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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…

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

Congratulations to Ciara Tobin (and my co-supervisor ⁦@AShkoporov⁩) on conducting her PhD viva today. We’re so proud of what she’s done on crAssphage across multiple disciplines. ⁦@Pharmabiotic⁩ ⁦@UccMicrobiology⁩

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

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 @LuizaWasiewska @UCC & @TyndallInstitut 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 @Researchirel

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 @RiosColombo in Gut Microbes. @Pharmabiotic tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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 @ProfPaulRoss1 Check it out here 😊: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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

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 @Pharmabiotic @UccMicrobiology @AShkoporov biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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 @PCMFogg, @JSamWilson, Pavol Bardy, and @colinhillucc for collaborating with us.

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, @Teagasc and @uniofgalway

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

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

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 @Pharmabiotic's @colinhillucc @UCCResearch @SEFSUCC nature.com/articles/d4158…

Examining the healthy human microbiome concept @NatureRevMicro by @RaphaelaJoos et al from @ProfPaulRoss1 @dorejoel @pauldcotter @colinhillucc @BEDutilh @Thuls_M @ines_thiele @TineRaskLicht @JMatthijnssens @PaulineDScanlan @antagomir @LawleyLab nature.com/articles/s4157…

A real pleasure to give a seminar today at the spiritual home of microbiology- the Pasteur @Pharmabiotic

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

Big week for the lab as three amazing students completed their PhD viva’s. Congrats to @ellen_murrr @MichelleOC12 and @MrDavidHourigan and thanks for all the hard work over the years. Onwards and upwards! @Pharmabiotic @UccMicrobiology

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 @Pharmabiotic @UccMicrobiology