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

  Professor Colin Hill’s internationally acclaimed research on developing new natural antimicrobials has been recognised through UCC’s Career Achievement Research Award, which celebrates researchers who have made exceptional and very influential research contributions, pushing bounda More

The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD, announced today an investment of €5.5 million in 41 projects under the SFI led COVID-19 Rapid Response Research and Innovation Programme. Funding is focused on supporting projects which respond t More

The Language Of Illness [video_lightbox_youtube video_id="6UilktxKLVc" width="640" height="480" anchor="https://apc.ucc.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Screenshot-2020-09-18.png"]  APC Microbiome Ireland was delighted to host the launch of Fergus Shanahan's latest book, The Language of Illness, v More

UCC Scientist secures major European funding on the impact of pesticides on human and animal health Professor John F. Cryan and colleagues at University College Cork’s APC Microbiome Ireland have been awarded over 730k Euro in research funding as a part of the European Commission’s Horizon More