UCD Biology & Environmental Science

UCD School of Biology & Environmental Science - Research Publications 2017/18

Below is the list of research publications for the UCD School of Biology & Environmental Science in the academic year 2017/18.



Book Chapters

Professor Thomas Bolger
Schmidt O; Bolger T; Creamer R; Brennan F; Dobson ADW (2018) 'The Living Soil: Biodiversity and Functions' In:  The Soils of Ireland.Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. , pp.257-265 Available Online  
Professor Fiona Doohan
Ansari KI; Doyle SM; Khan MR; Walter S; Brennan JM; Arunachalam CS; McCabe PF; Doohan FM (2018) 'Light influences how the fungal toxin deoxynivalenol affects plant cell death and defense responses' In:  Recent Advances and Prespectives in Deoxynivalenol Research.Switzerland: MDPI AG. , pp.93-104  
Assoc Professor Paul McCabe
Ansari KI; Doyle SM; Khan MR; Walter S; Brennan JM; Arunachalam CS; McCabe PF; Doohan FM (2018) 'Light influences how the fungal toxin deoxynivalenol affects plant cell death and defense responses' In:  Recent Advances and Prespectives in Deoxynivalenol Research.Switzerland: MDPI AG. , pp.93-104  
Conway TJ; McCabe PF (2018) 'Plant programmed cell death (PCD): using cell morphology as a tool to investigate plant PCD.' In:  Advances in Plant Ecophysiology Techniques.New York: Springer. , pp.273-281  
Conway TJ; McCabe PF (2018) 'Plant programmed cell death' In:  eLS.Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. Available Online  
Dr Antoinette Perry
Das S; Moran B; Perry AS (2018) 'Assessing DNA methylation in cancer stem cells' In:  Methods in Molecular Biology.: Humana Press (Springer). , pp.157-178 Available Online  
Dr Florence Renou-Wilson
Florence Renou-Wilson (2018) 'Peatlands' In:  .Cham: Springer International Publishing. , pp.141-152 Available Online  
Kenneth A. Byrne GL (2018) 'Soils and Carbon Storage' In:  .Cham: Springer International Publishing. , pp.245-256 Available Online  
Professor Jeremy Simpson
Cutrona MB; Morgan NE; Simpson JC (2018) 'Heritable skeletal disorders arising from defects in processing and transport of type I procollagen from the ER: Perspectives on possible therapeutic approaches' In:  Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. , pp.191-225 Available Online  

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Journal Articles

Dr Jan-Robert Baars
O'Connor J; Brennan S; Baars JR (2018) 'Crayfish arts: An evaluation into the efficacy of artificial refuge traps for monitoring lotic white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes (Lereboullet, 1858) (Decapoda, Astacidae) populations'. Crustaceana 91 (3) :297-309. Available Online  
Professor Thomas Bolger
Seniczak A; Seniczak S; Kaczmarek S; Bolger T (2018) 'Morphological ontogeny of Chamobates pusillus (Acari, Oribatida, Chamobatidae), with comments on some species of Chamobates Hull'. Systematic and Applied Acarology 23 (2) :339-352. Available Online  
Dirilgen T; Juceviča E; Melecis V; Querner P; Bolger T (2018) 'Analysis of spatial patterns informs community assembly and sampling requirements for Collembola in forest soils'. Acta Oecologica 86 :23-30. Available Online  
Arroyo J; Connell TO; Bolger T (2017) 'Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) recorded from Ireland: Catalogue, historical records, species habitats and geographical distribution, combinations, variations and synonyms'. Zootaxa 4328 (1) :1-174. Available Online  
Koivula MJ; Chamberlain DE; Fuller RJ; Palmer SCF; Bankovics A; Bracken F; Bolger T; de Juana E; Montadert M; Neves R (2018) 'Breeding bird species diversity across gradients of land use from forest to agriculture in Europe'. Ecography 41 (8) :1331-1344. Available Online  
Dr Paul Brooks
Strain EMA; Olabarria C; Mayer-Pinto M; Cumbo V; Morris RL; Bugnot AB; Dafforn KA; Heery E; Firth LB; Brooks PR (2018) 'Eco-engineering urban infrastructure for marine and coastal biodiversity: Which interventions have the greatest ecological benefit?'. Journal of Applied Ecology 55 (1) :426-441. Available Online  
Brooks PR; Crowe TP (2018) 'Density and biotic interactions modify the combined effects of global and local stressors'. Oikos . Available Online  
Dr Jens Carlsson
Apolinário-Silva C; Ferreira DG; Cavenagh AF; Aprígio NGO; Galindo BA; Carlsson J; Sofia SH (2018) 'Development and characterization of fifteen polymorphic microsatellite loci in Bryconamericus aff. iheringii (Teleostei: Characidae) and cross-amplification in related Characidae species'. Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (1). Available Online  
