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  • The Concept of a Healthy Human Microbiome

    23 Oct 2024
    The Concept of a Healthy Human Microbiome

    A perspective published in Nature Reviews Microbiology from APC Microbiome Ireland, a world leading Research Ireland Centre at UCC and the EU-funded Human Microbiome Action consortium led by Professors Paul Ross and Joël Doré considers the challenge of determining a 'healthy' human microbiome.

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  • Dr. Sinéad Corr relocates research lab to UCC

    16 Sep 2024
    Dr. Sinéad Corr relocates research lab to UCC

    APC is delighted to announce that Dr. Sinéad Corr, an  Associate Professor in Microbiology, has relocated her research lab from Trinity College Dublin to our headquarters at University College Cork. This move marks an exciting new chapter for APC as we continue to expand our world-class research capabilities.

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  • MSc Microbiome Science

    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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  • Largest survey of microbes in food to date

    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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  • APC and Adiso Announce Groundbreaking Research Highlighting ADS024

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

    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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  • APC and ISAPP, a meeting of minds

    13 Aug 2024
    APC and ISAPP, a meeting of minds

    The 2024 ISAPP (International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics) Annual Meeting was held in Cork from the 9th to the 11th 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.

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  • APC partners with KERRY on biotics

    06 Aug 2024
    APC partners with KERRY on biotics

    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.

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  • APC researcher secures SFI-IRC Pathway funding

    23 Jul 2024
    APC researcher secures SFI-IRC Pathway funding

    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"

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  • APC study finds Western diets pose greater risk of cancer and IBD

    17 Jul 2024
    APC study finds Western diets pose greater risk of cancer and IBD

    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.

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