Fergus Shanahan MD, DSc , director of Cork's APC Microbiome Institute is the 2015 recipient of the Irish Society for Immunology Public Lecture Award. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, April 29th at 7pm in Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Pearse St, Dublin.
He will speak on: "Immune diseases today: a microbiological explanation of almost everything." All are welcome. The event is free and no pre-booking of tickets is required.
Most immune disorders are chronic inflammatory conditions that begin in early life and affect one or more organs in the body. There is a modern epidemic of such chronic disease with a rising frequency of immuno-allergic disorders in modern socio-economically developed countries. Dr Shanahan will explain why this has occurred and how lifestyle and environmental factors shape the development and function of the immune system by modifying the microbes (bacteria and viruses) in and on the body. He will discuss how the microbes 'talk' to the immune system and vice versa. He will also discuss the inter-relationship between chronic inflammatory disorders and metabolic diseases including obesity, and he will offer the lay person some advice on what they can do to protect their microbes and their immune system.
Fergus Shanahan is a leading international expert in the area of gastrointestinal research. He is Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, University College Cork and Director of the APC Microbiome Institute in Cork. Shanahan's research interests are in mucosal immunology, gut microbiota, inflammatory bowel disease, and most things that affect the human experience. He has published more than 450 scientific papers and several on the medical humanities and has co-edited several books. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, Canada, and the United Kingdom as well as of the American College of Physicians. He is a past-president of the Irish Society of Gastroenterology and named to the "Irish Life Science 50" a list of the top 50 Irish and Irish Americans in the life science industry. In 2013, Science Foundation Ireland named him as its Researcher of the Year.
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