sponsers; NCSR, RSC, Julabo, CURAM, SSPC, GPE, CSBC, Microbiology Society of Ireland, Institute of Chemistry of Ireland and Mason Technology.
Keyes Group co-hosted IBIC-6 Irish Biological Inorganic Chemistry Society symposium at DCU on Dec 8th along with Pryce and Kellet groups. The organising committee are shown, thanks to all of the events sponsers; NCSR, RSC, Julabo, CURAM, SSPC, GPE, CSBC, Microbiology Society of Ireland, Institute of Chemistry of Ireland and Mason Technology.
August 2022;
August 2022;
Tia and Rhianne presented Invited and Oral presentations at EuChemS2022 - Chemistry Congress Lisbon Portugal, August 29th to Sept 1st.
Tia and Rhianne presented Invited and Oral presentations at EuChemS2022 - Chemistry Congress Lisbon Portugal, August 29th to Sept 1st.
July 2022;
July 2022;
Ruben and Amrutha presenting their posters at the MSMLG 22 Conference, Dublin 12-15th July
Ruben and Amrutha presenting their posters at the MSMLG 22 Conference, Dublin 12-15th July
July 2022;
July 2022;
Ruben Arturo Arellano Reyes presented his work at the 5th International Caparica Conference on Chromogenic and Emissive Materials, 4th – 7th July 2022, in Portugal
Ruben Arturo Arellano Reyes presented his work at the 5th International Caparica Conference on Chromogenic and Emissive Materials, 4th – 7th July 2022, in Portugal
July 2022;
July 2022;
Keyes group member participation in the British Biophysical Society Biennial Meeting: from Molecular Machines to Materials, 29 June - 01 July 2022 Top Left and Right; Nirod Sarangi Kumar and Arpita Roy respectively, presented posters and Bottom; Amrutha Prabhakaran gave an oral presentation at the meeting.
Keyes group member participation in the British Biophysical Society Biennial Meeting: from Molecular Machines to Materials, 29 June - 01 July 2022 Top Left and Right; Nirod Sarangi Kumar and Arpita Roy respectively, presented posters and Bottom; Amrutha Prabhakaran gave an oral presentation at the meeting.
June 2022;
June 2022;
The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage Conclave 22; Rhianne Curely presented a poster at Conclave 22 at University of Glasgow June 21/22nd
The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage Conclave 22; Rhianne Curely presented a poster at Conclave 22 at University of Glasgow June 21/22nd
June 2022;
June 2022;
Lorcan Holdan Presented his work at The Gordon Research Conference; Metals in Medicine-Advancing the Use of Metal-Based Compounds and Nanotheranostics for Personalized Medicine June 26 - July 1, 2022, Andover US.
Lorcan Holdan Presented his work at The Gordon Research Conference; Metals in Medicine-Advancing the Use of Metal-Based Compounds and Nanotheranostics for Personalized Medicine June 26 - July 1, 2022, Andover US.
June 2022;
June 2022;
NCSR Research Day 16th June; Congratulations to Dr Karmel Gkika (centre) who received one of two NCSR Diamond Researcher of the Year Award at the event.
NCSR Research Day 16th June; Congratulations to Dr Karmel Gkika (centre) who received one of two NCSR Diamond Researcher of the Year Award at the event.
June 2022;
June 2022;
ICI Chemistry Colloquium at UCD 2022; David Cullinane presented his work on Novel Luminescent Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes for Cell Imaging & Therapeutics
ICI Chemistry Colloquium at UCD 2022; David Cullinane presented his work on Novel Luminescent Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes for Cell Imaging & Therapeutics
May 2022;
May 2022;
WEAVE Outreach Event; Keyes Group members participated in a WEAVE workshop through IPIC for Primary school students at DCU, St Patricks College Campus, on 25th May. From Left; Dr Karmel Gkika, Ruben Arturo Arellano Reyes, Amrutha Prabhakaran and Lorcan Holden.
