Eileen is Project and Clinical Trials Manager for the ELDERMET project. Bacteriophages, Bacteriocins (applied and fundamental aspects), Pharmabiotics (bioactives in gut health), Clostridium difficile, antibiotic resistant pathogens. He is also a member of the Irish Heart Foundation Council on Stroke. As well as co-ordinating ELDERMET, he is a member of the International Co-ordination Board of the MetaHIT consortium, which is an EU-supported FP7 project for metagenomic analysis of healthy, obese and diabetic adults in Europe. From this position he successfully secured a Wellcome Trust Fellowship to extend his molecular microbial ecology interest and investigate, with culture independent methods, the diversity and distribution of genes involved in biodegradation of priority pollutants. Professor Colin Hill is Associate Professor of Microbial Food Safety in the Departments of Microbiology and Food & Nutritional Sciences. Slavin, Rebecca (University College Cork, 2019-10-21) Complex undefined starter cultures are widely used for the production of Dutch- style cheese such as Gouda and Edam. Many faculty members are involved in multiple APC research themes. Elected Officers; Staff; Board of Directors; Column. Universidad Central del Caribe PO Box 60327 Bayamón, Puerto Rico 00960-6032 Phone (787) 798-3001 x-2079 See actions taken by the people who manage and post content. His doctoral thesis dealt with the archaeal diversity and the contribution of microorganisms to methane cycling in freshwater lake environments. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology . Ted Dinan is Professor of Psychiatry at University College Cork. His research interests include the comparative genomics and molecular biology of bacteriophages infecting lactic acid bacteria, in particular Lactococcus lactis, Streptococcus thermophilus and certain Lactobacillus species. Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork. Please see our policies and important changes regarding re-opening here. Senior Lecturers iv. Contact our Staff; Center for Economic & Workforce Development ... General education courses, sciences and humanities are completed at UCC. The APC currently has 86 Faculty members, including 19 Principal Investigators and 23 Funded Investigators, each of whom is well recognised in their field of research. Staff library accounts are not automatically created, Staff must fill out a Library Registration Form below. In 1996 was appointed as academic staff member of the School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Ireland. College & University . Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal (https://ore.ucc.ie/). He has extensive experience in the leadership and management of large, multipartner projects (funded by PRTLI, EU, Department of Fisheries and Food, Enterprise Ireland) and he is currently the Interim Director of the EUR 22m National Functional Food Research Centre (NFFRC). Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. Investigation of the molecular mechanisms by which Listeria monocytogenes grows in the mammalian gall bladder. During that time, her work involved studying. His group has developed novel approaches to investigate the role that microbes play in the human gut, in particular methods aimed at understanding the role of mobile genetic elements in gut function. ASM is the world's oldest life science organization devoted entirely to microbiologists and the science of microbiology.We have full text access to 11 of its most acclaimed publications. Find out what this means for your studies, research and work. Sections of this page. Orla spent times as a lecturer and senior demonstrator in the Department of Biochemistry in NUI, Cork in 2005, lecturing in such areas as molecular biology, cell signally and bioinformatics. There, his work consisted in cultivating a representative of this lineage from elderly gut, then to sequence and analyse its genome, in collaboration with the team of Prof. Paul O’Toole. The Registrar, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. Both Boole and Brookfield BHSL Libraries have re-opened with the safety of Library users and staff as our chief guiding principle. Dr. Tony Fitzgerald is a Lecturer in Medical Statistics in the department of Epidemiology & Public Health and a Senior Statistician at the National Suicide Research Foundation (NSRF). We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the benefit of everyone. Information from this directory may be outdated at a point in-time. Contact Us. Responsible for sales and promotion of Oral Nutritional Products in the community, she developed a keen interest in the link between diet and health.Aisling joined the ELDERMET team in August 2013 as a Clinical Research Nurse, from a Care of the Elderly ward. ... there is free entry for all Microbiology staff and p... ostgrads to this event. Structure. Find out what this means for your studies, research and work. University of Cape Coast Staff Portal. UCC Institutional Repository ... Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Paul O'Toole, Head of School; John Atkins; Marcus Claesson; David Clarke; Alan Dobson; Gerald F. Fitzgerald; Cormac Gahan; Colin Hill; John MacSharry; Jennifer Mahony UCC Library now Re-opened. This opens a pop-up window to share the URL for this database. Part of his research group is involved in the SFI-funded Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, where he together with Dr. Paul O’Toole leads the Genomics and Bioinformatics research programme, which has allowed the establishment of a bioinformatics and genomics suite. Prof Douwe van Sinderen, Professor in Molecular Microbiology, School of Microbiology, UCC and Principal Investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland. Dr. Douwe van Sinderen is a senior lecturer in Microbiology, UCC, and has previously been involved in several FIRM projects (or its predecessor the NCFRP), such as 97/R&D/D/131 and 01/R&D/C/159, and is currently involved in 06/R&D/C/506. National UCC News Obituaries Transitions Photos Galleries Video Library About Us. In addition, a specialized clinical laboratory serves the medically affected subjects and research community. The APC currently has 86 Faculty members, including 19 Principal Investigators and 23 Funded Investigators, each of whom is well recognised in their field of research. He has published over 190 scientific papers, is an inventor on 10 patents, and has raised over €10 million in research funding in the last 10 years.He was awarded a D.Sc on the basis of published work in 2005. In addition, he is Director of the Biotransfer Unit which is responsible for the commercialisation of life science research in UCC. In addition, he has supervised 38 post graduates (including 19 Ph.D.s and 19 Masters). Team. Both Boole and Brookfield BHSL Libraries have re-opened with the safety of Library users and staff as our chief guiding principle. Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. He has extensive experience in bacterial genetics and gut microbiology, having spent 14 years outside Ireland working in Univ. Colin Hill – Principal Investigator Contact details: E-mail: c.hill@ucc.ie; tel + 353 21 4901373 Research interests and expertise: Molecular Microbiology, particularly in issues involving infection. He took up a post-doctoral fellowship at the Dept. She was awarded a PhD in Microbiology from University College Cork in 2011 for her work on the isolation and characterisation of thuricin CD, a novel anti-C. difficile bacteriocin. in 1996, which was undertaken at Teagasc, Moorepark and NUI, Cork. Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone. Search © 2012-2013 ELDERMET - Enhancing gut health in the Irish elderly through an improved understanding of intestinal bacteria. He soon discovered that chemical engineering was not his cup of tea, and made a drastic change towards the MSc programme in Bioinformatics at the same university. Dr. Denis O’Mahony is an academic clinician in the field of Gerontology, and consultant physician in Geriatric Medicine at Cork University Hospital and St. Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork since 1999. At this point he developed an interest in the contribution of uncultured microbes to the maintenance and function of ecosystems i.e. More recently his work has focused on the identification of bioactive compounds derived from bacterial and food sources. Jennifer’s research interests include Microbiology and bacterial composition of the gastrointestinal tract influencing health and disease. About See All. Search UCC Masters Microbiology student Meghana Srinivas recently won the SuperValu Award for Excellence in Food Microbiology for her work in isolating bacteria from food that may have useful roles in food and health. Contact Us Microbiology and Immunology Department. John Morrissey graduated in 1990 from University College Cork with a BSc in Microbiology. Career Opportunities ; Annual Reports; What We Believe. A new initiative at the School of Microbiology is exploring new worlds of virology, cell culture and molecular & cellular biology through virtual/augmented reality and 3D modelling. Once completed, Marcus worked for nine months at the campus-based biotechnology company Alimentary Health, data mining bifidobacteria for beneficial probiotic traits. While there, he was promoted to the position of Assistant Professor and was a founding faculty member of their Molecular Genetics Programme. Watch ELDERMET's lead PI explain the project. Our Work. Prayer Help us love our neighbor at least as much as we love our own freedom. Prof. Catherine Stanton graduated with B.Sc (Hons) in Nutrition/Food Chemistry in 1983 and with M.Sc in Nutrition in 1986, both from University College, Cork. Microbiology Office, Room FSB452, 4th Floor Food Science & Technology Building, University College Cork, Cork T12 K8AF, Centre for Continuing Professional Development. Department of Medicine, University College Cork. 499 people follow this. He subsequently moved to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany to carry out research for his PhD in the