Carlsson JEL; Egan D; Collins PC; Farrell ED; Igoe F; Carlsson J (2017) 'A qPCR MGB probe based eDNA assay for European freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera L.)'. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 27 (6) :1341-1344. Available Online  
Gallagher J; Finarelli JA; Jonasson JP; Carlsson J (2018) 'Mitochondrial D-loop DNA analyses of Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) reveals genetic isolation between Atlantic and East Mediterranean populations'. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom  :1-8. Available Online  
Dr Simone Ciuti
Kammerle JL; Coppes J; Ciuti S; Suchant R; Storch I (2017) 'Range loss of a threatened grouse species is related to the relative abundance of a mesopredator'. Ecosphere 8 (9). Available Online  
Ciuti S; Tripke H; Antkowiak P; Gonzalez RS; Dormann CF; Heurich M (2018) 'An efficient method to exploit LiDAR data in animal ecology'. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9 (4) :893-904. Available Online  
Dormann CF, Calabrese JM, Guillera-Arroita G, Matechou E, Bahn V, Barto? KA, Beale CM, Ciuti S, Elith J, Gerstner K, Guelat J, Keil P, Lahoz-Monfort JJ, Pollock LJ, Reineking B, Roberts DR, Schröder B, Thuiller W, Warton DI, Wintle BA, Wood SN, Wuest RO, Hartig F (2018) 'Model averaging in ecology: a review of Bayesian, information-theoretic and tactical approaches'. Ecological Monographs . Available Online  
Professor Tasman Crowe
Brooks PR; Crowe TP (2018) 'Density and biotic interactions modify the combined effects of global and local stressors'. Oikos . Available Online  
Austen MC; Crowe TP; Elliott M; Paterson DM; Peck MA; Piraino S (2018) 'VECTORS of change in the marine environment: Ecosystem and economic impacts and management implications'. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 201 :1-6. Available Online  
Guy-Haim T; Lyons DA; Kotta J; Ojaveer H; Queirós AM; Chatzinikolaou E; Arvanitidis C; Como S; Magni P; Blight AJ (2018) 'Diverse effects of invasive ecosystem engineers on marine biodiversity and ecosystem functions: A global review and meta-analysis'. Global Change Biology 24 (3) :906-924. Available Online  
Professor Fiona Doohan
Hehir JG; Connolly C; O'Driscoll A; Lynch JP; Spink J; Brown JKM; Doohan F; Mullins E (2018) 'Temporal and spatial field evaluations highlight the importance of the presymptomatic phase in supporting strong partial resistance in Triticum aestivum against Zymoseptoria tritici'. Plant Pathology 67 (3) :573-583. Available Online  
Murphy BR; Hodkinson TR; Doohan FM (2017) 'A fungal endophyte consortium counterbalances the negative effects of reduced nitrogen input on the yield of field-grown spring barley'. Journal of Agricultural Science 155 (8) :1324-1331. Available Online  
Thapa G; Gunupuru LR; Hehir JG; Kahla A; Mullins E; Doohan FM (2018) 'A pathogen-responsive leucine rich receptor like kinase contributes to Fusarium resistance in cereals'. Frontiers in Plant Science 9. Available Online  
Behpouri A; Perochon A; Doohan FM; Ng CKY (2018) 'Optimizing callus induction and proliferation for agrobacterium-mediated transformation of brachypodium distachyon'. Cereal Research Communications 46 (2) :221-231. Available Online  
Assoc Professor Evelyn Doyle
Nolan P; Doyle EM; Grant J; O'Kiely P (2018) 'Upgrading grass biomass during ensiling with contrasting fibrolytic enzyme additives for enhanced methane production'. Renewable Energy 115 :462-473. Available Online  
McGee CF; Storey S; Clipson N; Doyle E (2018) 'Concentration-dependent responses of soil bacterial, fungal and nitrifying communities to silver nano and micron particles'. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 25 (19) :18693-18704. Available Online  
Lyons T; Bielak A; Doyle E; Kuhla B (2018) 'Variations in methane yield and microbial community profiles in the rumen of dairy cows as they pass through stages of first lactation'. Journal of Dairy Science 101 (6) :5102-5114. Available Online  
Richter A; Huallacháin D; Doyle E; Clipson N; Van Leeuwen JP; Heuvelink GB; Creamer RE (2018) 'Linking diagnostic features to soil microbial biomass and respiration in agricultural grassland soil: a large-scale study in Ireland'. European Journal of Soil Science 69 (3) :414-428. Available Online  
Dr Edward Farrell
Carlsson JEL; Egan D; Collins PC; Farrell ED; Igoe F; Carlsson J (2017) 'A qPCR MGB probe based eDNA assay for European freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera L.)'. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 27 (6) :1341-1344. Available Online  
Dr John Finarelli
