PROBE Programme of Events on 27.09.19

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• 5pm–9pm Terms and Conditions Apply to all of us Roisin Costello’s research examines how online terms and conditions impact the privacy and property rights of European citizens. I examine the terms individuals agree to when they click "accept" or "I agree" to access online services and ask how we can change our understanding of consumer protection to ensure that when we click on these buttons we do not forfeit our privacy or property rights. My research contextualises the need for this change in understanding as a result not only of the individual impacts on individual rights but also the democratic impacts of large scale losses of privacy and property rights and how such losses erode the rule of law.
• 5pm–9pm Language matters: Should I stay or should I go? Language helps us process information; fear stops us from processing it efficiently. If information is provided in a language we don’t understand, we are at risk in crisis or risky situations, not knowing whether we should stay put or literally run for our lives. Translation is therefore essential for crisis settings as it can save lives or reduce negative outcomes. The H2020 INTERACT project seeks to understand the role of translation in preparing for and responding to crises. The importance of translation is sometimes overlooked in Anglo-centric populations, so our demonstration seeks to bring home to those who normally have information at their fingertips how crucial it is to have translated information too.
• 5pm–9pm Cancer Digital Pathology This exciting and emerging field involves digitising microscope slides routinely used for both cancer diagnostics and research. Following digitisation, sophisticated Image analysis software and cutting edge AI can be used to get a more in depth understanding of patient tumour samples, with the hope they will eventually be used for cancer diagnosis in the future as well as helping to guide patient treatment.
• 5pm–9pm Smoking, TB and the Immune System Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious disease killer globally, resulting in up to 10 million people becoming sick with the disease each year according to the World health Organisation. Although the majority of these cases occur in low or middle-income countries, in Ireland there are up to 400 cases of active TB disease each year. Smoking is a major risk factor for the development of TB and smokers take longer drug treatment to clear the infection. Despite being a treatable and curable disease, TB is a global epidemic in urgent need of improved drugs and vaccine. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the causative agent of the disease and is transmitted from person to person by inhalation. The bacteria find a niche and persist in the lung despite the immune response mechanisms of the host. Our research group look at the early immune events in the lung cells of infected people to identify ways to fight and eliminate the bacteria. We have shown how the lung cells from smokers fail to produce an efficient immune response to Mtb infection. By gaining a better understanding of how the bacteria avoids the immune response we can contribute to the development of new TB treatments.
• 5pm–9pm Catalytic Computation In the Computational Catalysis & Energy Materials (CCEM) group, they use advanced computational methods to provide a detailed understanding of catalytic reactions at the atomic scale. The group also aims at using this detailed knowledge to rationally design novel catalysts with a predicted superior performance for a wide range of chemical processes relevant to industry or sustainable energy.
• 5pm–9pm Illuminating Manuscripts! Laura McCloskey’s research explores the design origins of manuscript illumination in Ireland in the early Christian period, particularly as is evident in the Book of Durrow and the Book of Kells, and takes an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, uniting archaeology, theology, and art history to help explain the multi-layered meanings of decorations found within these manuscripts. Far from being mere textual ornament, these images had both didactic and spiritual functions, aiding in memorization of the bible and facilitating a meditative encounter with the divine.
• 5pm–9pm How do you work? "Just Asking…" is the working title of Katja Riegler’s research project that focuses on German polymath Alexander Kluge and his specific interview style – specific in terms of the setting where the conversations take place, and in terms of the sort of questions he is asking. Quite often, his questions are confusing, they break the flow of thoughts of his interlocutor and cause unexpected turns throughout the dialogue. This way of asking stands in contrast to the so-called Socratic Method whose aim is to guide the conversation partner to logical conclusions through the right questions. So, what does Kluge gain by NOT staying on the path of – supposed – logic? The concrete example she wants to examine is his often covered topic "Work/Labour". From her point of view, this is a very important topic of our time in which work/labour and what people expect from their jobs are changing rapidly. Therefore, we want to interview people of all age groups and from all socio-cultural spheres with two different kinds of questionnaires - one of them akin to Kluge’s approach.
