EnviroCore

18/12/2025

With South East Technological University – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 13 months in a row. 🎉

18/12/2025

Last week we had the pleasure to run our traditional by now Christmas Research Seminar. It is always delightful to see the progress of our postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students and intern, in topics ranging from the development of sustainable biomaterials, sustainable management of weeds in agroecosystems, biological control in forestry, developing heritage wheat varieties, bringing added value to Irish grains, to the application of analyses of nematode communities to peatland restoration efforts, to soil health in built environments and to the development of sustainable fertilisers.
Many thanks to all our petals for their great work and efforts, to our University South East Technological University Dept of Applied Science Carlow and funding bodies Interreg North-West Europe (NWE), Research Ireland, Higher Education Authority, Teagasc, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Green Restoration Ireland for their support that enables us to do our research and help develop the next generation of scientists in the field.

30/10/2025

30/10/2025

enviroCORE saw six new Doctors of Philosophy of Science emerging in the recent graduation ceremonies on our campus! Years of hard work, scholarly excellence and innovation, in topics ranging from human and soil health, to water quality, brewing and distilling, novel biomaterials and healthy food, our new Drs did us proud! Laura, Loriane, Katie, Jade, Anukriti and Mutien, congratulations and the sky is the limit! Congratulations to all supervisors too! John Cleary Rosemary O'Hara Sinead Morris, David Dowling Adriana Neves Thomae Kakouli-Duarte Kieran Germaine South East Technological University

05/10/2025

A hopeful message from a wonderful human and scientist. The world is enriched to have you and your legacy Dr Jane Goodall ✨️ R.I.P.

03/09/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Jade Stanley on successfully defending her PhD thesis on “Development of thermo-bioplastics with the use of sustainable, alternative starches” on 20th August. 🌱📚 Well done, Jade, on reaching this milestone, we look forward to seeing what comes next! 👏✨

08/08/2025

06/08/2025

Huge congratulations to Dr. Mutian Wang who successfully defended his PhD work this week. The title of his thesis is "Microbial Community Dynamics, Strain Selection, and Functional Bacterial Consortia for the Bioremediation of Petroleum-Contaminated Soil". His supervisors were Dr. Kieran Germaine and Dr. David Dowling and his examiners were Prof. Aizhong Ding ( Beijing Normal University) and Dr. Guiomar Garcia- Cabellos (SETU). His work looked at the changes in microbial community structure in petrochemical contaminated soils in response to inoculation with oil degrading bacteria 🎓

09/05/2025

Well done Katie and supervisory team!

21/11/2024

Members of the Molecular Ecology and Nematode Research Group of enviroCORE participated today in the launch of a pioneering inter- and trans-disciplinary , led by Dr Lisa Moran (TUS) and Prof Adam Maltese (Indiana University). The project was presented as a case study of research by Ms Alejndra Vieyra-Ramirez and Dr Thomaé Kakouli-Duarte, which integrates , , and for .

This was a truly stimulating meeting with world experts in transdisciplinary research and a great forum to question discipline specific research and norms. Great to see THEA representation as well!

From left to right, Mr Shahboz Babaev, PhD student in tourism (TUS), Prof. W***y Donnelly from THEA, Dr Lisa Moran (TUS), Dr Thomaé Kakouli-Duarte (SETU), Ms Alejandra Vieyra-Ramirez, PhD student in soil health (SETU) and Prof. Adam Maltese (IU).

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15/11/2024

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