Bursary - CMA - Trinity College Dublin

Research Bursaries

The CMA will offer three research bursaries for 2013/2014 to allow college postgraduate users pursue research work in the CMA laboratories. Two bursaries cover Transmission or Scanning Electron Microscopy and a third bursary covers Transmission Electron Microscopy.

Applications for the bursaries must be submitted as a PDF document (max. 4 pages), this document must detail the proposed work schedule and include details/links of any supporting literature. The bursaries are intended to assist research in areas where funding is limited. Candidates are expected to provide evidence of funding difficulties and circumstances, this should be in the form of a supporting letter from their project supervisor.

The closing date for applications is Friday 1st November, applications should be made by email to:-

Dr. Derek Nolan, cmainfo@tcd.ie

The Board appointed CMA committee will decide the Bursary awards. The successful candidates will be expected to present their results at the Microscopy Society of Ireland meeting (MSI) annual symposium. CMA reserves the right to use images, data and presentations for publicity and promotional use. Work on the projects must start within 3 months of the bursary award. Receipt of application is deemed as acceptance in full of these terms.

2012/13 Awards:

Fabrication of Graphene metal nanoparticle composite materials as electrodes for solar cells. Lorcan Brennan (Yurii Gun’ko – Supervisor).
Visualising the time dependent uptake and cellular localisation of luminescent Ru(II) polypyridyl functionalised gold nanoparticles in cancer cells. Kim Orange (Clive Willams – Supervisor).
Study of the mechanical properties of Insect Cuticle. Eoin Parle (David Taylor – Supervisor).

2011/2012 Awards:

(SEM) Colloidal quantum dot depleted-heterojunction solar cell fabrication and characterisation. Finn Purcell-Milton (Yurii Gun’ko – Supervisor).
(SEM) Pozzolans in Lime Hemp Composites. Rosanne Walker (Sara Pavia – Supervisor).
(TEM) Visualising the uptake of a highly-selective tumour-killing protein nanoparticle (HAMLET/BAMLET) in squamous cell carcinoma transgenic and syngeneic mouse tissues. Nial Harte/Soyoung Min (Ken Mok – Supervisor).

2010/2011 Awards:

' Endocannabinoids; modulators of the autophagy-lysosomal pathway and potential therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease' - Riffat Tanveer, Department of Physiology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.

' Structure and Morphology of Pharmaceutical Polymer-Drug Hybrid Nanoparticles and their Platelet Interactions' - Joanne Crean, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science.

'Scanning electron microscopy studies on the fracture mechanisms in
polymer – clay nanocomposites' - Oana Mihaela Istrate, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

2009/2010 Awards:

'Study of Old Library Dust' - Allyson Smith, Geology Dept.

'Synthesis, Reactivity and Transport of Supported Fe/M Bimetallic Particles for Reductive Remediation of Pollutants' - Deirdre Murphy, School of Chemistry.

2007/2008 Awards:

Fionnula McBreen, Dept. of Zoology.
'Examination of Foraminifer from seventeen sites in the Celtic Deep in the southern Irish Sea'
Deinse Charles, School of Physics.
'Development of Bio-molecular functionalised nanoparticles for high sensitive bio-sensing'
Marjolein Kamermans, School of Natural Sciences, Zoology.
'Scanning Electron Microscopy on Lake Tanganyika endemic shrimp'