2019 UCD Conway Festival gold medal for PhD student Dwayne Byrne – Past Pupil of Avondale Community College

We are so proud of our past pupil and PhD student, Dwayne Byrne, from Avoca, who has won the 2019 UCD Conway Festival gold medal for his work to understand how motor neurons work and why they stop working in particular neurodegenerative disorders.
 
Dwayne is part of a research team based in UCD Conway Institute under the supervision of Conway Fellow, Assistant Professor Niamh O’Sullivan in UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science. He is currently working in the laboratory of Dr Craig Blackstone at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, USA as part of a collaborative project.

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Winner of the 2019 UCD Conway Festival gold medal, Dwayne Byrne pictured with his doctoral supervisor, Assistant Professor Niamh O'Sullivan.  dwayne2

Monday 30 September
We said bon voyage early this morning to our senior students and their teachers participating in a French exchange programme with a school in Marseille. Plans are in place for their week’s action packed activities in school and with their host families.
 
Wednesday 2 October
Report from our students in Marseilles....
As we continue to explore the maritime city of Marseille, we all gathered at Le Vieux Port. Marseille was the European City of Culture in 2013. Then we headed to Le Mucem for a guided tour of the Museum of European and Mediterransan Civilisations.
https://www.mucem.org/votre-visite
Later we met up with our French students for a picnic.
 
Friday 3 October
 
Our French students are continuing to enjoy the sites of Marseille. Today they began their day by attending classes in Thiers, followed by a soap making workshop in the Savonnerie la Licorne. The day ended with ice cream by the sea as they celebrated their great Junior Cert results.