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Faculties & Departments
Department of Biology
Institute of Bioengineering and Agroecology
As part of an extended period of strategic investment in the sciences and in acknowledgement of the successes in key areas, the University has established a Research Institute of Bioengineering and Agroecology. Construction of a dedicated research building in the biosciences was funded through £9million public and private support under the Irish Higher Education Authority Programme for Research in Third-level Institutions.
The Institute of Bioengineering and Agroecology (IBA) will build on a pre-existing consortium of six academic laboratories at NUI Maynooth. Its overall concern is the benign manipulation of organisms for field use, in pursuit of food security, human health, environmental enhancement, and novel materials.
The IBA conducts research in the following areas:
- Genetics, development, behaviour and ecology of biological control organisms, especially Heterorhabditis and its symbiont bacterium Photorhabus.
- Developmental biology, stress physiology and genetic modification of plants, including plastid transformation.
- Ecological management of genes inserted in plants or biocontrol organisms.
Members of the IBA:
- Professor Philip J. Dix, Director,
Head of Plant Cell Culture - Dr. Christine Griffin, Deputy Director,
Head of Environmental Physiology & Behaviour - Professor Ann Burnell,
Head of Nematode Genetics - Dr. Jacqueline Nugent,
Head of Plant Development Biology - Dr. Conor Meade,
Head of Gene Flow - Professor Martin Downes,
Head of Population Ecology
Contact:
Prof. Philip J. Dix,
Director, Institute of Bioengineering and Agroecology,
Department of Biology,
National University of Ireland Maynooth,
Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Tel +353 1 708 3836
e-mail: phil.dix@nuim.ie