Gallagher J; Finarelli JA; Jonasson JP; Carlsson J (2018) 'Mitochondrial D-loop DNA analyses of Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) reveals genetic isolation between Atlantic and East Mediterranean populations'. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom  :1-8. Available Online  
Hughes GM; Boston ESM; Finarelli JA; Murphy WJ; Higgins DG; Teeling EC (2018) 'The birth and death of olfactory receptor gene families in Mammalian niche adaptation'. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35 (6) :1390-1406. Available Online  
Coates MI; Finarelli JA; Sansom IJ; Andreev PS; Criswell KE; Tietjen K; Rivers ML; La Riviere PJ (2018) 'An early chondrichthyan and the evolutionary assembly of a shark body plan'. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1870). Available Online  
Dr Wieland Fricke
Coffey O; Bonfield R; Corre F; Althea Sirigiri J; Meng D; Fricke W (2018) 'Root and cell hydraulic conductivity, apoplastic barriers and aquaporin gene expression in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) grown with low supply of potassium'. Annals of Botany . Available Online  
Mr Graham Hughes
Hughes GM; Boston ESM; Finarelli JA; Murphy WJ; Higgins DG; Teeling EC (2018) 'The birth and death of olfactory receptor gene families in Mammalian niche adaptation'. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35 (6) :1390-1406. Available Online  
Foley NM; Hughes GM; Huang Z; Clarke M; Jebb D; Whelan CV; Petit EJ; Touzalin F; Farcy O; Jones G (2018) 'Growing old, yet staying young: The role of telomeres in bats’ exceptional longevity'. Science Advances 4 (2). Available Online  
Kacprzyk J; Hughes GM; Palsson-Mcdermott EM; Quinn SR; Puechmaille SJ; O'Neill LAJ; Teeling EC (2017) 'A Potent Anti-Inflammatory Response in Bat Macrophages May Be Linked to Extended Longevity and Viral Tolerance'. Acta Chiropterologica 19 (2) :219-228. Available Online  
Hughes GM; Leech J; Puechmaille SJ; Lopez JV; Teeling EC (2018) 'Is there a link between aging and microbiome diversity in exceptional mammalian longevity?'. PeerJ 2018 (1). Available Online  
Teeling EC; Vernes SC; Dávalos LM; Ray DA; Gilbert MTP; Myers E (2018) 'Bat Biology, Genomes, and the Bat1K Project: To Generate Chromosome-Level Genomes for All Living Bat Species'. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 6 :23-46. Available Online  
Dr Joanna Kacprzyk
Foley NM; Hughes GM; Huang Z; Clarke M; Jebb D; Whelan CV; Petit EJ; Touzalin F; Farcy O; Jones G (2018) 'Growing old, yet staying young: The role of telomeres in bats’ exceptional longevity'. Science Advances 4 (2). Available Online  
Kacprzyk J; Hughes GM; Palsson-Mcdermott EM; Quinn SR; Puechmaille SJ; O'Neill LAJ; Teeling EC (2017) 'A Potent Anti-Inflammatory Response in Bat Macrophages May Be Linked to Extended Longevity and Viral Tolerance'. Acta Chiropterologica 19 (2) :219-228. Available Online  
Dr Amal Kahla
Thapa G; Gunupuru LR; Hehir JG; Kahla A; Mullins E; Doohan FM (2018) 'A pathogen-responsive leucine rich receptor like kinase contributes to Fusarium resistance in cereals'. Frontiers in Plant Science 9. Available Online  
Assoc Professor Mary Kelly-Quinn
Rymszewicz A; Bruen M; O'Sullivan JJ; Turner JN; Lawler DM; Harrington JR; Conroy E; Kelly-Quinn M (2018) 'Modelling spatial and temporal variations of annual suspended sediment yields from small agricultural catchments'. Science of the Total Environment 619-620 :672-684. Available Online  
Rymszewicz A; O'Sullivan JJ; Bruen M; Turner JN; Lawler DM; Conroy E; Kelly-Quinn M (2017) 'Measurement differences between turbidity instruments, and their implications for suspended sediment concentration and load calculations: A sensor inter-comparison study'. Journal of Environmental Management 199 :99-108. Available Online  
Hallouin T; Bruen M; Christie M; Bullock C; Kelly-Quinn M (2018) 'Challenges in using hydrology and water quality models for assessing freshwater ecosystem services: A review'. Geosciences (Switzerland) 8 (2). Available Online  
Mc Conigley C; Lally H; Little D; O'Dea P; Kelly-Quinn M (2017) 'The influence of aquatic buffer zone vegetation on river macroinvertebrate communities'. Forest Ecology and Management 400 :621-630. Available Online  
Weekes L; Kącki Z; FitzPatrick Ú; Kelly F; Matson R; Kelly-Quinn M (2018) 'An Irish national vegetation classification system for aquatic river macrophytes'. Applied Vegetation Science 21 (2) :322-340. Available Online  
Conroy E; Turner JN; Rymszewicz A; Bruen M; O’Sullivan JJ; Lawler DM; Stafford S; Kelly-Quinn M (2018) 'Further insights into the responses of macroinvertebrate species to burial by sediment'. Hydrobiologia 805 (1) :399-411. Available Online  
