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Dr. Nicky O'Boyle

Assistant Professor (Microbiology)
MOYNE INSTITUTE
      
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Dr. Nicky O'Boyle

Assistant Professor (Microbiology)
MOYNE INSTITUTE


Project Title
 Deciphering Blue Ecosystem Chemical Communication Networks for Sustainable Next Generation solutions to the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis.
From
02/09/24
To
02/092028
Summary
Funding Agency
Irish Research Council
Programme
Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme
Person Months
48
Project Title
 D-serine: A dietary solution to enteric infection or a potentiator of pathogen evolution?
From
01/11/2019
To
Summary
Funding Agency
Tenovus Scotland
Programme
Tenovus Scotland Pilot Grant
Person Months
6

Details Date From Date To
Irish Division of the Microbiology Society 01/01/2023
Microbiology Society 2009
Connolly JPR, Turner NCA, Hallam JC, Rimbi PT, Flett T, McCormack MJ, Roe AJ, O'Boyle N, Transcriptional response to D-serine stress in distinct E. coli pathotypes, 1, MORF Open Science, 2024, Dataset, PUBLISHED  URL
Rimbi PT, O'Boyle N, Douce GR, Pizza M, Rosini R, Roe AJ., Enhancing a multi-purpose artificial urine for culture and gene expression studies of uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains., Journal of applied microbiology, 135, (4), 2024, plxae067 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kabo R Wale, Nicky O'Boyle, Rebecca McHugh, Ester Serrano, David Mark, Gillian R Douce, James PR Connolly, Andrew J Roe, A master regulator of central carbon metabolism directly activates virulence gene expression in attaching and effacing pathogens, PLoS Pathogens, 20, (10), 2024, pe1012451 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
DR Mark, N O'Boyle, KR Wale, SK Tucker, RE McHugh, AJ Roe, Aurodox inhibits type III secretion in multiple Gram-negative pathogens, Open Biology, 14, (11), 2024, p240240 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
O'Boyle N, Douce GR, Farrell G, Rattray NJW, Schembri MA, Roe AJ, Connolly JPR., Distinct ecological fitness factors coordinated by a conserved Escherichia coli regulator during systemic bloodstream infection., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, (1), 2023, pe2212175120 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Hallam JC, Sandalli S, Floria I, Turner NCA, Tang-Fichaux M, Oswald E, O'Boyle N, Roe AJ., D-Serine reduces the expression of the cytopathic genotoxin colibactin., Microbial cell (Graz, Austria), 10, (3), 2023, p63-77 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Connolly JPR, Turner NCA, Serrano E, Rimbi PT, Browning DF, O'Boyle N, Roe AJ., Control of resistance against bacteriophage killing by a metabolic regulator in meningitis-associated Escherichia coli., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (45), 2022, pe2210299119 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Nicky O'Boyle, Aoife Boyd, Validation of a random Vibrio parahaemolyticus genomic library by selection of quinolone resistance in a heterologous host, Microbiology, 168, (5), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
O'Boyle N, Roe AJ., Heterogeneity in populations of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli undergoing D-serine adaptation., Current genetics, 67, (2), 2021, p221-224 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mordue J, O'Boyle N, Gadegaard N, Roe AJ., The force awakens: The dark side of mechanosensing in bacterial pathogens., Cellular signalling, 78, 2021, p109867 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Award Date
SEFS New Connections Summer Research Bursary (University College, Cork) May, 2023
SEFS New Connections Grant (University College, Cork) March, 2022
Tenovus Scotland Pilot Grant (Tenovus Scotland) November 2019
Professor L. Kieran Dunican Memorial Medal (NUI, Glaway) June, 2008
Federation of European Biochemical Societies Youth Travel Fund (YTF) Fellowship August, 2009
Microbiology Society Travel/Conference Grant January 2009
Microbiology Society Travel/Conference Grant January 2012
Microbiology Society Travel/Conference Grant January 2016
Microbiology Society Travel/Conference Grant January 2016
Microbiology Society Travel/Conference Grant January 2017
Microbiology Society Travel/Conference Grant January 2018
Microbiology Society Travel/Conference Grant January 2019