Posts by Amanda Mathieson
Alejandro Vergara wins Top Young Bioeconomy Talent 2022
Huge congratulations to Alejandro Vergara on winning the Top Young Bioeconomy Talent 2022 at the All Island Bioeconomy Summit! In BiOrbic, Alejandro is a PhD student working with Prof. Kevin O’Connor and is an integral part of ‘Farm Zero C’, BiOrbic’s flagship project that aims to produce the world’s first carbon neutral dairy farm. Alejandro…
Read MoreFarm Zero C Open Day 2022
The Farm Zero C Open 2022 day was held on the 2nd of September at the Farm Zero C premises on Shinagh dairy farm, near Bandon Co. Cork. Farm Zero C, funded under the SFI Zero Emmissions programme, is a collaboration of minds from BiOrbic, SFI, Carbery, MTU, UCD, TCD, Teagasc, Shinagh Estates, and Grassa in order…
Read MoreSustainable Living Competition 2022
How can we as ordinary citizens live more sustainably? BiOrbic tried to help Dublin families answer this question at UCD festival this year. A team of 22 researchers and operations staff put together three separate exhibits, exploring the ‘Life of Plastics’, ‘Life of Food’ and ‘Life of Pets. Life of Plastics focused on our plastic…
Read MoreDesigning an App to Help Farmers go Green
As a branch out exercise from Farm Zero C, some members of the research team are working on an app that would help farmers identify the environmental impacts of their farm, as well as come up with a tailored plan of mitigation strategies to implement. Farmers would simply upload data relating to their farm into…
Read MoreBiOrbic Annual Research Day 2022
On Thursday 9th of June BiOrbic hosted its annual Research Day. This was the first time in 2 years we could host it in person, and we had the Centre come together in UCD for the day. The Annual BiOrbic Research day is a day for integration and collaboration, as well as a chance for the…
Read MoreProfessor Eoin Casey receives ERC Advanced Grant 2021
Congratulations to Professor Eoin Casey on receiving a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advance Grant 2021 funding award! Professor Casey, Head of UCD School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering and Principal Investigator at BiOrbic was awarded €2.5million by the ERC for ‘Analysis of Biofilm Solid Interactions Underpinning Wastewater Treatment.’ The ERC announced its most prestigious funding awards…
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