Brendan Sharvin

PhD Student
APC Microbiome, UCC, Ireland

[Brendan Sharvin @SharvinBrendan]

Another year, another fantastic experience at #ECNP2025 in Amsterdam!! Very honoured to receive the ECNP Excellence Award. Really enjoyed the multidisciplinary lineup and receiving some excellent feedback for my poster too! @jfcryan @UCCpsychiatry @Pharmabiotic @ecnptweets

[Brendan Sharvin @SharvinBrendan]

Very honoured to receive the Excellence Award at #ECNP Workshop 2025. A lovely way to end a fascinating showcase of top science from translation preclinical work to advances in brain imaging!!

@jfcryan @Pharmabiotic @UCC @AnatNeuroUCC

[Brendan Sharvin @SharvinBrendan]

Had a fantastic experience at #ECNP Workshop 2025 in Nice. A pleasure to be able to discuss my research during the poster sessions. An honour to get the opportunity to present my research during the Behaviour and Systems Symposium too!! #ECNP2025 #neuroscienceapplied

[APC Microbiome Ireland @Pharmabiotic]

APC's @gabriel_tofani, @jfcryan and @ucc colleagues have discovered that gut microbes play a key role in regulating stress responsiveness throughout the day, in new research paper published in @CellCellPress today.
@Researchirel @UCCResearch
https://t.co/AoJ6cUrXe4

[Brendan Sharvin @SharvinBrendan]

A fantastic experience sharing my research at #SfN24 in Chicago! Lots of interesting feedback that'll help shape the latter half of my PhD journey.
@jfcryan @AnatNeuroUCC @Pharmabiotic

[Brendan Sharvin @SharvinBrendan]

Very excited to attend #SfN24 here in Chicago! If you're here and interested in how the gut microbiota can shape motivated behaviour come check out my poster PSTR477.21 on Wednesday afternoon!
@jfcryan @Pharmabiotic @ucc

[Brendan Sharvin @SharvinBrendan]

Very greatful to receive the ECNP Poster Award on the role of the microbiota in regulating motivated behaviour #ECNP2024 @ecnptweets @jfcryan @apc

[Kenneth J.O'Riordan @kjdoriordan]

Well done @SharvinBrendan, well deserved! Great poster @Pharmabiotic @AnatNeuroUCC @UCCResearch

[Kenneth J.O'Riordan @kjdoriordan]

Great representation by @UCCResearch and@Pharmabiotic researchers at the excellent @ecnptweets conference #ecnp2024 inspired and reinvigorated for another year of discovery @jfcryan @UCCpsychiatry @yvonnemnolan @RachelDMoloney @ephosphene @LarsWilmes @CRosellCardona @AimoneFerri

[Michael Collins @ephosphene]

Delighted to accept this ECNP Excellence Award for my work into how microbial metabolites affect hippocampal synaptic plasticity #ECNP2024

[Cristina Rosell Cardona @CRosellCardona]

Do you want to know more about the effects of acute stress and the gut microbiota on hippocampal synaptic plasticity? Come to visit my poster P3235 today! @Pharmabiotic @ecnptweets #ECNP2024

[Brendan Sharvin @SharvinBrendan]

Interested in the role of the gut microbiota in regulating motivated behaviour? Come check out my poster P3515 @ecnptweets #ECNP2024 @jfcryan @Pharmabiotic

[John F. Cryan @jfcryan]

Great to have @AnnMGraybiel at @ecnptweets for her plenary on the ‘Basal Ganglia and the Decision to Act’ #ecnp2024

[Michael Okun @MichaelOkun]

Does the brain change during pregnancy? You bet it does. How about doing 26 MRI scans on a single person pre-conception to 2 years post-partum. WOW! Laura Pritschet and colleagues nailed it with their new paper in @NatureNeuro.
Key Points:
- The authors point out that pregnancy is a period of profound hormonal and physiological changes.
- The authors did something incredible by mapping neuroanatomical changes in an individual from preconception through two years postpartum.
- Boom! There were pronounced decreases in gray matter volume and cortical thickness.
- There were increases in white matter microstructural integrity, ventricle volume and cerebrospinal fluid.
- There were few regions untouched by the 'transition to motherhood.'
My take: This study shows us how a single brain in a single person can be a powerful resource when scanned serially over time. This method is hard to pull off, however what it has the potential to teach us about neuroscience is mind-blowing. Though this paper is only a single subject, the data provides a comprehensive map of the human brain across gestation. It will be interesting to add to the dataset, so we can understand changes across multiple persons and multiple conditions. The convergence of evidence is revealing that pregnancy as associated with dramatic neuroplasticity. How about a shout out to this 38-year-old woman who underwent 26 MRI scans along with blood draws from 3 weeks preconception through 2 years postpartum!
https://t.co/LEnPHzKCcl #pregnancy #brain @ndosenbach @andreashorn_ @EMiddlebrooksMD

[Benjamin Valderrama @bpvalderrama]

I'm very happy to share my last work were we characterized the neuroactive potential of a cohort of elder individuals from #Chile 🇨🇱, expanding our knowledge about the #microbiome -gut-brain axis in populations from the global south
https://t.co/Oxdz3NRhiw

[John F. Cryan @jfcryan]

Maternal high-fat diet-induced microbiota changes are associated with alterations in embryonic brain metabolites and adolescent behaviour https://t.co/VhVPeArcLi
New #cryanlab lab paper out in @BrainBehavImm - Well done @AnnaRatsika @martincoda & all

[Cassandra Gh @CassGheorghe]

🔬 New research alert: Want to know what is going on in the #stressedgut? Our paper just out in @CellReports provides some answers! We take a deep dive into the intricate relationship between stress, diurnal rhythms and gut barrier integrity. 🧵
https://t.co/jbxCo3MfGS

[Brendan Sharvin @SharvinBrendan]

What a fantastic first conference experience @EurBehavPharm Society Meeting in Mannheim, Germany #EBPS2023. Great to hear from some of the worlds leading neuroscientists and how the field is advancing from technology to inclusivity.

@UCCpsychiatry @AnatNeuroUCC

[John F. Cryan @jfcryan]

Great job by PhD Students ⁦@LarsWilmes⁩ & ⁦@SharvinBrendan⁩ who presented their posters ⁦@EurBehavPharm⁩ Society Conference in Mannheim #EBPS2023

⁦@Pharmabiotic⁩ ⁦@UCCpsychiatry⁩ ⁦@AnatNeuroUCC⁩