1/3 Cutting edge gene editing practicals ensure that our #Biology students are equipped with the very latest #skills- practicals carried out under the guidance of Andrew McDowell. Bento Lab 🧬 Study At Ulster Life & Health Sciences James Dooley Rachelle Irwin

Interesting that the acne-associated bacterium Cutibacterium acnes has been linked to AD in this paper! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Exciting work from Dr James Reihill QUB Pharmacy School discussing deubiquitinases as novel therapeutic targets to modulate ion channel function in CF. #UKCFC Cystic Fibrosis Trust UK Research and Innovation

It was great to catch up with the Ulster University #AMR colony to mark World Health Organization (WHO) World AMR Awareness Week #WAAW2023. A great bunch of ECRs and supervisors working with a #OneHealth focus to #KeepAntibioticsWorking 🦠💊

🌟 Can you treat #acne with... #phages?! 🌟 🔬 I'm very happy to share an update on an acne treatment research I'm leading at the School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. This project is part of the Innovate UK funded program #ICURe Discover. #InnovateUKFunded

Intracerebroventricular Cutibacterium acnes generates manifestations of Alzheimer's disease-like pathology. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

1/2 Another year of impressive CRISPR-Cas gene editing by our year 2 BSc (Hon) Biology students on their Biotech module. They cut the lacZ gene in E. coli and introduced a premature stop codon using HDR leading to a change of blue (wild type) to white colonies Biomedical Sciences

2/2 It was also another opportunity to use our set of Bento Lab 🧬 to genotype the lacZ edits by multiplex PCR Rachelle Irwin

Our first summer UGenie funded by the Garfield Weston Trust will run from 5th-9th August 2024 on the Coleraine campus. Open to all year 13 pupils and those studying BTEC level 3 in Applied Science. Applications at link below. ulster.ac.uk/study/undergra…

Interesting study. Also discusses the previous TCGA 'cancer microbiome' flaws centered on human-derived false positives and normalisation. No matched healthy tissue though Niamh Buckley A pan-cancer analysis of the microbiome in metastatic cancer: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Final year students heard about our exciting MSc Biotechnology Research course launching Sept 2024. Course Director, Dr Andrew McDowell Andrew McDowell, outlined cutting edge advances & innovative project opportunities. To find out more contact Dr McDowell: [email protected]

Day 2 of UGenie 2024 and our students are already creating their CRISPR gene knockouts ⁦Biomedical Sciences⁩!

The Microbiota Lab lab NICHE has a PhD opportunity to study the effect of microplastics on the human microbiota. If interested please DM for more information. ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcolleg…

Great opportunity for CPD training in molecular biology. Suitable for Biology teachers and Head of Departments.

We are now delighted to announce that UGenie 2025, funded by the Garfield Weston Trust, is open for applications. Deadline is 1st May 2025. Applications and further information on the event can be found at the link below Biomedical Sciences Study At Ulster ulster.ac.uk/study/undergra…

UGenie 2025 is now in full flow. Our students have already generated CRISPR gene knockouts in E . coli and are now preparing their edited samples for multiplex PCR analysis on Bento Labs. UGenie (Ulster Gene Editing Academy) Biomedical Sciences Bento Lab 🧬.

Ah, so exciting!!! Secondary students preparing CRISPR knockouts for multiplex PCR!! I would have absolutely died to be a part of the UGenie summer school when I was a teenager.

Penultimate day of UGenie 2025, and we had a fantastic career's morning with inspiring talks from recent graduates and PhD students Biomedical Sciences on their educational journeys to date.

We also had presentations from our course directors Alison Yeates and Rachelle Irwin on Biology and Biomedical Science UG degree courses Biomedical Sciences, and an excellent talk from employability consultant Siobhan Johnston.

After their career's morning, our UGenie students spent the afternoon analyzing multiplex PCR products from their CRISPR knockout strains using Bento Lab 🧬. As always, using their phones to take pics of the gels through the portable imaging hood was a big hit!