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Harnessing the power of the microbiome for people and planet


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Our research aligns closely with the United Nation SDGs and is targeted at harnessing the potential of microbiome science to help address some of the key global challenges we face today.


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Our dedicated team of over 300 researchers and world-leading scientists – from microbiologists and immunologists to food-scientists and medical consultants.


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Harnessing the power of the microbiome for people and planet

APC Microbiome Ireland (APC) is a world-leading Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) research centre focused on understanding the gastrointestinal bacterial community and harnessing the power of the microbiome – (or microbiota) – for the health and wellbeing of people and planet. This is one of the fastest moving and exciting areas of biology of relevance to human health, medicine, food ingredients, agriculture, and veterinary science and is of growing importance to the economic welfare of society.

Addressing the big global challenges

Our research is structured across themes that align closely with the United Nation SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Our specific goals and mission are targeted at realising the potential of microbiome science to help address some of the key global challenges we face today – such as reducing the societal burden of chronic disease and incidence of infectious disease; combatting the rise in antimicrobial (or antibiotic) resistance (AMR); and developing new and novel ways for microbiome-based science to contribute to more sustainable food production and agri-industry practices that are better for our environment.

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Featured News

29 Aug 2024

MSc Microbiome Science

MSc Microbiome Science is a new course from the School of Microbiology at University College Cork, with input from leading academics based at APC Microbiome Ireland. This course has been developed to meet the demands of academia and industry in the field of microbiome science.
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APC researchers John Leech, Samuel Breselge, Paul Cotter , Raul Cabrera Rubio, Liam Walsh and Mairéad Coakley were authors on this paper. 
29 Aug 2024

Largest survey of microbes in food to date

The first comprehensive database of food metagenomes has been developed by the EU-funded MASTER project; the associated paper ‘Analysis of 2,500 food metagenomes reveals unexplored microbial diversity and links with the human microbiome’ is published today in the prestigious journal Cell. The curatedFoodMetagenomicData (cFMD) database is a milestone database of metagenomes (the collective term for all of the genomic material from all of the microorganisms in an environment) from food that will enable DNA sequencing technologies to operate at their peak potential, helping researchers tackle global challenges, like food waste and antimicrobial resistance, while increasing food safety.
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27 Aug 2024

APC and Adiso Announce Groundbreaking Research Highlighting ADS024

APC and Adiso Therapeutics, Inc. have a new publication “LPA3 agonist-producing Bacillus velezensis ADS024 is efficacious in multiple neuroinflammatory disease models” by Acton, et al., in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, the official journal of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRS).
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13 Aug 2024

APC and UCC's School of Medicine welcomes Dr. Sebastian Schmidt as a new Principal Investigator

APC Microbiome Ireland (APC), a world-leading SFI Research Centre based at University College Cork (UCC), is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Sebastian Schmidt, an outstanding computational biologist with a global reputation for pioneering advancements in microbiome data analysis, as a new Principal Investigator.
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