Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Guinane, CM, Ben Zakour, NL, Tormo-Mas, MA, Weinert, LA, Lowder, BV, Cartwright, RA, Smyth, DS, Smyth, CJ, Lindsay, JA, Gould, KA, Witney, A, Hinds, J, Bollback, JP, Rambaut, A, Penades, JR, Fitzgerald, JR, Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus Reveals Insights into the Origin and Molecular Basis of Ruminant Host Adaptation, GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2, 2010, p454-466
Mahon V, Smyth CJ, Smith SG, Mutagenesis of the Rns regulator of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli reveals roles for a linker sequence and twohelix-turn-helix motifs, Microbiology, 156, 2010, p2796 - 2806
Smyth, D.S., Feil, E.J., Meaney, W.J., Hartigan, P.J., Tollersrud, T., Fitzgerald, J.R., Enright, M.C., Smyth C.J., Molecular genetic typing reveals further insights into the diversity of animal-associated Staphylococcus aureus, Journal of Medical Microbiology, 58, 2009, p1343-1353
Collery, M.M., Smyth, D.S., Tumilty, J.J.G., Twohig, J.M., Smyth, C.J., Associations between enterotoxin gene cluster types egc1, egc2 and egc3, agr types,enterotoxin and enterotoxin-like gene profiles, and molecular typing characteristics of human nasal carriage and animal isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, Journal of Medical Microbiology, 58, (1), 2009, p13 - 25
Collery, M.M., Smyth, D.S., Twohig, J.M., Shore, A.C., Coleman, D.C., Smyth, C.J., Molecular typing of nasal carriage isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from an Irish university student population based on toxin gene PCR, agr locus types and multiple locus, variable number tandem repeat analysis, Journal of Medical Microbiology, 57, 2008, p348 - 358
Guinane, C.M., Sturdevant, D.E., Herron-Olson, L., Otto, M., Smyth, D.S., Villaruz, A.E., Kapur, V., Hartigan, P.J., Smyth, C.J., Fitzgerald, J.R., Pathogenomic analysis of the common bovine Staphylococcus aureus clone (ET3): emergence of a virulent subtype with potential risk to public health, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 197, 2008, p205 - 213
Collery, M., Smyth, C.J., Rapid differentiation of Staphylococcus aureus isolates harbouring egc loci with pseudogenes ent1 and ent2 and the selu or selu variant gene using PCR-RFLP, Journal of Medical Microbiology, 56, 2007, p208-216
Smyth, D.S., Meaney, W.J., Hartigan, P.J., Smyth, C.J., Occurrence of ssl genes in isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from animal infection, Journal of Medical Microbiology, 56, 2007, p418-425
Smyth, D.S., Hartigan, P.J., Meaney W.,J., Smyth, C.J., Molecular Genetic Typing of Staphylococcus aureus from Cows, Goats, Sheep, Rabbits and Chickens, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland, Teagasc, December, 2006, (EOPR-5067)
Smyth, D.S., Kennedy, J., Twohig, J., Miajlovic, H., Bolton, D.J., Smyth, C.J., Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Irish domestic refrigerators possess novel enterotoxin and enterotoxin-like genes and are clonal in nature, Journal of Food Protection, 69, (3), 2006, p508 - 515
