2002 IRISH SCIENTIST YEAR BOOK

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Editorial
Reports from State & Semi-State Bodies
Reports from Academic & Cultural Institutions
Reports from Scientific & Technical Associations
Reports from Industrial & Commercial Firms
Reports from Hospitals
Reports from Institutes of Technology
Reports from Universities 
Youth Science

Editorial  

Swan song

Ulster genius

 

Reports from State & Semi-State Bodies

BioResearch Ireland

BioResearch Ireland  – commercial interface for biotech research

Navigating publishing, patenting and eternal damnation in academic biotech

Bord Iscaigh Mhara

The scientific collection of deepwater fisheries data in 2001

Integrated management of shellfisheries

Describing the development of an experimental acoustic dolphin deterrent for use on pelagic pair trawls to study new methods of reducing the by-catch of small cetaceans

Dingle fishermen conserve their inshore fish stocks – TCMs a way forward

Central Fisheries Board

Monkfish migrations

Central Statistics Office

Automatically filtering structural breaks in economic indicators

COFORD

Woodspec – a guide to detailing, designing and specifying timber in Ireland

Coillte Teoranta

Research supports Coillte’s commitment to sustainability

Comhar – the National Sustainable Development Partnership

Rubbish – household waste disposal and recycling

Dental Health Foundation

The Dental Health Foundation, Ireland

Which foods inhibit plaque?

Department of Agriculture & Rural Development for Northern Ireland

Veterinary expertise in Belfast

Improving milk quality in St Petersburg, Russia

The effects of Prussian Blue on plant growth and soil microbiological processes in upland pasture

Department of Education & Science

Scientific Initiatives at the Department of Education & Science

Department of Education, Northern Ireland

Developments in science teaching in Northern Ireland schools

Dúchas – The Heritage Service

A wetland approach!

Enterprise Ireland

Science & Innovation Division, Enterprise Ireland

The Informatics Research Initiative

Developing and delivering leading edge technologies for industry

Materials Ireland – bridging the interface

BioResearch Ireland – commercial interface for biotech research

Physics in the last decimal place

Navigating publishing, patenting and eternal damnation in academic biotech

Environmental Protection Agency

Drinking water in Ireland

Water Quality in Ireland 1998–2000

The effects of pollution on the nutrient cycle of the Curaheen River

Food Safety Authority of Ireland

Looking at dioxin levels in Irish food

Food Safety Promotion Board

Seafood for life

A survey of teen diets in the 21st Century

Forensic Science Laboratory

Forensic Science Laboratory

Forfás

Attitudes of primary and secondary students to science, technology and innovation

Built for Science: Science Foundation Ireland develops new focus

Report of the activities of the Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation in 2001/2002

Further Education & Training Awards Council (FETAC)

Further Education & Training Awards Council (FETAC)

Geological Survey of Ireland

GSI – Firmly in the 21st Century

Geological Survey of Northern Ireland

Getting fit with the Geological Surveys

Health Research Board

The Health Research Board

HRB Research Project Grants 2002

Identifying genes expressed by Listeria during infection

Cellular intelligence? – decision-making neutrophils

COX-2 and human labour – term and preterm

Molecular biology of Kaposi’s sarcoma

HRB Research Programme in Nursing Decision-Making underway at DCU

Higher Education & Training Awards Council

Turning a new page in higher education – news from the Higher Education & Training Awards Council

Higher Education Authority

Research in Third Level Institutions

InterTradeIreland

InterTradeIreland

Equity Network: Promoting private equity to accelerate business growth

FUSION – technology transfer across the Island

Marine Institute

Surfing the e-wave

Where science meets the sea

Dingle fishermen conserve their inshore fish stocks – TCMs a way forward

Materials Ireland

Materials Ireland – bridging the interface

Met Éireann

The prediction of the airborne spread of foot-and-mouth disease virus

Air quality and lichen growth in the south Dublin-Bray region

National Accreditation Board

The Irish National Accreditation Board

National Botanic Gardens

Inter artes et naturam

National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland

Habitas – further developments

National Safety Council 

Who are the amber gamblers?

