World-leading academic Professor Jens Walter will lead a €3.7 million research programme at APC Microbiome Ireland (APC) through a prestigious Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Professorship award announced today. His research will investigate the impact of a modern lifestyle on the More

Congratulations to  Dr Andrey Shkoporov who has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship to better understand crAssphage.  These recently discovered viruses, which had never been grown in a lab until 2018 when Dr Shkoporov was able to grow them for the More

APC Microbiome Ireland is delighted to announce that 13 of our 19 Principal Investigators have been included in the Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list (Web of Science Group) released today. This prestigious list recognises pioneers in their field whose citation records position them in the very More

Many congratulations to APC Investigators and associated faculty who have been awarded more than €2.6m via SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme The SFI Frontiers for the Future programme comprises two funding streams: Awards - 26 larger scale innovative, collaborative excellent resea More

  APC researchers have  three recent publications that investigate the links between fibre and brain function, obesity and microbiota composition. The health benefits of dietary fibre as a nutrient have been known for more than 200 years and we are learning more and more about how fi More

  Recent evidence points to an important role for the microbiome in regulating brain function and behaviour.  A new paper from Livia Morais et al. in Prof John Cryan’s lab shows that birth by Caesarean (C)-section results in a different pattern of microbiota colonization with long-ter More

APC awards in SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme May congratulations to APC Investigators and associated faculty who have been awarded more than €2.6m via SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme “Mechanisms underpinning the interplay between chronic neuroinflammation and exercise on co More

   We are delighted to announce a new collaboration with the Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) aimed at developing new natural cultures for food fermentations. Fermented foods are created using controlled microbial growth, facilitated by microorganisms or microbial communities, usually in the fo More

Join us in celebrating science throughout the month of November.  We'll kick off with some great activities and events as part of Cork Science Festival during Science Week  (8-15 November 2020). The action will continue with Cork Discovers for European Researchers Night (27 November ). Most of the More

Dr Mary O’Connell Motherway, APC Faculty Member and Research Fellow at the UCC School of Microbiology, has taken up an SFI Public Service Fellowship with the Food Safety Association of Ireland. Mary is the lead on one of 12 research projects which will receive total funding of €700,000 th More