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2026

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Microbiology

D-Index
81
Citations
22122
World Ranking
1103
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2003 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Fergal O'Gara is affiliated with University College Cork in Ireland and has an extensive research record primarily in the fields of Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans various subfields including Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology, Oncology, and Emergency Medical Services.

Their research topics cover areas such as gut microbiota and health, cystic fibrosis research advances, diet and metabolism studies, pediatric health and respiratory diseases, genomics and phylogenetic studies, child nutrition and water access, and neonatal respiratory health research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Fergal O'Gara include:

  • The immunotoxicity, but not anti-tumor efficacy, of anti-CD40 and anti-CD137 immunotherapies is dependent on the gut microbiota (2021) in Cell Reports Medicine
  • Microbiomic Analysis on Low Abundant Respiratory Biomass Samples; Improved Recovery of Microbial DNA From Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid (2020) in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Bile Acid Signal Molecules Associate Temporally with Respiratory Inflammation and Microbiome Signatures in Clinically Stable Cystic Fibrosis Patients (2020) in Microorganisms
  • Detection of bile acids in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid defines the inflammatory and microbial landscape of the lower airways in infants with cystic fibrosis (2023) in Microbiome
  • The Detection of Bile Acids in the Lungs of Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients Is Associated with Altered Inflammatory Patterns (2020) in Diagnostics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fergal O'Gara include:

  • José A. Caparrós-Martín
  • Stephen M. Stick
  • Montserrat Saladié
  • F. Jerry Reen
  • Patricia Agudelo-Romero

The venues where Fergal O'Gara has published multiple works encompass:

  • Microorganisms
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • Heart Lung and Circulation
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Microbiology

Fergal O'Gara was recognized as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Traits of fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. involved in suppression of plant root pathogens.

    Daniel J. O'Sullivan;Fergal O'Gara

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Isolation of 2,4-Diacetylphloroglucinol from a Fluorescent Pseudomonad and Investigation of Physiological Parameters Influencing Its Production

    Phil Shanahan;Daniel J. O'Sullivan;Paul Simpson;Jeremy D. Glennon

  • Metabolites of Pseudomonas involved in the biocontrol of plant disease

    David N. Dowling;Fergal O'Gara

  • Small, stable shuttle vectors based on the minimal pVS1 replicon for use in gram-negative, plant-associated bacteria.

    Stephan Heeb;Yoshifumi Itoh;Takayuki Nishijyo;Ursula Schnider

  • Pseudomonas for biocontrol of phytopathogens: from functional genomics to commercial exploitation

    Ultan F Walsh;John P Morrissey;Fergal O'Gara

  • EXPLOITATION OF GENE(S) INVOLVED IN 2,4- DIACETYLPHLOROGLUCINOL BIOSYNTHESIS TO CONFER A NEW BIOCONTROL CAPABILITY TO A PSEUDOMONAS STRAIN

    A M Fenton;P M Stephens;J Crowley;M O'Callaghan

  • Long-term phosphorus fertilisation increased the diversity of the total bacterial community and the phoD phosphorus mineraliser group in pasture soils

    Hao Tan;Matthieu Barret;Marlies J. Mooij;Olivia Rice

  • Biological control of Pythium ultimum by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia W81 is mediated by an extracellular proteolytic activity

    Colum Dunne;Colum Dunne;Jer J. Crowley;Yvan Moënne-Loccoz;David N. Dowling

  • Transcriptome profiling of bacterial responses to root exudates identifies genes involved in microbe-plant interactions.

    G. Louise Mark;J. Maxwell Dow;Patrick D. Kiely;Hazel Higgins

  • Regulation of nitrogen fixation by Rhizobia export of fixed N2 as NH4

    Fergal O'Gara;K.T. Shanmugam

  • Construction of a rhizosphere pseudomonad with potential to degrade polychlorinated biphenyls and detection of bph gene expression in the rhizosphere.

    G M Brazil;L Kenefick;M Callanan;A Haro

  • The biocontrol strain Pseudomonas fluorescens F113 produces the Rhizobium small bacteriocin, N-(3-hydroxy-7-cis-tetradecenoyl)homoserine lactone, via HdtS, a putative novel N-acylhomoserine lactone synthase.

    Bridget E. Laue;Yan Jiang;Siri Ram Chhabra;Sinead Jacob

  • Impact on Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Formation of Pseudomonas Strains Used as Inoculants for Biocontrol of Soil-Borne Fungal Plant Pathogens

    J. M. Barea;G. Andrade;V. Bianciotto;D. Dowling

  • Role of 2,4-Diacetylphloroglucinol in the Interactions of the Biocontrol Pseudomonad Strain F113 with the Potato Cyst Nematode Globodera rostochiensis.

    D Cronin;Y Moenne-Loccoz;A Fenton;C Dunne

  • Isolation and analysis of bacteria with antimicrobial activities from the marine sponge haliclona simulans collected from irish waters

    Jonathan Kennedy;Paul J. Baker;Clare Piper;Paul D. Cotter

  • Complex regulation of AprA metalloprotease in Pseudomonas fluorescens M114: evidence for the involvement of iron, the ECF sigma factor, PbrA and pseudobactin M114 siderophore.

    Bláithín Maunsell;Claire Adams;Fergal O'Gara

  • Are microbes at the root of a solution to world food production

    John P Morrissey;J Maxwell Dow;G Louise Mark;Fergal O'Gara

  • Genome Diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates from Cystic Fibrosis Patients and the Hospital Environment

    Shirley Finnan;John P. Morrissey;Fergal O'Gara;E. Fidelma Boyd

  • The ocean sampling day consortium

    Anna Kopf;Anna Kopf;Mesude Bicak;Renzo Kottmann;Julia Schnetzer;Julia Schnetzer

  • Functional genomics analysis of plant growth-promoting rhizobacterial traits involved in rhizosphere competence

    Matthieu Barret;John P. Morrissey;Fergal O’Gara

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Morrissey
John P. Morrissey University College Cork
Alan D. W. Dobson
Alan D. W. Dobson University College Cork
Yvan Moënne-Loccoz
Yvan Moënne-Loccoz Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Matthieu Barret
Matthieu Barret INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Stephen M. Stick
Stephen M. Stick University of Western Australia
John H. T. Luong
John H. T. Luong University College Cork
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Jacobs University
Keelnatham T. Shanmugam
Keelnatham T. Shanmugam University of Florida
Fergus Shanahan
Fergus Shanahan National University of Ireland
Ashley E. Franks
Ashley E. Franks La Trobe University

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