Dr Linda Giblin

Linda Giblin obtained her B.Sc. (Hons) in Biotechnology at Dublin City University and her Ph.D. at University College Cork (Microbiology Department). This was followed by a 3 year Wellcome Trust post-doctoral fellowship in the Biochemistry Department at UCC. She then completed a further 2 years post-doctoral research at the Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Massey University, New Zealand. Prior to her appointment at Teagasc she held a senior scientist position with responsibility for bioassay development in the start-up biotech company, Xanthon, North Carolina, U.S.A. She led an experienced biological research group to implement and optimize biological assays for a macroarray platform. In this position, she liased with multidisciplinary teams of engineers and chemists and reported on multi-million dollar research projects directly to the Vice-President R&D. In 2003, Linda was appointed as a Senior Scientist at Moorepark Food Research Centre, Teagasc. Here she heads up a vibrant eukaryotic research group and her diverse research interests include milk bioactives, prenatal programming of body composition, gut satiety signaling and immune gene expression during pathogen assault.