• 5pm–9pm Radon Investigations Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas. It emanates from the ground, water and building materials. Indoors, radon may accumulate to hazardous levels. Inhalation of radon and its daughter products is associated with lung cancer. In fact globally, radon exposure is the second highest cause of lung cancer after tobacco smoking. In Ireland, around 300 people develop lung cancer resulting from radon exposure at home. Survival rates are less than 25% after 5 years, so in Ireland radon exposure results in a larger number of fatalities than road traffic accidents. Quentin Crowley’s research provides innovative solutions to radon mapping and modelling, strives to better understand the decision making process surrounding radon testing and remediation, and informs legislation to protect the general public against the harmful effects of ionising radiation. Meabh Hughes is analysing geochemical links to Ireland’s highest radon anomaly which is near Castleisland Co.Kerry. Radon is the second leading cause of lung-cancer, after tobacco smoking globally. She is collecting radon gas samples in the soil, soil permeability measurements and comparing these with geochemistry of the soil to better understand the anomaly. The results should help make cost-effective decisions with regard to the National Action Plan for reducing cancer risks.
• 5pm–9pm X-ray crystallography X-ray crystallography is a technique used to characterize the 3D shape of proteins. This allows us to understand protein function and also the mechanisms of drug or antibody binding. Here we use X-ray crystallography to study immunosignaling proteins, which are important medical targets for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer.
• 5pm-9pm Neurogenomics X-ray crystallography is a technique used to characterize the 3D shape of proteins. This allows us to understand protein function and also the mechanisms of drug or antibody binding. Here we use X-ray crystallography to study immunosignaling proteins, which are important medical targets for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer.
• 5pm-9pm Writing Computer Culture: How authors shaped the way we see digital technologies Did you know that one of the first Artificial Intelligence prototypes was sponsored by a poet? Or that the idea of hypertext, leading to the World Wide Web, was inspired by a Romantic visionary text? Or that writers were experimenting with computers since the early Sixties, when the machines were 6-foot high and you need to wear a lab coat to use them? Come and learn how bookworms and computer geeks exchanged notes and inspired each other more than you expect.
• 5pm-9pm Technology Mediated Physical Education As children grow, they undergo loco-motor and cognitive development and acquire skills and abilities matched to their developmental stage. Correlations between gross-motor and cognitive development, for instance walking and language learning in infants, have been reported. This insinuate loco-motor development echoes on cognitive development and hence, a delay on the first may impact on a child’s potential to learn. Commonly, concerns with loco-motor development are raised by parents or diagnosed by healthcare professionals. Motion gesture detection gaming technologies, such Microsoft Kinect, may be used to screen and monitor gross-motor skills in developing children. However, challenges regarding: 1. the accuracy of these sensors to detect the gestures of young children and; 2. the design of game-like tasks which provide clear instructions and flexible virtual environments that adapt to the real-world; remain. As a result, a set of interactive activities are designed and developed to make children aged 2-7 years old perform loco-motor skills such as jump, hop and run, matched to their developmental stage.
• 5pm-9pm Empower People: Become a citizen scientist and make Ireland more accessible Planning without all the necessary information can be an exceptionally difficult endeavour especially when moving through life with any form of accessibility need. Access Earth lets you know before you go about the accessibility of places to shop, stay, eat and experience. But it needs citizen scientists just like you, to help map accessibility information across the world. All you need is a smartphone, a little time and a desire to make a difference. Access Earth will be kicking off a week-long mapping campaign at Probe and need you to get involved: Rate and validate the accessibility data of the most venues between September 27th - October 4th to be in with a chance to win some great prizes; Come by our stand and the Access Earth team will get you all set up; Can’t join us at PROBE? You can still take part; make sure you join ‘ERN19’. Find all the info you need at http://access.earth/

