Green Lab Certification

Green Lab Certification offers a pathway to enhance your lab's sustainability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This voluntary program provides valuable tools and strategies to reduce waste, conserve energy, and promote safer practices that benefit both the environment and lab personnel. By participating, labs can:

  1. Optimize resource usage, potentially leading to reduced operational costs
  2. Implement best practices for waste reduction and energy conservation
  3. Align with evolving sustainability standards in scientific research

List of labs/groups funded by Trinity Sustainability Office undergoing My Green Lab Certification.

Group/Lab name Green Lab Lead Location
Translational Immunopathology Research Group Mary Canavan TBSI
Earth Surface Research Laboratory Hilde Koch TTEC
Renal Inflammation Group Amrita Dwivedi TTMI
Geology Technical Laboratory Sarah Carty Museum Building
Geotechnical Laboratory Joseph O'Connell Redbrick Building
Population genetics Valeria Mattiangeli Smurfit Institute

Evolutionand Complex Trait Genetics

Emilia Huerta Sanchez Smurfit Institute
Daniela Tropea Lab Komal Zade TTMI
Farrar Lab Arpad Palfi Smurfit Institute
Neurotraumaand Neuroimmunology lab Janeen Laabei TBSI
McEntee Lab Craig McEntee TBSI
Experimental Immunology Paula Kinsella TBSI
Plant Developmental Genetics Laboratory Lucy McCarthy Smurfit Institute
Dunne Group Peter Dunne SNIAM
Peopleand Nature Research Group Sarah Larragy Botany
Chemical Physicsof Low-Dimensional Nanostructures Rebekah Wells CRANN
Childand Infant Researchin Immunoloy CARE lab Lynne Kelly TTMI
Schoolof Biochemistry and Immunology Teaching Lab Martha MotherwayGildea TBSI
Biology Teaching Centre Audrey Carroll EastEnd4/5
Nanomedicine and MolecularImaging Adriele Prina-Mello TTMI
Geomorphology Laboratory James Canavan Museum Building
Fallon Lab Tatenda  Murangi TBSI
Additive Research Lab Mina  Mousavi TTEC
MMT Lab Mark Linnane Electronic and Electrical engineering
Lavelle Lab Lorena  Garcia del Rio TBSI
Nanomedicine Lab (School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences) Maria J Santos-Martinez Panoz
Environmental Microbiology ?? Muhammad Ali Civil Struct & Env. Eng.
Inflammageing Research Group (Prof Nollaig Bourke) Nollaig Bourke TTMI
Botany Molecular Laboratory Trevor  Hodkinson Botany
Plant Soil Function Group, Trinity College Dublin Nadja Burkart Botany
Watts Lab Owen Humphreys Redbrick Building
Trépel Lab Dominic Trépel TCIN
Anatomy Dissection Theatre Teaching Lab Group Claire  Murphy TBSI
Anatomy Research Lab Group Melissa Conroy TBSI
Molecular Rheumatology Siobhan Wade TBSI
Advanced Synthetic Material Laboratory Amani  Al Riyami  SNIAM
Immune sensing and signalling (Bowie Lab) Andrew Bowie TBSI

List of self-funded labs/groups certified or in progress with My Green Lab Certification.

Group/Lab name Green Lab Lead
Meath Foundation Research Laboratory Thomas Butler,
Pharmacy 1.21 Teaching Lab Trevor Woods
Cocker Lab Marina Kilduff, 
Ecology Lab Jess Knapp, Patricia Coughlan
Marine Ecology Lab  
NatPro Gaia Scalabrino
Pharmacognosy Teaching Lab Olga Knutovao, Carolina Garciarena
SOP Bradley Photonics Group James McLoughlin, Julia Lawless
SOP Coleman Group James McLoughlin, Kevin Synnatschke
SOP Donegan Semicon Photonics Group James McLoughlin
SOP Jones' Ultramicroscopy Group James McLoughlin, Jonathan Peters
SOP UG Teaching Lab James McLoughlin
SOP Zhang Group James McLoughlin, Samuel Aldana Delagdo
Zoology Lab Emma King
Physical Chemistry Teaching Lab Beatriz Antuna-Vallina

There are an additional 25 labs/groups undergoing My Green Lab certification, funded by the Research Ireland pilot programme. More information here.