Overview

The Ryan Institute is a cross-cutting Research Institute of NUI Galway with research groups drawn from all Colleges across NUI Galway. Its internationally-renowned expertise spans the sciences, engineering, socio-economics and health. Advancing sustainability and innovation is central to the research activities of the Ryan Institute's Research Centres/Clusters and Research Groups. The Ryan Institute is comprised of 12 Research Centres/Clusters spanning the four thematic research areas:

1. Marine & Coastal
2. Energy & Climate Change
3. Agriculture & BioEconomy
4. Environment & Health

Ecosystems

• Seagrass (Zostera) beds
• Maerl beds
• Tidal rapids
• Sedimentary habitats
• Rocky habitats

Experimental facilities

• Dry laboratories (On-site service)​​​​​​​
  • Light microscopes, fume hoods, freeze drier

Technology platforms

• Structure and chemical analysis (On-site service)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
  • Purification by HPLC and structure elucidation by NMR (500 and 600MHz) HRMS and Circular Dichroism of all families of specialised metabolites from marine organisms
• Molecular biology and omics (On-site service)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
  • Population and evolutionary genetics, including DNA extraction and PCR, with outsourced Sanger sequencing. These facilities have been applied to a range of taxa including cnidarians, cephalopods, fishes and sponges, with sufficient in-house expertise to tackle most groups.

• Other technology platforms (On-site service)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma. Mass Spectrometry, ICP-MS. The design includes a Class 6 and 7 clean room facilities for the preparation and analysis of samples for ultra-trace elemental analysis.