Research Village
Say hello to your microbiome!
Have you ever wondered what lives inside you? Your microbiome is a collection of billions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that have made a home inside your body. Your mouth and intestines are two of the richest ecosystems in the body. Using our microscopes, we will give you the opportunity to take a look at some of the bacteria from your own mouth. Don’t be squeamish, we all have them!
Techneolaíochtaí Urlabhra don Ghaeilge: Irish Speech Technologies
Stop by the showcase of the ongoing ABAIR initiative from the Phonetics Speech Lab at Trinity. Find out all about the core speech technologies for the Irish language like synthetic voices for dialects and speech recognition!
Current Chemistry Investigators
Join the CCI team to spark a conversation about the chemistry of green energy storage!
Frailty Unveiled: Awareness, Recognition and Early Detection for Better Health
The FRAILMatics team will be on hand to talk to you about frailty in older adults including how it is assessed and detected. The team hope to empower the public with knowledge about frailty, recognise the value of early detection and proactive steps towards improving the quality of life.
Antibiotic Resistance: A Looming Global Health Crisis
Learn all about the replication cycle of bacteria and see if you can guess the number of bacterial cells in a culture! Test how effective handwashing is using a Glitterbug Potion!
Engineering Our Health
Visit the team from the discipline of Biomedical Engineering to find out more about their research on the heart, orthopaedics, spinal cord, hospital equipment, and the eye! Get up close with some of the devices and equipment, see the 3D printer in action and play games!
World Cancer Research Fund Project – 'Peri-prostatic adipose tissue in aggressive prostate cancer'
More info coming soon…
Meetings with Manuscripts
Researchers from the Trinity Centre for the Book and Trinity's Library will host a range of activities and challenges for all ages! See if you can beat the computer transcription challenge, try your hand at a manuscript matching game, or colour some recently digitised images!
Pytch - how do you keep coding interesting in the classroom?
If you want to know more about how we support computer science in secondary schools then come and join us to see how it works, and find out about keeping coding fun in the classroom – and you can even help us out by exploring new features that we’re working on for next year. No previous coding knowledge required!
TCIN: Cartoons, Paintings and Rubber Ducks
Join the team from Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience for a fun and interactive display for all ages! We'll have family friendly activities and you'll get a chance to engage with the scientists and talk about their research in cognition throughout the lifespan and multi sensory perception in children. Visitors to the stand can also learn about facial recognition and take home their own digital portrait. The TCIN team will be joined by the current artist in residence who will present the work he has been making in response to their research and explaining why this collaboration has led to an obsession with painting rubber ducks.
The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
Join the team from TILDA as they demonstrate some of the equipment they use assess your health as you age. Test your grip strength on the dynamometers and see where you end up on the leaderboard!
Turning Heat into Electricity
Learn all about semiconductors and thermoelectric generators with researchers from Trinity's School of Engineering
Sponges for the brain as drug delivery systems
Talk to the researchers and get a hands-on demonstration of how hydrogels can be used for the treatment of brain tumours!
Brain-o-meter: The real time experience of your brain activity
Brain-o-meter is a fun and interactive workshop from researchers in Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) and the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI). People of all ages are invited to experience their real time brain activity changing with different activities – i.e. blinking, resting, movement. They can also partner with a friend to explore what happens to brain activity when they interact with one another!
The BioLaMer route to address food waste and petroleum plastic challenges
BioLaMer, funded by the EIC Pathfinder Open project, is addressing two significant global challenges: the food waste challenge and the petroleum plastics challenge by introducing a new value chain starting from food waste. Visit the BioLaMer team for interactive poster presentations and product exhibitions and learn more about the circular and sustainable research happening within TCD and around the world.
How does the electrical activity in the brain control our movements
Learn all about how we record the electrical activity of the brain and muscles and how we can understand the brain's control of movement at this interactive demo! We'll have an electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) system for demonstration and will show you how these experiments are performed and what data we can obtain while measuring brain activity!
