Programme of Events

• 5pm–7pm Message Banking Tell us the pet names, in-jokes, and personal phrases that make up your own unique vocabulary, and find out how Caroline Jagoe is saving them for people who are losing their ability to speak.
• 5pm–8pm Lungs Find out how Seonadh O’Leary is using the body’s own immune system to fight tuberculosis, and look at lung samples that reveal how smoking impacts the disease.
• 5pm–8pm Learning Take part in research on learning a second language, and discover how the brain learns new information.
• 5pm–8pm EU Corner Are you a researcher? Find out what EU funding is available to you, with the Irish Universities Association.
• 5pm–8pm Brain Researchers from Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience will offer you the opportunity to hook up to an EEG machine and examine your brainwaves.
• 5pm–8pm Pupils Are the eyes the window to the brain? Neuroscientists will demonstrate pupil dilation and the neural mechanisms this relates to.
• 5pm–8pm Sign Language Find out how Lorraine Leeson’s analysis of Dara Ó Briain and Chris Hadfield’s hand movements can give us a better understanding of sign language and how we interpret it.
• 6pm–8pm Unique Immune Systems Cliona O‘Farrelly and her team from the School and Biochemistry and Immunology are hoping to locate around 370 women who were inadvertently infected with Hepatitis C between 1977 and 1979 and never developed any signs of infection. The team believes there may be something unique about their immune systems that allowed them to resist infection –– and investigating this might potentially help treat future cases of Hep-C, and possibly other viruses too.
• 5pm–8pm HEADS Sport-related head injury has become a public issue. Motor sports, bicycling, snow sports and equestrian activities are only some examples of sport where this kind of injury is quite common. Aiming to reach a new level of understanding of head injury and how it can be prevented, researchers Antonia Trotta and Chen Ling will offer the chance to try on some different types of helmets, explain how they use accident reconstructions to understand the factors influencing head injuries, and show how helmets are tested.
• 7.30pm–8pm Women Are Boring Women Are Boring is a blog dedicated to featuring fascinating research by interesting women. Co-founded in May 2016 by Catherine Connolly and Grace McDermott, who wanted to hear more from women in all areas of academia, Women Are Boring will be doing short vox pops with women in research at Probe to ask interesting questions: why their research matters, what inspires them, and what the one thing they‘d like people to know about life as a researcher is.
• 5pm–7pm Connect Have a chat with researcher Giovanni Frazzetto about the psychology and neuroscience of intimacy and human connection.

 

 

• 5pm–7pm MAKESHOP Created by Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, the aim of MAKESHOP is to provide people with the tools, materials and guidance they need to get making, in a place where creativity is encouraged and everyone is welcome. MAKESHOP is for everyone from novices to advanced makers, young to old.
• 5pm–7pm Birdsong Want to try being a birdsong researcher? Can you trap birds and analyse birdsong? Researchers use differences between birds’ songs to determine what species they are. Throw toy birds in a net, play birdsongs and match pictures of birds to their songs. Lead by Darren O’Connell, Andrew Mooney and Annabel Smith.
• 5pm–7pm Be a Badger Everyone knows what a badger looks like, right? Test your knowledge by trying out where you think their stripes go — rewards for those who know! You’ll also have the chance to see how badgers are tracked, work out where they go, and see maps of badger movement. Lead by Rachel Byrne with Aoibheann Gaughran and Georgia O’Sullivan.
• 5pm–7pm Parasites Alive! Can you tell which animals are infected with parasites? Find out about the parasites that cause tropical diseases, track the life-cycle of parasites, and see a tape worm explode out of its cyst live! Lead by Celia Holland with Gwen Deslyper, Peter Stuart, Maureen Williams and Paula Tierney.
• 5pm–8pm BigFoot Analyse your digital footprint with BigFoot, and see a live view of how much personal information you’re leaking through social media.
• 5pm–8pm Med3DP Check out affordable 3D-printed medical devices, how they are used and developed by TCD’s Bioengineering Masters project
• 5pm–8pm The Pip Take the opportunity to try out The Pip, a thumb-sized device that measures and manages your stress levels using biofeedback.
• 5pm–8pm Magical Materials Magical Materials is a mini- exhibition that explores the peculiar properties of the world’s most futuristic and spectacular materials. Visitors will have a chance to see, touch and experience magical materials from CRANN and AMBER.
• 5pm–8pm RoboSlam Get hands-on with robots. The RoboSlam team will help you learn how to build a bot!
• 5pm–8pm Bridge Building Challenge Can you build a bridge in your kitchen? Try out some different ideas and figure out which bridge design can carry the greatest weight, using only spaghetti and sticky tape! DIT engineers will be on hand to provide you with some helpful hints.