Northern Ireland Science Park

Northern Ireland Science Park takes shape

Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland

OSGM02: a Geoid Model for Ireland

Patents Office

Patentability – the fundamentals

Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland

The OSPAR Convention and the discharge of radioactive substances

The effects of ‘Prussian Blue’ on plant growth and soil microbiological processes in upland pasture

Safefood – The Food Safety Promotion Board

Seafood for life

A survey of teen diets in the 21st Century

State Laboratory

Cannabis analysis using Tandem Liquid Chromatograpy Mass Spectrometry

Teagasc

New food product development

Phage resistant starter strains for Mozarella

Probiotic spray-dried powders

Baking enhanced by dairy ingredients

Lactinin – an effective food bio-preservative

Investigating early embryo loss in cattle

Functional Genomics: prospects for improving bovine fertility

A wetland approach!

The Irish Forest Soils Project (FIPS–IFS)

Freeze chill technology and its application to consumer consumption of whiting and mackerel fillets

Accounting for greenhouse gas sources and sinks in major Irish land-use categories

Reports from Academic & Cultural Institutions

Armagh Observatory

Shooting stars for the Red Planet

ASH Ireland

Youth smoking – the physiological impact on health

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

DIAS looks to the future

School of Theoretical Physics

An automatic telescope for Gamma Ray Burst research

The CosmoGrid Project

Dunsink Observatory - An automatic telescope for Gamma Ray Burst research

Greenmount College

Greenmount at the forefront of Precision Agriculture

Medial Lab Europe

Media Lab Europe – innovation in research, education and entrepreneurship

Royal Dublin Society

RDS/Irish Times Boyle Medal 2001

Some RDS Youth Science activities

Royal Irish Academy

New Irish Council for Bioethics

New Members of the Academy reflect multi-cultural Ireland

Antibodies: key components of natural and artificial sensing and detection systems

Do you take sugar?

Tipperary Institute

Tipperary Institute involved in Giving LIFE to Waste

The use of GIS for community planning

Reports from Scientific & Technical Associations

Association of Clinical Biochemists in Ireland 

Association of Clinical Biochemists in Ireland

Institute of Chemistry of Ireland  

Institute of Chemistry of Ireland

Institute of Physics in Ireland  

Institute of Physics in Ireland

Also Fizzics

Institution of Engineers of Ireland 

STEPS

Irish BioIndustry Association 

Irish BioIndustry Association

Irish Business and Employers’ Confederation

Fastest finger first

Irish Pharmaceutical & Chemical Manufacturers’ Federation 

Irish Pharmaceutical & Chemical Manufacturers’ Federation

Irish Research Scientists’Association 

Irish Research Scientists’Association

Irish Society of Toxicology

Is anything safe?

Reports from Industrial & Commercial Firms

Aquatec Subsea Limited

Describing the development of an experimental acoustic dolphin deterrent for use on pelagic pair trawls to study new methods of reducing the by-catch of small cetaceans

Coillte Teoranta

Research supports Coillte’s commitment to sustainability

Elan Corporation

Elan drug delivery: delivery across the blood-brain barrier

Enterprise Energy Ireland

Wasteless waste

Henkel-Loctite Research,Development & Engineering Group

Design and development of Consumer Super Glue products at Henkel-Loctite Research, Development & Engineering Group

Hyperion Limited

Training Course for Research Managers

Janssen Pharmaceutical Limited

Has Ireland alternative sources of iodine in the case of nuclear emergency?

Megazyme International Ireland Limited

Megazyme International Ireland Limited – a world leader in the development of test methods for the cereals and related industries

Merck Sharp & Dohme (Ireland) Limited

Merck Sharp & Dohme – A global company in a local community

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

Pfizer – new Global Process Development Centre

Shaw Scientific Limited

Hubble bubble toil and trouble – the physics of foam

 

Reports from Hospitals

Adelaide and Meath Hospital, incorporating the National Children’s Hospital

An Institute for research in cardiovascular science

Smoking and plasma homocysteine

Beaumont Hospital

Immunosuppression in solid tumours

Cystic Fibrosis and Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency

Sticky and stubborn: new risks of infection from old bacterial foes

Psychological adaptation in ageing and chronic illness

Coombe Women’s Hospital

Molecular biology of Kaposi’s sarcoma

Mercy Hospital, Cork

Shocking tumour cells at the Cork Cancer Research Centre

St James’s Hospital

An Institute for research in cardiovascular science

Post operative atrial fibrillation – a potential inflammatory response

Mercer’s Institute for Research on Ageing

The Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre

St Vincent’s University Hospital

Path to improved patient care

Bioinformatic, molecular and biochemical approach to the identification of novel antimicrobial factors in chickens and hen eggs

 

Reports from Institutes of Technology

TecNet

BioNet

Athlone

An expressionist movement

Polymer Research in CBBR

Endocrine Disrupters Research Group at AIT

Blanchardstown

Unified messaging for crisis management

Hardware/software co-design using SystemC

Physics-based sound synthesis for computer games

From XML to Web Services

The Science Business!

