Ian Jeffery

Ian Jeffery is a Principal Investigator at University College Cork, Ireland. His main research themes are investigation of the role of the gut microbiotia in Rheumatoid Arthritis, ageing and IBS. He is also involved in a number of collaborations and the NuAge consortium that examine the composition and function of the gut microbiota, its reaction to habitual diet, and its relationship to health and functional gastrointestinal disorders. The aim of these investigations is to understand how the gut microbiota affects the immune system and initiates/contributes to the presentation or aggravation of disease such as Rheumatoid Arthritis. His research also involves the development of bioinformatic pipelines for the determination of Co-abundance Groups and the integration of omic datasets. As well as this he is also interested in the relationship between Co-abundant taxa within the microbiota and the associated combined functions of these groups. The Principal Investigator position is funded by a prestigious Science Foundation Ireland starting investigator Research grant (SIRG).