I am currently the coordinator of a JPIAMR project INART and a member of the Biodiversa project Antiversa. I have performed microbiological, molecular biology (qPCR, PCR, plasmid analysis), microbiome amplicon sequencing and metagenomic sequencing and data analysis of soils from agricultural and forestry environments and the phyllospheres of plants such as grass and apple trees. These projects involved performing field trials, sample collection, DNA extractions, quality control, sequencing using Illumina and Nanopore technologies, bioinformatics and statistical analysis of the data. In addition, the samples were analysed for culturable bacteria and mobile genetic elements. Our department contains plant growth facilities with controls for light and temperature. I am interested in joining a consortium to focus on the microbial aspects of biodiversity within the call and project.
Maynooth University contains 13,700 Undergraduate students, 1,750 Masters students (Taught & Research) and 450 Doctoral students. The university comprises faculties of Science and Engineering, Social Sciences and Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy. The Faculty of Science and Engineering is research focused and contains state of the art equipment and infrastructure for genetic, proteomics and microbiological research as well as internal data analysis facilities.