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Vice President for Research & Innovation @ucc @UCCResearch @UCCInnovation | PI @pharmabiotic | Prof @AnatNeuroUCC | MRIA @RIAdawson | Bluesky @jfcryan .bsky.social

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John F. Cryan
1 year
Microbiota-immune-brain interactions: A lifespan perspective Great work by three fantastic PhD students @AnnaRatsika @jscruzpereira & @CaoimheMKLynch
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A microbiome-dependent gut–brain pathway regulates motivation for exercise Microbiome, dopamine & endocannabinoids.... Cool paper from @ThaissLab in @Nature
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Are you a psychologist or nutritionist interested in the role of diet and #microbiome in mental health? - we will have two postdoc positions available shortly #jobfairy Please Retweet
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The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis -Delighted to have our @physiolrev paper out- 137 printed pages, almost 1700 references, 32 lab members involved and a lot of hours in the making....
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Gut microbiome-mediated regulation of neuroinflammation - New from Mazmanian lab @Caltech
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John F. Cryan
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My Tedx talk is now live- Diet, Microbiome, Mental Health and the wisdom of an Irish Granny.... @TEDxHapB #tedxhapb
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And there I am inside a giant gut… coming to @netflix April 26th
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3 years
Another great @CellCellPress SnapShot Microbiota effects on host physiology -from Hill & Round
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How gut microbes could drive brain disorders - Great @Nature article profiling the state of the field "Today, however, the gut–brain axis is a feature at major neuroscience meetings, and Cryan says he is no longer “this crazy guy from Ireland”.
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Great to see a full issue of @newscientist dedicated to microbiome with plenty of input from @ucc @Pharmabiotic researchers
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Microbiota–brain axis: Context and causality from Sarkis Mazmanian & I in @ScienceMagazine
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John F. Cryan
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Why the sexes don’t feel pain the same way- @nature profile of role of differential role of microglia & T-cells in pain responses across sexes
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Fascinating paper in @nature on how the gut trains the immune system to protect the brain | via ⁦⁦ @NIH
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4 years
Love this from the @NewYorker "We're all pretending"
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3 years
After almost 10 years today was my last day as Head of @AnatNeuroUCC -It has been a real privilege to work with so many outstanding colleagues and watch the Dept grow & flourish-Thanks everyone for the 'sendoff' & best of luck to @ASNeuro -the Dept. is in great hands.
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Second jab done! Lovely evening to be crossing the bridge towards normality #PfizerBioNTech #vaccinated #celebratebasicscience
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SnapShot: The microbiota-gut-brain axis in one page - excellent synopsis from @GulistanAgirman & @pipethero in @CellCellPress
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Pandemic burnout is rampant in academia Remote working, research delays and childcare obligations are taking their toll on scientists, causing stress and anxiety.
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After an especially tough year, on International Women's Day a big shout out on to all the amazingly creative and resilient female scientists in the lab #IWD2021 #internationalwomensday2021 #cryanlab #ChooseToChallenge
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John F. Cryan
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Just got comments from 12 Reviewers on a grant proposal.. that is a new record!. Some really great and positive feedback but unfortunately, grant wasn't funded. Kudos to any grant that can satisfy that number of Reviewers though. This was me going through their comments earlier..
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The gut microbiome in neurological disorders - Great to have this out in @TheLancetNeuro with @kjdoriordan @kiransan7 @VeroLPeterson & @TedDinan
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The gut microbiota and its biogeography | @NatureRevMicro
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3 years
I finally got to catchup with the late Ben Barres’ autobiography- an inspiring read - should be mandatory for all scientists in academia from early career to Dept Chairs...
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First time in airport since March 2020 and I forgot how implicitly stressful everything about it is… I definitely will be very selective moving forward & will not be returning to pre-pandemic ways. However, really looking forward to an in-person conference ⁦ @ECNPtweets
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John F. Cryan
2 years
Honored to receive the Datta Lecture Award from @FEBSnews in Lisbon this morning at The Biochemistry Global Summit #onceabiochemist #biochem2022 Next stop Paris for #FENS2022 meeting
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Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear Not feeling social this Xmas? Latest lab paper out in @PNASNews -further implicating the gut microbiome in social brain functioning Well done @NateRitz3 on leading the charge on this!
