Congratulations to Dr Olivia O’Leary, Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Anatomy and Neuroscience, UCC & Funded Investigator in APC Microbiome Ireland, who received the ECNP 2020 Citation Award. This award is given by the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) to the lead au More

Contributed by John Leech Our new study investigated 58 fermented foods from 8 countries and identified factors driving the microbial composition of these foods and the potential functional benefits associated with these populations. Using the latest in DNA sequencing technology, we uncovered More

UCC and PrecisionBiotics Win at Knowledge Transfer Ireland Impact Awards University College Cork (UCC), APC Microbiome Ireland  and healthcare product developer PrecisionBiotics were named winners of the Commercialisation Impact Award. PrecisionBiotics – a UCC spin-out – was founded almost More

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APC Microbiome Ireland is recruiting an enthusiastic and dynamic communications specialist to join our Management team in the role of Communications and Public Relations Manager   More

Unravelling microbiome volatility and stress   “It's not stress that kills us; it is our reaction to it” are the famous words of the Hungarian physiologist Hans Selye. Indeed understanding how stress affects the body is an important endeavour in understanding and promoting resilienc More

APC and Tyndall researchers  recognised for outstanding early career success    Dr Pauline Scanlan from APC Microbiome Ireland  and Dr Lynette Keeney at Tyndall National Institute have been awarded prestigious Royal Society-SFI University Research Fellowships for the second time for their o More

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