The Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience is delighted to welcome applications for the forthcoming Anatomy and Neuroscience for Transition Year students two day course which will take place on Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th May 2025.

Congratulations to Professor Yvonne Nolan, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, and APC Microbiome Ireland who was invited to present her research on the role of gut microbiome in Alzheimer’s disease at the Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago on 7^th October 2024.

Research from Professor Yvonne Nolan’s group features in the New Scientist magazine. PhD student Sebastian Dohm-Hansen who researches the middle-aged brain under the supervision of Professor Nolan, Dr Jane English and Dr Aonghus Lavelle, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, was interviewed by David Robson to contribute to the feature article in the New Scientist issue on 20 July 2024.

The BSc Medical and Health Sciences programme recently hosted its annual Meet and Greet Coffee Morning, officially marking the launch of the Year 1 Mentoring Programme for this academic year.

A very busy UCC Open day saw great interest in the BSc Neuroscience stand at the recent Open Day. Students interested in the BSc in Neuroscience degree gathered to chat with academic staff, undergraduate and post graduate Neuroscience students, working in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience.

Congratulations to the BSc Medical and Health Sciences class of 2024 who graduated at the College of Medicine and Health conferring ceremony on Friday October 25th, 2024.

Dr Mutahira Lone, Director of the MSc in Human Anatomy programme in UCC and Professor Gerard O'Keeffe Head of Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, congratulated the class of 2024 on their conferring at the UCC College of Medicine and Health Conferring Ceremony on 25th October 2024.

Congratulations to Dr Mutahira Lone, Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy who was presented with the John Kelly award for Outstanding Innovations in Teaching in Further and Higher Education.

Dr Siobhain O'Mahony is one of the researchers from eleven countries across Europe who were recently awarded nearly €7 million to develop AI-based diagnosis methods and innovative interventions for Endometriosis.

Dr Siobhain O'Mahony and Dr Mariarosaria Cuozzo, were invited by the Hospital Professional News Ireland Journal, to contribute an article to their October issue which focused on Women's Health.

Dr Harriët Schellekens, has recently been awarded a second Biostime Institute for Nutrition and Care BINC research funding award for her project NourishMind: Unravelling the Impact of Early-Life High-fat, High Sugar Diets on Neuro-Cognitive Development and Gut-Brain Pathways.

Dr Siobhain O'Mahony, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Principal Investigator in APC Microbiome Ireland, and an awardee of an Honorary Fellowship from the College of Anaesthesiologists Ireland was selected to deliver the annual Francis Rynd Lecture at the College of Anaesthesiologists Annual Congress in University College Dublin on the 24^th of May 2024.

Congratulations to Ms Shelley O’Shea, Senior Executive Assistant in the Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience who was conferred with a BSc (Hons) in Counselling and Psychotherapy at Coventry University Summer Conferring Ceremony on the 19th July 2024.

Dr Harriët Schellekens (Project Beneficiary), Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, and funded investigator with APC Microbiome Ireland, has recently received funding of €572,976 under the HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks programme awards for her research project ‘Advancing Research at the Intersection Between Gut Microbiota and Cancer Cachexia to Train Europe’s Future Leaders in Microbiota Medicine’.

Dr Siobhain O’Mahony, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience and Principal Investigator in APC Microbiome Ireland, was conferred with an Honorary Fellowship by the College of Anaesthesiologists Ireland Faculty of Pain, at a formal ceremony in College of Anaesthesiologists in Merrion Square, Dublin on the 21st June 2024.

Staff and research students from the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience gathered on Thursday 6th June 2024 in the Western Gateway Building Cafe to bid a sad farewell to Head of Department Professor Aideen Sullivan, while also congratulating her on her appointment as Chair in Advanced Pharmacotherapy in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, UCC.

Congratulations to the BSc Medical and Health Sciences Class 2024 who celebrated the completion of their four-year degree programme with staff in May 2024.

Congratulations BSc Neuroscience Class 2024 who completed their viva exams last week.

The Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience was delighted to welcome students to the  Anatomy and Neuroscience for Transition Year students two day course which took place on Wednesday 8^th and Thursday 9^th May 2024.

The Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience held its fifth Thanksgiving Service on Tuesday 12th March 2024. Now an established event in the calendar of the College of Medicine & Health at UCC, the biannual multidenominational Thanksgiving Service hosted in UCC’s Honan Chapel brings together families of donors, staff and students of anatomy in a musical and reading celebration.