• 5pm–6pm Surplus Food Meal With the assistance at FoodCloud and ShareCity (from the Department of Geography), Fiona Hallinan and the DU Food & Drink Society will create a meal from leftover, extra, and soon-to-be-dumped food.
• 5pm–7pm Cloud Picker Roasting and cupping demos from Cloud Picker, Dublin City’s first micro coffee roastery.
• 5pm–8pm Endophytes Demo Isolate the symbiotic microorganisms that live in and protect plants, and discover how they might lead to cleaner, more sustainable agricultural practices.
• 5pm–8pm Pollinated Cosmetics A demonstration of high- end cosmetic products that wouldn’t exist without insect pollinators.
• 5pm–8pm ShareCity Browse the ShareCity database, where people can explore the global network of food-sharers. Come speak with researchers about the potential impact of this work and the challenges of creating an infrastructure and legislation for sharing, and add your own thoughts and suggestions to the debate.
• 5pm–8pm Science Gallery Café Stand Soup, stewp and hot drinks available all night.
• 5pm–8pm Microbiome Explore the gut biome and its connection to overall health with Ruairi Robertson.
• 5pm–9pm Sharing Station WeShare Dublin provide a space where people can leave something they don’t need or take something they do need. Their aim is to reduce the environmental impact of consumption, and help people transition from consumption to contribution; transaction to trust; from isolation to community.
• 6pm–6.30pm Pollinator Food Demo A cooking demonstration and Q&A with chef Clare Anne O’Keefe and botanist Jane Stout, who have developed a recipe entirely from animal-pollinated food.

• 6pm–7pm Short Talks Curated and hosted by the Irish Research Council, this event features seven five- minute long talks by seven early-career researchers, each addressing a different grand societal challenge. Curated and hosted by the Irish Research Council.
• 7.15pm–7.45pm Music from Carol Anne McGowan Experience Carol Anne’s timeless, haunting folk-noir, with a captivating burnished style of vocal that has been compared to Beth Gibbons, Hope Sandoval, Karen Dalton and Nancy Sinatra.
• 7.15pm–7.45pm Music from Stomptown Brass Get down with the New Orleans style vibes of this urban brass band based in Dublin, playing original music written and composed by James O’Leary.
• 7pm–9pm Outdoor screenings at the 1937 Reading Room Keep an eye out for these screenings on a wall near the Main Stage: Life in the Woods - Conor Griffin My Friend Nearly Killed Patti Smith - Richard O‘Connor 1916 Proclamation in Irish Sign Language - Interesource Group (Ireland), Irish Deaf Society, Centre for Deaf Studies at Trinity College Dublin and the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme. Hysteria - Maurice Kelliher

• All Night Sun at Night Students from the Department of Physics will project 48 hours of recent footage of the sun vertically into the Campanile to create an immersive experience that engages visitors in the concepts of solar physics.
• All Night Radio data soundscape A soundscape that will play in the Campanile to accompany the sun projection, using sonified radio data from the sun.

• 5pm–8pm Spatial Music Experience a 360 degree music performance in virtual reality, by composer and researcher Enda Bates.
• 5pm–8pm AR Sandbox iCRAG present an opportunity to talk about geology through an interactive augmented reality sandbox with projection mapping that changes topography as you move the sand.
• 5pm–8pm Listening Post Listen to audio documentaries that connect with TCD research themes and researchers.
• 5pm–8pm Coffee and Snacks Coffee and snacks available in the Buttery all night.

• 5pm–6pm Ethical Dilemmas in Science and Medicine Hosted by science writer Claire O’Connell Silicon Republic, The Irish Times and featuring biomedical scientists Cliona O’Farrelly and Orla Shiels, and philosophy researcher Luna Dolezal. This event will look at the recruitment of patients for health studies, the role of law in medicine, and how shame and stigma can impact patients.
• 6.30pm–7pm Thesis in 3: Part One This fast-paced event sees researchers present their theses in three minutes. Organised by CRANN / AMBER and hosted by Jessamyn Fairfield.
• 7pm–7.15pm Thesis in 3: Interval Act Join comedian Alison Spittle for this interlude and her seriously funny insight into all things research.
• 7.15pm–8pm Thesis in 3: Part Two This fast-paced event will see researchers present their theses in three minutes. Organised by CRANN and AMBER, hosted by Jessamyn Fairfield.