Smyth, D. S., Hartigan, P. J., Meaney, W. J., Fitzgerald, J. R., Deobald C. F., Bohach, G. A. & Smyth, C. J., Superantigen genes encoded by the egc cluster and SaPIbov are predominant among Staphylococcus aureus isolates from cows, goats, sheep, rabbits and poultry, Journal of Medical Microbiology, 54, 2005, p401 - 411
Carroll, I. M., Ahmed, N., Beesley, S. M., Khan, A. A, Ghousunnissa, S., O Moráin, C. A., Habibullah, C. M. & Smyth, C. J. , Microevolution between paired antral and paired antrum and corpus Helicobacter pylori isolates recovered from individual patients, Journal of Medical Microbiology, 53, 2004, p669 - 677
Smyth, C. J., Smyth, D. S., Kennedy, J., Twohig, J. & Bolton, D., Staphylococcus aureus : From man or animals - an enterotoxin iceberg?, Food Pathogen Epidemiology: Microbes, Maladies and Methods, Proceedings of an International European Union Risk Analysis Information Network (EU-RAIN) Conference , Padua, Italy, 2-3 December 2004, edited by Maunsell, B, Sheridan, J. & Bolton, D. J. , (ISBN: 1 84170 374 0), Teagasc - The National Food Centre: Dublin , 2004, pp85 - 102
Carroll, I. M., Ahmed, N., Beesley, S. M., Khan, A. A., Ghousunnissa, S., O Moráin, C. A. & Smyth, C. J., Fine-structure molecular typing of Irish Helicobacter pylori isolates and their genetic relatedness to strains from four different continents, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 41, 2003, p5755 - 5759
Dore, N., Bennett, D., Kaliszer, M., Cafferkey, M. & Smyth, C.J., Molecular epidemiology of group B streptococci in Ireland: associations between serotype, invasive status and presence of genes encoding putative virulence factors, Epidemiology and Infection, 130, 2003, p823 - 833
Fitzgerald, J.R., Monday, S.R., Foster, T.J., Bohach, G.A., Hartigan, P.J., Meaney, W.J. & Smyth C.J., Characterization of a putative pathogenicity island from bovine Staphylococcus aureus encoding multiple superantigens, Journal of Bacteriology, 183, 2001, p63 - 70
Dundon, W.G., Marshall, D.G., O'Moráin, C.A. & Smyth, C.J., Population characteristics of Irish Helicobacter pylori isolates: a t-RNA-associated locus, Irish Journal of Medical Science , 169, 2000, p137 - 140
Fitzgerald, J.R., Hartigan, P.J., Meaney, W.J. & Smyth, C.J., Molecular population and virulence factor analysis of Staphylococcus aureus from bovine intramammary infection, Journal of Applied Microbiology, 88, 2000, p1028 - 1037
Marshall, D.G., Hynes, S.O., Coleman, D.C., O Moráin, C.A., Smuth, C.J. & Moran, A.P., Lack of relationship between Lewis antigen expression and cagA, CagA, vacA and VacA status of Irish Helicobacter pylori isolates , FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 34, 1999, p79 - 90
Dundon, W.G., Marshall, D.G., O Moráin, C.A. & Smyth, C.J., A novel tRNA-associated locus (trl) from Helicobacter pylori is co-transcribed with tRNAGly and reveals genetic diversity, Microbiology, 145, 1999, p1289 - 1298
Targeting and assembly of fimbriae in, editor(s)Phoenix, D.A. , Protein Targeting and Translocation, London, Portland Press, 1998, pp143 - 167, [Smyth, C.J., Smith, S.G.J. & Marron, M.B.]