Atkinson S, Carlsson JEL, Ball B, Egan D, Kelly-Quinn M, Whelan K & Carlsson J. (2018) 'A quantitative PCR based environmental DNA assay for detecting Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.).'. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems . Available Online  
Davis, S. J., Ó hUallacháin, D., Mellande, P-E, Ann-MarieKell, A. M., Christoph D.Matthaei, C. Piggott, J., Kelly-Quinn, M. (2018) 'Multiple-stressor effects of sediment, phosphorus and nitrogen on stream macroinvertebrate communities'. Science of the Total Environment 637¿638 (1) :577-587. Available Online  
Morrissey-McCaffrey E; Rocks K; Kelly FL; Kelly-Quinn M (2018) 'Effects of differing ground-truth data, transect design and statistical analysis on the repeatability of hydroacoustic assessments of pollan Coregonus autumnalis pollan'. Fisheries Management and Ecology 25 (4) :304-318. Available Online  
Dr Ibrahim Khalil
Khalil MI; Osborne BA (2018) 'Improving estimates of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and their long-term temporal changes in agricultural soils in Ireland'. Geoderma 322 :172-183. Available Online  
Dr Olga Lastovetsky
Deveau A; Bonito G; Uehling J; Paoletti M; Becker M; Bindschedler S; Hacquard S; Hervé V; Labbé J; Lastovetsky OA (2018) 'Bacterial-fungal interactions: ecology, mechanisms and challenges.'. FEMS microbiology reviews 42 (3) :335-352. Available Online  
Mondo SJ; Lastovetsky OA; Gaspar ML; Schwardt NH; Barber CC; Riley R; Sun H; Grigoriev IV; Pawlowska TE (2017) 'Bacterial endosymbionts influence host sexuality and reveal reproductive genes of early divergent fungi'. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 8. Available Online  
Pawlowska TE; Gaspar ML; Lastovetsky OA; Mondo SJ; Real-Ramirez I; Shakya E; Bonfante P (2018) 'Biology of Fungi and Their Bacterial Endosymbionts'. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY, VOL 56 56 :289-309. Available Online  
Lastovetsky OA; Ahn E; Mondo SJ; Toomer KH; Zhang A; Johnson LM; Pawlowska TE (2018) 'Distribution and population structure of endobacteria in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at North Atlantic dunes.'. The ISME journal . Available Online  
Mr Stephen Mahony
Agarwal I; Mahony S; Giri VB; Chaitanya R; Bauer AM (2018) 'Two new species of bent toed geckos, Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Northeast India with comments on name-bearing types from the region'. Zootaxa 4420 (3) :334-356. Available Online  
Tapley B; Cutajar T; Mahony S; Nguyen CT; Dau VQ; Nguyen TT; Luong HV; Rowley JJL (2017) 'The Vietnamese population of <i>Megophrys</i> <i>kuatunensis</i> (Amphibia: Megophryidae) represents a new species of Asian horned frog from Vietnam and southern China'. Zootaxa 4344 (3) :465-492. Available Online  
Dr Rainer Melzer
Käppel S; Melzer R; Rümpler F; Gafert C; Theißen G (2018) 'The floral homeotic protein SEPALLATA3 recognizes target DNA sequences by shape readout involving a conserved arginine residue in the MADS-domain'. Plant Journal 95 (2) :341-357. Available Online  
Schilling S; Pan S; Kennedy A; Melzer R (2018) 'MADS-box genes and crop domestication: The jack of all traits'. Journal of Experimental Botany 69 (7) :1447-1469. Available Online  
Rümpler F; Theißen G; Melzer R (2018) 'A conserved leucine zipper-like motif accounts for strong tetramerization capabilities of SEPALLATA-like MADS-domain transcription factors'. Journal of Experimental Botany 69 (8) :1943-1954. Available Online  
Professor Christoph Mueller
Wang J; Zhao Y; Zhang J; Zhao W; Müller C; Cai Z (2017) 'Nitrification is the key process determining N use efficiency in paddy soils'. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 180 (6) :648-658. Available Online  
Daioglou V; Doelman JC; Stehfest E; Müller C; Wicke B; Faaij A; Van Vuuren DP (2017) 'Greenhouse gas emission curves for advanced biofuel supply chains'. Nature Climate Change 7 (12) :920-924. Available Online  
Zhao W; Zhang J; Muller C; Cai Z (2017) 'Mechanisms behind the stimulation of nitrification by N input in subtropical acid forest soil'. JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 17 (9) :2338-2345. Available Online  
Brenzinger K; Kujala K; Horn MA; Moser G; Guillet C; Kammann C; Mueller C; Braker G (2017) 'Soil Conditions Rather Than Long-Term Exposure to Elevated CO2 Affect Soil Microbial Communities Associated with N-Cycling'. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY 8. Available Online  
