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Green Labs certification

We are delighted to be one of nine Maynooth University Research labs receiving Research Ireland funded sustainable laboratory certification! The certification is awarded by My Green Lab in partnership with Impact Laboratories as part of Research Ireland’s Sustainable...

Best paper award ICALP 2025

Congratulations to group member Ahmed Shalaby who presented a paper at a joint session of ICALP 2025 at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he received the best paper award. The paper: An efficient algorithm to compute the minimum free energy of interacting nucleic acid...

Congratulations Dr Abeer Eshra

Huge congratulations to DISCO - DNA based Infrastructure for Storage and COmputation senior postdoc Dr Abeer Eshra who has been awarded funding as part of the Research Ireland Pathway Programme.The funding of over €675,000 covers a four-year period and supports and...

Dirks Prize

HUGE congratulations to our TAPDANCE lab group member Dr Constantine Evans who is the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Dirks Prize 🧬👏The prize recognizes exceptional early career achievement by a researcher working in any area of molecular programming including...

DigNA portfolio outreach

DISCO is part of a portfolio of 9 EIC funded projects. As part of our work as a portfolio we have a dedicated DigNA portfolio LinkedIn page and are running a series of free educational webinars that aim to inform and communicate about the novel area of DNA data...

DISCO group lab visits

A busy week for the DISCO lab! We were delighted to welcome Prof. Andrew Turberfield for a visit to the Hamilton Institute where he met with each of the members of the DISCO team followed by a fascinating public talk at the Hamilton Institute Seminar on building...

SciFest 2025!

DISCO coordinator Prof Damien Woods, postdoctoral researcher Dr Abeer Eshra and project manager Dr Kim Reilly were delighted to be invited as judges for the 2025 SciFest competition at Maynooth Post Primary. SciFest is an annual programme that seeks to inspire the...

#DigNA webinars!

Our current digital data storage technologies are reaching 🌍sustainability limits due to high energy consumption and reliance on scarce and toxic materials, as well as having limited data integrity over time. To address these challenges, the European Commission...

Senior Postdoc and Junior Postdoc needed! Deadline extended to May 11th 2025!

Are you looking for a new role in 2025? We are recruiting for Senior Postdoc and Junior Postdoc positions to work on DNA computation and DNA molecular robotics - closing date is 11th May 2025.Roles are full time and based at Maynooth University, Ireland. To read more...

The 5th busy Beaver number is solved! BB(5) = 47,176,870

DISCO collaborator, Tristan, and his friends over on bbchallenge.org have settled the 5th Busy Beaver number, or BB(5), by finally announcing that they've proved BB(5) = 47,176,870. The work includes verifying the proof in the automated theorem-prover Coq, and now...