APC News

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.

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).

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.

The 2024 ISAPP (International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics) Annual Meeting was held in Cork from the 9^th to the 11^th July. The choice of Cork was largely based on the presence of such a large cohort of microbiome, probiotic and prebiotics researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland, a world leading SFI Research Centre.

The Kerry Group comes together with APC Microbiome Ireland (APC), a world-leading SFI Research Centre based at University College Cork for a two-year joint exploration into how diet can support cognitive health.

APC Researcher Dr Jatin Nagpal has won an SFI-IRC Pathway Award for his project "The role of early-life microbiome in sculpting stress-social neural circuits in zebrafish"

Western diets pose a greater risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and colorectal cancer, according to a milestone review of what people eat around the world.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) in collaboration with APC senior researcher Dr Mary O’Connell Motherway has published an important report regarding the safety assessment of probiotics in food supplements. The report, which addresses a significant gap of knowledge in the European Union, provides much-needed guidance for food supplement producers.

WMD 2024 highlights the foods that can ‘feed’ your gut microbiome

APC PI Prof Orla O’Sullivan has been awarded funding for ‘Fitbiota: Examining the Emergence of a Fit Gut Microbiome in Young Adults and The Potential Impacts on Gut Health’ as part of the SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme.