An unexpected guest at the celebrations for Dr David Hourigan who successfully defended his PhD thesis today on the role of bacteriocins in the microbiome APC Microbiome Ireland Microbiology UCC

Big week for the lab as three amazing students completed their PhD viva’s. Congrats to Ellen Murray Michelle O Connor and Dave and thanks for all the hard work over the years. Onwards and upwards! APC Microbiome Ireland Microbiology UCC

📢📢📢New MSc Microbiome Science open for applications from October 14th 2024 for September 2025 start date!! SEFSUCC Ireland UCC Research UCC International @UCC #lovescience #mindyourmicrobiome #furthereducation

A real pleasure to give a seminar today at the spiritual home of microbiology- the Pasteur APC Microbiome Ireland

Examining the healthy human microbiome concept Nature Reviews Microbiology by Raphaela Joos et al from Prof Paul Ross Joel Dore Paul Cotter @colinhillucc @BEDutilh @Thuls_M Molecular Systems Physiology Group Tine Rask Licht Jelle Matthijnssens Pauline Scanlan Leo Lahti Dr Trevor Lawley nature.com/articles/s4157…

Hidden players: the bacteria-killing viruses of the gut microbiome Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, but they are beginning to give up their secrets. @nature article featuring APC Microbiome Ireland's @colinhillucc UCC Research SEFS@UCC nature.com/articles/d4158…

Glad to chat about the gut virome. A reminder that it’s the microbiome we’re supposed to be studying, not just the bacteriome. ⁦⁦APC Microbiome Ireland⁩ ⁦Microbiology UCC⁩ Hidden players: the bacteria-killing viruses of the gut microbiome nature.com/articles/d4158…

Large scale capsid-mediated mobilisation of bacterial genomic DNA in the gut microbiome biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are delighted to see Microbiome Research dominating Life Scienes in this year's Clarivate rankings with 12 APC researchers featured in Ireland from UCC Ireland, @Teagasc and Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

Check out our new preprint (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) describing widespread bacterial DNA packaging by #bacteriophages and gene transfer agents (GTA) in the human gut #microbiome. Many thanks to Paul CM Fogg, Jason wilson, Pavol Bardy, and @colinhillucc for collaborating with us.

Really love this story from the lab that shows that Faecalibacterium prausnitzii can package its own genome in bite-size segments in phage-like capsids APC Microbiome Ireland Microbiology UCC Andrey Shkoporov biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We have a fascinating preprint just out, revealing the widespread packaging of bacterial genomic DNA into capsids in the human gut:bit.ly/3B2ajza. Major denizens of the #microbiome implicated with broad potential impact on bacterial evolution and horizontal gene transfer

Thrilled to share our latest paper! 🎉 A story on bacteriocins, C. difficile, microbiome models, microbial interactions, and more! A huge thank you to my incredible mentors @colinhillucc and Prof Paul Ross Check it out here 😊: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Why do C. difficile levels increase in a community when an anti-C difficile bacteriocins is added? Get the answer in this recent paper by Natalia Ríos Colombo in Gut Microbes. APC Microbiome Ireland tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to Luiza Wasiewska UCC Ireland & Tyndall Institute who is the top ranked scholar in the Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellowship call in 2024 and receives the Thomas Mitchell Medal of Excellence. Luiza is currently collaborating with APCs @colinhillucc Research Ireland

Curious what ISAPP experts have to say about the most interesting and impactful science of the past year? Listen to this recent podcast for a discussion on the scientific highlights in the fields of biotics and the microbiome. isappscience.org/episode-48-202…

Congratulations to APC’s Ellen Murray, David Hourigan and Michelle O'Connor who today graduated their PhDs at University College Cork. They were supervised by APC Director Prof Paul Ross and PI Prof Colin Hill

Congratulations to Ciara Tobin (and my co-supervisor ⁦Andrey Shkoporov⁩) on conducting her PhD viva today. We’re so proud of what she’s done on crAssphage across multiple disciplines. ⁦APC Microbiome Ireland⁩ ⁦Microbiology UCC⁩

Interesting (I hope) Perspective by the wonderful Mary Ellen Sanders and me APC Microbiome Ireland Microbiology UCC The microbiome: An actor or stage for the beneficial action of probiot... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The microbiome: An actor or stage for the beneficial action of probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, and postbiotics? Perspective by Sanders & Hill examining evidence that health benefits of “biotics” result from impacts on the microbiome. cell.com/cell-host-micr…