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After more than two years of planning - as Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee I’m delighted to be in Barcelona for ⁦ @ECNPtweets ⁩ Conference- more than 6400 psychiatrists & neuroscientists registered to learn about the future of brain disorders #ecnp2023
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John F. Cryan
1 year
The Gut Microbiota is Important for the Maintenance of Blood‐Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier Integrity @emilygknox & @isen_gard are knocking it out of the park this week. Great to see this out in @EJNeuroscience
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The gut-brain connection: Exploring the influence of the gut microbiota on neuroplasticity and neurodevelopmental disorders From @paola_tognini & colleagues in Neuropharmacology
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John F. Cryan
4 years
Delighted to become an Associate Editor for the #openaccess Journal "Neurobiology of Stress" - For those into Impact Factors, it recently got its first -> 7.197- Irrespective, consider it as a venue for sending your best stress neuroscience papers
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John F. Cryan
4 years
Lab Meeting via zoom actually worked well- even for a large group - great to see everyone coping so well with the situation (as well to get a peek of so many cute kids) #newnormal #coronavirus
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John F. Cryan
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A fungus called Massospora doses cicadas with an amphetamine and with psilocybin, the hallucinogen found in shrooms. Also, it makes their butts fall off, @edyong209 reports:
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John F. Cryan
3 years
Microbiota and sleep: awakening the gut feeling - Well done @Paromit43595284 @amolineroperez and all
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The Microbiome-Gut-Brain axis regulates social cognition & craving in young binge drinkers Well done @carinacarbiaC in leading this important project showing that youth binge drinking affects microbiome & behaviour @Pharmabiotic @UCCResearch #UCCFutures
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Microbiota-brain interactions: Moving toward mechanisms in model organisms- @JatinNagpal87 & I get to quote Yeats for this @NeuroCellPress review "How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
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John F. Cryan
4 years
Delighted to be part of this state-of the art review led by @Marx_Wolf & @FeliceJacka on "Diet and depression: exploring the biological mechanisms of action" along with @Pharmabiotic colleagues @BerdingHarold & @UCCpsychiatry and many leading researchers
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That weird feeling of seeing our book in the New Releases section of Barnes & Noble.... #PsychobioticRevolution
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Microbiota & the Social Brain- Delighted to see this out in @sciencemagazine . Well done @eoin_sherwin and great collaboration with @Symbionticism , John Quinn from @uccbees & @TedDinan
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3 years
“So working from home is no longer an option?” @newyorker #WFH
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John F. Cryan
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Really sad to hear this- Nadia @DrNadiaChaudhri leaves an amazing legacy for us all. We have learned so much from her bravery on this journey. Condolences to all her family & friends. The world is a darker place....
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@DrNadiaChaudhri passed away yesterday evening, having reached the end of her road with ovarian cancer. She leaves behind her Sun and Moon, a loving extended family, colleagues and students, friends around the world, and so many others who have been touched by her & her story 1/n
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Feed your microbes to deal with stress: a psychobiotic diet impacts microbial stability and perceived stress in a healthy adult population Great to have this out -Big shout out to @BerdingHarold the postdoc/dietician who led the study with @TedDinan & I
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John F. Cryan
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Definitely one of the more bizarre microbiome studies - The effect of having Christmas dinner with in-laws on gut microbiota composition
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Microbiota alterations in proline metabolism impact depression - interesting cross-species paper in @Cell_Metabolism
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John F. Cryan
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Just past 10k followers - When I joined Twitter I never expected it’s reach to be so wide... thank you all!
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2 years
Microbiota-targeted interventions for mental health : Current Opinion in Psychiatry - Well done @BerdingHarold #nutritionalpsychiatry
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The boy without microglia - “There wasn’t any part of the brain that wasn’t involved." A rare case showed the unmistakable importance of a less-studied type of brain cell, writes @sarahzhang
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Cool to see “Hack your Health: Secrets of the Gut” is a top 5 movie on @Netflix in both Ireland & US Well done to film-makers @anjalinayar & @jonathanformica and @TremoloDocs
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One year later and we are still all pretending.....
