Summer Students 2016 – report from Grace O’Mahony I was funded by the Health Research Board to conduct research in the APC lab of Ken Nally for 2 months. I found the internship to be an immensely positive experience, as it was my first time working in a research lab. I applied for the pla More

APC engaging peers and the public APC’s Education and Public Engagement team have had a busy few months. BIG Event/ STEM Communicators Conference at W5 Interactive Discovery Centre in Belfast APC hosted a workshop “All about Microbes: from the Microbiome to Antimicrobial Resistanceâ More

UCC team awarded gold medal at iGEM 2016 UCC’s iGEM team were awarded a Gold medal at the prestigious international iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine) Jamboree held recently in Boston. More than 600 teams from the top universities in the world, including MIT, Harvard, Stanfor More

Gut Feelings- How our gut regulates our brain & behaviour  Excitement has been generated in mental health research by recent findings from animal and clinical studies demonstrating an important role for gut bacteria in brain function and behaviour.  This emerging area of research has res More

Recent Awards Congratulations to Paul Cotter who took up a new role as Head of Food Biosciences Department in Teagasc from December 1st.  He also won an Invention of the Year (Teagasc category) award for “Simultaneous detection of the four Bacillus cereus toxin encoding genes using multip More

APC Associated Faculty -  Professor Paula O’Leary Paula O’Leary was recently appointed Professor of Medicine in UCC. She graduated with a medical degree from University College Cork in 1987 and trained in Internal Medicine and Clinical and Laboratory Immunology at centres in Cork, Dublin More

APC Associated Faculty - Dr John Morrissey  John Morrissey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Microbiology, UCC.  He has a BSc in Microbiology from UCC and a PhD from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. He completed his post-doctoral research at the Univer More

APC Associated Faculty – Dr Eibhlis O’Connor Eibhlís O’Connor (BSc. RNutr. PhD) from Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, is a registered human nutritionist and lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Limerick. She has strong collaborative links with APC investigating how d More

Dr Crystal Johnson Crystal Johnson, from Oklahoma USA, was recently awarded a two-year H2020-Marie Sklodowska Curie Independent Fellowship. Crystal is working with Catherine Stanton and Paul Ross in collaboration with Mr. Criostoir O'Suilleabhain of Mercy University Hospital. Crystal’s rese More

Profile - Dr Toshitaka Odamaki Toshitaka Odamaki joined Douwe van Sinderen's group at APC, where he is using bioinformatics tools to analyse the genomes of bifidobacteria as a new collaborative project with Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. Toshitaka obtained his MSc in Agricultural Chemist More