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Summer Internships Winners

Summer Scholarships Winners

Congratulations to Aishling Gallagher, Anna Larkin, Diarmuid Dolan, Cillian Gilroy and Liam Jordan who have been successful in their Summer Internship bursary applications in the School of Biological & Chemical Sciences for Summer 2024.

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Previous Winners

2023 Summer Internship Winners

See what our 2022 summer internship winners had to say about their research!

Saleem

Saleem Waleed |   School of Biological and Chemical Sciences - Chemistry

I have looked at the Synthesis of Diazosalicylic acid-based Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOF) for Multi-Drug Delivery in the Treatment of MDR Tuberculosis. Once MOFs were synthesized, we looked at drug uptake by the MOF and release of drugs in buffer solution simulating human blood.
Paris

Paris Kovi Weavers |   School of Biological and Chemical Sciences - Biochemistry

‘My summer research project involves the use of fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) to validate cell types for an upcoming publication on a novel Cnidarian single cell atlas for the species Hydractinia Symbiolongicarpus. Using marker genes for bioinformatically predicted cell clusters, I aim to fluorescently hybridise the mRNA to confirm that these predicted cell types do indeed comprise distinct cell populations within the animal.’
Oisin

Oisin Dolan |   School of Biological and Chemical Sciences

Development of tools to monitor rDNA transcription in live human cells would represent a major advance. Fluorescent RNAs (FRs), aptamers that bind and activate fluorescent dyes, have the potential to fulfil this goal. Recently, Peppers, a series of monomeric, bright and stable FRs have been described. The McStay lab has constructed a series of plasmids in which Pepper (FRs) have been incorporated into rDNA. The aim of my project is to test these plasmids both in vitro and in vivo. In vitro experiments will be performed in Hela cell nuclear extracts that support transcription by RNA polymerase I. In vivo experiments will involve introduction of plasmids into human cells by electroporation. Should these pilot experiments work as expected, the ultimate aim would be to exploit powerful genome editing technologies to incorporate Pepper FRs into endogenous human rDNA arrays.