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I’m no longer active here.
This account remains as an archive of conversations, ideas, and people I valued for many years.
Wishing you well elsewhere. I can be found over on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/jfcryan.bsk… and Linkedin linkedin.com/in/johnfcryan/
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Can the adult hippocampal plasticity withstand a gut microbiome insult?
@jfcryan et al. found that hippocampal long-term potentiation, short-term plasticity, or basal synaptic efficacy are resilient to microbiome depletion in adulthood
@EJNeuroscience
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Jan 15
UCC: 180 years fuelling research & innovation.
UCC Futures continues to empower thinkers, makers, and leaders to shape tomorrow. @UCC, the future isn’t just imagined, it’s created.
@jfcryan | @uccinnovation | @Pharmabiotic | @TyndallInstitut |
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Jan 14
Our fermented food intake questionnaire (FFIQ) is finally published!
Thanks to the amazing team and my supervisors who made this happen @E_MSchneider, @AliceLucey2, @hennessy_aine, @pauldcotter, @Ramya_Balasub, @UCCpsychiatry and @jfcryan
doi.org/10.1111/jhn.70183
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Birth by Cesarean Section Remodels Neonatal Brain Barriers and Associated Immune and Metabolic Pathways in Mice biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_neursci
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Jan 6
The gut microbiome maze
Still much work to be done to get over many hurdles before this body of work can lead to changing the practice of medicine (beyond very narrow CDI indication of today)
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Jan 5
The gut<->brain axis impact on health and disease is far more important than anticipated, as reflected by GLP-1 effects, modulating the immune system, direct neural circuits, the microbiome, and more. A stellar new, open-access review @jclinicalinvest @ZachLorschMDPhD
jci.org/articles/view/196346
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5 Dec 2025
APC is recruiting a Post-Doctoral Researcher to work with @harschellekens at @UCC on a project focusing on a novel probiotic approach to target weight gain in patients taking antipsychotic medications.
#jobfairy @jfcryan @UCCpsychiatry
Details: bit.ly/4rGjdYE
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Today @Gut_BMJ publishes my review titled
➡️My first 1000 manuscript rejections.
I often meet young researchers who are devastated by a manuscript rejection, but rejections are part of life. Here are some of my most memorable ones 😃:
gut.bmj.com/content/early/20…
@karolinskainst
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31 Dec 2025
#throwback
REVIEW | @E_MSchneider, @jfcryan
Feeding gut microbes to nourish the brain: unravelling the diet–microbiota–gut–brain axis
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22 Dec 2025
Do you have exciting research looking at interactions between xenobiotics and the gut microbiome? This special issue of Gut Microbes Reports edited by Niall Hyland and I might be the perfect venue! #drugs #bugs think.taylorandfrancis.com/s…
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John F. Cryan retweeted
20 Dec 2025
JUST RELEASED in @EJNeuroscience
Robust Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity Despite Gut Microbiota Depletion in Adult Mice - Michael Collins &
John Cryan @jfcryan @ucc @UCCResearch @UCCInnovation @pharmabiotic @AnatNeuroUCC
@FENSorg @WileyBrainPsych
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19 Dec 2025
JUST RELEASED
Robust Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity Despite Gut Microbiota Depletion in Adult Mice - Michael Collins &
John Cryan @jfcryan @ucc @UCCResearch @UCCInnovation @pharmabiotic @AnatNeuroUCC
@FENSorg @WileyBrainPsych
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16 Dec 2025
Despite promising evidence in diagnostics and therapeutics, microbiome research is not yet implemented into clinical medicine
@gianluca1aniro & colleagues update the knowns and unknowns:
loom.ly/rTGQfdY
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15 Dec 2025
Many research careers start with a PhD. Our new award will support healthcare professionals to take that step.
We’re funding a new round of doctoral programmes to train the next generation of clinically-active research leaders.
Applications are open now. Find out more ⤵️
wellcome.org/research-fundin…
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14 Dec 2025
Unravelling the role of the microbiome in Parkinson's disease thelancet.com/journals/laneu…
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12 Dec 2025
Impact is at the heart of what we do at UCC Innovation.
Prof @somahony1, Co-founder of FemmeBiome discusses the motivation behind the company & supports provided on their journey to commercialisation.
Find out more about FemmeBiome: femmebiome.com
#EUinmyregion 🇮🇪🇪🇺
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9 Dec 2025
UCC researcher @Booleying is one of six Irish researchers amongst the winners of €728m ERC Consolidator awards. siliconrepublic.com/innovati… via @siliconrepublic
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9 Dec 2025
Congratulations to @UCC researcher Dr Eugene Costello, awarded a €2m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to explore commercial cattle farming.
Read More 👇
ucc.ie/en/news/2025/major-eu…
@Booleying | @ERC_Research | @jfcryan
ALT Dr Eugene Costello, UCC School of History and Radical Humanities Laboratory, awarded €2m European Research Council Consolidator Grant to explore commercial cattle farming. Dr Costello is pictured in front of The Bull and Drover, a sculpture by Kevin Holland, Madden's Buildings in Blackpool, Cork.
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8 Dec 2025
Discovery of a gut microbiome metabolite that blocks inflammation and resistance to insulin. Its mechanism and role in improving blood sugar control may prove important treating for metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes
@NatMetabolism
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