🚨REMINDER: Join us today at 1pm in the Cavanagh Pharmacy Building for our School Seminar Series.

Note the new venue for this semester, Cavanagh Pharmacy Building.

Our Seminar Series reboots this Thursday with an exciting schedule ahead. This week PhD candidate Silvia Ruta from University of Catania, Italy, co-supervised by Prof. Jennifer Mahony will talk about biofilms in cheese production.

Congratulations on a well-deserved retirement. Thank you Alan for the impact you’ve made and the example you’ve set—wishing you all the best ahead.

Today we celebrate the retirement of Prof. Alan Dobson. A distinguished member of our School who leaves behind an indelible legacy. An incredible scientist and an equally venerable man. Happy retirement Alan. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Marine #sponges are generally considered biosynthetic "hotspots" (e.g. Theonella) - but does this always hold true? In our newest study led by @stephenjackson.bsky.social we are looking at Inflatella pellicula's biosynthetic capacity - and our results are surprising doi.org/10.1099/mgen...

We are immensely proud that University College Cork (UCC) is today ranked the second most sustainable university in the world, according to an assessment of 1,500 universities from almost 100 different countries around the world. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social

Congratulations to School of Microbiology UCC student Caoimhe Sexton on joining the Winning in STEM²D community this year, after receiving a STEM²D Scholarship from Johnson & Johnson at STEMFest 2025 in Thomond Park.

🎉 Great energy at yesterday’s 3rd Year Antibiotics Unearthed Poster Day hosted by the School of Microbiology, UCC! Incredible student research, creative posters, and big enthusiasm for tackling antimicrobial resistance. 🔬💡 #UCC #Microbiology #AntibioticsUnearthed #AMR

Huge congratulations to Caitriona Condon, this year's recipient of the Tadhg O'Mullane award for Academic Excellence.

Great game, friendly but competitive. 3-3 draw, penalties to decide. S Staff win back the perpetual cup. Well done to all players, supporters, Referee Niall O'Leary. Special thanks to Katie Bourke for organizing. And thanks for supporting the Charity. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social

A big, big day in the School of Microbiology calendar!! The Annual Staff V Students Charity Football Match. This year we are raising funds for Cork Penny Dinners. Come along and support the STAFF team 😂 and the worthy charity. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social

Join us on Thursday as our School Seminar Series continues. Hugh Harris will talk about E. coli phages in the human gut microbiome. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social

World class research from a world class School! Congratulations to the School of Microbiology members awarded the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025; Colin Hill, Liam O'Mahony, Paul O'Toole, Andrey Shkoporov and Jens Walter. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social

Big congratulations to Leonie Kiely, Jill O’Sullivan, Meghana Srinivas, Ciara Tobin, and Clodagh Walsh on officially graduating with their PhDs in Microbiology from UCC! @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social

Packed house for a great talk by Prof. John Morrissey on the origin of lager yeast! @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social

🚨REMINDER: Join us today for Prof. Morrissey's talk on "A story of sex and alcohol" @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social

Our School Seminar Series continues this Thursday with Prof. John Morrissey who will talk about the origins of modern lager yeast. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Great talk today by Lisa Friess describing genomic and functional characteristics of Bifidobacteria strains. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie

🚨REMINDER: Join us today for our seminar, with Lisa Friess!

Our seminar series continues this week with Lisa Friess speaking about carbohydrate metabolism in Bifidobacteria. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Congratulations to Carmel Shortiss on receiving an Outstanding Colleague Award from UCC. A thoroughly deserving recipient.

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... please repost

Wonderful start to our 25/26 Seminar Series with @paulinedscanlan.bsky.social. An intriguing topic with a packed and engage audience. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @apcpostdocassoc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie

🚨Reminder: Our Seminar Series for the 25/26 academic year kicks off today, 2pm, with Dr Pauline Scanlan. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @apcpostdocassoc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie

We kick off our Seminar Series for the new Semester, next Thursday, with @paulinedscanlan.bsky.social Looking forward to hearing all about how 'Ecology Meets Evolution'. @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social; @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social; @apcpostdocassoc.bsky.social; @uccresearch.bsky.social; @ucc.ie

Our School Seminar Series resumes on Thursday 25th January when Dr Stephen Jackson from Alan Dobson's group will talk about the metabolic potential of a deep sea sponge microbiome with a view to novel drug discovery. Note the new venue! (C_ELECT_L2)

The big day has arrived!! The annual Staff V Students soccer match. Raising funds for Shine, who support people affected by mental ill health. shine.ie

Fascinating work from Franzi Huff, presented at our School Seminar Series, developing a genetic toolbox to interrogate quantitative traits in K. marxianus strains.

Reminder: 2pm today, Monica Cazzaniga will deliver our latest seminar and will tell us about diet, the gut microbiome and host response to Listeria monocytogenes resistance. Really looking forward to this!

The next speaker in our School Seminar Series, on Thursday November 16th, is @microSCRUM's own Monica Cazzaniga from Cormac Gahan's lab who will talk about diet, the gut microbiome and host response to Listeria monocytogenes resistance.

Marine Drugs Special Issue: 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 ‘𝑶𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒔’ 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒔 Further information and submission link here: www.mdpi.com/journal/mari...

Great talk by Clodagh Carr, in the UCC Schoolof Microbiology Seminar Series, describing how marine derived bacterial enzymes can degrade polyesters, including plastics. @ucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social #SciSky

Today's the day: Clodagh Carr will talk at our School Seminar Series and will tell us about Marine bacteria as a source of polyester-degrading enzymes with biocatalytic potential

Fascinating talk today by Shona Uniacke-Lowe detailing functional analyses and specificity of the deep-sea fish microbiome! #UCC #UCC_Microbiology

Great interview with our very own Professor Jens Walter , talking about the link between diet & disease & the central roles played by our gut microbiome! @ucc.bsky.social #UCC #SchoolOfMicrobiology #SEFS 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

The next speaker in our School Seminar Series is Shona Uniacke-Lowe who will talk about biomining the deep-sea for new anti-microbials. Really looking forward to this!

Hello BlueSky, is this thing on? The antiSMASH https://antismash.secondarymetabolites.org/ service has just landed.

Hello BlueSky. Excited to be here. We are in the School of Microbiology, University College Cork. We are a peer-to-peer support network organising social and professional events and activities with the aim to raise the profile of the School and to help the School to achieve it's mission. #HiSciSky