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National University of Ireland Galway - Ryan Institute (NUIG-RI)

Overview

The Ryan Institute is a cross-cutting Research Institute of NUI Galway with research groups drawn from all Colleges across NUI Galway. Its internationally-renowned expertise spans the sciences, engineering, socio-economics and health. Advancing sustainability and innovation is central to the research activities of the Ryan Institute's Research Centres/Clusters and Research Groups. The Ryan Institute is comprised of 12 Research Centres/Clusters spanning the four thematic research areas:

  1. Marine & Coastal
  2. Energy & Climate Change
  3. Agriculture & BioEconomy
  4. Environment & Health

Ecosystems

  • Seagrass (Zostera) beds
  • Maerl beds
  • Tidal rapids
  • Sedimentary habitats
  • Rocky habitats

 

Experimental facilities

  • Dry laboratories (On-site service)​​​​​​​
    • Light microscopes, fume hoods, freeze drier

 

Technology platforms

  • Structure and chemical analysis (On-site service)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
    • Purification by HPLC and structure elucidation by NMR (500 and 600MHz) HRMS and Circular Dichroism of all families of specialised metabolites from marine organisms
  • Molecular biology and omics (On-site service)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
    • Population and evolutionary genetics, including DNA extraction and PCR, with outsourced Sanger sequencing. These facilities have been applied to a range of taxa including cnidarians, cephalopods, fishes and sponges, with sufficient in-house expertise to tackle most groups.
  • Other technology platforms (On-site service)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
    • Inductively Coupled Plasma. Mass Spectrometry, ICP-MS. The design includes a Class 6 and 7 clean room facilities for the preparation and analysis of samples for ultra-trace elemental analysis.
       

 

Acronym: 
NUIG-RI
Address: 
National University of Ireland Galway
Martin Ryan Marine Science Institute
Galway
Ireland
E-mail: 
Liaison officer: Mark Johnson ( ), cc to: 

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