Tomás Ryan

Professor in Neuroscience · Trinity College Dublin · company speakers →

Tomás Ryan is Professor in Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He completed his PhD in molecular neuroscience under the supervision of Seth Grant at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK in 2010. Following a year as Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University Cambridge, he relocated to the USA to work as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the group of Susumu Tonegawa (Nobel Laureate, 1987) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At MIT he was centrally involved in the development of novel genetic methods that allow for the labelling and manipulation of specific memory engrams in the rodent brain. He started his research group in 2017 at Trinity College Dublin, where he is based in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology and is also a Principal Investigator at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He is Chair of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Advocacy Committee, a Board Member of the European Brain Council EBC), and a member of the US Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Government and Public Affairs Committee.

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