Marshall, D.G., Dundon, W.G., Beesley, S.M. & Smyth, C.J., Helicobacter pylori - a conundrum of genetic diversity, Microbiology, 144, 1998, p2925 - 2939
McCrae, M. A., Saunders, J. R., Smyth, C.J. and Stow, N. D., Eds., Molecular Aspects of Host-Pathogen Interactions, Symposium 55, Society for General Microbiology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 1-361pp
Fitzgerald, J. R., Meaney, W. J., Hartigan, P. J., Smyth, C. J. & Kapur, V., Fine-structure molecular epidemiological analysis of Staphylococcus aureus recovered from cows, Epidemiology and Infection, 119, 1997, p261 - 269
Rochford, D. and Smyth, C. J., Adherence of Microbes in the Human Body, Trinity College Dublin Science, Dublin, University of Dublin Press, 1996, 22pp
Marshall, D. G., Coleman, D. C., Sullivan, D. J., Xia, H., O Moráin, C. A. & Smyth, C.J., Genomic fingerprinting of clinical isolates of Helicobacter pylori using short oligonucleotide probes containing repetitive sequences, Journal of Applied Bacteriology, 81, 1996, p509 - 517
Smyth, C. J., Marron, M. B., Twohig, J. M. G. J. & Smith, S. G. J., Fimbrial adhesins: similarities and variations in structure and biogenesis, FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 16, 1996, p127 - 139
Marshall, D. G., Chua, A., Keeling, P. W. N., Sullivan, D. J., Coleman, D. C. & Smyth, C. J., Molecular analysis of the Helicobacter pylori populations in antral biopsies from individual patients using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting, FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology , 10, 1995, p317 - 324
Marron, M. B. & Smyth, C. J., Molecular analysis of the cso operon of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli reveals that CsoA is the adhesin of CS1 fimbriae and that the accessory genes are interchangeable with those of the cfa operon, Microbiology, 141, 1995, p2849 - 2859
Xia, H. X., Windle, H. J., Marshall, D. G. , Smyth, C. J., Keane, C. T. & O Moráin, C. A., Recrudescence of Helicobacter pylori after apparently successful eradication: novel application of randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting, Gut, 37, 1995, p30 - 34
Fimbriae of Escherichia coli in, editor(s)Gyles, C.K. , Escherichia coli in Domestic Animals and Humans, Wallingford, U.K., CAB International, 1994, pp399 - 435, [Smyth, C. J., Marron, M. B. and Smith, S. G. J.]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
In Memoriam: Timothy Trevor West in, editor(s)Maura Lee West and Mary Leland , Trevor West: The Bold Collegian, Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 2016, pp37 - 46, [Cyril J smyth]
Cyril J Smyth, Percy Kirwan - Long Jumper, Triple Jumper and Olympic Judge, The Official Line, Winter 2013, (No. 5), 2013, p6 - 11
Cyril J Smyth, The Bulger Brothers of Kilrush and Trinity College Dublin, Meeting of Kilrush & District Historical Sciety, Vandeleur Walled Garden, Kilrush, Co. Clare, 27 October 2012, 2012
Cyril J Smyth, The Liffey Swim 1920-1939: The First Thirty Years, 2012
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Smyth, C.J., Review of Phagocyte-Pathogen Interactions: Macrophages and the Host Responses to Infection, by D.G. Russell & S. Gordon, eds , 2010
Smyth, C.J., Review of The ELISA Guidebook, 2nd Edition, Methods in Molecular Biology, by John R Crowther , 2009
Smyth, C.J., Collery, M.M. , The enterotoxin gene cluster of Staphylococcus aureus - A possible origin of further variant enterotoxins in staphylococcal food poisoning, International Association for Food Protection 4th European Symposium on Food Safety, Lisbon, Portugal, 19-21 November 2008, (Abstract P50), 2008, pp27 - 28
Smyth, C.J., Staphylococcus, International Association for Food Protection 4th European Symposium on Food Safety, Session 2, The thin line between microbiological quality and safety, Lisbon, Portugal, 19-21 November 2008, (Abstract), 2008, pp4
Smyth, C.J., Review of Manual of Microbiology Tools & Techniques, by Sharma, K. , Microbiology Today, 34, 2007
Smyth, C.J., Review of Phagocytosis of Bacteria and Bacterial Pathogenicity, by Ernst, J.D. and Stendahl, O. (eds) , Microbiology Today, 34, (May), 2007
Collery, M.M., Tumilty, J.J.G., Twohig, J.M., Smyth, C.J., Occurrence of the selu gene in nasal carriage isolates of Staphylococcus aureus possessing the egc locus encoding enterotoxins and enterotoxin-like proteins, Mechanisms of Bacterial Adhesion and Invasion, Irish Branch Meeting of Society for General Microbiology, IMM, Trinity Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 27-28 April, 2006, 2006, p. 17, Abstract 6