WEAVE Outreach Event; Keyes Group members participated in a WEAVE workshop through IPIC for Primary school students at DCU, St Patricks College Campus, on 25th May. From Left; Dr Karmel Gkika, Ruben Arturo Arellano Reyes, Amrutha Prabhakaran and Lorcan Holden.
May 2022;
May 2022;
Photonics 4 Disruptive Innovation Workshop May 19th; Keyes Group Members; Dr Arpita Roy, (left) and Rhianne Curley, (right) presented posters at the IPIC Industry event in UCC.
Photonics 4 Disruptive Innovation Workshop May 19th; Keyes Group Members; Dr Arpita Roy, (left) and Rhianne Curley, (right) presented posters at the IPIC Industry event in UCC.
May 2022;
May 2022;
Outreach Actives; May 2022, Lorcan Holden Giving a Chemistry Demonstration to Portmarnock Girl Guides, Dublin.
Outreach Actives; May 2022, Lorcan Holden Giving a Chemistry Demonstration to Portmarnock Girl Guides, Dublin.
April 2022;
April 2022;
Chemistry Day DCU April 29th; Well done to Dr Nirod Sarangi (left), who gave an oral presentation and Ruben Arturo Arellano Reyes and Rhianne Curley who Presented Posters at the meeting.
Chemistry Day DCU April 29th; Well done to Dr Nirod Sarangi (left), who gave an oral presentation and Ruben Arturo Arellano Reyes and Rhianne Curley who Presented Posters at the meeting.
Congratulations to Rhianne who was awarded the poster prize.
Congratulations to Rhianne who was awarded the poster prize.
April 2022;
April 2022;
Congratulations to Jack Robinson, who successfully defended his PhD in viva voce on April 27th; "Microcavity Array Supported Lipid Bilayers Biomimetic Platform for Study of Membrane Associating Proteins and Membrane-Protein Aggregation"
Congratulations to Jack Robinson, who successfully defended his PhD in viva voce on April 27th; "Microcavity Array Supported Lipid Bilayers Biomimetic Platform for Study of Membrane Associating Proteins and Membrane-Protein Aggregation"
Jacks Research was funded through the SFI Investigator Programme (19/FFP/6428).
Jacks Research was funded through the SFI Investigator Programme (19/FFP/6428).
April 2022
April 2022
Keyes Group Participation
in The MSI/SMS Joint Symposium at NUIG 2022
Keyes Group Participation
in The MSI/SMS Joint Symposium at NUIG 2022
At the first in-person conference the group have participated since March 2020,
Dr Nirod Kumar Sarangi, right, gave an oral presentation "Microcavity array supported lipid bilayer model for visualizing lipid-protein and lipid-drug interactions"
and
Rhianne Curley, left, presented a poster entitled "The uptake and toxicity of Ru(II) polypyridyl peptide conjugates in cancer and non-cancer cell lines"
January 2022
January 2022
Take a look at this lovely animated video explaining upconversion and the work of ITN Network LogicLab http://www.logiclab-itn.eu
Take a look at this lovely animated video explaining upconversion and the work of ITN Network LogicLab http://www.logiclab-itn.eu
https://youtu.be/C3_uOcFwdUs
https://youtu.be/C3_uOcFwdUs
November 2021
November 2021
Rhianne Curley presented a flash presentation entitled "The Uptake and Efflux of a Ru(II) Polypyridyl Peptide Conjugates at Cancer and non-Cancer cell lines at IBICS-5 symposium run through Maynooth University on 26th November
Rhianne Curley presented a flash presentation entitled "The Uptake and Efflux of a Ru(II) Polypyridyl Peptide Conjugates at Cancer and non-Cancer cell lines at IBICS-5 symposium run through Maynooth University on 26th November
November 2021
November 2021
Amrutha and Ruben, presented a joint Seminar at the Symposium on Molecular Biosensing; From Theory to Practise
Amrutha and Ruben, presented a joint Seminar at the Symposium on Molecular Biosensing; From Theory to Practise
November 17th to 19th 2021;
November 17th to 19th 2021;
The PhD Students, from Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Logic Lab, have organised an exciting multidisciplinary symposium on Molecular Biosensing;
The PhD Students, from Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Logic Lab, have organised an exciting multidisciplinary symposium on Molecular Biosensing;
september 2021;
september 2021;
Ruben Arturo Arellano Reyes was awarded the prize in the best non-native speaker category in the French Embassy in Ireland competition MT180 (My Thesis in 180 seconds) for his presentation "Des Ordinateurs Moleculaires, le Futur du Diagnostic" (Molecular Computers, The Future of Diagnostics)" - Well done Ruben!
