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PEOPLE,
PROJECTS,
PERSPECTIVES
‘It’s all about curiosity. If you are working as a
research scientist you invariably come across
things you are curious about. Often you
encounter things you don’t understand and
you ask why does this or that happen? In
academia one is frequently doing exploratory
research, trying to answer questions. In my
case, I am interacting with research students
trying to enthuse and apply this curiosity to
science. It is much easier to use this curiosity in
Discovery Research than in Applied Research
in my opinion. For student development,
discovery science is a great way to develop a
curious mind. It develops in graduate students
the ability to solve problems and develop skills
that ultimately can be used throughout their
scientific careers.’
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Professor Tony Pembroke, Industrial Biochemistry,
University of Limerick
Playing call-back to attract frogs. Credit Dr. Karen Siu-Ting
Dr. Karen Sui-Ting is a current Irish Research Council co-funded Marie
Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research, which combines field
work, molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics, is on the evolution
of Poison Arrow frogs and their unique toxin producing abilities..