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Charles J. Dorman

Charles J. Dorman

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Microbiology

D-Index
65
Citations
14248
World Ranking
2516
National Ranking
15

Genetics

D-Index
65
Citations
14185
World Ranking
2708
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Charles J. Dorman is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on several subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Endocrinology, and Food Science.

The central topics of their work involve:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Escherichia coli research studies
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "When is a transcription factor a NAP?" (2020), published in Current Opinion in Microbiology
  • "Network Rewiring: Physiological Consequences of Reciprocally Exchanging the Physical Locations and Growth-Phase-Dependent Expression Patterns of the Salmonella fis and dps Genes" (2020), published in mBio
  • "Consequences of producing DNA gyrase from a synthetic gyrBA operon in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium" (2021), published in Molecular Microbiology
  • "Reciprocally rewiring and repositioning the Integration Host Factor (IHF) subunit genes in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium: impacts on physiology and virulence" (2022), published in Microbial Genomics

Additional papers associated with their research include "Human Health and Ocean Pollution" (2020), published in Annals of Global Health.

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include:

  • Aalap Mogre
  • Michael C. Beckett
  • Nicholas R. Thomson
  • German Pozdeev
  • Marina M. Bogue

They have contributed to several publication venues, most notably:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Microbiology
  • Current Opinion in Microbiology
  • Annals of Global Health

Charles J. Dorman was recognized as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2005, indicating distinguished membership without specific citation details.

Best Publications

  • Bacterial nucleoid-associated proteins, nucleoid structure and gene expression

    Shane C. Dillon;Charles J. Dorman

  • A physiological role for DNA supercoiling in the osmotic regulation of gene expression in S. typhimurium and E. coli

    Christopher F Higgins;Charles J. Dorman;Douglas A. Stirling;Lesley Waddell

  • H-NS: a universal regulator for a dynamic genome.

    Charles J. Dorman

  • Human Health and Ocean Pollution.

    Philip J Landrigan;John J Stegeman;Lora E Fleming;Denis Allemand

  • The transcriptional landscape and small RNAs of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

    Carsten Kröger;Shane C. Dillon;Andrew D. S. Cameron;Kai Papenfort

  • H-NS, the genome sentinel.

    Charles J. Dorman

  • Anti-silencing: overcoming H-NS-mediated repression of transcription in Gram-negative enteric bacteria.

    Daniel M. Stoebel;Andrew Free;Charles J. Dorman

  • Regulation of gene expression by histone-like proteins in bacteria.

    Charles J Dorman;Padraig Deighan

  • DNA supercoiling and the anaerobic and growth phase regulation of tonB gene expression.

    C J Dorman;G C Barr;N Ni Bhriain;C F Higgins

  • Characterization of porin and ompR mutants of a virulent strain of Salmonella typhimurium: ompR mutants are attenuated in vivo.

    C J Dorman;S Chatfield;C F Higgins;C Hayward

  • DNA supercoiling and environmental regulation of virulence gene expression in Shigella flexneri.

    Charles J. Dorman;Niamh Ni Bhriain;Christopher F. Higgins

  • An H-NS-like stealth protein aids horizontal DNA transmission in bacteria.

    Marie Doyle;Maria Fookes;Al Ivens;Michael W. Mangan

  • Fimbrial phase variation in Escherichia coli: dependence on integration host factor and homologies with other site-specific recombinases.

    C J Dorman;C F Higgins

  • Genome architecture and global gene regulation in bacteria: making progress towards a unified model?

    Charles J. Dorman

  • A global role for Fis in the transcriptional control of metabolism and type III secretion in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

    Arlene Kelly;Martin D. Goldberg;Ronan K. Carroll;Vittoria Danino

  • Domain organization and oligomerization among H-NS-like nucleoid-associated proteins in bacteria.

    Charles J Dorman;Jay C.D Hinton;Andrew Free

  • DNA supercoiling and environmental regulation of gene expression in pathogenic bacteria.

    C J Dorman

  • The Shigella virulence gene regulatory cascade: a paradigm of bacterial gene control mechanisms

    Charles J. Dorman;Megan E. Porter

  • DNA supercoiling is a fundamental regulatory principle in the control of bacterial gene expression

    Charles J Dorman;Matthew J Dorman

  • The integration host factor (IHF) integrates stationary-phase and virulence gene expression in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.

    Michael W. Mangan;Sacha Lucchini;Vittoria Danino;Tadhg Ó Cróinín

  • An overlap between osmotic and anaerobic stress responses: a potential role for DNA supercoiling in the coordinate regulation of gene expression

    N. Ni Bhriain;C. J. Dorman;C. F. Higgins

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher F. Higgins
Christopher F. Higgins Hammersmith Hospital
Jay C. D. Hinton
Jay C. D. Hinton University of Liverpool
Gordon Dougan
Gordon Dougan University of Cambridge
Christophe Beloin
Christophe Beloin Institut Pasteur
Sacha Lucchini
Sacha Lucchini Earlham Institute
Karsten Hokamp
Karsten Hokamp Trinity College Dublin
Timothy J. Foster
Timothy J. Foster Campden BRI (United Kingdom)
Nicholas R. Thomson
Nicholas R. Thomson Wellcome Sanger Institute
David W. Ussery
David W. Ussery University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Klaas J. Hellingwerf
Klaas J. Hellingwerf University of Amsterdam

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