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The winner of Threesis 2019 as well as securing the Audience Winner prize was Sam Afoullouss with his bite-sized talk ‘Ireland’s Deep Sea Pharmacy’.

Sam is a PhD candidate in the School of Chemistry and School of Natural Science, working together with both the Ryan Institute and Marine Institute. Sam’s research focuses on discovering new medicines derived from marine organisms. In particular, he studies sponges and corals from the Irish Deep-Sea, located off the west coast of Ireland, at a depth of 2 km. His research is funded by Science Foundation Ireland.

 

 

In second place was Ríona Walsh, with her talk ‘Into the Woods: Can Woodland Creatures Protect us from Lyme Disease?’ 

Ríona is a PhD candidate in the School of Natural Sciences. Her research is transdisciplinary research on Lyme disease in Ireland, investigating the ecology, epidemiology, and awareness of this disease. Her work is funded by the School of Natural Sciences scholarship.

 

 

Securing third place from the judges was Tianming Yao with his talk ‘Shaking off Romantic Shackles’.

Tianming is PhD student in the School of Political Science and Sociology. His research topic is the media construction of sexuality. His research investigates how our bodies and emotions have been regulated and controlled by social structure, and explores the underlying power transition behind the changing media construction of sexuality.

 

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Our 2018 winner was James Blackwell, with his talk "Finding brain tumours using ultrasound"

James went on to represent NUI Galway in Famelab in 2019.

See James deliver his talk in this video.

The 2018 competition consisted of quick-fire presentations, with NUI Galway researchers presenting three slides, in three minutes, to three judges. The competitors had come through a series of heats already held on campus, to take on the final challenge at a public event in the O'Donoghue Theatre.

Watch our highlights video and read more about the grand finale here.

 

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In 2016, Threesis was won by Bárbara Oliveira, for her presentation on using microwave breast imaging to enable more accessible and affordable cancer screening.

Bárbara went on to become a runner-up Thesis-in-3, and a finalist in ResearchFest 2017.

See Bárbara in action in this video.

The 2016 competition consisted of quick-fire presentations, with NUI Galway researchers presenting three slides, in three minutes, to three judges. The competitors had come through a series of heats already held on campus, to take on the final challenge at a public event in An Taibhdhearc.

Watch our recap video here and read about the 2016 competition here.