Kieran is one of the founding groups within the Bernal BioSciBER lab research space. The BioSciBER lab aims to carry out interdisciplinary research at the interface of Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology and Microfluidics. They hope to reference in vivo systems and use that knowledge to inform in vitro experimentation and medical device design in areas such as the circulatory system, stem cell niche reconstitution, blood brain barrier research and tissue mechano-characterisation.  Specifically, Kierans group aims to fuse biomedical engineering, ECM and cell biology to reconstitute the stem cell tissue niche in vitro by referencing and endeavouring to understand the in vivo system with a particular focus on the intestinal, muscular and epidermal niche. Specific Research Areas Stem cell differentiationStem cell nicheExtracellular matrix biologyCell cycleIntracellular traffickingCell signallingInfection and immunityMicrobiomeProteomics, transcriptomics, pathway analysisMicroscopy, especially high throughput imaging and confocal microscopy  Twitter @biosciber @kieranmcgourty