Carlow

Environmental Microbiology and IT Carlow

Nature’s insecticides

Bringing biotechnology to the market place

Tensiography for pharmaceutical, biotechnological and environmental applications

Cork

Predicting the Future

Capturing the enemy – virus immobilisation

Dublin

A new era of evolution

Physics Education Research Group, DIT

Mathematical Sciences at DIT

Facility for Optical Characterisation and Spectroscopy (FOCAS)

Molecular transistor switching

Modelling magnetic nanocluster behaviour

Quantification of UV light field at the human eye and its relationship to ocular diseases

Genetic testing for cystic fibrosis

Pharmaceutical R&D – a multidisciplinary approach

P.S.1 – Pot Stirrer One

Dundalk

Supporting knowledge based enterprise in the North East

The Centre for Entrepreneurship Research at DKIT

Software Technology Research Centre (SToRC)

Centre for Renewable Energy

Galway-Mayo

Where science meets the sea

Freeze chill technology and its application to consumer consumption of whiting and mackerel fillets

A sustainable fishery

Interactive keys to the marine amphipods (Crustacea) of the North East Atlantic and Mediterranean

Aged determination of the common megrim Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis using otoliths

Reproductive biology of the Whiting, Merlangius merlangus L., in the Celtic Sea

Blue whiting in the waters around Ireland

Juvenile flatfish species in Galway Bay

Genetics of an invasive species

Enhancing the learning of Mathematics using MAPLE 7 at GMIT

Web services – the holy grail of distributed computing

Software agent communication using XML

Letterkenny

XML – more than just a buzz-word

Automation in a distributed world

Letterkenny Institute of Technology Business Development Centre – supporting innovation in the North West

New research projects for Letterkenny Institute of Technology

Limerick

Molecularly imprinted Polymers at LIT - Forensic drug analysis

Molecularly imprinted Polymers at LIT -Development of designer receptors for pharmaceuticals in the environment

Sphagnum exchanger!

Tilting at windmills

When is a wireless device not wireless?

A study of innovative culture, educational support and entrepreneurial systems in the Mid-West Region

Novel organo-germanium complexes as alternative chemotherapeutic agents

Sligo

Optimisation of sludge treatment technologies

Sludge Quality in Ireland

Tallaght

Mentorlink – mentoring of women in or towards engineering careers

The Science Business!

Pharmaceutical R&D – a multidisciplinary approach

Selective killing of cancer cells – the Holy Grail

Solving the enigma of a Cystic Fibrosis pathogen

New technologies to rapidly diagnose bacterial infections among IV drug users

Digital manufacture of modular tooling

Incremental metal forming at IT-Tallaght

The National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology (NICB)

A new era of sensor research at DCU

Tralee

Posture cultivation at the Institute of Technology, Tralee

Understanding geometry through geodesics

Yeast research at IT Tralee can prevent millions going to waste

Ireland’s largest, longest lived, and threatened freshwater mussel

Dingle fishermen conserve their inshore fish stocks – TCMs a way forward

Waterford

Framework for the implementation of an e-commerce initiative

Novel organo-germanium complexes as alternative chemotherapeutic agents

The Information Systems and Organisational Learning (ISOL) Research Group

TSSG Research Progress 

Reports from Universities

University of Cambridge

Predicting reaction barriers of catalytic reactions

Dublin City University

Mentorlink – mentoring of women in or towards engineering careers

The Science Business!