• 5pm-9pm What is Cancer? Using safe items from the lab we’ll explore what cancer is (and what it isn’t!), and the ways in which current cancer treatments work. This will be a very hands-on display, featuring models of the various tissues and molecules involved.
• 5pm-9pm The Neureka App: Using Games to Detect Signals of Brain Health Neureka is a smartphone app from a group of scientists at the Global Brain Health Institute and Trinity Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), who are trying to uncover new ways to detect and prevent disorders of brain health like Dementia and Depression. The app contains games which are designed to detect signals, so called ‘cognitive markers’, of Brain health from those who play them. In this interactive workshop we will have smartphones/tablets available for you to play our games-“Canon Blast”, “Memory Match” and “Star Racer” which are designed to test mental abilities such as planning, memory and cognitive flexibility. Members of the Neureka team will be on hand to explain the science behind the games and how we aim to use them to conduct one of the biggest neuroscience studies of all time. So please do come along and try out our games, we’d love to hear your thoughts!
• 5pm-9pm TRACT: TRAining in Cancer mechanisms and Therapeutics - Marie Sklodowska Curie Action The overall aim of TRACT is to integrate basic and applied research in three related themes in order to deliver new diagnostic & prognostic tools and therapeutic approaches for patients with oral and oesophageal cancer (OOC). In order to address current needs in OOC, the TRACT research training programme carries out high-quality research in three interconnected thematic areas: Biomarker Discovery, Molecular Resistance Mechanisms, Metabolic Transformation Mechanisms. As Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), we particularly concentrate our research efforts on the two most common sub-types of OOC, oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC). Our TRACT team will engage with the public and spread the word about oral and oesophageal cancer. We will talk about the novel advances we have already made on the TRACT programme, we will advise people on how to maintain good oral hygiene, and inform them of symptoms of oral and oesophageal cancers, urging them to contact their dentist/doctor with anything they’re worried about. We will also have the opportunity to show people what a cancer tongue biopsy looks like under the microscope and we are more than happy to answer questions!
• 5pm-9pm Microbial Fuel Cells This research lies at the frontier of CATALYSIS, FUEL CELLS and MATERIAL SCIENCE and are targeted on the development of catalysts with low impact on the environment and human health. Winner of Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship grant (MSCA-IF-EF-ST) with the project titled: “HiBriCarbon”. This project seeks to realise a new hybrid biotic and abiotic catalyst, based on functionalised carbon based nanomaterials.Learn how to produce a working "potato battery" by using wires, led lights and potatoes. Then learn about the world of fuel cells they work by examining a working microbial fuel cell prototype.
• 5pm-9pm Manual Override We have developed a team-based computer game (four can play at once), called Manual Override, to illustrate the basic concepts of complex systems, which is at the heart of telecommunications networks. This game challenges participants to reduce the amount of interference in a communications network while racing against the clock.
• 5pm-9pm DNAwesome! Using household materials, extract the DNA from strawberries and learn about its amazing structure and properties!
• 5pm-9pm Star Spotting Join the Astrophysics team and learn about exoplanets, massive stars, stellar winds and transient objects, as well as more about the newly opened Irish Low Frequency Array (I-LOFAR) telescope. There will also be demonstrations of the Star Spotting App, developed by researchers in Sweden and being showcased as part of a collaboration for European Researchers night.
• 5pm-9pm 3d Printing, Tissue engineering and medical devices Visit this spot to have a look at some 3D printers actively printing medical devices. People will have the chance to take 3D printed token trolleys. We will have models of the heart and will explain how heart disease occurs, what causes it and examples of medical devices used to treat heart disease. We will also have a microscope present where people can look at heart cells.
• 5pm-9pm Potential Energy: Battery technology of the future Have you ever wondered why the battery in your mobile phone, or other tech, starts to decline over its lifespan? Join AMBER to find out how nanomaterials can improve the amount of energy a rechargeable battery can store, their life span, and how solving the battery challenge could help us find solutions for climate change. Audiences can meet researchers working in this cutting edge area of research, learn about circuits, and take their own device to take home: a little squeezy torch in an all ages hands-on activity.
• 5pm-9pm Plague Cures Dr. Kathleen Miller will showcase her research by demonstrating the preparation of a popular early modern plague cure, Dr Burges’ Plague Cure, which was shared widely in manuscript and print recipe books, many of them composed by women. Attendees will have the opportunity to examine and learn more about the recipe’s individual ingredients, which include rue and sage, as well as view facsimiles of the recipe as it appeared in a range of women’s manuscripts, printed recipe books and domestic manuals. This hands-on showcase invites participants to consider women’s essential role in delivering medical care in the domestic sphere, as well as how women engaged in and shaped medical discourse in early modern England. By observing the preparation of the plague cure, participants can consider the practical issues associated with domestic medical care in early modern England, such as the challenges surrounding the acquisition of ingredients and the preservation of medicines.
• 5pm-9pm Plasmonics LEDS Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are ubiquitous in modern society, they are used in low power lighting in our homes, lights on our bikes and in the displays on our mobile phones. In this demo, visitors will be able to view their phones under a microscope to see individual light emitting diodes that emit light from tiny volumes in their phone displays. Trinity researchers are interested in reversing this process to trap light in tiny volumes for applications in solar energy harvesting and next-generation optoelectronics.
• 5pm-9pm Star Spotting Come and participate in a Citizen Science project to measure the quality of our night skies, and add to a survey of lighting in your locality using simple tools and apps. Both projects will provide information for our Irish light pollution research studies and contribute to protecting our remaining dark sky areas.
• 5pm-9pm The European Solar Telescope The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a pan-European project to build a revolutionary next-generation 4-metre class solar telescope, to be located in the Canary Islands, Spain. It will use state-of-the-art instruments with incredibly high resolution to study the Sun’s atmosphere in more detail than ever before. The Solar and Space Weather Research Group at Trinity and DIAS is involved in the planning of the EST and will be there to tell you all about it and the research they do in solar physics and space weather.
• 5pm-9pm I-LOFAR: Exploring the Radio Universe from Ireland The Irish LOw Frequency ARray (I-LOFAR) is a radio telescope in Birr, Co. Offaly in the Midlands of Ireland. Operating since 2017, it is used to study many things in space including explosions on the Sun and pulsars. It becomes even more powerful when connected to the international LOFAR telescope network stretching across Europe. This is used to study galaxies, how stars are formed, and understand what the early universe was like. Come along to talk to I-LOFAR researchers, find out more about the cutting edge astrophysics research happening right here in Ireland, and make a model of a pulsar! Twitter: @I_LOFAR Facebook/Instagram: @lofarireland

