Formerly, I was an undergraduate Natural Science student at Trinity College, Dublin . I completed my finals on 8th June 2001 and am due to pick up my piece of paper this November. Having spent the first two years of my undergraduate career studying pointless subjects such as botany, microbial genetics and physical chemistry amongst other things, I decided to specialise in Physiology in my Third Year at Trinity and read for a B.A. Moderatorship in Physiology . Physiology is the study of how cells work, how they cooperate in other organ systems such as the heart or the brain and how these organs function together in the whole body. Physiology plays a crucial role in relating molecules and cells to the function of tissues and organs, and ultimately to the whole body.
Physiology is therefore integral to the advancement of health and medicine .
I undertook a Summer Studentship in Professor Marina Lynch's lab in the Department of Physiology . Although I was the lab lackey in charge of feeding and weighing the animals, I also investigated the effect of age and an experimental diet on two markers of cell death in the rat brain. I'll let you know if I find anything interesting . . . . .