DCU appoints Vice President for Research

International success for Irish science students

President’s Research Awards 2001/2002

Dr Colin J. Barnes: a tribute

Antibodies: key components of natural and artificial sensing and detecting systems

invent – the innovation and enterprise centre

The National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology (NICB)

A new era of Sensor Research at DCU

Next generation plasma manufacturing technology

Deep UV absorption imaging – seeing dark matter in plasmas

Physics students to the fore at DCU

Photonics: key technology for future communications

The Visual Media Processing Lab in DCU

Research in the School of Computer Applications

Materials Processing Research Centre (MPRC)

HRB Research Programme in Nursing Decision-Making underway at DCU

How physically active are the Irish? Research at the Centre for Sport Science and Health, DCU

Membrane separation processes

Loughborough University of Technology

Describing the development of an experimental acoustic dolphin deterrent for use on pelagic pair trawls to study new methods of reducing the by-catch of small cetaceans

National University of Ireland, Galway

COX-2 and human labour – term and preterm

Where science meets the sea

How green is your white paper? – environmentally friendly paper bleaching

SFI Fellowship for NUI, Galway

Physics Research at NUI, Galway

Marine algae opposing global warming? – new discovery by Irish scientists

National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science

The Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at NUI, Galway

Martin Ryan Institute NUI, Galway

Turloughs: habitats unique to Ireland

Monitoring the isotopic ratio of carbon in atmospheric methane

Surfaces to takeaway

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Nature’s insecticides

Pharmaceutical R&D – a multidisciplinary approach

The National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology (NICB)

Faculty of Science, NUI Maynooth

Astronomy education at Maynooth

Faculty of Engineering

Collective effects in laser-produced plasmas

The Open University in Ireland

Come reach for the stars and beyond with The Open University

Queen’s University Belfast

Deep UV absorption imaging – seeing dark matter in plasmas

Building on success of wise investment

Medical and Dental excellence at Queen’s Belfast

Improving milk quality in St Petersburg, Russia

The effects of ‘Prussian Blue’ on plant growth and soil microbiological processes in upland pasture

QUESTOR’s Applied Technology Unit

Novel approaches to electronatom/ ion collisions

CPC International Program Library

Modelling the survival of elderly patients in hospital

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Hydroxamic Acids – Iron chelators, aspirin analogues, nitric oxide donors and structurally diverse metal complexes

Immunosuppression in solid tumours

A novel target for immunomodulatory therapy?

Cystic Fibrosis and Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency

Sticky and stubborn: new risks of infection from old bacterial foes

Catching heart disease

Big balances for weighing little things – Mass Spectrometry at RCSI

Psychological adaptation in ageing and chronic illness

Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology (CSCB)

Trinity College Dublin

A novel target for immunomodulatory therapy?

Research and Innovation Services

Trinity College – leads the way in securing national research funds

Profiles of Women in Science at Trinity College

Biochemistry: the molecular basis of life

Do you take sugar?

Dublin Dental Hospital & School of Dental Science TCD

The National Neuroscience Network

The Cardiovascular Health Unit, Trinity College Dublin

Nerve growth factor and synaptic communication

An Institute for research in cardiovascular science

Mercer’s Institute for Research on Ageing

Áit Eile – a virtual environment for children in hospital

DNA studies rewrite the history of the thoroughbred

All creatures, great and small: bumble bees and their parasites

The genes that sculpt a mammalian embryo

Subsoil treatment efficiency for on-site wastewater treatment

Professor Simon Perry

Statistical models reconstruct ancient climates

Accounting for greenhouse gas sources and sinks in major Irish land-use categories

String theory: the Quantum Theory of Gravity?

Semiconductor Photonics Research Group, Trinity College Dublin

Molecular engineering for laser protection

Starch-based biodegradable polymers

Nanocomposites – plastics of the future

Research in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at TCD

The Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing

Computer vision and robotics at TCD

Replacing the video shop

New Microelectronics Technology Laboratory

The Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre

Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology (CSCB)

Bioinformatic, molecular and biochemical approach to the identification of novel antimicrobial factors in chickens and hen eggs

University College Cork

Identifying genes expressed by Listeria during infection

Phage resistant starter strains for Mozarella

Probiotic spray-dried powders

Lactinin – an effective food bio-preservative

Where science meets the sea

Interactive keys to the marine amphipods (Crustacea) of the North East Atlantic and Mediterranean

The National Neuroscience Network

The nature and origin of PM10 and smaller particulate matter in urban air

UCC Research – harnessing our strengths

NMRC: Ireland’s premier ICT research institute

Cork Constraint Computation Centre

Mesoporous Materials research in UCC

Plasma Physics at UCC

Astrophysics Research at UCC

Semiconductor Laser Physics

Collaborative research on fluoride ingestion and absorption

FOOD – a world of opportunity at University College Cork

BIOMERIT Research Centre

Shocking tumour cells at the Cork Cancer Research Centre

University College Dublin

Cellular intelligence? – decision-making neutrophils

A wetland approach!