Kellner J; Multsch S; Houska T; Kraft P; Mueller C; Breuer L (2017) 'A coupled hydrological-plant growth model for simulating the effect of elevated CO2 on a temperate grassland'. AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY 246 :42-50. Available Online  
Liu S; Zhang X; Zhao J; Zhang J; Mueller C; Cai Z (2017) 'Effects of long-term no tillage treatment on gross soil N transformations in black soil in Northeast China'. GEODERMA 301 :42-46. Available Online  
Zhu T; Yang C; Wang J; Zeng S; Liu M; Yang J; Bai B; Cao J; Chen X; Muller C (2018) 'Bacterivore nematodes stimulate soil gross N transformation rates depending on their species'. BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS 54 (1) :107-118. Available Online  
Dr Sónia Negrão
Batista R; Fonseca C; Planchon S; Negrão S; Renaut J; Oliveira MM (2017) 'Environmental stress is the major cause of transcriptomic and proteomic changes in GM and non-GM plants'. Scientific Reports 7 (1). Available Online  
Salhi A; Negrão S; Essack M; Morton MJL; Bougouffa S; Razali R; Radovanovic A; Marchand B; Kulmanov M; Hoehndorf R (2017) 'DES-TOMATO: A Knowledge Exploration System Focused On Tomato Species'. Scientific Reports 7 (1). Available Online  
Assoc Professor Carl Ng
Behpouri A; Perochon A; Doohan FM; Ng CKY (2018) 'Optimizing callus induction and proliferation for agrobacterium-mediated transformation of brachypodium distachyon'. Cereal Research Communications 46 (2) :221-231. Available Online  
Forster L; Grant J; Michel T; Ng C; Barth S (2018) 'Growth under cold conditions in a wide perennial ryegrass panel is under tight physiological control'. PeerJ 6 :e26620v2-e26620v2. Available Online  
Professor Bruce Osborne
Khalil MI; Osborne BA (2018) 'Improving estimates of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and their long-term temporal changes in agricultural soils in Ireland'. Geoderma 322 :172-183. Available Online  
Osborne B; Gioria M (2018) 'Plant invasions'. Journal of Plant Ecology 11 (1) :1-3. Available Online  
Gioria M; Pyšek P; Osborne BA (2018) 'Timing is everything: Does early and late germination favor invasions by herbaceous alien plants?'. Journal of Plant Ecology 11 (1) :4-16. Available Online  
Dr Alexandre Perochon
Behpouri A; Perochon A; Doohan FM; Ng CKY (2018) 'Optimizing callus induction and proliferation for agrobacterium-mediated transformation of brachypodium distachyon'. Cereal Research Communications 46 (2) :221-231. Available Online  
Cheval C; Perez M; Leba LJ; Ranty B; Perochon A; Reichelt M; Mithöfer A; Robe E; Mazars C; Galaud JP (2017) 'PRR2, a pseudo-response regulator, promotes salicylic acid and camalexin accumulation during plant immunity'. Scientific Reports 7 (1). Available Online  
Dr Antoinette Perry
Moran B; Silva R; Perry AS; Gallagher WM (2018) 'Epigenetics of malignant melanoma'. Seminars in Cancer Biology 51 :80-88. Available Online  
Bruinsma SM; Zhang L; Roobol MJ; Bangma CH; Steyerberg EW; Nieboer D; Van Hemelrijck M; Trock B; Ehdaie B; Carroll P (2018) 'The Movember Foundation's GAP3 cohort: a profile of the largest global prostate cancer active surveillance database to date'. BJU International 121 (5) :737-744. Available Online  
Dr Florence Renou-Wilson
O'Driscoll C; Sheahan J; Renou-Wilson F; Croot P; Pilla F; Misstear B; Xiao L (2018) 'National scale assessment of total trihalomethanes in Irish drinking water'. Journal of Environmental Management 212 :131-141. Available Online  
Renou-Wilson, F., Moser, G., Fallon, D., Farrell, C., A, Mueller, C., Wilson, D (2018) 'Rewetting degraded peatlands for climate and biodiversity benefits: results from two raised bogs'. Ecological Engineering . Available Online  
Professor Jeremy Simpson
Cheung S; Wu D; Daly HC; Busschaert N; Morgunova M; Simpson JC; Scholz D; Gale PA; O'Shea DF (2018) 'Real-Time Recording of the Cellular Effects of the Anion Transporter Prodigiosin'. Chem 4 (4) :879-895. Available Online  
Byrne DJ; Harmon MJ; Simpson JC; Blackstone C; O'Sullivan NC (2017) 'Roles for the VCP co-factors Npl4 and Ufd1 in neuronal function in Drosophila melanogaster'. Journal of Genetics and Genomics 44 (10) :493-501. Available Online  
Lyden A; Lombardi L; Sire W; Li P; Simpson JC; Butler G; Lee GU (2017) 'Characterization of carboxylate nanoparticle adhesion with the fungal pathogen: Candida albicans'. Nanoscale 9 (41) :15911-15922. Available Online  
Walsh DP; Murphy RD; Panarella A; Raftery RM; Cavanagh B; Simpson JC; O'Brien FJ; Heise A; Cryan SA (2018) 'Bioinspired Star-Shaped Poly(l -lysine) Polypeptides: Efficient Polymeric Nanocarriers for the Delivery of DNA to Mesenchymal Stem Cells'. Molecular Pharmaceutics 15 (5) :1878-1891. Available Online  
