Dr. Michelle Kilcoyne completed her PhD in analytical carbohydrate chemistry in the School of Chemistry at NUI Galway in 2004, specialising in structural analysis of bacterial polysaccharides. She then took up a postdoctoral position in Arizona State University where she further specialised in mass spectrometry and HPLC, as well as expanding her interests in to mammalian glycosylation. She returned as a postdoctoral researcher to NUI Galway in 2007 working on industry-supported and European projects, developing high throughput platforms for carbohydrate profiling. In 2014 Dr. Kilcoyne was appointed Lecturer in Glycosciences and is a member of Discipline of Microbiology at NUI Galway. She was the recipient of a Royal Society of Chemistry Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund Fellowship for 2018.Dr. Kilcoynes main research interests are in host-microbe interactions, immune response, bacterial polysaccharides and biofilms, and development of carbohydrate analytical methods and platforms for analytics.

Dr. Kilcoynes main research interests are in host-microbe interactions, immune response, bacterial polysaccharides and biofilms, and development of carbohydrate analytical methods and platforms for analytics.

I teach Microbiology-related subjects at 3rd and 4th year undergraduate level and Protein and Analytical Technologies at postgraduate level. I currently co-ordinate 4th year Microbiology and have co-ordinated the final year Microbiology Research Project since 2017, looking after 60-86 students per year. I completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching amp; Learning in Higher Education. I have supervisedco-supervised 7 PhD students including 5 to completion (5 graduated, 1 submitted, and 1 in his first year (Uthesh Umapathy)). I have supervised 2 MSc by research (1 graduated, 1 is currently writing her thesis). Since taking up my academic post, I supervised 12 MSc taught students (graduated) for their research projects (8 MSc in Biotechnology, 3 MSc in Biomedical Science, and 1 MSc in Cancer Research) in a variety of projects including glycobiology, microbiology, prognostics, and analytics.