Órla O’Sullivan

Research interests

Publications

• Short‐chain fatty acids: microbial metabolites that alleviate stress‐induced brain–gut axis alterations

  The Journal of Physiology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1113/jp276431

• The microbiome of professional athletes differs from that of more sedentary subjects in composition and particularly at the functional metabolic level

  Gut · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2016-313627

• Exploring a Possible Link between the Intestinal Microbiota and Feed Efficiency in Pigs

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00380-17

• Behavioural and neurochemical consequences of chronic gut microbiota depletion during adulthood in the rat

  Neuroscience · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.10.003

• Microbial Succession and Flavor Production in the Fermented Dairy Beverage Kefir

  mSystems · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00052-16

• Spatial variation of the colonic microbiota in patients with ulcerative colitis and control volunteers

  Gut · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2014-307873

• Gut microbiota depletion from early adolescence in mice: Implications for brain and behaviour

  Brain Behavior and Immunity · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2015.04.004

• Prenatal stress-induced alterations in major physiological systems correlate with gut microbiota composition in adulthood

  Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.06.002

• The Effects of Freezing on Faecal Microbiota as Determined Using MiSeq Sequencing and Culture-Based Investigations

  PLoS ONE · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119355

• Expanding the biotechnology potential of lactobacilli through comparative genomics of 213 strains and associated genera

  Nature Communications · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9322

• Exercise and associated dietary extremes impact on gut microbial diversity

  Gut · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2013-306541

• Sequence-based analysis of the bacterial and fungal compositions of multiple kombucha (tea fungus) samples

  Food Microbiology · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fm.2013.09.003

• The complex microbiota of raw milk

  FEMS Microbiology Reviews · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6976.12030

• Gender-dependent consequences of chronic olanzapine in the rat: effects on body weight, inflammatory, metabolic and microbiota parameters

  Psychopharmacology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-011-2555-2

• Divergent metabolic outcomes arising from targeted manipulation of the gut microbiota in diet-induced obesity

  Gut · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2011-300705

• Gut microbiota composition correlates with diet and health in the elderly

  Nature · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11319

• High-Throughput Sequencing for Detection of Subpopulations of Bacteria Not Previously Associated with Artisanal Cheeses

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00918-12

• Molecular approaches to analysing the microbial composition of raw milk and raw milk cheese

  International Journal of Food Microbiology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2011.08.001

• Composition, variability, and temporal stability of the intestinal microbiota of the elderly

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1000097107

• Composition and energy harvesting capacity of the gut microbiota: relationship to diet, obesity and time in mouse models

  Gut · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.2010.215665

• Comparison of two next-generation sequencing technologies for resolving highly complex microbiota composition using tandem variable 16S rRNA gene regions

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkq873

• Effect of broad- and narrow-spectrum antimicrobials on Clostridium difficile and microbial diversity in a model of the distal colon

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1001224107

• Comparative Analysis of Pyrosequencing and a Phylogenetic Microarray for Exploring Microbial Community Structures in the Human Distal Intestine

  PLoS ONE · 2009 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0006669

• 3DCoffee: Combining Protein Sequences and Structures within Multiple Sequence Alignments

  Journal of Molecular Biology · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2004.04.058

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