Browsing School of Natural Sciences by Author "http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001602"
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Animal life history is shaped by the pace of life and the distribution of age-specific mortality and reproduction
Healy, Kevin; Ezard, Thomas H. G.; Jones, Owen R.; Salguero-Gómez, Roberto; Buckley, Yvonne M. (Nature Research (part of Springer Nature), 2019-07-08)Animals exhibit an extraordinary diversity of life history strategies. These realized combinations of survival, development and reproduction are predicted to be constrained by physiological limitations and by trade-offs ... -
Biological phosphorus removal during high-rate, low-temperature, anaerobic digestion of wastewater
Keating, Ciara; Chin, Jason P.; Hughes, Dermot; Manesiotis, Panagiotis; Cysneiros, Denise; Mahony, Therese; Smith, Cindy J.; McGrath, John W.; O'Flaherty, Vincent (Frontiers Media, 2016-03-03)We report, for the first time, extensive biologically mediated phosphate removal from wastewater during high-rate anaerobic digestion (AD). A hybrid sludge bed/fixed-film (packed pumice stone) reactor was employed for ... -
Carboxylic acids production and electrosynthetic microbial community evolution under different CO2 feeding regimes
Dessì, Paolo; Sánchez, Carlos; Mills, Simon; Cocco, Francesco Giuseppe; Isipato, Marco; Ijaz, Umer Z.; Collins, Gavin; Lens, Piet N.L. (Elsevier, 2020-10-15)Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is a potential technology for CO2 recycling, but insufficient information is available on the microbial interactions underpinning electrochemically-assisted reactions. In this study, a MES ... -
Cold adaptation and replicable microbial community development during long-term low-temperature anaerobic digestion treatment of synthetic sewage
Keating, Ciara; Hughes, D.; Mahony, D.; Cysneiros, T.; Ijaz, U. Z.; Smith, C. J.; O'Flaherty, Vincent (Oxford University Press, 2018-05-25)The development and activity of a cold-adapting microbial community was monitored during low-temperature anaerobic digestion (LtAD) treatment of wastewater. Two replicate hybrid anaerobic sludge bed-fixed-film reactors ... -
The dairy biorefinery: Integrating treatment processes for cheese whey valorisation
Asunis, Fabiano; De Gioannis, Giorgia; Dessì, Paolo; Isipato, Marco; Lens, Piet N.L.; Muntoni, Aldo; Polettini, Alessandra; Pomi, Raffaella; Rossi, Andreina; Spiga, Daniela (Elsevier, 2020-08-28)With an estimated worldwide production of 190 billion kg per year, and due to its high organic load, cheese whey represents a huge opportunity for bioenergy and biochemicals production. Several physical, chemical and ... -
Examination of oestrus-dependent alterations of bovine cervico-vaginal mucus glycosylation for potential as optimum fertilisation indicators
Le Berre, Marie; Gerlach, Jared Q.; Loughrey, Catherine; Creavin, Aileen; Pluta, Katarzyna; Gallagher, Mary; Carrington, Stephen D.; Joshi, Lokesh; Kilcoyne, Michelle (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021-03-09)Oestrus is the period in the sexual cycle of female mammals during which ovulation occurs, where they become most receptive to mating and are most fertile. Efficient detection of oestrus is a key component in successful ... -
Excess of rare novel loss-of-function variants in synaptic genes in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders
Kenny, Elaine M.; Cormican, Paul; Furlong, Sarah; Heron, Eleisa; Kenny, Graham; Fahey, Ciara; Kelleher, Eric; Ennis, Sean; Tropea, Daniela; Anney, Richard; Corvin, Aiden P.; Donohoe, Gary; Gallagher, Louise; Gill, Michael; Morris, Derek W. (Springer Nature, 2013-10-15)Schizophrenia (SZ) and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are complex neurodevelopmental disorders that may share an underlying pathology suggested by shared genetic risk variants. We sequenced the exonic regions of 215 genes ... -
Fermentative hydrogen production from cheese whey with in-line, concentration gradient-driven butyric acid extraction
Dessì P, Asunis F, Ravishankar H, Cocco FG, De Gioannis G, Muntoni A, Lens PNL; Dessì, Paolo; Asunis, Fabiano; Ravishankar, Harish; Cocco, Francesco Giuseppe; De Gioannis, Giorgia; Muntoni, Aldo; Lens, Piet N.L. (Elsevier, 2020-08-01)Hydrogen (H2) generation from cheese whey with simultaneous production and extraction of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) was studied in UASB reactors at two temperatures (20 and 35 °C) and pH values (5.0 and 4.5). The extraction ... -
Functional responses and adaptation of mesophilic microbial communities to psychrophilic anaerobic digestion
Gunnigle, Eoin; Nielsen, Jeppe L.; Fuszard, Matthew; Botting, Catherine H.; Sheahan, Jerome; O'Flaherty, Vincent; Abram, Florence (Oxford University Press, 2015-10-27)Psychrophilic (<20°C) anaerobic digestion (AD) represents an attractive alternative to mesophilic wastewater treatment. In order to investigate the AD microbiome response to temperature change, with particular emphasis on ... -
Identification of putative adhesins and carbohydrate ligands of Lactobacillus paracasei using a combinatorial in silico and glycomics microarray profiling approach
