WITBiology
Biology courses at Waterford IT include Applied Bio (L7), Applied Bio & Quality Management (L8), and the new Molecular Bio with Biopharma Science (L8).
Applied Biology (Level 7) and Applied Biology with Quality Management (Level 8) degree courses...new ab-initio Level 8 course in Molecular Biology with Biopharmaceutical Science commencing in September 2017!
01/04/2020
How do the tests for coronavirus work?
Image Source: Compound Interest.
23/03/2020
An important message to pass on to all WIT students: It is essential that you check your WIT student email on a regular basis as all communications are issued to you to this address, including Moodle notification.
Your WIT student email address is your [email protected] (i.e. [email protected]) and is accessed using the original password you received on your StartWIT email. See www.wit.ie/studentemail for further information. Please share with people you know are WIT students.
WIT Username versus Email Account - Waterford Institute of Technology
11/03/2020
COVID-19 and coronavirus – we have mail Continued in-depth coverage of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2.
27/10/2019
30/08/2019
02/05/2019
Several biology lecturers really enjoyed judging SciFest yesterday. Some excellent projects and it's great to see the future of science is bright! Fair play to the organisers Calmast Of WIT!
18/03/2019
Bacteria that ‘eat pollution’ and emit electricity captured in hot springs for first time Scientists hope ‘electrogenic’ microbes could one day be used to power devices
16/03/2019
New antibiotics needed: Haemophilus influenzae In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the ’12 Priority Pathogens’: a list of twelve microbes that are becoming increasingly resistant to current antimicrobials. These twelve pathogens are thought by WHO to pose the greatest threat to human health.
14/03/2019
Jamie Fitzpatrick giving our final year students an inspiring talk last Friday at WIT Science Careers Day. Jamie has an exciting role in product development at Waters in Wexford.
08/03/2019
Biology students Chloe Quinn winning the WIT knowledge quiz conducted by Fastnet Recruitment!
08/03/2019
Great networking at !
15/02/2019
Waterford IT comes out on top in the Great Agri-Food Debate Waterford IT's debating team emerged as the winner of the Great Agri-Food Debate on home turf yesterday evening (Thursday, February 14).
15/02/2019
Roses are red
So is Serratia
It's opportunistic
Don't let it come after ya
10/02/2019
Whopping big viruses prey on human gut bacteria - ScienceBlog.com Viruses plague bacteria just as viruses like influenza plague humans. Some of the largest of these so-called bacteriophages have now been found in the
27/11/2018
Jobs in molecular biology coming! https://jrnl.ie/4361473
Irish life sciences company to create 600 jobs in Dublin The announcement comes alongside a €350 million investment in Genomics Medicine Ireland.
02/11/2018
Congratulations to our 2018 graduates!!
30/10/2018
Exciting event coming up on 10 November at Abbott Clonmel!
17/10/2018
More pharma jobs in the South East!
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2018/1016/1003509-new-carlow-jobs/
Pharma company MSD to create 170 Carlow jobs Pharmaceutical company MSD is to create 170 new jobs in Carlow.
01/10/2018
Delighted to be part of the Microbiology Society Focused Meeting “Microbiomes Underpinning Agriculture” in Cork!
Funded PhD position available at NUIG for a microbiology project, "Exploring microbial denitrifers and potential for
mitigation of N2O emissions in agricultural soils". If interested, message for more details!
03/08/2018
Brewing beer involves microbial activity at every stage, from raw material production + malting to stability in the package. Fermentation of cereal extracts by Saccharomyces is the most crucial microbial process involved in brewing.
20/06/2018
Great talks and networking yesterday at the Plant-Microbe workshop! Joint collaboration between WIT & IT Carlow.
31/05/2018
Excited to be part of the WIT delegation to EdTech 2018!
30/05/2018
4th years 2018
26/05/2018
If you are not part of the solution....
23/05/2018
Interesting point!
The importance of stupidity in scientific research | http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11/1771
17/05/2018
https://www.facebook.com/asmfan/posts/10157522094855200
Of Moms and Microbes: Baby’s First Microbiome The infant microbiome sets the stage for the development of the adult microbiome, which is important for maintaining overall health and can be a factor in the development of a variety of diseases. While we don’t yet understand what makes a healthy microbiome, we know that certain interventions, su...
25/04/2018
Caught On Video: How DNA Replicates The DNA replication process isn’t exactly like the textbooks say.
25/04/2018
Every Irish person has more than 14,000 living relatives, research finds Genomics database reveals people in Ulster have more cousins than those in Connacht
24/04/2018
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43815370
How bacteria are changing your mood Scientists think "mood microbes" are a new frontier for improving the health of the brain.