Dr Elena Pagter
I completed my Marine Biology BSc at the University of California, Santa Cruz. There my interest in marine pollution was fostered in Santa Cruz while engaging with the public on marine research at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center. I completed the international MSc in Marine Conservation and Biodiversity. My PhD project has been funded by […]
Dr Michelle McCormack
I graduated with an Honours degree in Human Physiology from NUIG in 2003. I obtained a Masters in Clinical Chemistry and Haematology from the University of the West of England, Bristol in 2005 and completed my PhD there in 2008. My doctoral research focused on the proteomic analysis of diabetic cell lines, particularly in the […]
Dr Olga Lyashevska
I am a multidisciplinary scientist with an interest in statistical modelling, scientific programming, data analysis and data management. I obtained an MSc in Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University, The Netherlands (2007) and a PhD in Biodiversity Quantification at Queen’s University Belfast, UK (2011). I came to GMIT in 2015 as a postdoctoral scientist, in 2018 […]
Dr Louise Vaughan
I joined the MFRC in 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher on the Unlocking the Archive Project where I used statistical modelling approaches to examine biological and environmental data time series. I am currently working on the ClimFish project which is investigating impacts of climate change on Irish fish stocks. I hold a BSc (Hons) in […]
Dr João Frias
I completed a PhD in Environmental Studies (2011/2015) at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL), in Portugal. The PhD was supervised by Prof. Paula Sobral (Portugal) and co-supervised by Prof. Richard Thompson from Plymouth University (United Kingdom). I have been working at the Marine and Freshwater Research Centre since 2017, focussing […]
John Boyd
Dr Anita Talbot
Anita Talbot works as a Senior Research Fellow at the MFRC with focusing on the prevention of disease in fish. Projects include investigating novel ingredients in feed and how they can influence the fish immune response. Diseases of interest include infections caused by external parasites in salmon, including Paramoeba perurans, the causative agent of amoebic […]