Ruben Arturo Arellano Reyes was awarded the prize in the best non-native speaker category in the French Embassy in Ireland competition MT180 (My Thesis in 180 seconds) for his presentation "Des Ordinateurs Moleculaires, le Futur du Diagnostic" (Molecular Computers, The Future of Diagnostics)" - Well done Ruben!
August 2021;
August 2021;
Congratulations to Karmel Gkika, who successfully defended her PhD in viva voce on August 10th; Tailoring Ru(II) and Os(II) Luminophores to their application: from bioimaging and sensing to cytotoxic tools.
Congratulations to Karmel Gkika, who successfully defended her PhD in viva voce on August 10th; Tailoring Ru(II) and Os(II) Luminophores to their application: from bioimaging and sensing to cytotoxic tools.
Funded by Irish Research Council, Postgraduate Fellowship.
Funded by Irish Research Council, Postgraduate Fellowship.
June 2021
June 2021
Congratulations to Guilherme Berselli, who successfully defended his PhD in viva voce on June 22nd ; Versatile Cell Membrane Models: Biomimetic Suspended Lipid Bilayers designed for protein/DNA membrane dynamics and detection. Funded under SFI Investigator Programme: 19/FFP/6428
Congratulations to Guilherme Berselli, who successfully defended his PhD in viva voce on June 22nd ; Versatile Cell Membrane Models: Biomimetic Suspended Lipid Bilayers designed for protein/DNA membrane dynamics and detection. Funded under SFI Investigator Programme: 19/FFP/6428
June 2021;
June 2021;
Congratulations to Shane Maguire, who successfully completed his MSc (Res) Thesis; Biomimetic models – The Support of Cell Membranes on Microcavity Arrays
Congratulations to Shane Maguire, who successfully completed his MSc (Res) Thesis; Biomimetic models – The Support of Cell Membranes on Microcavity Arrays
Funded under SFI Centres Programme, CURAM.
Funded under SFI Centres Programme, CURAM.
June 2021;
June 2021;
DCU 6th Annual Chemistry Day:
DCU 6th Annual Chemistry Day:
Lorcan Holden (left) and John O Sullivan, (right) presented seminars at DCU chemistry day, June 4th
May 2021; INORGANIC IRELAND SYMPOSIUM 2021
May 2021; INORGANIC IRELAND SYMPOSIUM 2021
Karmel Gkika presented a seminar entitiled "Osmium(II) Bridged Polyarginine Conjugates: From 2D Cell Imaging to indepth Penetration of 3D Multicellular Tumor Spheroid" at Inorganic Ireland Symposium 14th May, run virtually by NUIG.
February 2021; Small
February 2021; Small
Kiang Wei Kho et al ; New paper out this month describing the application of Memsense in a nanophotonic biophysical assay used to model endosome escape of oligonucleotide from delivery vector.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/smll.202005815
Education & Outreach- January 2021
Education & Outreach- January 2021
Congratulations to Rhianne Curley who was winner of the best "EPE at Home" Demonstration at The PIADs Winter School.
Rhiannes winning video entry, shown on the left was a home made lava lamp made using water beads, tonic water and Alka-Seltzer tablets.
