Who will teach the course?
The programme is organised and will be delivered by staff from across the Departments of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Biochemistry, and Microbiology.
Who is the programme coordinator?
The directors of the course for the year 2012/13 are Dr Avril Coghlan and Professor Douwe van Sinderen, Department of Microbiology.
In which research group could I do my project work?
Students participating in the course will carry out a research project in a research group in UCC or in an external university, research institute or industry. There are many research groups active in the field of bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology in UCC which may supervise research students, such as the research groups of:
- Dr Avril Coghlan, Department of Microbiology - supervised students in 2010, 2011
- Dr Paul O'Toole, Department of Microbiology
- Prof. Douwe van Sinderen, Department of Microbiology
- Prof. Mark Achtman/Dr Angela McCann, Department of Microbiology - supervised students in 2011
- Dr John Morrissey, Department of Microbiology - supervised students in 2010
- Dr Teresa Barbosa, Department of Microbiology - supervised students in 2010
- Dr David Clarke, Department of Microbiology - supervised students in 2010, 2011
- Dr Fergal O'Gara/Dr Jerry Reen, Department of Microbiology - supervised students in 2011
- Prof. Colin Hill/Dr Maire Begley, Department of Microbiology - supervised students in 2011
- Prof. Alan Dobson/Dr Jonathan Kennedy, Department of Microbiology - supervised students in 2011
- Dr Ken Nally/Dr Ailis Fagan, Department of Medicine - supervised students in 2011
- Dr Pasha Baranov, Department of Biochemistry - supervised students in 2010, 2011
- Prof. John Atkins, Department of Biochemistry - supervised students in 2011
- Dr Paul Young, Department of Biochemistry - supervised students in 2010
- Dr Tony Fitzgerald, Department of Statistics
- Dr Kingshuk Roychoudhury, Department of Statistics
- Dr Greg Provan, Department of Computer Science - supervised students in 2011
- Dr John Herbert, Department of Computer Science - supervised students in 2010
- Dr Damien Thompson, Department of Chemistry - supervised students in 2011
Please note that this is not an exhaustive group, but is intended to give a sample of the research groups in which
students may carry out their research projects.
Some students have carried out their projects in external research institutes, for example:
For more information about the research projects carried out by our students,
see this website.
Any questions?
For questions relating to this course, please contact Dr. Avril Coghlan at a.coghlan@ucc.ie.
