APC Microbiome Ireland

Ivan Sugrue @ucc.ie shares insights in new APC @nature.com - NJP Antimicrobials and Resistance paper: Trans-kingdom conservation of mechanism between bacterial actifensin and eukaryotic defensins. This is an output of the @erc.europa.eu project BACtheWINNER.
#ERC #AMR #microbiome
➡️ bit.ly/3H34mox

If you have dreamed of working at the cutting edge of Microbiome Brain-gut-axis research check out this brilliant opportunity at APC's @jfcryan.bsky.social an Lab at @ucc.ie
Deadline 5th Aug
Full details: bit.ly/468Hxdm
#jobfairy #irishjobs

YouTube video by APC Microbiome Ireland WMD 2024 - Feed your microbes - How diet shapes your gut microbiome

🌍Friday is #WorldMicrobiomeDay "Microbiome 101: What You Need to Know."
@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social experts share easy food tips to boost your #guthealth:
🥬 Asparagus – @ClaessonLab
🧉 Kombucha – @pauldcotter.bsky.social

#microbiota #microbiomeanalysis #eliteathlete youtu.be/Dx17OhISk1k?...

Incredibly honoured to receive prestigious
@researchireland.ie funding to study developmental vulnerabilities in diffuse midline glioma (DIPG/DMG).

Huge thanks to my amazing mentor @jfcryan.bsky.social
Excited for what’s ahead!

@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @anatneuroucc.bsky.social

Honoured and delighted to join the board of directors at ALBA Network. I look forward to contributing to the ALBA mission to promote equity and inclusion in neuroscience.
@ucc.ie @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

Now available to watch on demand!
Our #WorldMicrobiomeDay webinar
MICROBIOME 101: The Brain-Gut-Axis with Prof @jfcryan.bsky.social - @ucc.ie and Prof Felice Jacka - Deakin
Thanks to our own Director Prof Pau Ross who moderated.
@uccresearch.bsky.social @researchireland.ie
📺 bit.ly/3I0FXjP

Valentine Turpin is a postdoctoral researcher in the Aburto Lab under the supervision of Dr. María R. Aburto, part of the Microbiome Gut Brain group. She was recently awarded an INSPIRE MSCA fellowship to investigate the relationship between the development of the neurovascular network and the microbiome in the context of autism spectrum disorder. Her PhD focused on how n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids could benefit to the behavioural, molecular, and cellular symptoms in autism spectrum disorder. Outside of the lab, she practices yoga, enjoys reading and long walks with friends (when it’s not raining!).

Elisabeth is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Douwe van Sinderen’s group at the APC Microbiome. She gained a BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Edinburgh followed by an MRes and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Elisabeth’s PhD thesis explored glucose absorption in the gut and the subsequent release of incretin hormones. Her interests include nutrition and host-microbe interactions, and her current research explores this in the context of the human commensal gut bacteria, Bifidobacterium. She is happy to be back in her native Cork and enjoys sea swimming.

📢 We are delighted to introduce our new committee!

Valentine Turpin – Chair (formerly Social Media Rep)

Elisabeth O'Flaherty – Vice Chair (formerly Secretary)

Check out their bios in the ALT text.

For any book lovers in #Cork this Friday call into @ucclibrary.bsky.social Library Cork City Library or Cork County Library to pick up a copy of 'Listen to your MIcrobes' by Fergus Shanahan & Laura Gowers to celebrate World Microbiome Day
@researchireland.ie @ucc.ie @teagasc.bsky.social

Join us for our World Microbiome Day webinar shortly at 1pm today where we hear from reserach leaders @jfcryan.bsky.social - @ucc.ie and @proffelicejacka.bsky.social - Deakin University about the #braingutaxis

MC: APC Director Prof Paul Ross.
@researchireland.ie
➡️📷Register bit.ly/3HHonBh

Speaker details for our #WorldMicrobiomeDay webinar 1pm tomorrow 24th June - Microbiome 101: The Gut Brain Axis.

Prof @jfcryan.bsky.social - @ucc.ie

Talk: Hacking Your Gut Microbes To Nourish The Brain: Unravelling The Diet-Microbiota-Gut-Brain-Axis

➡️ Register bit.ly/3HHonBh

Speaker details for our #WorldMicrobiomeDay webinar 1pm tomorrow 24th June - Microbiome 101: The Gut Brain Axis.

Prof Felice Jacka OAM - Deakin University

Talk: Craving Clarity: How Ultra-Processed Foods Impact The Brain-Gut-Axis

➡️ Register bit.ly/3HHonBh

Researchers from across UCC (@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social, @tyndallinstitute.bsky.social, ERI) joined us at the SPRINT Kickstart programme on Tues to work on commercialising their business ideas. Thanks to our guest speakers Veronica Murphy (The Discovery Partnership) & Dr Paidi O’Reilly (CUBS).