The event gives the University and anatomy students an opportunity to meet with the donor families to thank, acknowledge and reflect on the extraordinary gift that they have received from the donors.

Congratulations to Dr Lorena Morales, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, who has recently been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Individual Fellowship. The Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships targets researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers, and to enable postdoctoral researchers to gain experience in other countries, disciplines, and non-academic sectors.

Dr Mutahira Lone, Director of MSc Human Anatomy UCC, visited local National School St Joseph's to deliver an anatomy class as part of Creative Schools Month 2024.

Middle Age – between 40-60 years – marks a shift in brain ageing and the middle-aged brain could provide a window in your future brain health, a major academic analysis finds today.

Lecturer Dr Sarah Nicolas and PhD student Ms Patricia Flynn, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience host a series of short brain related talks as part of Brain Awareness Week 2024. 

Head of Department Professor Aideen Sullivan, stands centre in a heart shaped formation with women from the Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience as they strike the #InspireInclusion heart hand pose for International Women's Day on March 8th 2024.  

The Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience will host its fifth Thanksgiving Service in memory of the people who donated their bodies to University College Cork for medical research. The service is a celebration of the lives of all donors and especially of those donors who were part of the donation programme in the past four years.

Publishing in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dr Maria Aburto and Professor Cryan's expansive article 'Gastrointestinal and brain barriers: unlocking gates of communication across the microbiota–gut–brain axis' is a indepth analysis and summary of current research findings of this highly complex, topical and exciting area.  

The UCC Renaissance Studies, CACCSSS and Erasmus Plus 'Leonardo comes to UCC' lecture series saw da Vinci expert, Pascal Brioist present four lectures on four consecutive days in UCC. The series culminated with the Leonardo and Anatomy lecture which was supported by the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience and took place in Brookfield Health Science Complex G.05 on Thursday February 15th, 2024. 

A day of discussion on a range of issues ranging from menopause and endometriosis to the opportunities and challenges which face women in biomedical research took place in UCC's Devere Hall on November 25th, 2023.  Sponsored by The Menopause Hub & Laya Healthcare, the lively and engaging discourse was interspersed with refreshments and movement breaks.  

Professor John F. Cryan & colleagues in APC Microbiome Ireland show a role for gut microbiota in social anxiety disorder in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS, one of the world's most-cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals.

Staff from the School of Medicine College of Medicine and Health and the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience gathered on 23^rd November 2023 in the Jennings Gallery Brookfield Health Sciences to celebrate the contribution their colleague Dr Kathy Quane had made to the teaching of Anatomy in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience.

Congratulations to Kayla O'Connor fourth year Medical and Health Science student and Cork ladies Intermediate Football All Ireland Club Champion winner at Croke Park 18th December 2023 

Patricia Flynn is a final year PhD student researching glioma-a brain cancer, in the lab of Dr André Toulouse and Dr Collette Hand. Funded by the Musgrave Scholarship in association with Breakthrough Cancer Research, one of three charities who have joined together to create ‘Face Up To Cancer’ to raise funds for cancer research and support services in Ireland. Patricia's video selfie features in the campaign website and she invites you to 'Add Your Face' and Donate to support 'Face up to Cancer'.

Professor Aideen Sullivan, Head of Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience in collaboration with Professor Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies UCC, are delighted to welcome da Vinci expert Professor Pascal Brioist, University of Tours to UCC to present a lecture series on Leonardo da Vinci.

Dr Jane English, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience and INFANT, welcomed Fulbright Scholar Awardee Dr Reghan Foley to UCC, and the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience research labs where they will work on a collaborative study of proteomic profiles of congenital muscular dystrophy samples from NIH and healthy control samples from the Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort. 

Congratulations to Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience researchers, Dr Siobhain O'Mahony, Dr Harriët Schellekens and PhD student Ms Clara Deady who were each awarded an APC Entrepreneurship Bursary at the inaugural APC Entrepreneurship Awards ceremony in November 2023.

Congratulations Professor Aideen Sullivan who received a 25 year Long Service award from UCC President John O'Halloran at the 2023 Long Service Award Ceremony 2023 which was held on Thursday 7^th December 2023.  

The BSc Neuroscience class of 2023 were conferred with their BSc Neuroscience degrees at the College of Science Engineering and Food Science Autumn Conferring Ceremony on Tuesday November 14th 2023.