area of yeast cell biology and was awarded a PhD for this research in 1994. Search form. Society staff and members organise and attend policy events and workshops that connect microbiologists, policy-makers and other stakeholders. Affiliate Institutions. Principal Investigators Paul Ross Title: Professor Position: APC Director Department: Microbiology Email: p.ross@ucc.ie Phone: 4901322 Elke Arendt Title: […] In 1996 was appointed as academic staff member of the School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Ireland. at the Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark. Community See All. UCC marked the achievements of staff and students at its annual awards ceremony recently. His main research interests are in antimicrobial peptides and anti-infectives, probiotics, milk bioactives bacteriocins, probiotics, gut microbiology and functional foods. He has published 191 peer-reviewed publications and is an inventor on 13 patents. Accelerated Program. She is a Principal Investigator with the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and on the ELDERMET project, with responsibilities for the lipid assays and metabolomics. Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 09:15. Scoil na Micribhitheolaíochta. Staff Directory. After her PhD, she joined Johnson & Johnson UK, and later took a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Medicine, Wake Forest, University Medical Centre, Winston-Salem, NC, USA for 4 years, working on post-translational modifications of vitamin K dependent proteins, involved in blood clotting.In 1994, she joined Teagasc and over the past 14 years has built up the research programme on functional dairy foods. She has considerable experience in patient care and also working with the elderly having been employed in different care facilities. Paul would not need a primer on microbiology before deciding whether to wear a mask. The Vice-Chancellor has on behalf of the University Council has appointed Dr. (Mrs.) Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah, as the Deputy Director of the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC), with effect from 1st August 2020. ASM is the world's oldest life science organization devoted entirely to microbiologists and the science of microbiology. Mairéad currently works on the ELDERMET project, based in the Food BioSciences Dept. in Plant Science (1995) and PhD in Plant Science (2002) from University College Cork. Study Microbiology at UCC; Postgraduate Research Programmes. Monday, October 29, 2018 - 17:03. Friday, September 13, 2019 - 09:57. His current research is funded by Science Foundation Ireland, the Health Research Board and the Wellcome Trust. School of Microbiology. Dr. Marcus Claesson did his undergraduate as a BSc in Chemical and Physics Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Dr. O’Mahony is a former Secretary of the Irish Gerontological Society and was principal organiser of the IGS 50th anniversary conference in UCC in September, 2002. Prior to that, he was a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin.He has worked in research laboratories on both sides of the Atlantic and has a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of London. UCC E-learning Platform Manual. (Hons) in Microbiology in 1994 from NUI, Cork and with a M.Sc. Polyhydroxyalkanoates, (PHAs), are biodegradable polyesters which are synthesised intracellularly by a number of microbial species when they encounter an excess of carbon substrate, offset by an inorganic nutrient limitation. Mairéad graduated with a B.Sc. Prefix (021) 49 for direct access from outside Cork University Hospital.The telephone enquiry service should be used for emergency enquiries only. Thus, he has significant links to the Irish and International food industry, particularly in the areas of functional ingredients. Anne-Marie qualified as a general nurse at CUH and practiced in the areas of general nursing, care of the elderly, learning disabilities and nursing management. Information from this directory may be outdated at a point in-time. In 1995 was awarded the Melvin Ramsey Prize for this research into the biology of stress. Lund (Sweden), Univ. Faculty Blogs. This was followed by a longer postdoctoral position in Dr. Paul O’Toole’s lab in the Microbiology Department, where Marcus is now focusing on the bioinformatics involved in the ELDERMET metagenomics project, aiming to sequence the gut-bacteria of hundreds of elderly Irish citizens. 9th-10th November 2009. Sample Deadline denotes the cut-off for receipt of routine samples. UCC pays tribute to microbiology expert. One of his investigations focused on a putative new order of methanogens, occurring in lake water columns, which was previously discovered in the human gut of elderly people.In 2011 his interest for this yet uncharacterized archaeal lineage led him to a postdoctoral position with the team of Dr. Jean-Francois Brugère at Université d’Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand). 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