Keyes Group Member Presentations at IBICS-4 symposium
Keyes Group Member Presentations at IBICS-4 symposium
Amrutha Prabhakaran
Amrutha Prabhakaran
Karmel Gkika
Karmel Gkika
Congratulations to Karmel who received "Highly Commended" for her nomination for IBICS Postgraduate Gold Medal Award 2020
Cork Discovers 'Researcher Heroes'
Cork Discovers 'Researcher Heroes'
Rhianne Curely featured on Research Heroes an outreach video for Science Week created by Cork Discovers;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiPxrrVsc8Q
Journal Front Cover
Journal Front Cover
The Impact of Membrane Composition and Co‐Drug Synergistic Effects on Vancomycin Association with Model Membranes from Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Sarangi et al
Featured as a front cover of ChemElectroChem
September 2020
September 2020
Keyes Group Speakers at Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Postgraduate Chemistry Research Symposium, 9th Sept
Amrutha Prabhakaran
Amrutha Prabhakaran
John O'Sullivan
John O'Sullivan
June 2020
June 2020
Keyes Group Speakers at DCU Chemistry Day; On Zoom
Guilherme Berselli
Guilherme Berselli
Biomolecular machine using microcavities supported lipid bilayers
Karmel Gkika
Karmel Gkika
Ru(II)/ BODIPY ratiometric oxygen-sensing nanotools
Congratulations to Karmel who won "The Colin Barnes Postgraduate Award"
March 2020
March 2020
The 2nd LogicLab Network Meeting hosted at DCU
March 2020
March 2020
Congratulations to Aurelien Gimenez who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Development of a micro and nano-cavity microfluidic-SERS platform"
December 2019
December 2019
Congratulations to Agata Steplewska who successfully completed her PhD thesis entitled "Plasmonic Assay for Molecular-Lipid Membrane Binding, Permeation and Dynamics of Permeation"
December 2019
December 2019
Our work on Mitochondrial Targeting Osmium (II) Polypyridyyl Peptide Conjugates has featured as Front Cover of Dalton Transactions;
Gkika et al; Dalton Transactions, 2019, 48, 17461 - 17471
August 2019
August 2019
Congratulations to Darragh O Connor who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Fluorescent Probes for Lipid Droplet and Lipid membrane in cells and models"
July 2019
July 2019
Congratulations to Aisling Byrne awarded a prize for her flash presentation at the The 23rd International Symposium on the Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds, Hong Kong.
May 2019
May 2019
Congratulations to Darragh O'Connor (Middle) who was Awarded Best Poster at The Institute of Chemistry of Ireland’s 44th Annual Congress at Maynooth University
May 2019
May 2019
Congratulations to Karmel Gkika who was Awarded Best Poster at DCU Chemistry day
Dr Kiang Wei Kho and Dr Chris Burke speakers at DCU Chemistry day
We are delighted to be participating in MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORK: Logic Lab which commenced 2019.
NanoArt
NanoArt
IEEE NanoArt competition winner, Aurélien Gimenez's image of nanoarrays was exhibited at Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the Crawford/CIT gallery in Cork
April 2018; Congratulations to Darragh O Connor (second on right) who was awarded the best poster prize at the MSI symposium in Sligo
June 2018: Congratulations to Dr Chris Burke (middle) who was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the Medicinal Chemistry Ireland Meeting held at DCU
July 2018: Congratulations to Aurélien Gimenez awarded the "best student poster contribution" at the IEEE Nano 2018 conference in UCC, Cork.
November 2018: Congratulations to David Cullinane (far right) awarded the "Best Poster Award" at the 2nd Symposium of the Irish Biological Inorganic Chemistry Society (IBICS), NUIG.
Keyes Group, Dec 2017
Keyes Group, Dec 2017
Keyes Group, Dec 2019
Keyes Group, Dec 2019
Christmas dinner 2019
June 2021;
June 2021;
Congratulations to Guilherme Berselli, who successfully defended his PhD on June 22nd; Versatile Cell Membrane Models: Biomimetic Suspended Lipid Bilayers designed for protein/DNA membrane dynamics and detection
Congratulations to Guilherme Berselli, who successfully defended his PhD on June 22nd; Versatile Cell Membrane Models: Biomimetic Suspended Lipid Bilayers designed for protein/DNA membrane dynamics and detection
Guilhermes research
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