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School of Microbiology & APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland

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RT @cellhostmicrobe: The microbiome: An actor or stage for the beneficial action of probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, and postbiotics?. P….
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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.
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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
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RT @Pharmabiotic: Congratulations to APC’s Ellen Murray, David Hourigan and Michelle O'Connor who today graduated their PhDs at University….
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RT @ISAPPscience: Curious what ISAPP experts have to say about the most interesting and impactful science of the past year? Listen to this….
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RT @Pharmabiotic: Congratulations to @LuizaWasiewska @UCC & @TyndallInstitut who is the top ranked scholar in the Government of Ireland pos….
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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 .
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RT @RiosColombo: Thrilled to share our latest paper! 🎉 A story on bacteriocins, C. difficile, microbiome models, microbial interactions, an….
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RT @PCMFogg: We have a fascinating preprint just out, revealing the widespread packaging of bacterial genomic DNA into capsids in the human….
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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 .
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RT @AShkoporov: Check out our new preprint ( describing widespread bacterial DNA packaging by #bacteriophages and g….
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RT @Pharmabiotic: We are delighted to see Microbiome Research dominating Life Scienes in this year's @Clarivate rankings with 12 APC resear….
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RT @Anna_Dragos: Large scale capsid-mediated mobilisation of bacterial genomic DNA in the gut microbiome
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9 months
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
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RT @jfcryan: Hidden players: the bacteria-killing viruses of the gut microbiome .Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, bu….
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RT @EvolvedBiofilm: Examining the healthy human microbiome concept. @NatureRevMicro by @RaphaelaJoos et al from @ProfPaulRoss1 . @dorejoel….
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10 months
A real pleasure to give a seminar today at the spiritual home of microbiology- the Pasteur @Pharmabiotic
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RT @UccMicrobiology: 📢📢📢New MSc Microbiome Science open for applications from October 14th 2024 for September 2025 start date!! @SEFSUCC @U….
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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
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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
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