PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

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· Ryan, J; Murphy, C; Twomey, C; Ross, RP; Rea, MC; MacSharry, J; Sheil, B; Shanahan, F (2010) ‘Asymptomatic carriage of
Clostridium difficile in an Irish continuing care institution for the elderly: prevalence and characteristics’. Irish Journal of
Medical Science, 179:245-250.
· 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.
· Savignac, HM; Hyland, NP; Dinan, TG; Cryan, JF (2010) ‘The effects of repeated social interaction stress on behavioural and
physiological parameters in a stress-sensitive mouse strain’. Behavioural brain research.
· Schellekens, H; Dinan, TG; Cryan, JF (2010) ‘Lean mean fat reducing ghrelin machine: hypothalamic ghrelin and ghrelin
receptors as therapeutic targets in obesity’. Neuropharmacology, 58 (1):2-16.
· Shanahan, Fergus (2010) ‘99th Dahlem Conference on Infection, Inflammation and Chronic Inflammatory Disorders:
Host-microbe interactions in the gut: target for drug therapy, opportunity for drug discovery’. Clinical and experimental
immunology, 160:92-97.
· Shanahan, Fergus (2010) ‘Gut Microbes: From Bugs to Drugs’. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 105 (2):275-279.
· Sibartie, S; Scully, P; Keohane, J; O’Neill, S; O’Mohony, J; O’Hanlon, D; Kirwan, WO; O’Mahony, L; Shanahan, F (2010)
‘Mycobacterium avium subsp Paratuberculosis (MAP) as a Modifying Factor in Crohn’s Disease’. Inflammatory Bowel
Diseases, 16:296-304.
· 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.
· 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).
· Wall, R; Ross, RP; Shanahan, F; O’Mahony, L; Kiely, B; Quigley, E; Dinan, TG; Fitzgerald, G; Stanton, C (2010) ‘Impact of
Administered Bifidobacterium on Murine Host Fatty Acid Composition’. Lipids, 45:429-436.
· 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.
Conference Publications
· Browne, G; Loughrey, M; Harrington, J; Lutomski, J; Fitzgerald, T; Perry, I (2010) Dietary salt intake in Irish adults.
· 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.
· 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.
· Hartigan, I; O’ Connell, E; McCarthy, G; O’ Mahony, D (2010) Stroke survivors perceptions of their healh status and their
goals for recovery Irish Nurses Cardiovascular Association 13th Scientific Conference.
· Hyland, NP; Bongiovanni, C; O’Mahony, C; Fitzgerald, P; Dinan,TG; Cryan, JF (2009) The combined effects of neonatal
psychological stress and an anxious phenotype on visceral hypersensitivity and colonic function in rats
Neurogastroenterology Motility.
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