• 7pm–8pm Sustainable, Shareable Food Hosted by artist Zack Denfeld (The Center For Genomic Gastronomy) and featuring geographer Anna Davies, botanists Jane Stout and Brian Murphy, and chef Clare Anne O’Keefe, this event will look at initiatives to distribute surplus food in urban areas, research on insect pollination and microbes that improve plant health, and the role of art and culture in food systems.
• 8pm–9pm Duelling Davids Brecht’s play will be performed in its original German form, in an English language literary translation, and - keeping Brecht’s spirit of competition alive - assorted machine-translated versions. The discussion after the reading to explore these issues will include translator/director Nicholas Johnson, expert in translation studies James Hadley, expert in ancient translation traditions David Shepherd, and expert in computational linguistics Carl Vogel.

• 5.30pm–6.30pm Changing Ireland, Changing Law Can legal action trigger positive social change? Law professors Ivana Bacik and Mary Rogan will be joined in this debate by Máirín De Burca, David Norris, and Lydia Foy — three litigants whose cases sparked legal and social change in Ireland — as well as Rachel Power from the Public Interest Law Alliance.
• 7pm–8pm Migrants and Risk How can we, as a society, support migrants who are at risk? This debate is hosted by Dil Wickremasinghe from Newstalk’s Global Village, and featuring Trinity’s Gillian Wylie (Irish School of Ecumenics), Daniel Faas (Sociology) and Roja Fazaeli (Near and Middle Eastern Studies).
• 5pm–8pm Digital Repository and Imaging Service Explore the work of Trinity’s DRIS (the Digital Repository and Imaging Service), a department dedicated to the development of digital library collections to support research, teaching and scholarship. The team at DRIS digitise, catalogue and share the unique collections of the Trinity Library to reach as wide an audience as possible.
• 5pm–8pm Exhibition Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute recently celebrated its fifth birthday with a competition for the best images taken within their laboratories. See the finalists in this pop-up exhibition.

• 5pm–7pm The Book of Kells The Book of Kells is Ireland’s greatest cultural treasure and the world’s most famous medieval manuscript. The 9th century book is a richly decorated copy of the four Gospels.
• 5pm–7pm (every 30 mins) Hidden Histories: Researching the Treasures of the Library Join library experts Susie Bioletti, Marco di Bella, Andrew Megaw, and Felicity O’Mahoney in the exhibition area and discover how they research, interpret and conserve the treasures of the Library. Get an insight into the imagery, materials and techniques that were used to produce our most precious early manuscripts, such as the Book of Kells. Take a look down a microscope at the tell-tale characteristics of parchment and leather, and handle some of the raw materials used to create, and to conserve, the early book structures. Take a closer look at the detail and learn about the meanings hidden in the decoration.
• 7pm–8pm Reconstructing The Past (The Long Room) From meteor impacts to ancient scrolls, join us for a storytelling event in Trinity’s iconic Long Room that reveals the different ways researchers look to the past. Featuring geologist Ian Sanders on reconstructing our planet’s ancient past, zoologist Nicola Marples on understanding the evolution of life, geneticist Dan Bradley on decoding humanity’s past by looking at our DNA, and archivist Jane Maxwell on uncovering and protecting the artefacts of human culture.

• 5pm–8pm (every 30 mins) Research in the Everything Library What does it mean to have the entire published universe of two jurisdictions, the UK and Ireland, at your ngertips? What kind of research is needed in order to help researchers navigate this universe? See how a book ends up in the catalogue, how researchers can read library materials without ever setting foot in a library building, how electronic publications are collected, and how even transient web pages are captured for posterity.

• 11am–6pm Exhibition See a new body of work by Irish photographer Samuel Laurence Cunnane, taken on a recent journey through the Balkans, Turkey, and Iran, and a selection of textiles from the Atlas region of Morocco.
• 5pm–5.30pm Lift Film Screening Screening of the documentary short Lift, the debut lm by acclaimed director Marc Isaacs. Entirely shot within the elevator of a London tower block, his interactions with the inhabitants, at times amusing and poignant, form a microcosm of the multicultural city.