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APC researcher secures SFI-IRC Pathway funding
APC Researcher Dr Jatin Nagpal has won an SFI-IRC Pathway Award for his project "The role of early-life microbiome in sculpting stress-social neural circuits in zebrafish"
The SFI-IRC Pathway programme is a collaborative initiative between Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the Irish Research Council (IRC) to support early-career research across all disciplines and to encourage a cohesive research ecosystem in Ireland.
The awards will enable postdoctoral researchers to develop their career pathway and transition to become independent research leaders
Jatin's project has secured €592,401 in funding and he proposes to use zebrafish, a naturally gregarious model with conserved neuroanatomy, to investigate the mechanistic link between the microbiota and development of stress-social circuits. The key findings distilled from these experiments will then be translated to zebrafish models of early-life microbiota disruption with the aim of rescuing the stress-social deficits associated with these models using microbiota-based therapeutics.
Commenting on the award Dr Jatin Nagpal said, "I am delighted to receive a SFI-IRC Pathway award. The funding will allow me to investigate the role of early-life microbiota in shaping neural circuits underlying stress and social behaviours in a genetically tractable, scalable, and translationally relevant model system of zebrafish."
