TOMORROW’S WORLD
Molecular Biology Laboratory in
Heidelberg, who uses computer simulations
Get that computer out of here
to examine biological systems such as If you have ever wished that your computer would just
dividing cells. disappear, you are not alone. A group of UCD scientists
are working on the task. “The ‘disappearing computer’
UCD academics awarded by concept is about making the computer respond to all
national bodies the normal things you do, making it natural and
Academic recognitions don’t come higher intuitive,” says Professor Paddy Nixon of the Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC).
in Ireland than awards from the Royal Irish Using sensors to boost interactivity, his team is developing useful applications such as
Academy (RIA). Last year several UCD a glove that can help people with memory loss carry out day-to-day tasks and a hand-
researchers were honoured. held navigation device that glows in the direction you need to go.
For his work on the Boyne Valley and his
contribution to Irish archaeology, the RIA
awarded its gold medal in the humanities
to Professor George Eogan, Emeritus
Professor of Celtic Archaeology at UCD.
Three other researchers were awarded
membership of the academy for their
outstanding contributions: Professor
Desmond O’Higgins, UCD’s Professor of
Bioinformatics and the most cited computer
scientist in the world; Associate Professor
Jennifer Todd, expert in the politics and
processes of conflict and change; and
neuropharmacologist Professor Ciaran
Regan, who has made globally recognised
Looking at research
to look across a body of work in a
If a picture paints a thousand words,
different way,” says Dr Aoibheann
contributions to the molecular processes
then the recent Images of Research
Gibbons, chair of the judging panel.
that underpin memory.
competition proves UCD researchers
The winning entry, from PhD
Professor Regan also received the
have plenty to say. Over 600 entries
candidate, Maria Cederlund, shows a
inaugural Enterprise Ireland Lifescience &
from the sciences, engineering,
pair of 28-hour-old zebrafish embryos
Food Commercialisation Award for his work
humanities, arts and business were
(above, left). The dark stripes down
in linking academic research with industry submitted, representing aspects of their backs show where a gene involved
and commercialising discoveries about researchers’ work.
in brain and eye development has been
potential new therapies for brain
“It has given people an opportunity
switched on.
www.ucd.ie/research.
conditions and obesity.
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