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Short Bio.

Elisa Fadda obtained her PhD in 2004 from the Department of Chemistry at the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Prof. Dennis R. Salahub. From May 2004 to May 2008, EF worked as a post-doctoral fellow in Dr Régis Pomès group in Molecular Structure and Function at the Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids) Research Institute in Toronto. From June 2008 until May 2013 EF worked as a research associate and honorary research lecturer in Prof Robert J. Woods group in the School of Chemistry at NUI Galway. In 2013 EF was awarded a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from the Centre for Learning and Teaching (CELT) at NUI Galway. Since August 2013 EF has been working first as an Assistant Lecturer (2013-2014) and then as a Lecturer (2014-present) in the Department of Chemistry at Maynooth University. 

Current Lab Members.

​Matthew Nixon (2015)

PhD Candidate, "Design and development of tumor marker-specific peptides"

Aoife Harbison (2016)

PhD Candidate, "Computationally guided engineering of alpha-L-fucosidases: Fine tuning a new bioreagent for diagnostics applications"

Former Students.

​Undergraduate 4th year project students (Maynooth U.):

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Edward Buckley (S.II 2014-15)

Amie Deamer (S.I 2016-17)

Keith Fenlon (S.I 2016-17)

Killian Gavin (S.II 2016-17)

Aoife Harbison (S.I 2015-16)

Shauna Hanlon (S.II 2014-15)

Philip Hanley (S.II 2015-16)

Louise McElwain (S.I 2013-14)

Glenn McGrath (S.II 2014-15)

Ciarán Treacy (S.I 2014-15)

Cian Williams (S.II 2015-2016)

Summer students:

Klaudia Dyrda (2015)

Former PostGraduate Students.

​Students and postdocs Dr. Fadda supervised at NUI Galway as a Senior Research Associate in Prof. R.J. Woods lab (2008-2013):

Oliver C. Grant (PhD 2013)

Joanne C. Martin (PhD 2013)

 

Dr Natasha Wood

Natasha was a visiting postdoc from the South African Molecular Bioinformatics Institute (SAMBI) working in a collaborative project with Dr Simon Travers (SAMBI) 

 

 

Students supervised under the SFI UREKA "MolRec" Programme (2009-2011)

 

  • Tomás Gallagher

  • Andrzej Galinski

  • Paul Romer 

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