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Critical Windows of Early-life Microbiota Disruption on Behaviour, Neuroimmune Function, and Neurodevelopment Just out in @BrainBehavImm Well done @CaoimheMKLynch @caitlincowanPhD & entire team. #UCCFoodMicrobiomeHealth
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Microbiota regulate social behaviour via stress response neurons in the brain | More evidence for a role of the microbiome in regulating the social brain - from Mazmanian and colleagues in @Nature
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Depression's Unholy Trinity: Dysregulated Stress, Immunity, and the Microbiome - Congrats @jscruzpereira on leading the charge on this review in @AnnualReviews Psychology
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Short chain fatty acids: Microbial metabolites for gut-brain axis signalling. Just out in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology -Well done @kjdoriordan & all @Pharmabiotic @AnatNeuroUCC @UCCResearch
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It is #MayThe4th -thus a timely Reminder of when @Eoin_Sherwin tried to get as many Star Wars references as possible into the one paper .... May the Force Be With You: The Light and Dark Sides of the Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis in Neuropsychiatry
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Defining valid chronic stress models for depression with female rodents - in @BiologicalPsyc1 from @RCBagot -Pretty stark ! Publications per year broken down by sex for studies on chronic stress and depression between the years 2000 and 2019 #sabv
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John F. Cryan
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Glad to be out of Covid-induced isolation - and to have escaped with only very minor symptoms #VaccinesWork - Interestingly, sleep was one of the factors that was affected. Thankfully resolved now too... there is a growing literature though...
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4 years
Getting into the holiday mood at the lab Christmas party....
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Beautiful morning in Cork #nofilter #shakeybridge
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Meet the ‘psychobiome’: the gut bacteria that may alter how you think, feel, and act - @epennisi profiles the brain-gut axis field (including our @pharmabiotic @ucc work) in @ScienceMagazine
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Impact factor abandoned by Dutch university in hiring and promotion decisions -Faculty and staff members at Utrecht University @UtrechtUni will be evaluated by their commitment to open science #OpenScience
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The gut microbiota contributes to the pathogenesis of anorexia nervosa in humans and mice- Fascinating new paper in @NatureMicrobiol News & views here
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Wishing you all health and happiness as we cross the bridge to another year... To the researchers among you- may your grants come in, your Reviewer 3s be on their best behaviour, and may you have the time and energy to be as creative as possible. #HappyNewYear #NewYear2023
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Microbiota‐Gut‐Brain Axis as a Regulator of Reward Processes - Well done @cabrerizo_ruben & all!. Just out in @JNeurochem Can I blame my gut microbes for all the chocolate over the past days? Maybe...
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What is a postbiotic? The International Scientific Association of Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) @ISAPPscience consensus statement on the definition and scope of postbiotics | @NatRevGastroHep
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One of the benefits of living in Ireland - social distancing on the beach with kids & dog... #SocialDistancing #coronavirus #Garrettstown
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29 Ireland-based researchers named among world’s elite scientists-great to be among nine ⁦ @Pharmabiotic ⁩ scientists included- especially Ger Clarke ⁦ @UCCpsychiatry ⁩ who is on the list for the first time ⁦ @UCC ⁩ ⁦⁦ @UCCMedHealth
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For International Women's Day #IWD2023 our annual shout out to the amazing creative, inspiring and very international scientists working in our lab -pushing the frontiers of gut-brain axis research. #IWD #InternationalWomensDay2023 #UCCFutures #UCCFoodMicrobiomeHealth #Cryanlab
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Beautiful in Cork this morning.....
