Soccer tournament
The Bracken lab team was victorious in the inaugural School of Genetics and Microbiology Summer Soccer Tournament. Thanks to lab member Dr. Francesca Matrà for organising such a fun and successful event!
phd viva
Congratulations to Bracken lab members Dr. Francesca Matrà and Dr. Ellen Tuck who successfully defended their PhD theses in Summer 2024. Thanks to examiners Prof. Matthew Campbell, Prof. Oliver Bell, Prof. Vincent Kelly and Prof. David Landeira for great discussions.
Conference
Prof. Adrian Bracken spoke at the EMBO Workshop “The many faces of cancer evolution” in Rimini, Italy in May 2024.
media
Watch Prof Adrian Bracken speak to Worldwide Cancer Research about our research co-funded by WWCR and Irish Cancer Society
Conference
Prof. Adrian Bracken, Dr. Dan Angelov and AJ Silva presented our research at the joint European, American and Irish Associations of Cancer Research (EAI-ACR) conference.
EMBO election
CONGRATULATIONS TO ADRIAN ON BEING ELECTED AS AN EMBO MEMBER! ELECTION AS AN EMBO MEMBER RECOGNISES A SCIENTIST'S RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AND OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS.
phd viva
Congratulations to Bracken lab member Dr Dáire Gannon who successfully defended his PhD thesis in June 2023. Thanks to examiners Prof Alastair Fleming and Prof Yang Shi for a great discussion.
New paper
Research on EZH2 mutations in human growth disorders posted to bioRxiv.
conference
Bracken lab members presented talks and posters at the first in-person conference of the All-Ireland Chromatin Consortium in Dublin on May 24th 2023. Congratulations to Darragh Nimmo who won a best poster award. More info on the AICC and the conference can be found here.
conference
Bracken lab member, Dáire Gannon, presented posters about our DMG research at two conferences in May 2023: EMBL Chromatin and Epigenetics, Heidelberg, Germany, and Gordon Research Conference Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics, Lucca, Italy.
New paper
Coverage of our new paper out in Molecular Cell: "A cellular identity discovery with the potential to impact cancer treatments"
conference
Bracken and Brien lab members presented work at the Keystone symposium “Epigenetics, Chromatin, Development and Disease” in Victoria, Canada in March 2023.
graduations
In 2022, the Bracken lab celebrated the successful PhD vivas and graduations of talented researchers Dr. Orla Deevy, Dr. Rachel McCole, Dr. Marlena Mucha and Dr. James Nolan.
Conference
Work from the Bracken lab was presented at the EpIC conference in Granada, Spain in October 2023.
Conference
Bracken lab members traveled to the EMBL conference: Transcription and Chromatin in Heidelberg, Germany in August 2022 to present our latest research.
Career
Dr. Eric Conway, former Bracken lab PhD student, established his own research group in University College Dublin, focused on the mechanisms of chromatin architecture dysregulation in cancer.
Conference
Bracken lab members presented their work at EMBL workshop: “The many faces of cancer evolution” in Rimini, Italy in May 2022.
New paper
“Geneticists pinpoint how a mutation causes devastating childhood cancer and successfully target tumour cells with tailored drug”
New REview
Fantastic review from Dr. Eleanor Glancy of the Bracken lab, published in Current Opinion in Structural Biology. “Structural basis for PRC2 engagement with chromatin”
New REview
Check out this review from Bracken lab PhD student, Orla Deevy, in Development: PRC2 functions in development and congenital disorders.
New paper
“A curiosity driven genetic discovery that should impact cancer treatments”
New paper
“New discovery helps explain why cells with identical genes perform unique jobs”
News content by Ellen Tuck