New publication from some of our LSI members. This study examined chemotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer organoids and found that FASN was a targetable modulator of resistance

Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi Prototaxites fossils are distinct from Fungi, suggesting that they represent an extinct lineage of eukaryotic life.

It was a joy to contribute to this paper led by @sandyheth.bsky.social, Corentin Loron and Laura Cooper. We show the Devonian fossil, Prototaxites, is not a fungus but is in fact an organism from an as yet unknown extinct eukaryotic lineage.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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From ProtoSigns Lab in The Conversation this week – 'Could life exist on Mars today?'

Devyani Jambhule took the lead here – excellent from an early stage PhD student 👏

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Dr Seán Jordan: Was there ancient life on Mars? My DCU team are doing our bit to assess Nasa’s latest discovery On Wednesday, Nasa announced that the Perseverance rover had identified potential biosignatures – signs of ancient life – on Mars.

I wrote some thoughts on NASA's most recent announcement about 'potential biosignatures' on Mars in the Irish Independent today:

www.independent.ie/irish-news/d...

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DCU's Life Sciences Institute is a multidisciplinary research centre focused on the study of living organisms.
LSI’s more than 70 research teams are focused on addressing global challenges.
For more info, you can visit the @dcu-lsi.bsky.social website at dcu.ie/lifesciences

It was brilliant to attend and present my research at the #SCNAC2025 conference last week in the beautiful Český Krumlov. Thanks to @hoceklab.bsky.social for organising another fantastic meeting of nucleic acid scientists 🧬👩‍🔬

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Our Carbon Dots are also at the 22nd SFRR-I Biennial Meeting in Galway! ✨

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Prof Anne Parle-McDermott

A 'game changing' way for Irish farmers to test for potato blight.
Piece by Prof Anne Parle-McDermott, Director of the Life Sciences Institute @dcu-lsi.bsky.social, for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social.
Read here: launch.dcu.ie/4kC6D8k
#RTEBrainstorm

Fighting Cancer with Nanotechnology – Prof Silvia Giordani YouTube video by Dublin City University

What do we do in our research group? ⚗️🧪🧬

Our group leader Prof Silvia Giordani tells you about it in this video! 👇🏻

I enjoyed so much this filming session 🤣 and the result is amazing!

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youtu.be/sAAvrxyg-BI?...

Happy New Year to Emma Rowan ,from DCU SoBT and DCU LSI, leading a study on the impacts of ionic liquids (ILs). ILs are classified green solvents but a threat to the aquatic ecosystem. Molecular signatures capture toxicity relative to the carbon tail of ILs. Funded by
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📢 PhD Opportunity Alert! 🌍🔬

Join the ProtoSigns Lab to explore novel biosignatures for microfossil interpretation! Fully-funded 4-year PhD with fieldwork, cutting-edge facilities & interdisciplinary training.

🔗 Apply by 31 Jan 2025

Full details:

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/302167

Come and join our team here at the ProtoSigns Lab in DCU as part of our ERC funded project!

We're making some really exciting discoveries around protocell membrane formation with implications for the origin of life and the search for life elsewhere in our solar system!

#originoflife #modeling

Delighted to present our work on NK cells in metastatic HER2+ breast cancer @ The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2024!
Work is funded by The Cancer Clinical Research Trust and The Caroline Foundation. @dcu-lsi.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social #sabcs2024

Massive congratulations to Marta Valenti on passing her PhD viva today! Marta was funded through the @researchireland.bsky.social ACORN project in @dcu-lsi.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to supervise the project. My thanks to the co-supervisory panel members Dr Alex Eustace and ProfJohnCrown

On Monday evening, Dr @EadaoinCarthy, @R2B2_13 and Prof Fiona Regan featured on the latest episode of @rte's 10 Thing to Know About

The episode covered the impact of plastic pollution

Watch here: rte.ie/player/serie...

Congrats to Myra Castel on passing her viva and obtaining her PhD! It was a pleasure to supervise the project funded through our @researchireland.bsky.social ACORN project. Thanks to the co-supervisory panel members @neilconlon.bsky.social, Dr Naomi Walsh, Prof John Crown @dcu-lsi.bsky.social