John Atkins
Translational recoding including programmed ribosomal frameshifting, translational bypassing and codon redefinition.
Stop codons specifying a standard amino acid (readthrough), UGA specifying selenocysteine, uncommon start codons and the StopGo utilized in Foot and Mouth Disease virus expression.
Deep earth life and RNA World issues.
Marcus Claesson
Bioinformatics
Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
Culture-independent approaches to understanding Inflammatory Bowel Disease
David Clarke
Bacteria-host interactions
Biofilm formation
Signaling in bacteria
Alan Dobson
Applied Microbiology
Environmental Biotechnology
Marine Biotechnology
Physiology and genetics of bacteria and fungi from marine and terrestrial Environments
Functional Metagenomics
Food Mycology/Genetics of Mycotoxigenic fungi
Eukaryotic microbes/Cell Biology.
Max Dow
Cyclic di-GMP signalling in the regulation of virulence of human and plant pathogens
Lipopolysaccharides and the induction of defence responses in plants
Induced systemic resistance and biocontrol of plant diseases by beneficial bacteria
Gerald Fitzgerald
Biochemistry, physiology and genetics of Lactic Acid Bacteria
Probiotic cultures - fundamental analysis and applications in foods
Genomics of Bifidobacterium
Bacteriophage resistance in Lactococcus : fundamental analysis of resistance systems and their application in the construction of phage resistant cultures
Molecular genetics of bacteriophage of Lactococcus
Antimicrobials of Lactic Acid Bacteria as biopreservatives of foods
Cormac Gahan
Development of live bacterial vaccine and DNA delivery vectors
Understanding microbial pathogenesis (Listeria monocytogenes & Clostridium difficile )
Culture-independent approaches to understanding the gut microbiota
Microbe-host signaling and bile degradation in the human GI tract
Colin Hill
Infectious pathogens
The gut microbiome
Bacteriocins (applied and fundamental aspects)
Bacteriophage (applied and fundamental aspects)
Probiotics as anti-infectives
John MacSharry
Host-microbe interactions
Mucosal immune sampling and response in the gut and the lungs
John Morgan
Gastrointestinal viruses and disease: Norovirus; Rotavirus and Poliovirus
Mucosal immunity: Peyer’s patches as antigen sampling sites in the gut
Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection and the Cystic Fibrosis lung
John Morrissey
Yeast Biotechnology
Microbial signalling
Microbe-host interactions
Fungal pathogenesis
Environmental and Marine Biotechnology
Fergal O’Gara
Microbial Genetics and Genomics
Microbe-host Interactions Applied to Environment and Health Sectors
Microbial Pathogenesis
Molecular Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions
Molecular Microbial Ecology of Microbes
Niall O'Leary
Environmental Biotechnology
Microbial Bioconversions for Resource Sustainability
Waste/Wastewater bioremediation
Global regulation of microbial pathways for pollutant catabolism
Paul O’Toole
Genomics of host interaction mechanisms in gastrointestinal bacteria
Composition and function of the human gut microbiota
Mike Prentice
Bacterial genomics, especially Yersinia sp
Bacterial Microcompartments
Horizontal gene transfer in bacteria (phage mediated)
Paul Ross
Food Biotechnology
Gut microbiota
Novel antimicrobials, including bacteriocins and bacteriophage
Probiotics and starter cultures
Martina Scallan
Virus-host cell interactions: intracellular molecular communication between virus and cell components determining infection outcome.
Viruses as vectors for therapeutic gene delivery.
Gastrointestinal viruses and gut epithelial cells and the influence of probiotic bacteria on virus-epithelial cell interactions.
Neurotropic viruses and cells of the central nervous system
Douwe van Sinderen
Global gene regulation in bacteria through environmental sensing systems
Molecular biology of bacteriophage infecting lactic acid bacteria
Genomics and systems biology of lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria
Metabolic engineering of lactic acid bacteria
Probiotic functionality of bifidobacteria
