Jatin received his B.Sc.(Hons) in Biochemistry (First Class) from University of Delhi, India during which he was also a summer research fellow in the Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India.

Thereafter, Jatin was in Germany for over 10 years where he did his M.Sc. in Neuroscience (University of Göttingen / International Max Planck Research School), PhD specializing in optogenetics and nematode C. elegans behaviour (University of Frankfurt), followed by a post-doc in Zebrafish stress neurobiology (MPI Heidelberg / University of Mainz).

Jatin has been in Cork, Ireland since January 2020, first as an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland post-doctoral fellow at APC Microbiome Ireland, then as a lecturer (specific-purpose fixed-term, from August 2022 till January 2024) at the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, UCC, followed by Lectureship in Translational Pharmaceutical Sciences at the School of Pharmacy and iEd Hub (till September 2024), here at UCC.

Since October 2024, Jatin holds a permanent lectureship in Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, UCC. He is also a group leader at APC Microbiome Ireland and co-chairs UCC Race Equality Network. He serves as a director in the board of the ALBA Network and as the Science Communication Coordinator of the EU COST Action Affect-Evo.

Jatin is an editorial board member at the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Experimental Pharmacology, Gut Microbes Reports.

Neuroscience

Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis

Stress and Social Neurobiology and Behaviour

Cross-species approaches and model organisms - Zebrafish and C. elegans

Optogenetics

Neurodevelopment

Environment-Genetics-Microbiome Interactions

Since joining UCC as a Lecturer, Jatin has taught and examined in UG and PG modules across 7 programmes (MPharm/BPharm, MSc Pharmaceutical Technology & Quality Systems MSCPTQ, MSc Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences Operations & Management MSCIPS, BSc Sciences, BSc Med Health Sci., MRes Industrial Pharmaceutics).

He has also successfully completed PG Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Jatin currently supervises 2 PhD students, 1 MRes student, 1 Research Assistant and 1 postdoctoral researcher. He has supervised 8 master’s theses from MSCIPS, 2 master’s theses from MSCPTQ, graduated a visiting research master’s student (EPFL Lausanne) and 1 postdoctoral researcher. 

Modules coordinated:

PT2448, PT6401, PT3001, PT4024

Modules taught:

PT1445 PT2448 FM2003/PT2201 PF2011 GN2001 PT3001 PF3009 PF3012 PT4005 PF4014 PT4024 PF4016 MH4010 AN4014 AN4011 PF6037 PF6040 PT6401 PF6036 PF6421

Ms Koushika Chandrasekaran (2024-current)

Mr Sauranil Guha (2024-current)

• PI, Science Foundation Ireland-Irish Research Council (Research Ireland) Pathway Grant 2024-2028.
• PI and Science Communication Coordinator, EU COST Action Project CA23106 AFFECT-EVO (2024-2028) “An Evolutionary View to Understanding Affective States across Species”.
• Co-PI, Industry partnership grant to study the role of early-life microbiota in neurodevelopment with a cross-species approach 2025-2027. 
• Co-PI, HEA Research Equipment Grant - UCC award for research infrastructure for Zebrafish Research Suite 2024. 
• PI, Enterprise Ireland grant to support Horizon Europe Grant Application 2023-24.
• Co-PI, APC Microbiome Ireland - Industry partnership grant to leverage Zebrafish as screening platform for microbiota-driven therapeutics 2022-24.
• Co-PI, HEA funding for Human Capital Initiative Pillar 3 2024 Micro-Credentials Subsidy.
• Co-PI, Higher Education Authority Ireland Covid Extension Grant 2022 
• Awardee, Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Post-doctoral Fellowship 2020-21
• APEX Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) COFUND Postdoc Fellowship (shortlisted to interview) – gratefully declined in lieu of IRC postdoctoral award.
• APC Microbiome Ireland Summer Bursary award and DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) RISE internship award to host undergraduate students for a summer research internship 2021-23.
• Intramural Research Funding for young academic researchers from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 2017-2018.