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2013 Events
EVENTS |
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| 30 April 2013 | APC Research Seminar
Shannon Russell
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Cian Hill
BSI Seminar Room, Tuesday April 30th at 9am All Welcome |
| 23 April 2013 | APC Research Seminar
Eamonn Culligan
& Siobhan Clarke
BSI Seminar Room, Tuesday April 23rd at 9am All Welcome
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| 20th March 2013 | Science for All 9th annual postgraduate student public presentation competition FINAL Wednesday 20th March @7pm University College Cork Boole 4 lecture theatre
•Eamonn Culligan, Dept. Microbiology, UCC & Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre
“Mining” the Human Gut Microbiome •Maura Hannon, Dept. Biochemistry, UCC
What’s the trouble with Tribbles? •Fergus McAuliffe, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC
Getting Trees to do the dirty work •Rachel Moloney, Dept. Psychiatry, UCC & Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre
A Pain in the Gut! Understanding the mechanisms underlying abdominal pain •Elaine Patterson, Dept. Microbiology, UCC & Teagasc Moorepark Food Research Centre
You are what you eat! The Impact of Dietary Fat on Gut Bacteria & Obesity Admission free ALL WELCOME Organised by the APC & College of Science Engineering & Food Science, UCC |
| 9th March 2013 | Irritable Bowel Syndrome: the Experience of Illness Symposium in association with the Health Research Board
Saturday 9th March 11am to 1pm Glucksman Gallery, UCC
Opening Remarks Prof Ted Dinan (Chair)
The Unloved Gut: Prof Fergus Shanahan, APC, UCC & CUH
Current and Future Treatment Options for IBS Dr Alexander Ford, Leeds
Emerging Biomarkers of IBS Mr Paul Kennedy, APC, UCC
The Experience of Illness, IBS and the Arts /Closing Remarks Prof John F Cryan/Dr Gerard Clarke, APC, UCC
Admission free ALL WELCOME
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| 5 March 2013 | APC Research Seminar
Daniel Burke & Tim Regan
Tuesday, March 5th 2013 at 9.00am, BSI Seminar Room
ALL WELCOME |
| January 26th 2013 | Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Open Day in association with Irish Society for Colitis and Crohn's Disease and Dept. Medicine, UCC
2-4pm Saturday 26th January 2013
Main Lecture Theatre CORK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
ALL WELCOME
Speakers include: Professor John Cryan, APC & UCC Neuroscience & Anatomy, Dr Marianne Fraher APC , Dr Liz Kenny, Cork University Maternity Hospital Prof Michael Maher, Cork University Hospital & UCC Dr Jane McCarthy, Mercy University Hospital, Mr Morgan McCourt, CUH IBD Nurses: Margot Hurley & Norma Scanlon, CUH & Kathleen Sugrue, MUH & Professor Fergus Shanahan (CHAIR)
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24 November 2012 - 10 March 2013 |
Living/ Loss: the Experience of Illness in Art
Exhibition at Glucksman Gallery, UCC
ALL WELCOME
in association with
The Experience of Illness: Learning from the Arts International Symposium. UCC 30 Nov & 1 Dec 2012 |
| 21 September 2012 | FALK FORUM CORK 2012
The sensitive gut and the inflamed gut: a clinicopathophysiological perspective on IBD and IBS
Hosted by Fergus Shanahan and Eamonn Quigley
To register please contact Cynthia Herzog Herzog@drfalkpharma.co.uk |
| 28 September 2012 | Clinical Trials for Foods and Supplements: guidance for industry
UCC Symposium
Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick Friday 28th September 2012
For ANYONE interested in learning more about the "how to" of making health claims
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| 1 & 3 October 2012 | 10th annual meeting of the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics.
River Lee Hotel CORK
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Further details: http://www.isapp.net/2012meetinginfo.asp |
| 9 October 2012 | 14th annual De Pazzi Lecture
"The Logic of Medicine in the 21st Century"
Dr Kevin Horgan, Chief Medical Officer, Soligenix Inc
Tuesday October 9th@6pm
Lecture theatre G10 Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC, College Rd, Cork
Kevin Horgan received his medical degree from University College Cork in 1982 and completed training in internal medicine in Birmingham, UK (Queen Elizabeth Hospital) and Baltimore, MD (Johns Hopkins Hospital). He then did an immunology research fellowship at the National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, MD) followed by a fellowship in gastroenterology at UCLA. He was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCLA before joining Merck Research Laboratories. At Merck he led the development of the first neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist to be approved for clinical use: EMENDTM was approved in 2003 for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. He subsequently worked at Centocor and General Electric before joining Soligenix Inc. where he is currently the Chief Medical Officer.
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| 29 June 2012 | Gerard O’Keeffe Lecturer and Principal Investigator, Neuroscience/Anatomy ‘Maternal-foetal interactions in regulating neuronal growth during development’ & Paul Kennedy Core 6
Friday, June 29th 2012 at 1pm,
BSI Seminar Room
ALL WELCOME |
| 25 June 2012 | Science Raps with APC and Stevie G The Pavilion Cork 6-8pm 25 June 2012
Can you rap? Got the science bug? Come along to the Pavilion at 6pm on Monday 25 June and be in with a chance to win a pair of Beats by Dre or some iTunes credit by expressing your thoughts about science through rap.
David "Genesis" Jackson and Rory O'Connor, previous winners of APC's Science Raps competitions will be perform.