• 5pm-9pm CONTEXT & Spirasi To celebrate PROBE and the European Research Night 2019, the CONTEXT* research consortium presents a series of artworks depicting its goal of conducting innovative and vital research in the field of global psycho-traumatology. In addition to highlighting the individual lived experiences of trauma at the centre of this research, CONTEXT works towards building capacity and expertise with direct translational utility across three priority populations in Europe: asylum seekers and refugees, emergency service personnel and humanitarian first responders, and survivors and perpetrators of childhood- and gender- based violence. The first artwork is by CONTEXT fellow and artist Ida Haar Pederson and represents these three populations. The remaining artworks are a series of self portraits by the artist Hichem which convey the lived experiences of, and responses to, personal trauma. Hichem is currently living in Direct Provision in Ireland and is represented by Spirasi. Collaborators: CONTEXT research group, Natacha O’Brien, Spirasi Hichem * CONTEXT has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 722523
• 5pm-9pm MSCA Corner The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) provide grants for all stages of researchers’ careers - be they doctoral candidates or highly experienced researchers - and encourage transnational, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility. The MSCA enable research-focused organisations (universities, research centres, and companies) to host talented foreign researchers and to create strategic partnerships with leading institutions worldwide. The MSCA aim to equip researchers with the necessary skills and international experience for a successful career, either in the public or the private sector. The programme responds to the challenges sometimes faced by researchers, offering them attractive working conditions and the opportunity to move between academic and other settings. The MSCA are open to all domains of research and innovation, from fundamental research to market take-up and innovation services. Research and innovation fields are chosen freely by the applicants (individuals and/or organisations) in a fully bottom-up manner. Dr Geraldine Canny is Head of the Irish Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office and she’s joining us for the evening to help to illuminate the various programmes involved.

