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The Prendergast Challenge-based Multi-disciplinary Project Awards. These challenge-based awards were made possible through the generous philanthropic support of the Provost’s Council, a network of leading Trinity alumni and supporters who act as advisors to the College. Congratulations to the two winning teams of the Prendergast Challenge-based Awards

Resist-AMR Antimicrobial Resistance

Engineering Natural, One- Health, Systems Thinking Solutions to a Manmade Global Disaster

Lead Principal Investigator

Lead Principal Investigator
Trevor Hodkinson

Professor in Botany, School of Natural Sciences

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Lead Principal Investigator
Dr Marta Martins

Assistant Professor in Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology

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Lead Principal Investigator
Dr Sinéad Cristin Corr

Associate Professor in School of Genetics and Microbiology

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Lead Principal Investigator
Dr Julie Renwick

Assistant Professor in Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine

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Co-Principal Investigator
Professor Michael Monaghan

Professor in School of Engineering

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Co-Principal Investigator
Dr Elaine Moriarty

Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy'

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Co-Principal Investigator
Professor Rose Anne Kenny

Professor/Consultant in Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine

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Project 1 Abstract:

Antimicrobials are critical resources for human, animal and plant health. With emergence of antimicrobial resistance and lack of new antimicrobials, we face an unprecedented global environmental, food security and human health threat. Applying a multidisciplinary approach, the team including 4 PhD projects and expertise from plant scientists, clinical and environmental microbiologists, geneticists, antimicrobial resistance specialists, computer scientists/statisticians, bioengineers and sociologists, will study environmental and human ‘resistomes’ from agricultural and clinical settings and analyse agricultural stakeholders’ practices and policies to identify institutional reform implications.

Project 2

Life in the Currents

Lead Principal Investigator

Lead Principal Investigator
Professor Biswajit Basu

Professor in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering

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Dr Francis Ludlow

Assistant Professor of Medieval Environmental History, School of History and Humanities

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Co-Principal Investigator
Professor Iris Moeller

Professor of Geography, School of Natural Sciences

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Co-Principal Investigator
Dr John Dingliana

Assistant Professor in Computer Science, School of Computer Science and Statistics

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Co-Principal Investigator
Dr Kirk Soodhalter

Ussher Assistant Professor in Numerical Analysis, School of Mathematics

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Co-Principal Investigator
Dr Margaret Jackson

Assistant Professor in Physical Geography, School of Natural Sciences

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Co-Principal Investigator
Dr Nessa O’Connor

Associate Professor in Zoology, School of Natural Sciences

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Co-Principal Investigator
Professor Poul Holm

Professor of Environmental History, School of Histories and Humanities

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Project 2 Abstract:

Life in the Currents" represents a novel investigation into the role of naturally driven variability in the historical and contemporary exploitation of marine life in the Northeast Atlantic. The project addresses the challenge of assessing the impacts of natural and anthropogenically driven climatic and oceanic variability on marine ecosystems, and the effects of these oceanic changes on terrestrial life and human societies. The outcome of the project is anticipated to resolve intriguing questions, such as how the ocean circulations have an impact on primary biological production and coastal geomorphologies; how does oceanic-riverine interaction affect marine ecosystems (e.g., river flooding as a control of terrestrial nutrient run-off into marine ecosystems); to what degree can variable ocean dynamics explain historical variability in fish catch documented for the past 500-hundred years and how unique are ocean circulation changes within the span of human habitation in Northeast Atlantic?

Herring train works, Bohuslän, 1794. A method for producing train oil from herring was discovered, c.1760, with c.500 oil factories soon established on the Bohuslän coast (Sahrhage & Lundbeck, 1992), exploiting the famous Bohuslän phenomenon in which super-abundant herring shoals appeared on a quasi-centennial timescale (Alheit & Hagen, 1996, 1997). Their sudden disappearance was economically devastating.

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