An automatic telescope for Gamma Ray Burst research

The National Neuroscience Network

Accounting for greenhouse gas sources and sinks in major Irish land-use categories

Navigating publishing, patenting and eternal damnation in academic biotech

University Industry Programme – support for innovation and technology transfer at UCD

The Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research

The Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre

Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology (CSCB)

Targeting disease: preventing new blood vessel formation

Cancer and drug treatment: ‘kidney cells caught in the crossfire’

What makes us tic?

Path to improved patient care

Bioinformatic, molecular and biochemical approach to the identification of novel antimicrobial factors in chickens and hen eggs

Reducing intestinal permeability as a therapeutic approach to IBD

Department of Veterinary Physiology & Biochemistry

Nutrition and fertility in diary cows

Neosera Systems

Experimental particle physics: a new initiative in Ireland

Rehabilitation at the former Soviet Union’s nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan

NAS extension to EnerBuild RTD

Marine and petroleum geology research at UCD

Current research on visual attention using eye-tracking technology

University of Limerick

Development of designer receptors for pharmaceuticals in the environment

Where the bee sucks

Physical education: benefits to society

UL appoints new Vice-President Research

Biogas from wastes: speeding up a slow process!

Substitution of manufactured fertilizers with organic waste materials

Environmental modelling

Why do bypass grafts fail?

Biomimetic artificial joints

RSI research at UL

Computers in the Physics classroom

ICT based research at Limerick contributes to automotive ‘drive-by-wire’ technology

Sounding objects – new ideas in ubiquitous computing

University of Ulster

University of Ulster Science Research Parks

The Centre for Molecular Biosciences

The School of Biomedical Sciences at UU

The Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health (NICHE)

Diabetes uncovered

Health Sciences

Centre for Nursing Research

Making a splash in coastal research – coastal research at the University of Ulster

The Northern Ireland Centre for Energy Research & Technology

Centre for Sustainable Technologies

The Engineering Composites Research Centre (ECRE)

State-of-the-art fire research facilities

Research within the Faculty of Informatics

MEDICATE: intelligent medication management 

Youth Science

 Youth Science Section, featuring the four top prizewinners, and a selection of other winners, at the Esat Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, held at the RDS in January 2002

The distribution of the primes and the underlying order to chaos  Gonzaga College, Dublin 6

The minimum number of moves needed to solve a Rubic’s cube  The Institute of Education, Dublin 2

Z12 analysis of musical pieces  Mount Mercy College, Cork

Geography of the dead  Coláiste Choilm, Ballincollig, Co. Cork

Which foods inhibit plaque?  St Dominic’s High School, Dublin 13

Youth smoking – the physiological impact on health St Dominic’s High School, Dublin 13

Teenage abuses – difference between boys and girls in secondary school  Mount Anville Secondary School, Dublin 14

Who are the amber gamblers?  Mount Anville Secondary School, Dublin 14

Air quality and lichen growth in the south Dublin-Bray region  St Gerard’s School, Bray

The effects of pollution on the nutrient cycle of the Curaheen River  Coláiste Choilm, Ballincollig, Co. Cork

Rubbish – household waste disposal and recycling  Scoil Mhuire, Strokestown

Wasteless waste  Sandford Park School, Dublin 6

Hubble bubble toil and trouble – the physics of foam  Loreto College, Coleraine

Fizzics  Loreto Secondary School, Letterkenny

Has Ireland alternative sources of iodine in the case of nuclear emergency?  Dominican College, Dublin 9

A survey of teen diets in the 21st Century  Laurel Hill Secondary School, Limerick

Fastest finger first  Abbey Christian Brothers’ School, Newry

P.S.1 – Pot Stirrer One  Coláiste Lorcáin, Castledermot