Join us at the Main Stage, for “What's the Story?” An evening where researchers have been invited to tell stories about their work, what fascinates, frustrates and drives them. Expect stories about Mammoths, The Arms trade, Extracellular Vesicles, Quantum mechanics, Atheism, Chemical Engineering, Transport and so much more!

Reception area or Galbraith seminar room 

Ongoing – audience drop in

Marco Alfano

Effective care plans always require the medical expertise of medical professionals complemented with the equally important expertise of patients about their priorities, concerns, goals and traditions. To this end, a research project on patient empowerment is being carried out at Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre. The project is developing three applications that facilitate acquisition, comprehension and learning of health information and lead to patient empowerment. The first one, helps patients/citizens in finding the most relevant health information on the Internet in terms of language complexity, information quality and information classification. The second one helps them to understand medical texts (through translation of medical terminology in lay terms. The third application helps users to create personalized medical learning on the Web. Their use enables patients/citizens to take control of their health care needs and leads to an increase of their freedom/autonomy. It involves a paradigm shift from a person who just expresses his/her health conditions and “passively” accepts and “automatically” follows a therapy/treatment received by a medical professional (and today/tomorrow by an AI device) to a fully empowered person who acts together with professionals and technology in making and operating the best and most informed choices. 

Neill lecture Theatre

These events will run in a cycle restarting every 45mins

Dawn Seymour Klos (4 mins long – music video)
Did women have rights in the Middle Ages? This short music video will display actual writs, cases, and contracts drafted or commissioned by women in the thirteenth-century. Women regularly appeared in court despite English Common Law’s mandate they be represented by an attorney or husband. Many of the cases and comments on thirteenth-century law mirror modern issues in the struggle for women’s rights globally. While the imagery and text displayed in the video is medieval, the song is a modern call to action for gender equality. Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato’s ‘Fall in Line’ shares thematic and culturally upheld sentiments from both the thirteenth-century and present day.

Ema Vyroubalova & Shauna O'Brien (15 mins)

Shakespeare has become a global phenomenon -- his plays have been translated into over 80 languages and literally performed across the globe in virtually all known languages. The area of Global Shakespeare studies examines how Shakespeare’s plays have traveled around the world in stage productions, literary adaptations, and films, particularly the during the 20th and 21st centuries. Scholars working in it consider how many of these adaptations combine aesthetic and political concerns and agendas and how they incorporate elements of literary, dramatic, and cinematic traditions from around the world. I have been especially interested in how these productions and films approach the issue of linguistic difference and how they make themselves accessible to audiences who might not understand the languages that they are originally made in. Dr. Shauna O'Brien's research focuses on Shakespeare productions in the Persian-speaking regions of Iran and Afghanistan, exploring issues of censorship and gender on stage.

Dr Sylvie Kleinman (20 mins)

Madeleine ffrench-Mullen’s 1916 prison diary: writing for self, writing for Ireland

Imprisoned for almost 40 days after the Easter Rising, Madeleine furtively wrote a diary, hiding random scraps of paper and pencil stubs in her clothes. She looked back to the failed revolution, forward to the Irish Republic, and recorded her thoughts and reactions to the present. 

Her prose meanders between the pondered and the emotive, observations are astute, yet this precious testimony to an assertion of self has never been published. Time was seized and frozen on paper, history had been made. Despondency swiftly lead to resolute calm, and acceptance of her fate, then outbursts of cynical humour shed light on her character. Virtually no other writings of hers have survived, and that this diary survived is in itself a miracle, for the house she lived in with Kathleen Lynn for 30 years had been raided.

