Dr. Carsten Kroger
Assistant Professor, Microbiology
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Felsl A, Brokatzky D, Kröger C, Heermann R, Fuchs TM., Hierarchic regulation of a metabolic pathway: H-NS, CRP, and SsrB control myo-inositol utilization by Salmonella enterica., Microbiology spectrum, 12, (1), 2024, pe0272423
Kröger C, Lerminiaux NA, Ershova AS, MacKenzie KD, Kirzinger MW, Märtlbauer E, Perry BJ, Cameron ADS, Schauer K., Plasmid-encoded lactose metabolism and mobilized colistin resistance (mcr-9) genes in Salmonella enterica serovars isolated from dairy facilities in the 1980s., Microbial genomics, 9, (11), 2023
Faulkner Rainford P, Mogre A, Velasco-Berrelleza V, Dorman CJ, Harris S, Kröger C, Stepney S, A Pi-calculus Model of Supercoiling DNA Circuits, ALIFE 2023: Ghost in the Machine: Proceedings of the 2023 Artificial Life Conference, MIT Press, 2023
Shaban L, Ershova AS, Hamrock FJ, Shaibah A, Sulimani MM, Amin RA, Russell JN, Ravichandran R, Schaffer K, Martins M, Cameron ADS, Kröger C, Draft Genome Sequence and Annotation of Acinetobacter soli AS15, Isolated from an Irish Hospital, Microbiology Resource Announcement, 2021
Owen SV, Canals R, Wenner N, Hammarlöf DL, Kröger C and Hinton JCD, A window into lysogeny: Revealing temperate phage biology with transcriptomics, Microbial Genomics, 2020
Canals R, Hammarlöf DL, Kröger C, Owen SV, Fong WY, Lacharme-Lora L, Zhu X, Wenner N, Carden SE, Honeycutt J, Monack DM, Kingsley RA, Brownridge P, Chaudhuri RR, Rowe WPM, Predeus AV, Hokamp K, Gordon MA, Hinton JCD., Adding function to the genome of African Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 strain D23580., PLoS biology, 17, (1), 2019, pe3000059
Pulford CV, Wenner N, Redway ML, Rodwell EV, Webster HJ, Escudero R, Kröger C, Canals R, Rowe W, Lopez J, Hall N, Rowley PD, Timofte D, Harrison RA, Baker KS and Hinton JCD, The diversity, evolution and ecology of Salmonella in venomous snakes, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
Kröger C, Schauer K, Clerkin S, Maertlbauer E and Fleming AB, Draft Genome Sequence and Annotation of Acinetobacter junii MHI21018, Isolated from Bovine Colostrum, Microbiology Resource Announcements, 2019
Kröger C, Rothhardt JE, Brokatzky D, Felsl A, Kary SC, Heermann R, Fuchs TM, The small RNA RssR regulates myo-inositol degradation by Salmonella enterica, Scientific Reports, 2018
Hammarlöf DL, Kröger C, Owen SV, Canals R, Lacharme-Lora L, Wenner N, Schager AE, Wells TJ, Henderson IR, Wigley P, Hokamp K, Feasey NA, Gordon MA, Hinton JCD., Role of a single noncoding nucleotide in the evolution of an epidemic African clade of Salmonella., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018
Kröger C, MacKenzie KD, Alshabib EY, Kirzinger MWB, Suchan DM, Chao TC, Akulova V, Miranda-CasoLuengo AA, Monzon VA, Conway T, Sivasankaran SK, Hinton JCD, Hokamp K, Cameron ADS., The primary transcriptome, small RNAs and regulation of antimicrobial resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978., Nucleic Acids Research, 2018
Miranda-CasoLuengo AA, Kary SC, Erhardt M and Kröger C, Small RNA, Big Effect: Control of Flagellin Production., Trends in Microbiology, 2017
Cameron DS, SC Dillon, C Kröger, L Beran, CJ Dorman, Broad scale redistribution of mRNA abundance and transcriptional machinery in response to growth rate in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, Microbial Genomics, 3, 2017, p1 - 10
Perry BJ, Fitzgerald SF, Kröger C, Cameron AD, Whole-Genome Sequence and Annotation of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Enteritidis Phage Type 8 Strain EN1660, Genome Announcements, 2017
Colgan AM, Cameron AD, Kröger C, If it transcribes, we can sequence it: mining the complexities of host-pathogen-environment interactions using RNA-seq, Current Opinion in Microbiology, 9, (36), 2017, p37 - 46
Colgan AM, Kröger C, Diard M, Hardt WD, Puente JL, Sivasankaran SK, Hokamp K, Hinton JC, The Impact of 18 Ancestral and Horizontally-Acquired Regulatory Proteins upon the Transcriptome and sRNA Landscape of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium., PLoS Genetics, 12, (8), 2016, pe1006258
Kröger C, Kary SC, Schauer K, Cameron AD., Genetic Regulation of Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii, Genes (Basel), 2016
Srikumar S, Kröger C, Hébrard M, Colgan A, Owen SV, Sivasankaran SK, Cameron AD, Hokamp K, Hinton JC, RNA-seq Brings New Insights to the Intra-Macrophage Transcriptome of Salmonella Typhimurium, PLoS Pathogens, 2015
MacKenzie KD, Wang Y, Shivak DJ, Wong CS, Hoffman LJ, Lam S, Kröger C, Cameron AD, Townsend HG, Köster W, White AP, Bistable Expression of CsgD in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Connects Virulence to Persistence, Infection and immunity, 83, (6), 2015, p2312 - 2326
Rothhardt JE, Kröger C, Broadley SP, Fuchs TM, The orphan regulator ReiD of Salmonella enterica is essential for myo‐inositol utilization, Molecular Microbiology, 94, (3), 2014, p700 - 712
Kröger C, Colgan A, Srikumar S, Händler K, Sivasankaran SK, Hammarlöf DL, Canals R, Grissom JE, Conway T, Hokamp K, Hinton JC, An infection-relevant transcriptomic compendium for Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium., Cell host & microbe, 14, (6), 2013, p683-95
Cameron ADS, Kröger C, Quinn HJ, Scally IK, Daly AJ, Kary SC, Dorman CJ, Transmission of an oxygen availability signal at the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium fis promoter, PLoS One, 8, (12), 2013, pe84382
Kröger C, Dillon SC, Cameron AD, Papenfort K, Sivasankaran SK, Hokamp K, Chao Y, Sittka A, Hébrard M, Händler K, Colgan A, Leekitcharoenphon P, Langridge GC, Lohan AJ, Loftus B, Lucchini S, Ussery DW, Dorman CJ, Thomson NR, Vogel J, Hinton JC, The transcriptional landscape and small RNAs of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109, (20), 2012, pE1277-86
Hébrard M, Kröger C, Srikumar S, Colgan A, Händler K, Hinton JC, sRNAs and the virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, RNA biology, 9, (4), 2012, p437 - 445
Hébrard M, Kröger C, Sivasankaran SK, Händler K, Hinton JC, The challenge of relating gene expression to the virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium., Current opinion in biotechnology, 2011
Kröger C, Srikumar S, Ellwart J, Fuchs TM, Bistability in myo-inositol utilization by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium., Journal of bacteriology, 193, (6), 2011, p1427-35
Kröger C, Stolz J, