John F. Cryan is Professor & Chair, Dept. of Anatomy, University College Cork.  He received a B.Sc. (Hons) and PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

Probiotic bacteria have the potential to alter brain neurochemistry and treat anxiety and depression-related disorders according to research published today in the prestigious international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 

Last week the research of Dr Javier Bravo, Professor John Cryan and colleagues Dr Hélène Savignac and Professor Ted Dinan  featured  re the potential of probiotic bacteria to alter brain neurochemistry and treat anxiety and depression-related disorders at http://econ.st/oeechO

Picture: Dr Sobia Hashmi, Senior Medical Demonstrator teaching neuroanatomy to Second Year Graduate Entry Medical Students in the old Anatomy Dissection Room in the Windle Building.

Teaching of Anatomy in UCC’s Windle Building has come to an end with the Department’s move to its new state of the art laboratories in the Western Gate Building.

Aoife Nolan wins the “Roche Research Award for UCC BioSciences PhD Student Researcher of the Year 2011”

Congratulations to Aoife Nolan PhD student in the Department of Anatomy on winning the “Roche Research Award for UCC BioSciences PhD Student Researcher of the Year 2011”.  Aoife  presented her research entitled. ‘Regulation of Rat Sympathetic Axonal Growth by the Inflammatory Cytokines  IL-1β and TNF during development.’ 

Dr Siobhain O’Mahony, a neuroscientist in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) and the Department of Anatomy, UCC was recently awarded the “Ray Clouse Award for the Paper Most Cited” in the field of functional gastrointestinal and motility disorders.

A very successful launch of the Cork Neurosciences Group took place at Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC. Over 100 people attended the meeting, a fantastic turnout for the inaugural meeting of the group.