Transcribing, editing and footnoting the text for publication has been straight forward. But an ordered, academically-robust printed transcript only partially conveys the emotionally-charged energy of the diary. My hands-on presentation will ask participants to engage with and react to facsimiles of the original mismatched sheets, and comment on this creativity in captivity. 

How to make a Comet (5-6pm, suitable for all ages)

Comets are icy, rocky bodies that and are usually identifiable by their long sweeping tails as they orbit the Sun. These tails are produced by gasses that are released as the comet melts as it heats up in the inner solar system, and have made comets celestial objects that have been observed since ancient times by many different cultures. We will replicate the formation of comets by taking their base building blocks, water (ice), dirt, ammonia and organic material.

Moon Craters

The moon is covered in permanent scars that can tell us about the lunar history. These scars are craters, caused by impacts of meteors and asteroids, and left untouched for eons by the lack of erosion and atmosphere on the moon. We can demonstrate how these craters are formed and this helps us understand the lunar history and its geology by exposing different layers of the lunar surface.

Rocket Science

Rockets employ a fundamental concept to produce thrust. It is this thrust that allows rockets to launch from the surface of the Earth into orbit and to manoeuvre and propel themselves in space without friction. Although true rockets use complex chemical reactions to achieve extreme levels of thrust to get them into orbit, the concept can be demonstrated using a balloon and airflow!

Planetary bodies in 3D and space rocks - meteorites and space rock analogues (6-6.30pm)

In this event be prepared to experience planetary bodies and their surface features in 3D. You will be seeing 3D models and anaglyph 3D images from various NASA and ESA Earth and Planetary missions. You will also be able to feel cool space rocks and their analogues from Earth in your hands.

An observing experience (6.30-7pm)

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a professional astronomer, and have to travel to some of the most remote places in the world to use a telescope? In this talk I will share my experience of observing at ESO's La Silla facility, located at an altitude of 2500m on the outskirts of the Atacama desert in Chile.

Gravitational waves: the new era of multi-messenger astronomy (7-7.30pm)

In this talk Dr. Kate Maguire will discuss the excitement surrounding the recent detections of gravitational waves -- the elusive ripples in the fabric of spacetime that led to the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017. She will also talk about how the longstanding mystery of how gold is formed may now be answered through the first detections of the smashing together of two neutron stars in the distant Universe.

Stellarium: a glimpse of the sky tonight (7.30-8pm)

Stellarium is a free software package that can be used to identify observable stellar objects in the sky at any time. We will use Stellarium to discover the most interesting objects in the sky during the PROBE research night. We will talk about their properties and how they move in our sky. Weather permitting, some of these objects will be observable with our own telescope at the School of Physics, Fitzgerald building. 

Tour of the Monck Observatory on the roof of the Fitzgerald Building (clear sky dependent, 8-10pm, last tour starting at 9.30pm)

Sign up for tickets here : https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/probe-2019-astrophysics-tours-tickets-72366623519

This tour will take place at half hour intervals during the evening. Groups of 8 maximum will be escorted to the roof of the Fitzgerald building and brought into the observatory to view the sky through the 12” telescope. Unfortunately due to the nature of this activity, we cannot accommodate children under the age of 7. All minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian and all visitors must be escorted at all times. Please arrive 10mins early.

Global Brain Health Institute – Shaping Our Brains to Build Brain Health

Sign up for tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/probe-2019-shaping-our-brains-to-build-brain-health-tickets-72482193191

1. Session: 5.30-5.45

2. Session: 6.00-6.15

3. Session: 6.30-6.45

4. Session: 7.00-7.15

Our brain structure and function is hugely affected by our environment and our interactions with that environment. Light of one wavelength can make us mentally sharper, while that of another can help us relax and zone out, for example. Stress from the environment can deplete our mental abilities by its effects on our brain’s neurons. But we also create the environments that shape our brain function and so can indirectly shape our own brain health in this way.

