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.
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Dr Schellekens awarded unprecedented second BINC research funding award for her project NourishMind
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Ms Shelley O’Shea conferred with Honours BSc degree at Coventry University UK
18 Sep 2024Congratulations 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.
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Dr Harriët Schellekens among UCC researchers awarded over €2 million in European funding to train highly skilled doctoral students
30 Aug 2024Dr 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’.
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Dr O'Mahony conferred with Honorary Fellowship by the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland
05 Jul 2024Dr 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.
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Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience Staff and Students gather to say farewell to Professor Aideen Sullivan
21 Jun 2024Staff 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.
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Dr Siobhain O'Mahony delivers College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland annual Francis Rynd Lecture
30 May 2024Dr 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 24th of May 2024.
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Congratulations BSc Medical and Health Sciences Class 2024
24 May 2024Congratulations to the BSc Medical and Health Sciences Class 2024 who celebrated the completion of their four-year degree programme with staff in May 2024.
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Congratulations BSc Neuroscience Class 2024
24 May 2024Congratulations BSc Neuroscience Class 2024 who completed their viva exams last week.
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Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience Thanksgiving Service 2024
19 Apr 2024The 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.
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Dr Lorena Morales awarded Marie Curie Postdoctoral Individual Fellowship
29 Mar 2024Congratulations 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.
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Dr Mutahira Lone visits St Joseph's NS in Anatomy Outreach and Creative Schools Month initiatives
20 Mar 2024Dr 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.
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Middle-aged brain can predict your future brain health, new review finds
19 Mar 2024Middle 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.
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Brain Awareness Week 2024: Join us in the Hub for a series of brain related talks on Friday 15th March 2024.
11 Mar 2024Lecturer 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.
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Anatomy & Neuroscience women stand together to strike the 'Inspires inclusion' heart shape pose for International Women's Day on March 8th 2024.
08 Mar 2024Head 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.
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Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience FLAME Laboratory honours Anatomical Donors in fifth Thanksgiving Service
07 Mar 2024The 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.
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Dr Maria Rodriguez Aburto and Professor John Cryan publish review article in Nature Reviews
22 Feb 2024Publishing 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.
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Collaboration with History Department brings da Vinci expert Pascal Brioist to lecture on Leonardo and Anatomy
23 Feb 2024The 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.
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BSc Medical and Health Sciences Students in UCC Translational Medicine Society host second Women’s Health Conference
06 Feb 2024A 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.
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Prof Cryan & colleagues show a role for gut microbiota in social anxiety disorder in a study published in PNAS
14 Feb 2024Professor 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.
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Farewell reception for Dr Kathy Quane held in Jennings Gallery UCC
12 Feb 2024Staff from the School of Medicine College of Medicine and Health and the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience gathered on 23rd 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.
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All Ireland Champion in our midst: Kayla O'Connor final year BSc Medical & Health Sciences
09 Feb 2024Congratulations 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
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PhD student Patricia Flynn invites you to 'ADD YOUR FACE' and DONATE to support 'FACE UP TO CANCER'
08 Feb 2024Patricia 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'.
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LEONARDO COMES TO UCC: da Vinci expert Pascal Brioist delivers 'Leonardo and Anatomy' lecture
29 Jan 2024Professor 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.
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Fulbright Scholar, Dr Reghan Foley collaborates with Dr Jane English on muscular dystrophy biomarker discovery project
29 Jan 2024Dr 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.
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Three Anatomy and Neuroscience Researchers receive APC Entrepreneurship Bursary Awards
17 Jan 2024Congratulations 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.
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Professor Aideen Sullivan receives 25 year Long Service award from UCC President Professor John O'Halloran
09 Jan 2024Congratulations 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 7th December 2023.
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BSc Neuroscience Class of 2023 celebrate with Dr Olivia O'Leary, recently appointed Director of BSc Neuroscience programme
09 Jan 2024The 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.
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