Dr Gavin Stewart
Stewart G; Walpole C; McGrane A; Al-mousawi H; Winter D; Baird A (2018) 'Investigation of facilitative urea transporters in the human gastrointestinal tract'. Physiological Reports 6 (15) :e13826-e13826. Available Online  
Walpole C; McGrane A; Al-mousawi H; Winter D; Baird A; Stewart G (2018) 'Investigation of facilitative urea transporters in the human gastrointestinal tract'. Physiological Reports 6 (15). Available Online  
Professor Emma Teeling
Hughes GM; Boston ESM; Finarelli JA; Murphy WJ; Higgins DG; Teeling EC (2018) 'The birth and death of olfactory receptor gene families in Mammalian niche adaptation'. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35 (6) :1390-1406. Available Online  
Foley NM; Hughes GM; Huang Z; Clarke M; Jebb D; Whelan CV; Petit EJ; Touzalin F; Farcy O; Jones G (2018) 'Growing old, yet staying young: The role of telomeres in bats’ exceptional longevity'. Science Advances 4 (2). Available Online  
Kacprzyk J; Hughes GM; Palsson-Mcdermott EM; Quinn SR; Puechmaille SJ; O'Neill LAJ; Teeling EC (2017) 'A Potent Anti-Inflammatory Response in Bat Macrophages May Be Linked to Extended Longevity and Viral Tolerance'. Acta Chiropterologica 19 (2) :219-228. Available Online  
Hughes GM; Leech J; Puechmaille SJ; Lopez JV; Teeling EC (2018) 'Is there a link between aging and microbiome diversity in exceptional mammalian longevity?'. PeerJ 2018 (1). Available Online  
Teeling EC; Vernes SC; Dávalos LM; Ray DA; Gilbert MTP; Myers E (2018) 'Bat Biology, Genomes, and the Bat1K Project: To Generate Chromosome-Level Genomes for All Living Bat Species'. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 6 :23-46. Available Online  
Carr M; Gonzalez G; Sasaki M; Dool SE; Ito K; Ishii A; Hang’ombe BM; Mweene AS; Teeling EC; Hall WW (2017) 'Identification of the same polyomavirus species in different African horseshoe bat species is indicative of short-range host-switching events'. Journal of General Virology 98 (11) :2771-2785. Available Online  
Huang Z; Teeling EC (2017) 'ExUTR: A novel pipeline for large-scale prediction of 3'-UTR sequences from NGS data'. BMC Genomics 18 (1). Available Online  
Scott DD; Boston ESM; Lundy MG; Buckley DJ; Gager Y; Chaplain CJ; Teeling EC; Ian Montgomery W; Prodöhl PA (2018) 'Relatedness, parentage, and philopatry within a Natterer’s bat (Myotis nattereri) maternity colony'. Population Ecology . Available Online  
Dr Ganesh Thapa
Thapa G; Gunupuru LR; Hehir JG; Kahla A; Mullins E; Doohan FM (2018) 'A pathogen-responsive leucine rich receptor like kinase contributes to Fusarium resistance in cereals'. Frontiers in Plant Science 9. Available Online  
Mr Conor Whelan
Foley NM; Hughes GM; Huang Z; Clarke M; Jebb D; Whelan CV; Petit EJ; Touzalin F; Farcy O; Jones G (2018) 'Growing old, yet staying young: The role of telomeres in bats’ exceptional longevity'. Science Advances 4 (2). Available Online  
Dr Hannah White
Phillips ND; Reid N; Thys T; Harrod C; Payne NL; Morgan CA; White HJ; Porter S; Houghton JDR (2017) 'Applying species distribution modelling to a data poor, pelagic fish complex: the ocean sunfishes'. Journal of Biogeography 44 (10) :2176-2187. Available Online  
White HJ; Montgomery WI; Pakeman RJ; Lennon JJ (2018) 'Spatiotemporal scaling of plant species richness and functional diversity in a temperate semi-natural grassland'. ECOGRAPHY 41 (5) :845-856. Available Online  
White HJ; Montgomery WI; Storchová L; Hořák D; Lennon JJ (2018) 'Does functional homogenization accompany taxonomic homogenization of British birds and how do biotic factors and climate affect these processes?'. Ecology and Evolution 8 (15) :7365-7377. Available Online  
Dr Jonathan Yearsley
Prat-Guitart N; Belcher CM; Thompson DK; Burns P; Yearsley JM (2017) 'Fine-scale distribution of moisture in the surface of a degraded blanket bog and its effects on the potential spread of smouldering fire'. Ecohydrology 10 (8). Available Online  

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Conference Publications

Dr Jan-Robert Baars
Hayden D; Finn J; Baars J (2018) Biological control of an invasive leaf beetle pest of Eucalyptus foliage and forestry plantations in Ireland  In: Benefits and Risks of Exotic Biological Control Agents, Bornholm (Denmark)  
Dr Harriet Benbow
Ajaz S; Brennan C; Benbow H; Doohan F (2018) Hunting for Orphans genes involved in wheat defence against Septoria tritici blotch & Fusarium head blight disease  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting, Dublin, IE  
