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Annual Research Day 2014

19 Jun 2014

The College of Medicine and Health, in conjunction with the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, annual Research day was held on Wednesday 18th June 2014 at the Western Gateway Building. The theme of this year鈥檚 conference was 鈥� Food, Microbes and Molecular Medicine.

The conference was opened by Prof. John Higgins, Head of College of Medicine and Health and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, followed by an introduction from Prof. Gerald Fitzgerald, Professor and Chair of the School of Microbiology and Assistant Director of the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre.

The theme for the morning session was 鈥楽uperbugs and Infection鈥�. The keynote speech was given by Dr. Mary Rea, Senior Research Officer at Teagasc Food Research Centre in Moorepark and Funded Investigator of the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre. Other speakers included Nina Konstantinidou (Microbiology UCC), Des Field (Microbiology UCC) and Mike Harrison (CUH).

The second session focused on 鈥楩ood and Medicine鈥� with Prof. Paul Ross, Head of Food Research at Teagasc, Research Professor at UCC, and Principal Investigator in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre as the keynote speaker. Other speakers were Ruair铆 Robertson (Teagasc, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre), Aine Fanning (Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre) and James Nolan (Microbiology UCC).

The theme of the afternoon session was 鈥楨xtremes of Life鈥�. The keynote speaker for this session was Prof. Paul O鈥橳oole, Professor of Microbial Genomics, UCC School of Microbiology, Principal Investigator in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre. Other speakers were 鈥� Claire Watkins (Teagasc, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre), Orla Collins (Food Business and Development, UCC) and Maria Donovan (School of Pharmacy/Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience/APC associated).

Following the oral presentations in all three areas, the best speaker in each area was awarded the Michael C Berndt Gold Medal for research in each category. Congratulations to Mike Harrison, Ruair铆 Robertson and Maria Donovan, who each received their own Gold Medal.

There was also a moderated poster session at lunchtime with 53 posters, and three awards were distributed for best poster at the Prize giving. Congratulations Guillaume Barrel for winning first prize with his poster titled 鈥楳etabolism and health correlation of Methanomassiliicoccales methanogens (鈥淢x鈥�) in the gut microbiota of older people鈥�, Jacklyn McCarthy who came second with 鈥楻isk factors associated with suicide between men under 40 years v. those who are older鈥� and Karen McCarthy who came third with 鈥楨valuation of a novel Biological Phosphorus Removal Process for Hyperphosphataemia of Renal Failure鈥�.

Thank you to Dr. Roy Sleator (CIT/APC), Dr. Dervla O鈥橫alley (Physiology, UCC/Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre) and Prof. Geraldine Boylan (Paediatrics & Child Health, UCC, INFANT) for chairing the sessions.