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Beautiful day in Roscommon- After almost a year it is really great to visit family again @michaelcryan8
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Changing your gut bacteria could be the key to reversing the ageing process in the brain Amazing team effort just out @NatureAging - |Well done to the co-lead authors @BoehmeMarcus @Thomazsan @ktguzz as well as @TedDinan @oliviafoleary @pauldcotter @gerrymoloney @ClaessonLab
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New APC study finds that changing your gut bacteria could be the key to reversing the ageing process in your brain. Paper published today in @NatureAging from lab of Prof @jfcryan | @BoehmeMarcus @Thomazsan @ktguzz | @scienceirel Read Paper >>
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Delighted to be able to get a Heaney quote into this profile in @NeuroCellPress for their special issue on ‘Neuroscience Unbounded’
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“Walk on air against your better judgement.”
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Only in Oxford would there be a framed copy of such a paper in a pub!
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The value of owning more books than you can read - “Tsundoku is the Japanese word for the stack(s) of books you've purchased but haven't read”
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What happens in Vagus...... Newly detailed nerve links between brain and other organs shape thoughts, memories, and feelings
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How Stress Physically Re-shapes the Brain: Impact on Brain Cell Shapes, Numbers and Connections in Psychiatric Disorders- from @postmortemgirl @NMechawar & colleagues
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Telling it as it is…. Great plenary on “Nutritional Psychiatry: Where are we going?” from the wonderful ⁦ @FeliceJacka #ecnp2022 @ECNPtweets
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Delighted to join the Editorial Advisory Board of one of my favourite journals @TrendsNeuro -along with so many scientists whose work I admire
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Honoured & humbled to receive the @NeuroscienceIRL Tom Connor Distinguished Investigator Award #NSIRL2017
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Puberty can repair the brain’s stress responses after hardship early in life - “Adolescence could be a time to reset the system that helps people cope with stress” - profile of @GunnarMegan research on early life adversity | in @ScienceNews
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Could Alzheimer’s be caused by an infection? 'Research into the disease has focused on plaques in the brain. But some scientists think viruses and bacteria play a role – and their work is gaining ground'
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Bridge looking moody on this morning's foggy commute... #shakeybridge
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When stress goes viral... Delighted to have this collaboration with @colinhillucc lab out in @NatureMicrobiol . Led by PhD student @NateRitz3 we show that the gut virome plays a key role in the modulation of the microbiota–gut–brain axis during stress
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We definitely spoilt ourselves with The Glass Curtain’s ‘finish at home’ NYE feast - Really good...tomorrow we diet... A quiet but lovely New Year’s Eve. Here’s to a good and healthy 2021...
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John F. Cryan
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Ahead of International Women's Day on Sunday -a big shout out to all the amazing, creative (and international) female scientists in our lab. #IWD2020 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #corkmicrobiome #cryanlab
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Delighted to see that the Psychobiotic Revolution is finally out in paperback.... #psychobioticrevolution
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Diet and the Microbiota–Gut–Brain-Axis: A Primer for Clinical Nutrition Great to work with two dieticians @RibeiroCR_Gabri & @AimoneFerri (as well as @UCCpsychiatry ) on this #UCCFutures #UCCFoodMicrobiomeHealth Open Access available here
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When Rhythms Meet the Blues: Circadian Interactions with the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis - latest in @Cell_Metabolism Great job Emily & @kjdoriordan Open Access for next 50 days here...
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Happy navigating 2019 all- May your grants come in, your Reviewer 3s be on best behavior and your microbes and neurons (& glia) be at their optimum. Most of all, i wish you, your family & your labs a most enjoyable and healthy year.... Attaching my favorite non-family pic of 2018
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John F. Cryan
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What a super shellfish extravaganza in Lisbon last night - Thanks @RibeiroCarlitos for giving us the local insight!
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Fabulous day back on Cape Clear Island - dolphins on the way out & back too #staycation2021 #westcork @pure_cork
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West Cork on a sunny day.... pretty heavenly... Three Castle Head, Mizen Head, Barleycove Beach & O’Sullivan’s on Crookhaven Pier #staycation day 2 #staycation2020 #ifyoucantbeatthem
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After many years great to have the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis lab summer BBQ again!
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Targeting microbial metabolites to treat autism symptoms- @HeijtzRochellys summarises two papers out today from Mazmanian lab in @nature & @NatureMedicine Animal study-further links microbiome to myelination. Human study-encouraging but still open-label..
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