Ajaz S; Brennan C; Benbow H; Doohan F (2018) Hunting for orphans involved in wheat defence against Fusarium head blight disease  In: European Fusarium Seminar (EFS-14), Tulln, AT  
Benbow H; Brennan C; Christodoulou T; Zhou B; Ajaz S; Reilly A; Hehir JG; Berry S; Uauy C; Garvin DF (2017) The genetics of host and non-host resistance to Septoria Tritici Blotch  In: Society of Irish Plant Pathologists, Dublin, IE  
Christodoulou T; Brennan C; Benbow H; Mullins E; Uauy C; Nicholson P; Doohan F (2017) Hunting Wheat Genes for Disease Resistance  In: Society of Irish Plant Pathologists, Dublin, IE  
Christodoulou T; Benbow H; Brennan C; Ajaz S; Uauy C; Nicholson P; Mullins E; Doohan F (2018) Hunting Wheat Genes for Disease Resistance  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting  
Professor Fiona Doohan
Ajaz S; Brennan C; Benbow H; Doohan F (2018) Hunting for Orphans genes involved in wheat defence against Septoria tritici blotch & Fusarium head blight disease  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting, Dublin, IE  
Ajaz S; Brennan C; Benbow H; Doohan F (2018) Hunting for orphans involved in wheat defence against Fusarium head blight disease  In: European Fusarium Seminar (EFS-14), Tulln, AT  
Benbow H; Brennan C; Christodoulou T; Zhou B; Ajaz S; Reilly A; Hehir JG; Berry S; Uauy C; Garvin DF (2017) The genetics of host and non-host resistance to Septoria Tritici Blotch  In: Society of Irish Plant Pathologists, Dublin, IE  
Christodoulou T; Brennan C; Benbow H; Mullins E; Uauy C; Nicholson P; Doohan F (2017) Hunting Wheat Genes for Disease Resistance  In: Society of Irish Plant Pathologists, Dublin, IE  
D'Arcy Cusack K; Kahla A; Verheecke-Vaessen C; Doohan F; Vaya Medina A; Magan N; Sanchez J (2018) Fusarium langsethiae artificial oat infection under field conditions  In: European Fusarium Seminar (EFS-14), Tulln, AT  
D'Arcy Cusack K; Kahla A; Verheecke-Vaessen C; Doohan F; Vaya Medina A; Magan N; Sanchez J (2018) Fusarium langsethiae artificial oat infection under field conditions  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting, Dublin, IE  
Deshaies M; Doohan F; Ward P (2018) Investigating the effects of a plant extract-based product and chitosan on the incidence of Fusarium diseases of wheat  In: International Congress of Plant Pathology, Boston, MA  
Heckmann A; Perochon A; Doohan F (2018) Uncovering the role of TaFROG in wheat resistance to Fusarium Head Blight disease  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting, Dublin, IE  
Kahla A; Verheecke-Vaessen C; D'Arcy Cusack K; Vaya Medina A; Magan N; Sanchez JI; Doohan F (2018) Oats for the future  In: European Fusarium Seminar (EFS-14), Tulln, AT  
Perochon A; Doohan F (2018) The search for FHB disease resistance genes  In: European Fusarium Seminar (EFS-14), Tulln, AT  
Perochon A; Kahla A; Vranić M; Jia J; Malla K; Craze M; Wallington E; Doohan F (2018) A NAC-like transcription factor interact with the orphan protein TaFROG and enhances resistance to Fusarium Head Blight  In: Monogram 2018, Norwich, UK  
Vranić M; Perochon A; Kahla A; Jia J; Malla KB; Craze M; Wallington E; Doohan F (2018) Characterisation of wheat NAC-like transcription factor TaNACL-5D in resistance to Fusarium Head Blight disease  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting 2018, Dublin, IE  
Christodoulou T; Benbow H; Brennan C; Ajaz S; Uauy C; Nicholson P; Mullins E; Doohan F (2018) Hunting Wheat Genes for Disease Resistance  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting  
Mullins E; Rathore D; Doohan F; Zuniga E; Govinidan A (2018) Ensifer Mediated Transformation (EMT), a novel engineering platform for crop genomes  In: IN VITRO CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY-PLANT  
Rathore DS; Govindan A; Doohan F; Mullins E (2018) Enhancing the utility of Ensifer-mediated transformation (EMT) technology  In: IN VITRO CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY-PLANT  
Zuniga-Soto E; Fitzpatrick D; Doohan F; Mullins E (2018) Transcriptomic response of the novel plant transforming bacterium Ensifer adhaerens (OV14) during colonization of A. thaliana roots  In: IN VITRO CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY-PLANT  
Murphy B; Hodkinson T; Doohan F (2018) A fungal endophyte consortium counterbalances the negative effects of reduced nitrogen input on barley yield  In: IN VITRO CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY-PLANT  
Dr Amal Kahla