📢Join the APC forum Tuesday, 1st July 2025 (Online) to hear from Professor Jonathan R. Swann 💊 🧬 A 30-minute Q&A session will follow, dedicated to #earlycareer scientists (2-2:30pm)🥼

📢Join the APC forum Tuesday, 1st July 2025 (Online) to hear from Professor Jonathan R. Swann 💊 🧬 A 30-minute Q&A session will follow, dedicated to #earlycareer scientists (2-2:30pm)🥼
@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social

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Congratularions to APC's Katie Fala, Fatma Koç, and Sai Ravi Chandra Nori from @teagasc.bsky.social who graduated with their PhD's from @ucc.ie today. Pictured with UCC President Prof John O'Halloran

World Microbiome Day is next week.
Register now for our webinar on Tues 24 June - Microbiome 101: The Gut Brain Axis.
MC: Prof Paul Ross APC
Speakers: - Felice Jacka - Deakin & @jfcryan.bsky.social
@ucc.ie
Register now to save your place: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c67e31...

Congratulations to APC's @lilykeane.bsky.social who has a new review in @natrevimmunol.nature.com , co-authored by APC PI's & @ucc.ie Profs @jfcryan.bsky.social and Ger Clarke "A role for microglia in mediating the microbiota–gut–brain axis.”

Read Review: rdcu.be/eqH2Y

What role does the microbiome play in the action of pre- pro- post- and syn-biotics? Is it an actor or a stage? @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Congratulations to APC's Melanie Depret, a @ucc.ie doctoral student who will represent Ireland at the international ‘Ma Thése en 180 secondes’ (TMT180) finals in Bucharest later this year.

#MT180 #Francophonie #AUF

We have just kicked off our weekend in Fitzgerald’s Park for Cork Carnival of Science. Call down for this fantastic free family weekend of learning and fun.
@UCC.ie @researchireland.ie

BBC Future / Dr Dr David Cox talks to APC's Prof Fergus Shanahan and Prof Liam O'Mahony about 'How your pets alter your immune system'
hashtag#microbiome
bit.ly/4dT8kft

Delighted to be awarded the joint @uccresearch.bsky.social image of the year for #zebrafish “Brain Pipelines”!

Great Team Effort - @maburto.bsky.social, @drmoralesgarcia.bsky.social, Koushika and Alex.

@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social, @researchireland.ie, @zebrafishrock.bsky.social

APC is recruiting a Post Doctoral Researcher to work with Prof Aonghus Lavelle at @ucc.ie on an exciting #IBD project
#jobfairy #researchjobs
Full details: bit.ly/4kjMhkL

Congratulations to APC's @jatinnagpal.bsky.social, @maburto.bsky.social, Koushika Chandrasekaran, Alexandre Cergneux & @drmoralesgarcia.bsky.social - INSPIRE MSCA who have won the Joint @ucc.ie Research Image of the Year for ‘Brain Pipelines’

Best of luck to APC's @jenswalter15.bsky.social‬ who delivers the Annual Myrtle Allen Memorial Lecture for @aceatucc.bsky.social this evening. Jens is a @researchireland.ie Professor at @ucc.ie & creator of the NiMe Diet. The lecture is fully booked.

Jens Walter and colleagues show that a non-industrialized-type diet can reshape the gut microbiome and deliver cardiometabolic benefits! @cellpress.bsky.social

📖 NiMe Diet: www.instagram.com/nimediet/

📄 Paper Link doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

NiMe: Diet aims to restore pre-industrialised microbiome Industrialisation has changed how consumers eat, and largely for the worse, critics argue. This is the argument behind the promotion of the paleo diet, a close relation of the massively popular ‘keto’ diet, which focuses on taking humans back to an older, pre-industrialised way of eating. The Non-industrialized Microbiome Restore, or NiMe, diet does something similar, but with a very particular focus - the gut.

NiMe: Diet aims to restore pre-industrialised microbiome

Industrialisation has changed how consumers eat, and largely for the worse, critics argue. This is the argument behind the promotion of the paleo diet, a close relation of the massively popular ‘keto’ diet, which focuses on taking humans…

Are you interested in how exercise may affect symptoms of depression and mood?
Researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland @ucc.ie are now recruiting participants!
If interested email move4mood@ucc.ie or click here tinyurl.com/Move4Mood

Interested in a #PhD Studentship at APC labs in @ucc.ie ? We have an opportunity to work with Prof Aonghus Lavelle on a project identifying and isolating bile acid metabolising bacteria in inflammatory bowel disease.
#PhDposition
Full details: bit.ly/43fNiUU