Houeix, Benoit; Synowsky, Silvia; Cairns, Michael T.; Kane, Marian; Kilcoyne, Michelle; Joshi, Lokesh (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-11-11)Commensal bacteria must colonize host mucosal surfaces to exert health-promoting properties, and bind to gastrointestinal tract (GIT) mucins via their cell surface adhesins. Considerable effort has been directed towards ... -
Impact of trichloroethylene exposure on the microbial diversity and protein expression in anaerobic granular biomass at 37°C and 15°C
Siggins, Alma; Enright, Anne-Marie; Abram, Florence; Botting, Catherine; O'Flaherty, Vincent (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012-09-14)Granular biomass from a laboratory-scale anaerobic bioreactor trial was analysed to identify changes in microbial community structure and function in response to temperature and trichloroethylene (TCE). Two bioreactors ... -
An inherited duplication at the gene p21 Protein-Activated Kinase 7 (PAK7) is a risk factor for psychosis
Morris, Derek W. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-01-28)Identifying rare, highly penetrant risk mutations may be an important step in dissecting the molecular etiology of schizophrenia. We conducted a gene-based analysis of large (>100 kb), rare copy-number variants (CNVs) in ... -
Low-temperature (10°C) anaerobic digestion of dilute dairy wastewater in an EGSB bioreactor: microbial community structure, population dynamics, and kinetics of methanogenic populations
Bialek, Katarzyna; Cysneiros, Denise; O'Flaherty, Vincent (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013-07-25)The feasibility of anaerobic digestion of dairy wastewater at 10 degrees C was investigated in a high height : diameter ratio EGSB reactor. Stable performance was observed at an applied organic loading rate (OLR) of 0.5-2 ... -
Microbial electrochemical technologies: Electronic circuitry and characterization tools
Sánchez, Carlos; Dessì, Paolo; Duffy, Maeve; Lens, Piet N.L. (Elsevier, 2019-11-16)Microbial electrochemistry merges microbiology, electrochemistry and electronics to provide a set of technologies for environmental engineering applications. Understanding the electronic concepts is crucial for effectively ... -
Microbial electrosynthesis: Towards sustainable biorefineries for production of green chemicals from CO2 emissions
Dessì, Paolo; Rovira-Alsina, Laura; Sánchez, Carlos; Dinesh, G. Kumaravel; Tong, Wenming; Chatterjee, Pritha; edesco, MicheleT; Farràs, Pau; Hamelers, Hubertus M.V.; Puig, Sebastià (Elsevier, 2020-12-01)Decarbonisation of the economy has become a priority at the global level, and the resulting legislative pressure is pushing the chemical and energy industries away from fossil fuels. Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) has ... -
Microplastics in corals: An emergent threat
de Oliveira Soares, Marcelo; Matos, Eliana; Lucas, Caroline; Rizzo, Lucia; Allcock, A. Louise; Rossi, Sergio (Elsevier, 2020-11-01)This article seeks to present a summary of knowledge and thus improve awareness of microplastic impacts on corals. Recent research suggests that microplastics have a variety of species-specific impacts. Among them, a reduced ... -
OpenTCC: An open source low-cost temperature-control chamber
Sánchez, Carlos; Dessì, Paolo; Duffy, Maeve; Lens, Piet N.L. (Elsevier, 2020-02-24)Microbial electrochemical technologies (MET) are emerging systems for environmental applications such as renewable energy production or pollution remediation. MET research often requires stable temperatures and low levels ... -
Optimizing fluorescent protein expression for quantitative fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy using herpes simplex thymidine kinase promoter sequences
Ali, Rizwan; Ramadurai, Sivaramakrishnan; Barry, Frank; Nasheuer, Heinz-Peter (Wiley, 2018-04-16)The modulation of expression levels of fluorescent fusion proteins (FFPs) is central for recombinant DNA technologies in modern biology as overexpression of proteins contributes to artifacts in biological experiments. In ... -
Population‐based identity‐by‐descent mapping combined with exome sequencing to detect rare risk variants for schizophrenia
Harold, Denise; Connolly, Siobhan; Riley, Brien P.; Kendler, Kenneth S.; McCarthy, Shane E.; McCombie, William R.; Richards, Alex; Owen, Michael J.; O'Donovan, Michael C.; Walters, James; Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2; Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Donohoe, Gary; Gill, Michael; Corvin, Aiden; Morris, Derek W. (Wiley, 2019-02-23)Genome‐wide association studies (GWASs) are highly effective at identifying common risk variants for schizophrenia. Rare risk variants are also important contributors to schizophrenia etiology but, with the exception of ... -
Propionate production by bioelectrochemically-assisted lactate fermentation and simultaneous CO2 recycling
Isipato, Marco; Dessì, Paolo; Sánchez, Carlos; Mills, Simon; Ijaz, Umer Z.; Asunis, Fabiano; Spiga, Daniela; De Gioannis, Giorgia; Mascia, Michele; Collins, Gavin; Muntoni, Aldo; Lens, Piet N. L. (Frontiers Media, 2020-12-15)Production of volatile fatty acids (VFAs), fundamental building blocks for the chemical industry, depends on fossil fuels but organic waste is an emerging alternative substrate. Lactate produced from sugar-containing waste ...