If you need some inspiration, check out our 2011 Science Raps competition winners (17+ category) James Carr & friends from Colaiste on Spiorad Naoimh with the track entitled “The Chemistry of Life” on our Pharmabiotic YouTube channel
All welcome; admission free
Science Raps with APC and Stevie G is part of CuriousCity a series of city-wide events in Cork in association with Dublin City of Science 2012 to inspire creativity, spark innovation and seek answers to Life’s Great Questions. Check out the many other CuriousCity EVENTS! |
| 22 June 2012 | APC Research Seminar
Eileen O’Shea Core 1 "Bactofensin LS1, a novel bacteriocin produced by porcine intestinal isolates of Lactobacillus salivarius"
&
Catriona Lyons Core 2
Friday, June 22nd 2012 at 1pm
BSI Seminar Room
ALL WELCOME |
| 29 May 2012 | APC Public Forum for World Digestive Health Day 29 May 2012
Chair: Profesor Eamonn Quigley, Professor of Medicine & Human Physiology UCC, Consultant Gastroenterologist CUH, Prinicipal Investigator APC & past President World Gastroenterology Organisation "Irritable Bowel Syndrome Research Update"
Speakers "Constipation; new ideas on a common problem" Dr Anton Emmanuel, Senior Lecturer in Neuro-Gastroenterology at University College London and Consultant Gastroenterologist at University College Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
"Diet and Gut Health; Practical Advice" Ms Sarah Keogh Dietician, Albany Health Clinic, Dublin.
Tuesday 29 May 2012 @7pm Venue: Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, lecture theatre G01 ALL WELCOME; Admission Free
Click for Summary of presentations Click on Speaker's name for pdf of their presentation Eamonn Quigley
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| 24 May 2012 | 52nd Royal Academy of Medicine Robert Graves Lecture "Bugs on the braine; brain in the gut - seeking explanations for common gastrointestinal symptoms"
Professor Eamonn Quigley, Professor of Medicine & Human Physiology UCC, Consultant Gastroenterologist CUH, Prinicipal Investigator APC & past President World Gastroenterology
8pm Thursday 24th May Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin |
| 11 May 2012 | APC Research Seminar
Eamonn Culligan Core 3 ‘Functional metagenomics reveals novel salt tolerance loci from the human gut microbiome’ & David Russell Core 5 ‘Human intestinal microbiota and metabolites they produce in relation to host health’
Friday, May 11th 2012 at 1pm, BSI Seminar Room
ALL WELCOME |
| 3 April 2012 | 13th Annual De Pazzi Lecture
Consultant Cardiologist Mercy University Hospital, “Coronary Artery Disease: the biology and the journey”.
3rd April 2012 at 5pm
Lecture Theatre G10 Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC, College Road
ALL WELCOME |
16 March 2012
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Vising Research Seminar
Prof Steve Collins Farncombe Institute, McMaster University, Canada
Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Health Sciences Professor, Department of Medicine Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
“The putative role of the intestinal microbiota in functional gastrointestinal disorders”
Friday March 16th, 1pm, BSI Seminar Room 1.13
Dr. Collins obtained his medical training at London University. He trained in gastroenterology at McMaster University in Canada before completing 3 years of research training in cell biology at the Digestive Diseases Branch, National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland USA. He has been on staff at McMaster University since 1981 where he was the Director of the Intestinal Diseases Research Unit from 1983-1993, and Head of the Division of Gastroenterology since 1993-2006. He is past president of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. His areas of interest include: the impact of inflammation on gut function, neuron-immune interactions, and the role of commensal bacteria in health and disease. He has over 200 publications including papers in Nature Medicine, Lancet, JCI, Gastroenterology and Gut. He has received continuous CIHR funding for over 20 years, has been a member of the MRC Science & Research Committee, and chaired the CIHR Experimental Medicine grants review committee for 5 years. He has also been an advisor to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America and Chaired the Strategic Initiatives Committee for The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada. He is currently Associate Dean for Research at the Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University and holds the title of Distinguished University Professor - the highest rank awarded by the University.
ALL WELCOME
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| 1 June 2011 | World Digestive Health Day
APC Public Forum
Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Infections, Food and Stress
Wednesday June 1st 2011 Lecture Theatre G01 Brookfield Health Sciences Complex College Road, University College Cork
Chairperson: Profesor Eamonn Quigley, Professor of Medicine & Human Physiology UCC, Consultant Gastroenterologist CUH, Prinicipal Investigator APC & past President World Gastroenterology Organisation Speakers: Professor Colin Hill, UCC & APC Dr Orla Craig, Cork University Hospital
ALL WELCOME ADMISSION FREE Click here for Programme, here for Summary of talks and on speaker's name for powerpoint presentations Prof Eamonn Quigley, Prof Colin Hill, Dr Orla Craig
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| 30 March 2011 |
postgraduate public presentation competition
Lecture Theatre Boole 2 University College Cork Wednesday 30th March 2011; 7-9pm
Anne Blavette, Hydraulics and Marine Research Centre Sinead Doherty, Teagasc Moorepark Food Research Centre & Dept. Microbiology Thomas Fogarty, Dept. of Physics Carola Murphy, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre & Dept. Medicine Grace O’Callaghan, Dept. Medicine Laura Russell, Dept. Physics & Tyndall National Institute
ALL WELCOME ADMISSION FREE Click here for programme |
| Biosciences Institute University College Cork Ireland email: apc@ucc.ie |
Moorepark Food Research Centre Teagasc, Fermoy, Co. Cork Ireland |
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