Name: Microbes Unleashed: Revolutionizing Vaccines, Food and Health
Start: 2025-05-19T19:00:00
End: 2025-05-19T21:00:00
Location: Old Oak

Are you someone who is hates the pinprick of a needle when you are getting your annual flu shot? Do you wonder sometimes at the power of entities too small to be visible to the naked eye, and yet wield influence over your health and well-being? Join us at the Old Oak at 7pm to unveil some of the secrets of this microscopic world.

Self-administration as the future of vaccination

Inés Có Rives (PhD student at University College Cork)

My aim is to develop easy-to-use vaccines to increase their global accessibility. I am studying how new formats, oral tablets and skin patches, change the immune response generated by the vaccine.

Dietary Fiber: Beyond Feeding the Gut Bacteria

Manon Oliero (Post-Doctoral Fellow, APC, UCC)

Found in everyday foods, dietary fiber isn’t just for gut bacteria! Discover how different fiber categories and types affect food intake, blood sugar, cholesterol, and inflammation.

Here be dragons: charting the vast unknown space of microbial 'dark matter'

Sebastian Schmidt (Lecturer, APC Microbiome, University College Cork)

Earth is a microbial planet: microbes have been around for billions of years, they power the world's biogeochemical cycles and have conquered even the most extreme environments. Yet the vast majority of microbial life remains 'dark matter'. I will discuss how we can use modern techniques (and very big computers) to chart the 'terra incognita' of microbial life and its multifold impacts on our microbial world.

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