Dr. Paul Cotter is Principal Research Officer at Teagasc Food Research Centre at Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy, Ireland. He is a molecular microbiologist, with researchers in his lab focusing particularly on antimicrobial peptides and the microbiology of the gut (and its role in disease and health) and of food. Paul also manages the Teagasc DNA sequencing facility, is a Principal Investigator within the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and is an adjunct lecturer at Cork Institute of Technology. Dr. Paul’s Vision I laboratory was awarded the title of Irish Food/Agriculture Laboratory of the Year 2013, he has received awards from the Society for Applied Microbiology, ESCMID and FEMS and is an appointed faculty member of Faculty of Biology since 2006. Paul is also the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed publications resulting from research funded by the EU, Science Foundation Ireland, Fisheries and Food, Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Health Research Board, the Irish Department of Agriculture, and the Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Applied & Environmental Microbiology, BMC Microbiology, F1000 Reports, PLoS One, and Proteins & Antimicrobial