School of Chemistry – Byrne Research Group

23 January, 202322 May, 2024 Joe news, Team

Joe moves to UCD as Lecturer in Bioinorganic Chemistry

In January 2023, Joe joined the Faculty of UCD School of Chemistry as Lecturer in Bioinorganic Chemistry, and the Byrne Group will be moving to Dublin as well. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow the research group into the future and build on the SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant. Joe is very grateful to colleagues at NUI Galway for all their support in the last few years as he built independence – this was vital to securing his first academic post.

Dr Hannah Crory will also join the team at UCD and new PhD student Thomas Rabbitte, and we will be based in the Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry Lab in Science Centre South alongside the Phillips and Hooper Groups. Joe is one of 4 new Faculty members joining UCD at this time, part of an expanding team in the School of Chemistry (pictured below).

New staff at UCD: Dr Leila Negahdar, Dr Aniello Palma, Dr Joe Byrne, Dr Nadia Elgobashi-Meinhardt

21 May, 202018 June, 2020 Joe Conferences

Online Seminar Series

Joe is organising an Online Seminar Series in NUI Galway’s School of Chemistry. The programme for this series of lectures is given below, and many of the talks will be open to the public. Links will be shared on the School’s Events page in the days before the lecture. Seminars are hosted on Microsoft Teams group “NUI Galway Chemistry Seminar Series”. With most normal activities in research labs shut down for a period of months due to the Coronavirus Lockdown, and conferences canceled for the summer, these seminars offer us a chance to engage with exciting research from around the world.

The weekly seminars take place on Fridays at 12 noon (Irish time), unless otherwise specified. Contact Joe directly for more details.

PROGRAMME OF SPEAKERS (currently confirmed)

Date	Time	Speaker	Affiliation
22 May	12:00	Chris Hawes	Keele University (UK)
29 May	15:00*	Grace Morgan*	UCD Dublin (IE)
5 June	12:00	Syma Khalid	University of Southampton (UK)
12 June	12:00	Kurt Hoogewijs	NUI Galway (IE)
19 June	12:00	Carmen Galan	University of Bristol (UK)
26 June	16:00*	Keary Engle*	Scripps Institute (USA)
3 July	12:00	Jelena Stojadinovic	Membrasenz (CH)
10 July	12:00	Jean-Louis Reymond	University of Berne (CH)
17 July	12:00	Nathalie Weickgenannt	Angewandte Chemie

30 June, 20191 May, 2020 Joe Outreach

CÚRAM Poetry Slam

In June 2019, CÚRAM SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices invited its researchers to write some poetry in a workshop with Todd Robinson and recite these poems in public at ‘The Dark Horse’ pub in Athlone. This is the work of Team ‘Drug Delivery 1′ and comprises Liam Fitzgerald, Neville Murphy, Marita Dangol, Joseph Byrne, Miriam O’ Duill and Antonio Monterru.

This was a strange departure from normal scientific communication, and I think we learned a lot about how to use language (but I’m not sure the examples in the video were necessarily the best examples of that!)