PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

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· Ross, RP; Mills, S; Hill, C; Fitzgerald, GF; Stanton, C (2010) ‘Specific metabolite production by gut microbiota as a basis for
probiotic function’. International Dairy Journal, 20 (4, Sp. Iss. SI):269-276.
· Ryan, RP; Mccarthy, Y; Andrade, M; Farah, CS; Armitage, J; Dow, JM (2010) ‘Cell-cell signal-dependent dynamic
interactions between HD-GYP and GGDEF domain proteins mediate virulence in Xanthomonas campestris’. Proceedings of
The National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America, 107 (13):5989-5994.
· Ryan, Robert P; Koebnik, Ralf; Szurek, Boris; Boureau, Tristan; Bernal, Adriana; Bogdanove, Adam; Dow, J. Maxwell (2009)
‘Passing GO (gene ontology) in plant pathogen biology: a report from the Xanthomonas Genomics Conference’. Cellular
Microbiology, 11 (12):1689-1696.
· Ryan, S; Begley, M; Hill, C; Gahan, CG (2010) ‘A five-gene stress survival islet (SSI-1) that contributes to the growth of
Listeria monocytogenes in suboptimal conditions’. Journal of applied microbiology.
· Ryan, S; Begley, M; Hill, C; Gahan, CGM (2010) ‘A five-gene stress survival islet (SSI-1) that contributes to the growth of
Listeria monocytogenes in suboptimal conditions’. Journal of applied microbiology, 109 (3):984-995.
· Song, Y; Roumagnac, P; Weill, FX; Wain, J; Dolecek, C; Mazzoni, CJ; Holt, KE; Achtman, M (2010) ‘A multiplex single
nucleotide polymorphism typing assay for detecting mutations that result in decreased fluoroquinolone susceptibility in
Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A’. J.Antimicrob.Chemother, 65:1631-16411631.
· Stack, HM; Kearney, N; Stanton, C; Fitzgerald, GF; Ross, RP (2010) ‘Association of Beta-Glucan Endogenous Production
with Increased Stress Tolerance of Intestinal Lactobacilli’. Applied and environmental microbiology, 76:500-507.
· Tangney, M; Gahan, CG (2010) ‘Listeria monocytogenes as a vector for anti-cancer therapies’. Current Gene Therapy, 10
(1):46-55.
· Ventura, Marco; Turroni, Francesca; Zomer, Aldert; Foroni, Elena; Giubellini, Vanessa; Bottacini, Francesca; Canchaya,
Carlos; Claesson, Marcus J; He, Fei; Mantzourani, Maria; Mulas, Laura; Ferrarini, Alberto; Gao, Beile; Delledonne, Massimo;
Henrissat, Bernard; Coutinho, Pedro; Oggioni, Marco; Gupta, Radhey S; Zhang, Ziding; Beighton, David; Fitzgerald, Gerald
F; O’Toole, Paul W; van Sinderen, Douwe (2009) ‘The Bifidobacterium dentium Bd1 Genome Sequence Reflects Its Genetic
Adaptation to the Human Oral Cavity’. PLoS Genetics, 5 (12).
· Watson, D; Sleator, RD; Casey, PG; Hill, C; Gahan, CG (2009) ‘Specific osmolyte transporters mediate bile tolerance in
Listeria monocytogenes’. Infection and immunity, 77 (11):4895-4904.
· Watson, RJ; Millichap, P; Joyce, SA; Reynolds, SE; Clarke, DJ (2010) ‘The role of iron uptake in pathogenicity and
symbiosis in Photorhabdus luminescens TT01’. BMC Microbiology, 10.
· Whelan, MC; Casey, G; MacConmara, M; Lederer, JA; Soden, D; Collins, JK; Tangney, M; O’Sullivan, GC (2010) ‘Effective
immunotherapy of weakly immunogenic solid tumours using a combined immunogene therapy and regulatory T-cell
inactivation’. Cancer Gene Therapy, 17:501-511.
· Zomer, Aldert; Fernandez, Matilde; Kearney, Breda; Fitzgerald, Gerald F; Ventura, Marco; van Sinderen, Douwe (2009) ‘An
Interactive Regulatory Network Controls Stress Response in Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003’. The Journal of Bacteriology,
191 (22):7039-7049.
· van Pijkeren, JP; Morrissey, D; Monk, IR; Cronin, M; Rajendran, S; O’Sullivan, GC; Gahan, CG; Tangney, M (2010) ‘A novel
Listeria monocytogenes-based DNA delivery system for cancer gene therapy’. Human Gene Therapy, 21 (4):405-416.
Conference Publications
· Claesson, MJ; Cusack, S; O’Sullivan, O; Greene-Diniz, R; de Weerd, H; Flannery, E; Marchesi, JR; Falush, D; Dinan, T;
Fitzgerald, G; Stanton, C; van Sinderen, D; O’Connor, M; Harnedy, N; O’Connor, K; Henry, C; O’Mahony, D; Fitzgerald, AP;
Shanahan, F; Twomey, C;Hill, C; Ross, RP; O’Toole, PW (2010) Microbes and Health Sackler Colloquium: Composition,
variability, and temporal stability of the intestinal microbiota of the elderly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
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