Elisa Di Stefano opens the APC postdoc session during postdoc appreciation week. Some of our INSPIRE fellows- Paula Fernandez Gomez, Lorena Morales Garcia, Lea Roussin and Mathieu Thabault presented on their research in the beautiful Aula Maxima UCC on 19th September 2024. 

Ten postdoctoral fellowships to be awarded from Call 2.

Call 2 will open on 30th August 2023 with an application submission deadline 22nd November 2023.

* These dates are indicative and subject to change

The INSPIRE fellows volunteered at an education and public engagement event in Fota Wildlife park August 2023. They escorted families through the Alimentary Adventures inflatable digestive system while explaining how food is digested.

APC Microbiome Ireland is proud to welcome its newest research fellows as part of the INSPIRE Fellowship programme

The first new researchers have joined APC Microbiome Ireland, a world leading SFI Research Centre based at University College Cork, as part of the new INSPIRE Fellowship programme which was formally launched in 2022.

APC Microbiome Ireland, a world-leading SFI research centre based at University College Cork (UCC), has launched the INSPIRE Fellowship programme which seeks to tackle challenges facing global food systems and health.  

Dr Manon Oliero on secondment with Gourmet Fuels Ltd. 

Manon joined APC Microbiome Ireland, a Research Ireland Centre based at University College Cork as an INSPIRE Postdoctoral Fellow and works on the SCONE study (Satiety Control Optimization by Nutritional Enhancement) where her primary objective is to evaluate the effect of combining various dietary fibres in industrialized food products to better control glycemia throughout the day.

Meet Dr Manon Oliero

A three-day Entrepreneurship summer school was hosted for the INSPIRE fellows as part of the H2020 MSCA INSPIRE research and training programme.

Elisa joined APC Microbiome Ireland, a Research Ireland Centre based at University College Cork as an INSPIRE Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate In situ phytate degradation of iron-fortified complementary foods by Bifidobacterium spp: a novel approach to tackle iron deficiency in early life. For Elisa, the secondment at the Daniel Carasso Danone Global Research & Innovation Centre in Paris-Saclay was an invaluable opportunity to broaden her scientific expertise and career perspective. Read what Elisa has to say about the great opportunity she had.