I'm presenting some of my post-doctoral work at #FENS2026. Come by to learn about the networks linking the vagus nerve to brain regions controlling memory! 🐀🧠

This starts today ! Plenty of exciting events in Cork. Hope to see many people there for some fun science around a drink 🍻🧬🧫🧪

🚀 Cork #pint26 – Get ready for an exciting lineup! 🚀

🌍Where?
Old Oak, T12 PY8A
Sober Lane, T12 H771
The Liberty Bar, T12 Y2CC
Mr Bradley's Bar, T12 H285

🎟️ FREE tickets: pintofscience.ie

📅 Save the Date: 20 May 2026

#pint26 #Cork2026 #SciComm #ScienceFestival

New APC paper in Nature Comms
First author Cristina Cuesta-Marti and colleagues examine how eating unhealthy foods early in life leaves lasting brain and feeding changes but bacteria can help restore healthy eating.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Microbiome #GutBrainAxis
Tagging collaborators ⬇️

NEXT WEEK : Join us for the winter edition of our Quiz night! 📝❓

When: Thursday 22nd of January 2026, 6.30pm 📆
Where : Flannery's bar (Glasheen road, Cork city)🍻
Prizes: To be won.. 😁

Bring your team (max 5 people per team) or find one at the night 😇👍
Entry: €2 per person

Honoured to have been invited to present some of my PhD work alongside many great scientists at the 8th Edition or the CI²AT conference in Tours University this past Friday. 🦠🧠

Congratulations the I²VB Masters students for the organization 👏🏻and thanks for their warm welcome (and gift!).

Congratulations to APC's Melanie Depret , @ucc.ie who represented Ireland in at the international final of “Ma thèse en 180 secondes” (MT180) in Romania, organised by the AUF, and won the 3rd jury prize 🥉
Supervisors @jfcryan.bsky.social & Linda Katona