The Global Brain Health Institute (www.gbhi.org), located in Trinity College Institute of  neuroscience (www.tcd.ie/neuroscience), trains fellows from 37 countries to devise methods and policies that can shape the brains of millions of people by building brain healthy environments. We will show the effects of different environments on brain function, including colour environments, using the very striking, immersive media ceiling. We will also show how the colour of the ceiling changes in line with the brain activity of someone who is connected to the ceiling by an EEG (electroencephalography) system, showing how we shape our environments as well as vice-versa.

TBSI - Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute

As part of the European Researchers Night Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute is opening its doors on September 27th!

Please join Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute researchers for a variety of guided Behind the Scenes lab visits, ‘show & tell’ activities and games! We invite you to meet with researchers from broad Biomedical Science backgrounds. During this evening, we will promote how TBSI researchers contribute to our society by displaying their work in an interactive and engaging format.

This is public event is a part of PROBE 2019 which is dedicated to bringing researchers closer to the public. It will showcase the diversity of our research and highlight the impact this research hason our daily lives. The aim is to motivate young people to embark on research careers. Friends, family and budding junior science enthusiasts are welcome!

Please note that this is a free but ticketed event so please register here. Contact Dr. Hayley Furlong (hfurlong@tcd.ie) for more information.

Date: September 27th Time: 5- 8 pm  Location TBSI, Pearse Street

Time	Activity	Topic	Location	Researcher
PM
17:00- 20:00	Foyer for Activities and Interactive Demonstrations
		The Essential Metals of Life	Stand 1	McDonald
		Extracellular Vesicles	Stand 2	O'Driscoll
		Brain waves: a window into the mind	Stand 3	Cunningham
		Take a look inside your body	Stand 4	Caldwell
		Know your own strength	Stand 5	Caldwell
		The wonder of our nerves	Stand 6	Caldwell
		Vaccine Game Work-shop	Stand 7	Sheedy
		State of the (HE)ART	Stand 8	Lally
		Oral & Oesophageal Cancer	Stand 9	Creagh
		Getting under your skin	Stand 10	Fletcher
		Viruses & Infection	Stand 11	O'Farrelly
		Who is behind renal inflammation?	Stand 12	Little
		Macrophages: Guardians of the Body	Stand 13	Downer
17:30-19:45	Guided Lab Tours (15 mins each)
Time	Activity	Topic	Location	Researcher
17:30	Lab Tour	The Essential Metals of Life	Lab #1	McDonald
17:50	Lab Tour	Extracellular Vesicles	Lab #2	O'Driscoll
18:10	Lab Tour	Oral & Oesophageal Cancer	Lab #3	Creagh
18:30	Lab Tour	Viruses & Infection	Lab #4	O'Farrelly
18:50	Lab Tour	Brain & Neurological Disease	Lab #5	Hardiman/Nasseroleslami
19:10	Lab Tour	Diet, immune cells and cancer	Lab #6	Lynch
19:45	Event Close

 

Under the Surface is an intimate theatre performance, designed for three spectators. The piece is part the artist’s PhD research, revolving around how technology offers new ways to see our bodies beyond what our eyes can usually capture. During the 15-minute performance, the spectators are invited to see the performer’s body through the mediation of technology and hopefully get a glimpse of what lies underneath. This work was funded by CONICYT-PFCHA/Doctorado Nacional/2017- 21170002. Not suitable for underage audiences.

Book your free tickets here.

Mauricio Quevedo is a Chilean theatre practitioner. His professional experience and training range from actor to director to academic. He has performed and directed in productions in Chile, Canada and England. Among his most important works are his intermedial staging of Heinner Müller’s Hamletmachine (2012) and the cyberformance of Patrick Leroux’s Embedded (2013), which was performed in an apartment and streamed live on the Internet. He is currently finishing his PhD at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, researching how new technologies can be incorporated into live performance and offer a view of the performers body beyond the skin.