Nicole Kavanagh

Medical Scientist 🇮🇪 Ph.D in Molecular Microbiology. Dog lover with an interest in all things #WGS and #AMR

[Nicole Kavanagh @nikavanagh]

Thrilled to share the final project from my PhD, now published 🙌🏻

Here we describe the high-level intra-host diversity of ST80 VREfm carriage in Irish hospital patients 🇮🇪 highlighting distinct vanA transposon iterations 🧬

Check it out below 👇
https://t.co/a4lX48TT2Q

[HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) @hpscireland]

The March issue of Epi Insight is out now and features a variety of interesting articles like:

🦠Five years of COVID-19 in Ireland
👥Increase in scabies outbreaks
🧠Increase in cases of Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD)

Read the full issue here👉https://t.co/GpcIQuOuPG

[Ana Santos @anaasantos96]

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) is a growing global threat! Our new review in explores its resilience, adaptation, and the urgent need for novel strategies. #AMR #VREfm

[Julia Willett @jlewillett]

Check out this exciting collection of #enterococcus papers from our great colleagues!

[Ana Santos @anaasantos96]

The human gut can really take it all!

Thrilled to share that our paper is finally published!

[BacTdrugs - Luísa Peixe lab @BacTdrugs_lab]

📢New paper in the lab!

We explored genomic/epidemiological landscapes of redundant pbp5 genes in Enterococcus spp. with exciting results:

https://t.co/gPS3548g0a

@Carla_Novais11 @anarpf1981 @LpeixeLuisa @oqpich @paulabierge @m_sanchezosuna

@UCIBIO_Research @STOTEN_journal

[John Lees @johnlees6]

A mere six years after its first release, SKA is now published
https://t.co/vtJGt98ged

[Nicole Kavanagh @nikavanagh]

Successfully defended my Ph.D yesterday 🥰

Very grateful to my supervisor Prof. David Coleman and my wonderful colleagues in the Microbiology Research Unit in Dublin Dental University Hospital for an incredible experience over the last four years!

Ph.DONE!! 🤣

[Ana R Freitas @anarpf1981]

👏So proud of this achievement!

Distinct bacteriocin profiles emerged between E. faecium and E. lactis with species-specific adaptations. Hospital E. faecium were enriched in enterocin A, bacteriocins 43 (or T8) and novel ones.

We need more strain-level bacteriocin studies!

[Teresa M Coque @TMcoque]

Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050 - The Lancet https://t.co/1oLa3B9kah

[Gemma C Atkinson @gem__atkinson]

The ever amazing @art_egorov in our group has made a new visualisation tool for comparative genomics. Makes particularly beautiful images of phages, plasmids, other MGEs or regions of prokaryotic genomes 😍 https://t.co/Vk8FpS3NGX

[Nicole Kavanagh @nikavanagh]

Excited to share another piece of work from my PhD 🙌🏻 Here we describe the long-term cross-institutional CT-specific dominance of ST80 VREfm lineages in Irish hospital networks 🇮🇪 indicating environmental persistence and potential unidentified reservoirs. Check it out below👇

[Sarah Egan, PhD @saz_egan]

It's great to see this piece of work with @nikavanagh finally published 👏 a lovely detailed look at VRE in Ireland 🇮🇪, highlighting predominant ST80 strains with indicators of environmental persistence and potential unidentified reservoirs within hospitals 🏥 🦠🧫

[Gary Moran @gaz_moran]

Congratulations @spymelvin97 for winning a prize at the Irish Fungal Society meeting for his talk on Tac1 and Tlo in C. albicans @scienceirel @DentalSchoolTcd @DDUH12

[Gary Moran @gaz_moran]

Great talk by Claire Crowley on F. nucleatum genomics to wrap up #EOMW @DentalSchoolTcd @DDUH12

[Daria Van Tyne @DariaVanTyne]

Congrats @SundermannAJ this paper took forever but it was worth the wait! @IDPittStop

[@colinhillucc @colinhillucc]

Great title on this lovely review on enterococci. Well done ⁦@MrDavidHourigan⁩ ⁦@Pharmabiotic⁩ ⁦@UccMicrobiology⁩ https://t.co/AZ4Kf14TzA

[Beaumont Hospital IPC @BeaumontIpc]

We are really excited to open registration for our Conference - ‘IPC in the Built Environment, combining evidence and experience’ on the 12th June in the @HiltonHotels Airport Hotel, Dublin. Email [email protected] for registration information. See you there!

[Nicole Kavanagh @nikavanagh]

@RCSI_Micro @aoifeky @Dfitzhughes @IrishResearch @FfitzP @RCSI_Irl @ESCMID @EUCIC1 @aoifeky Appreciating the poster title. VRE-y clever 🤣

[Theresa Wagner @resa_wagner]

What’s behind the predominance of clade A1 strains in nosocomial E. faecium infections?
🏥><🏡
Find out in our paper
„Interactions between commensal Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis and clinical isolates of E. faecium“

https://t.co/x4yAT4ec1w