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Tomás Ryan

Tomas Ryan

Tomás J. Ryan, PhD

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor

School of Biochemistry & Immunology
Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institutes
& Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience
Trinity College Dublin (TCD)

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
University of Melbourne, Australia

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Education

Trinity College Dublin (2001 – 2005)
B.A. (Moderatorship) in Natural Sciences: Human Genetics

University of Cambridge (2005 – 2009)
Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Grant Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Wolfson College, Cambridge (2009 – 2010)
Junior Research Fellow, Genes to Cognition Program

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2010 – 2016)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tonegawa Laboratory

Trinity College Dublin (2016 – Current)
Assistant Professor in Neuroscience
School of Biochemistry and Immunology
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience

Awards and Funding

  • European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2017 – 2022)
  • Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) President of Ireland Young Investigator Award (2016 – 2021)
  • Jacobs Foundation Early Career Research Fellowship (2017 – 2020)
  • Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant (2017 – 2021)
  • Wellcome Trust PhD Fellowship (2005 – 2009)

Bio

Tomás originally graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2005 with a BA in genetics. He completed his PhD in molecular neuroscience under the supervision of Seth Grant at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK in 2009. His thesis work was supported by a Wellcome Trust PhD Fellowship. Following a year as Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University Cambridge, he relocated to the USA to work as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the group of Susumu Tonegawa (Nobel Laureate, 1987) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At MIT he was centrally involved in the development of novel genetic methods that allow for the labelling and manipulation of specific memory engrams in the rodent brain. This work was supported by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and RIKEN Brain Sciences Institute, Japan. He started his research group in 2017 at Trinity College Dublin, where he is Associate Professor in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology (sub-discipline of Biochemistry) and a Principle Investigator at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. Tomás also holds a joint faculty position at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research team is supported by the European Research Council (ERC), Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the Irish Research Council (IRC), the Jacobs Foundation, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

Ryan Lab

  • School of Biochemistry & Immunology
  • Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute
Trinity College Dublin
152-160 Pearse Street
Dublin 2, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-896-1613

Open Positions

Research Assistant / Lab Manager
The Research Assistant will be responsible for supporting diverse research projects within the group. This will involve working with the Principal Investigator in the day-to-day running of the lab with technical and administrative responsibilities.
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Research Assistant / Neurohumanities Project
The successful candidate will work at the intersection of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. This joint environment will provide a unique opportunity for interactions with neuroscientists, psychologists, engineers, computer scientists, historian, philosophers, and other scholars working in the humanities.
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