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Michael B Prentice MB ChB PhD MRCP(UK) FRCPath MILTHE - Professor of Medical Microbiology
Room 432 Lab 403 Lab ext 3137

Research interests

  • Bacterial genomics
  • Molecular microbiology
  • Clinical medical microbiology
  • Ancient DNA
  • Jobs available

    E-mail: m.prentice@ucc.ie
    Tel +353-21-4901420
    Fax +353-21-4903101

  • Academic Career
    • Visiting researcher: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, & Eastman Dental Institute, London, 2004.
    • Senior Lecturer in Medical Microbiology, Bart's and the London Medical School, Queen Mary, University of London, 1993-2004.
    • Smith and Nephew Research Fellow, Laboratoire des Yersinia, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 1992-3

    Professional Activities
    • Consultant Microbiologist at Cork University Hospital
    • External Examiner 2003-5 MB ChB University of Birmingham Medical School, UK
    • PhD Examiner University of London
    • Referee for FEMS, JClinPath

    Publications

    Hatzifoti C, Bajaj-Elliott M, Dorrell N, Anyim M, Prentice M, Nye K, Wren B, Morrow WJW. A plasmid immunization construct encoding urease B of Helicobacter pylori induces an antigen-specific antibody response and upregulates the expression of beta-defensins and IL-10 in the stomachs of immunized mice.Vaccine 2004 22(20) :2651-9.

    Prentice MB Bacterial comparative genomics.Genome Biol. 2004;5(8):338.

    Gilbert MTP, Cuccui J, White W, Lynnerup N,Titball RW, Cooper A, Prentice MB. Absence of Yersinia pestis-specific DNA in human teeth from five European excavations of putative plague victims. Microbiology 2004; 150: 341-35

    Prentice MB, Gilbert T, Cooper A. Was the Black Death caused by Yersinia pestis? Lancet Infectious Diseases 2004; 4(2):72.

    Hinchliffe SJ, Isherwood KE, Stabler RA, Prentice MB, Nichols RA, Rakin A, Oyston PCF, Hinds J, Titball RW, Wren BW. Application of DNA microarrays to study the evolutionary genomics of Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Genome Research 2003 Sep;13(9):2018-29

    Prentice MB, Cuccui J, Thomson N, Parkhill J, Deery E, Warren MJ. Cobalamin synthesis in Yersinia enterocolitica 8081. Functional aspects of a putative metabolic island. Adv Exp Med Biol 2003;529:43-6.

    Kidgell C, Pickard D, Wain J, James K, Diem Nga LT, Diep TS, Levine MM, O'Gaora P, Prentice MB, Parkhill J, Day N, Farrar J, Dougan G. Characterisation and distribution of a cryptic Salmonella typhi plasmid pHCM2. Plasmid. 2002 May;47(3):159-71.

    Prentice MB, James KD, Parkhill J, Baker SG, Stevens K, Simmonds MN, Mungall KL, Churcher C, Oyston PC, Titball RW, Wren BW, Wain J, Pickard D, Hien TT, Farrar JJ, Dougan G. Yersinia pestis pFra shows biovar-specific differences and recent common ancestry with a Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi plasmid. J Bacteriol. 2001 ;183(8):2586-94

    Parkhill J, Wren BW, Thomson NR, Titball RW, Holden MTG, Prentice MB et al. Genome sequence of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. Nature. 2001 Oct 4;413(6855):523-7.