Collery, M. M., Twohig, J. M., Shore, A. C., Coleman, D. C., Smyth, C. J., A PCR-based approach for identifying the animal origin of isolates of Staphylococcus aureus , 12th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections (ISSSI), Maastricht, The Netherlands, 3-6 September, 2006, edited by Peters, G., Vaudaux, P., Verbrugh, H. , 2006, p. 100, Abstract P.042
Collery, M.M., Smyth, D.S., Twohig, J.M., Al Mosaid, A., Coleman, D.C., Smyth, C.J., The dendogram challenge - A comparison of MLVA and RAPD typing of nasal isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus GBI 2006, Liverpool, England, 1-12 April 2006, 2006, p. 1, Abstract 1
Smyth, C.J., Review of The Comprehensive Sourcebook of Bacterial Protein Toxins, 3rd Edition, by Alouf, J.E., Popoff, M.R., eds. , Clinical Infectious Diseases, 43, (1 September), 2006, p668-669
Collery, M.M., Smyth, D.S., Twohig, J.M., Bolton, D.J., Smyth, C.J., Multi-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) of nasal isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM7), Victoria, B.C., Canada, 11-14 May, 2005, edited by van Belkum, A., Fussing, V., Goering, R., Mulvey, M., Struelens, M, Tenover, F. , American Society for Microbiology, 2005, p. 61, Abstract 80B
Collery, M.M., Smyth, D.S., Twohig, J.M., Al Mosaid, A., Coleman, D.C., Smyth, C.J., Incidence of staphylococcal enterotoxin genes among a healthy population - a cause for concern, The Science of Food: Safety and Nutrition, European Union Risk Analysis Information Network (EU-RAIN), Dublin, Ireland, 1-2 December 2005, edited by Maunsell, B., Pearce, R., & Bolton, D.J. , ISBN: 1 84170 440 7, Teagasc - Ashtown Food Research Centre, 2005, p. 110, Abstract P21
Smyth, D.S., Collery, M., Smyth, C.J., Finger lickin' good? - Genotypes of Staphylococcus aureus associated with broiler chickens, Food Pathogen Epidemiology: Microbes, Maladies and Methods, Padua, Italy, 1-4 December, 2004, edited by Maunsell, B., Sheridan, J., Bolton, D.J. , (ISBN: 1 84170 374 0), Teagasc - The National Food Centre, 2004, p. 148, Abstract P6
Recognition
Representations
Extern Examiner for B.Sc. Modular Courses in Medical Microbiology, Microbial Growth and Physiology, Immunology and Microbial Genetics, University of North London
Extern Examiner M.Med.Sci. Laboratory Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joint Organiser of the Main Symposium and Joint Editor of the Symposium Volume of the Society for General Microbiology. Chairperson of one scientific session. Molecular Aspects of Host-Pathogen Interactions, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, March, 1997
Joint Organiser of the Second European Meeting on Pathogenesis and Host Responses in Helicobacter pylori infections, Galway, Ireland, March 1997. Chairperson of one scientific session
Irish Medicines Board Sub-Committee on the Availability of Intramammary Products for the Treatment of Bovine Mastitis
Awards and Honours
Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin
Honorary Knight of the Campanile for services to College Sport
Honorary President Dublin University Harriers & Athletic Club
Honorary President Irish Universities Athletic Association
Provost's Teaching Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award in Teaching, Trinity College Dublin
American Society for Microbiology: Forty Year Membership Club
Bray Runners Athletic Club: Special Recognition Award for Dedication and Commitment to Bray Runners & Athletics in Co. Wicklow
Irish Universities Athletic Association: Outstanding Service Award
Athletic Association of Ireland Co. Wicklow: Outstanding Service Award
ENAS (European Network of Academic Sports Services ) Award to Trinity College Dublin for the Trinity Olympians Project, role in Trinity team - Researcher, Biographer, Designer
Athletics Leinster - Outstanding Service Award to Athletics
Outstanding Contribution to Sport in Trinity College Dublin
Outstanding Contribution to Irish Universities Athletics
Award to mark 30 years as Hon President of DU Harriers and Athletic Club
Memberships
Member of the Society for General Microbiology
Member of the Society for Applied Microbiology
Member of the American Society for Microbiology