D'Arcy Cusack K; Kahla A; Verheecke-Vaessen C; Doohan F; Vaya Medina A; Magan N; Sanchez J (2018) Fusarium langsethiae artificial oat infection under field conditions  In: European Fusarium Seminar (EFS-14), Tulln, AT  
D'Arcy Cusack K; Kahla A; Verheecke-Vaessen C; Doohan F; Vaya Medina A; Magan N; Sanchez J (2018) Fusarium langsethiae artificial oat infection under field conditions  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting, Dublin, IE  
Kahla A; Verheecke-Vaessen C; D'Arcy Cusack K; Vaya Medina A; Magan N; Sanchez JI; Doohan F (2018) Oats for the future  In: European Fusarium Seminar (EFS-14), Tulln, AT  
Perochon A; Kahla A; Vranić M; Jia J; Malla K; Craze M; Wallington E; Doohan F (2018) A NAC-like transcription factor interact with the orphan protein TaFROG and enhances resistance to Fusarium Head Blight  In: Monogram 2018, Norwich, UK  
Vranić M; Perochon A; Kahla A; Jia J; Malla KB; Craze M; Wallington E; Doohan F (2018) Characterisation of wheat NAC-like transcription factor TaNACL-5D in resistance to Fusarium Head Blight disease  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting 2018, Dublin, IE  
Dr Ibrahim Khalil
Khalil M; Osborne B (2018) Methodological discrepancies in the IPCC-based assessments of organic carbon stock changes in agricultural soils and their offsetting potential.  In: RIO18 - 21 World Congress of Soil Science, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  
Khalil MI; Osborne B (2018) Integrating GIS and modelling approaches for precise assessment of organic carbon stocks and changes in Irish agricultural soils  In: The 1st. meeting of the Environmetrics Forum, Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland.  
Osborne B; Kruijt B; Khalil MI (2018) Managing and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in different landscape mosaics.  In: EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria  
M.I. Khalil and B.A. Osborne (2017) Is the apportioning methodology used for carbon stock accounting in agricultural soils correct?  In: 5th iLEAPS Science Conference - Understanding the impact of land-atmosphere exchanges Available Online  
Khalil M.I. and B.A. Osborne (2018) Advancing measurement and estimation approaches for assessing organic carbon stock changes in agricultural soils and their offsetting potential  In: ECO-BIO 2018: Team up to accelerate the global bioeconomy  
Khalil MIABAO (2018) Ensemble modelling: An approach to reduce uncertainty in estimating agricultural greenhouse gases and soil organic carbon stocks  In: Humboldt Colloquium 'Moving Forward ' The UK-German Research Network in a Changing World"  
Mr Keshav Malla
Perochon A; Kahla A; Vranić M; Jia J; Malla K; Craze M; Wallington E; Doohan F (2018) A NAC-like transcription factor interact with the orphan protein TaFROG and enhances resistance to Fusarium Head Blight  In: Monogram 2018, Norwich, UK  
Vranić M; Perochon A; Kahla A; Jia J; Malla KB; Craze M; Wallington E; Doohan F (2018) Characterisation of wheat NAC-like transcription factor TaNACL-5D in resistance to Fusarium Head Blight disease  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting 2018, Dublin, IE  
Dr Alexandre Perochon
Heckmann A; Perochon A; Doohan F (2018) Uncovering the role of TaFROG in wheat resistance to Fusarium Head Blight disease  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting, Dublin, IE  
Perochon A; Doohan F (2018) The search for FHB disease resistance genes  In: European Fusarium Seminar (EFS-14), Tulln, AT  
Perochon A; Kahla A; Vranić M; Jia J; Malla K; Craze M; Wallington E; Doohan F (2018) A NAC-like transcription factor interact with the orphan protein TaFROG and enhances resistance to Fusarium Head Blight  In: Monogram 2018, Norwich, UK  
Vranić M; Perochon A; Kahla A; Jia J; Malla KB; Craze M; Wallington E; Doohan F (2018) Characterisation of wheat NAC-like transcription factor TaNACL-5D in resistance to Fusarium Head Blight disease  In: Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting 2018, Dublin, IE  
Dr Jonathan Yearsley
Yearsley, JM; Timmermann, V; Burns, P (2018) Associating meteorology with the emission characteristics of the fungal spores responsible for ash dieback  In: Environmentrics Forum  

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Published Reports

Dr Florence Renou-Wilson
Renou-Wilson, F., D. Wilson, C. Rigney, K. Byrne, C. Farrell, and C. Müller. (2018)  Network Monitoring Rewetted and Restored Peatlands/Organic Soils for Climate and Biodiversity Benefits (NEROS project Synthesis Report). EPA Research Report No 236. Wexford, Ireland: Environmental Protection Agency  

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