Final Year Thesis Spotlight: Do Cycads display CAM photosynthesis?

Plants are famous for their ability to photosynthesize. They produce sugars that are essential for life, using CO2 coupled with light energy from the sun. We know that photosynthesis occurs during…

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Can we reverse climate change? By-product use for a sustainable future

An exciting collaboration is taking place between Trinity College Dublin’s TERRAFORM group and a research team at University College Dublin working on the “Crushed returned concrete as a soil…

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Cycads Bring us Together

An exciting collaboration is underway between the Variable Light and Atmosphere (VAL) lab, Trinity College Botanic Gardens and the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland. The VAL lab has borrowed a…

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Siobhán McDonald captures landscapes at tipping points – The Boglands Are Breathing exhibition

Siobhán's latest exhibition - 'The Boglands Are Breathing' blends scientific and creative processes to make sculptures, videos, works on paper, paintings and sound pieces. The exhibition gathered…

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Second year of the monitoring program at Trinity College Botanic Garden

Trinity College Botanic Garden successfully run the second year of its long-term monitoring program. From the 26th to the 30th of June visiting researcher Midori Yajima, Dr Christos Chondrogiannis…

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Antonietta Knetge Attends Specialised Training at University Claude Bernard

A member of our lab, PhD researcher Antonietta Knetge, has recently returned from two weeks of training with Prof. Bernard Gomez at the University Claude Bernard 1 in Lyon, France. 

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