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Orla O'Sullivan is affiliated with Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority in Ireland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Molecular Biology constitutes a significant subfield of their work, alongside contributions to Food Science, Physiology, Plant Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's research topics include studies on gut microbiota and health, probiotics and fermented foods, diet and metabolism, genomics and phylogenetic studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, muscle metabolism and nutrition, and molecular biology techniques and applications.

Orla O'Sullivan has contributed to multiple scientific publication venues with frequent appearances in:

  • mSystems
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Microorganisms
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Some recent papers include:

  • Fermented-Food Metagenomics Reveals Substrate-Associated Differences in Taxonomy and Health-Associated and Antibiotic Resistance Determinants (2020, mSystems)
  • Enduring Behavioral Effects Induced by Birth by Caesarean Section in the Mouse (2020, Current Biology)
  • Fermented foods, their microbiome and its potential in boosting human health (2024, Microbial Biotechnology)
  • Evaluation of methods for the reduction of contaminating host reads when performing shotgun metagenomic sequencing of the milk microbiome (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Next-Generation Food Research: Use of Meta-Omic Approaches for Characterizing Microbial Communities Along the Food Chain (2021, Annual Review of Food Science and Technology)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Paul D. Cotter, Wiley Barton, Fiona Crispie, Calum J. Walsh, and Paul W. O'Toole, reflecting a collaborative approach across various projects.

Best Publications

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

    Marcus J. Claesson;Ian B. Jeffery;Susana Conde;Susan E. Power

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

    Marcus J. Claesson;Siobhán Cusack;Orla O'Sullivan;Rachel Greene-Diniz

  • Exercise and associated dietary extremes impact on gut microbial diversity

    Siobhan F Clarke;Siobhan F Clarke;Eileen F Murphy;Orla O'Sullivan;Alice J Lucey

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

    Marcus J. Claesson;Qiong Wang;Orla O'Sullivan;Rachel Greene-Diniz

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

    E. F. Murphy;P. D. Cotter;P. D. Cotter;S. Healy;Tatiana M. Marques;Tatiana M. Marques

  • The complex microbiota of raw milk

    Lisa Quigley;Lisa Quigley;Orla O'Sullivan;Catherine Stanton;Tom P. Beresford

  • Comparative analysis of pyrosequencing and a phylogenetic microarray for exploring microbial community structures in the human distal intestine.

    Marcus J. Claesson;Orla O'Sullivan;Qiong Wang;Janne Nikkilä

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

    Lieve Desbonnet;Gerard Clarke;Alexander Traplin;Orla O’Sullivan

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

    Marcel van de Wouw;Marcus Boehme;Joshua M. Lyte;Niamh Wiley;Niamh Wiley

  • M-Coffee : Combining multiple sequence alignment methods with T-Coffee

    Iain M. Wallace;Orla O'Sullivan;Desmond G. Higgins;Cedric Notredame

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

    Wiley Barton;Nicholas C Penney;Owen Cronin;Isabel Garcia-Perez

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

    Zhihong Sun;Hugh M B Harris;Angela McCann;Chenyi Guo

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

    Alan J. Marsh;Alan J. Marsh;Orla O'Sullivan;Colin Hill;R. Paul Ross;R. Paul Ross

  • 3DCoffee: combining protein sequences and structures within multiple sequence alignments.

    Orla O'Sullivan;Karsten Suhre;Chantal Abergel;Desmond G Higgins

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

    Mary C. Rea;Alleson Dobson;Orla O'Sullivan;Fiona Crispie

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

    Eileen F Murphy;Paul D Cotter;Paul D Cotter;Aileen Hogan;Orla O'Sullivan

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

    Lisa Quigley;Orla O'Sullivan;Tom P. Beresford;R. Paul Ross

  • The effects of freezing on faecal microbiota as determined using MiSeq sequencing and culture-based investigations.

    Fiona Fouhy;Jennifer Deane;Mary C. Rea;Órla O’Sullivan

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

    Kieran J. Davey;Siobhain M. O’Mahony;Harriet Schellekens;Orla O’Sullivan;Orla O’Sullivan

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

    Anna V. Golubeva;Sean Crampton;Lieve Desbonnet;Deirdre Edge

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Cotter
Paul D. Cotter University College Cork
R. Paul Ross
R. Paul Ross University College Cork
Catherine Stanton
Catherine Stanton Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
Fergus Shanahan
Fergus Shanahan National University of Ireland
Mary C. Rea
Mary C. Rea Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
Colin Hill
Colin Hill University College Cork
Gerald F. Fitzgerald
Gerald F. Fitzgerald University College Cork
Paul W. O'Toole
Paul W. O'Toole University College Cork
John F. Cryan
John F. Cryan University College Cork
Timothy G. Dinan
Timothy G. Dinan University College Cork

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