We greatly welcome the launch of SeqBiome a spinout from APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork and Teagasc. SeqBiome provides high-quality and interactive sequencing and microbiome analysis for academia and industry. The offering is comprehensive and spans the microbiome project con More

A timely public health lesson Investigators at APC Microbiome Ireland were stunned by the findings of the first microbiome study of Irish Travellers which challenges the concept of a ‘normal’ or ‘healthy’ microbiome and asks: “what is a normal or desirable microbiome in an ethnically More

APC wishes to congratulate our long-term collaborators, the PrecisionBiotics Group, on their acquisition by the leading Danish bioinnovation company, Novozymes, in a €80 million deal. “APC researchers have collaborated very closely with PrecisionBiotics for over two decades on the develo More

The American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA®) is pleased to announce Catherine Stanton as the 2020 recipient of the ADSA Distinguished Service Award. Stanton was recognized during the virtual ADSA Annual Meeting. The ADSA Distinguished Service Award was created to recognize unusually outs More

New Research Grants   Innovative Training Networks Dr Cormac Gahan and Dr Brendan Griffin  will lead two new  Innovative Training Networks (ITN) These new ITNs, which were successful at the evaluation stage and have been invited to participate in preparing the grant agreements worth â‚ More

APC’s educational workshop features on RTÉ School Hub With schools closed, pupils around the country have been tuning in daily to learn at home with the Home School Hub on RTE, Ireland's most popular TV station. At the beginning of June, the show featured one of APC’s educational workshops More

World Microbiome Day @APC Variety is the spice of life and this is certainly true when it comes to microbiomes - the communities of bacteria, fungi and viruses that are found just about everywhere. That’s why the theme for this year’s World Microbiome Day is diversity. Join us as we celebra More

APC Scientists Attract Key Funding on IBS APC Microbiome Ireland researchers, Dr Gerard Clarke and Professor John F. Cryan have recently been awarded key research funding under the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme to understand the role of the microbiome and More

New microbiome research of practical value to patients   Two of the most important and largest microbiome studies ever undertaken in patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease have been conducted by a team of researchers in Cork from APC Microbiome Ireland. The research, which als More

Harvey and Harvetta, novel computational models for personalised medicine Researchers, led by APC Principal Investigator Prof Ines Thiele based in NUI Galway, have developed whole-body computational models - Harvey and Harvetta -  which advance the concept of personalised medicine. Harvey a More