ARTE Documentary features John Cryan APC Principal Investigator Prof. John Cryan features in a new documentary from ARTE which asks what should we eat to make sure our brain develops properly and stays healthy. Do carrots make you friendly and fish makes you intelligent?   Popular wisdom h More

 APC researcher awarded Global Grant for Gut Health APC Microbiome Ireland's Dr Niall Hyland  has been awarded a €100,000 Global Grant for Gut Health by Nature Research and Yakult to advance insight into how gut bacteria affect medications for depression and anxiety. One of two awardees, Ni More

APC partners with the Glucksman for Circadian Rhythms Exhibition                                                  All life on earth operates to a daily 24-hour cycle – through rhythmic patterns of activity that are known as Circadian Rhythms. Our c More

Game of Microbes Winter is Coming! Scientists from APC Microbiome Ireland in UCC are calling for action against the global threat of antibiotic resistance on World Microbiome Day (June 27). Antibiotics have been the weapon of choice for treating bacterial infections for the last 80 years. Co More

Prof Paul Ross appointed as new Director of APC Microbiome Ireland APC Microbiome Ireland is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Paul Ross as Director, following an extensive international search process by University College Cork. “Microbiome science is now transforming mos More

Celebrating all things Microbiome World Microbiome Day will take place on Thursday 27th June 2019.  The theme for 2019  is Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics. PLEASE GET INVOLVED by organising an event and posting it on  www.worldmicrobiomeday.com/events.  On social media use #WorldMic More

Royal Irish Academy Admittance Day Professor Catherine Stanton and Ivan Perry were among 27 new Members of the Royal Irish Academy welcomed by Professor Kennedy, President of the Royal Irish Academy, at the 2019 admittance day ceremony. Welcoming these eminent scholars to the Academy Profess More

DSc Awarded to Fergus Shanahan  Fergus Shanahan was recognized by the Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada,  where he was awarded a DSc at their Spring Convocation ceremony. Fergus was a McMaster research fellow from 1981 to 1983.  An inventive and prolific imm More

APC Scientists target gut microbes to reverse the effects of ageing in middle age Middle age is a time of life where various physiological changes occur and can lead to alterations of brain function, including cognitive impairments. However, the mechanisms underpinning such changes are unclear More

Ministers Humphreys and Halligan announce €230 million funding of six world-leading SFI Research Centres Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD, and Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, John Halligan TD, announced an inv More