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News Research Updates October 2022

Research Updates October 2022

Nov 04 2022 Posted: 14:21 GMT

Niall's map of all our research connections around the world is taking shape! Here's where we are at the moment

Grant applications:

Giuseppe, Bharat, Davood each submitted IRC Postgraduate Scholarships this year.
Mark, Michel (two applicants), Bharat each submitted IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship applications.
Pilib is a co-applicant (with Cynthia Coleman, Medicine) on an SFI Frontiers for the Future Project.
Bharat submitted a grant proposal to SFI-National Challenge Funding in the subcategory Future Digital Challenge.

News:

Mark Ryder (PhD student with Mark) has been selected to attend the Gemini Autumn School on Quantum Computation in Oslo;
Eamon McAndrew joined Pilib's group as a Research Assistant on a three-month contract supported by the College of Science and Engineering Strategic Research (Millennium) Fund.
Pilib joined the Programme Committee for the 30th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS2022) which will be held from December 8th-9th at Munster Technological University.
Pilib is advertising three postdoctoral positions in his group in cancer genomics/bioinformatics. These positions are funded through DTIF and HEA North-South Shared Research Programme awards.
Sarah Ennis (PhD student with Pilib) has started a 3-month placement at Simon Haas's group at MDC Berlin (BIMSB).
Sarah gave a poster presentation at the Single Cell Genomics 2022 Meeting, held from October 17th-19th in Utrecht.
Pierre Murchan (PhD student with Pilib) gave a poster presentation at the Trinity St. James's Cancer Institute International Conference held from 13th-14th October in Dublin and also at the European Thoracic Oncology Platform Residential Workshop in Amsterdam held Nov 3rd-4th.
Karen Guerrero Vazquez (PhD student with Pilib) gave a poster presentation at the Mathematics of life: modelling molecular mechanisms course 2022 held (online) by the European Molecular Biology Lab-European Bioinformatics Institute on September 15th.
Shane O'Connell (PhD student with Pilib) gave a poster presentation at the Genetics and Genomics Sciences retreat in the New York Academy of Science on Oct 7th.
Bharat gave a talk entitled "Shear Shock Waves in Concussions" to a cohort of 40-50 primary, and secondary school teachers on 01/10/2022 at the Teachers in Residence programme organised by CÚRAM.
Jim gave a talk at the online seminar series “Selected Topics in Mathematics”. The talk is available from the seminar homepage [http://Jim gave a talk at the online seminar series “Selected Topics in Mathematics”. The talk is available from the seminar homepage https://stream.liv.ac.uk/fnaf8up5 He is also a co-organiser of the series so if you are interested in giving a talk there, contact him.]https://stream.liv.ac.uk/fnaf8up5
He is also a co-organiser of the series so if you are interested in giving a talk there, contact him.

Michel gave a talk at the Mechanics Seminar, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (online), a plenary lecture at the Fifth International Conference on Recent Advances in Nonlinear Mechanics, Hangzhou, China (online), and a talk at the Séminaire de Mécanique, Université de Bordeaux, France (in-person).
Michel was External Examiner for a PhD thesis and viva (online) at IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India.
Sairam (PhD student with Michel and Valentina) went to a networking event organised by his Marie Skłodowska Curie Doctoral Network in Madrid, Spain.
Michael McG gave an invited keynote talk on "What is a Quantum Game" at the 12th "Days on Computational Game Theory", University of Bremen (Germany), September 29-30 2022.

Outputs:

JSY Sui, P Martin, A Keogh, P Murchan, L Ryan, S Nicholson, S Cuffe, P Ó Broin, SP Finn, GJ Fitzmaurice, R Ryan, V Young, SG Gray.
Altered expression of ACOX2 in non-small cell lung cancer.
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 22 (1), 1-21, 2022
https://bmcpulmmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12890-022-02115-7.

Newell J, Lolli L, McMillan K.
Strength in Numbers: data and science in football.
Aspetar Journal of Sports Medicine, 72-78, 2022
https://www.aspetar.com/journal/upload/PDF/2022102010164.pdf.

Iqbal T, Simpkin AJ, Roshan D, Glynn N, Killilea J, Walsh J, Molloy G, Ganly S, Ryman H, Coen E, Elahi A, Wijns W, Shahzad A.
Stress Monitoring Using Wearable Sensors: A Pilot Study and Stress-Predict Dataset.
Sensors. 2022; 22(21):8135. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22218135

Kirwan, C., Hynes, L., Hart, N., Newell J., Roshan D., et al.
The multimorbidity collaborative medication review and decision making (MyComrade) study: a pilot cluster randomised trial in two healthcare systems.
Pilot Feasibility Stud 8, 225 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01107-y

MA Makrooni, D O’Shea, P Geeleher, C Seoighe

Random-effects meta-analysis of effect sizes as a unified framework for gene set analysis
PLoS Comput Biol 18(10): e1010278. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010278
Mukherjee S, Destrade M, Gower AL. 2022 Representing the stress and strain energy of elastic solids with initial stress and transverse texture anisotropy.
Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 478: 20220255. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0255