@hamrockfergal
RNA Biology & AMR Researcher | PhD Microbiology (2024, TCD) | Bacterial Pathogenesis | Transcriptomics | Recipient of the EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant (2022) and Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (2024)
🧬 New preprint out! Thrilled to share our latest study uncovering Arp, a small RNA that represses DNA uptake and twitching motility in Acinetobacter baumannii by directly blocking pilin translation.
Massive thanks to my co-authors for a fantastic collaboration!
Our lab contributed to this including @hamrockfergal.bsky.social : CsrA-mediated regulation of a virulence switch in Acinetobacter baumannii. Great work led by Phil Rather's group.
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