Microbiology

Two 2nd Year students from Colaiste Choilm, Ballincollig who hope to compete in the 2012 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition were given a helping hand this week by Dr Max Dow. The students approached Dr Dow about characterizing and examining microorganisms isolated from make-up brushes and test pads from leading beauty salons and department stores.

Dr Marlies Mooij, BIOMERIT Research Centre, Microbiology Department, UCC has recently been awarded an IRCSET EMPOWER Postdoctoral Fellowship, which she will start on the 1st of December under the supervision of Professor Fergal O’Gara.
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Five Microbiology PhD’s were conferred today at the Winter Conferring Ceremonies, University College Cork.

Dr Jerry Reen, a postdoctoral researcher at the the BIOMERIT Research Centre, Microbiology Department, UCC achieved first place in the postdoctoral category award for this year’s University College Cork, BioSciences Institute Researcher of the Year competition and went on to achieve 3rd place in the national competition.
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PhD student Claire Flaherty won best poster award at the 4th International Congress on Food and Nutrition which was held together with the 3rd SAFE Consortium International Congress on Food Safety.
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Seven Microbiology PhD’s were conferred today at the Autumn Conferring Ceremonies, University College Cork.
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A better understanding of how bacterial toxins cause common human diseases may lead to their improved treatment and prevention according to a paper just published by Irish and US scientists in Nature Reviews Microbiology. Scientists discuss the identification, genetics and biochemistry of streptolysin S (SLS), a bacterial toxin produced by the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes.
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The Department of Microbiology would like to welcome Dr Mustafa Fazli from the Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark who is taking up an EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) fellowship in the laboratory of Dr Robert Ryan at the BIOMERIT Research Centre, Department of Microbiology, UCC.
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Dr Avril Coghlan, Microbiology Department, UCC has recently been awarded a short-term fellowship from the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin) to spend two months at the institute from November to December 2011.
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UCC scientists have discovered the genes responsible for efficient colonisation by a probiotic bacterium of the intestine. The research will have applications in the functional food and infant formula industries: the latter is strategically very important for Ireland which produces a fifth of the world’s infant formula. The study is published today in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Five Microbiology PhD Students were conferred today at the Summer Conferring ceremony.

Dr Jerry Reen, a Senior Postdoctoral Scientist in the BIOMERIT Research Centre, Department of Microbiology, UCC was the joint winner of the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) ‘Dragons Den’ competition held on May 7th at the DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin.

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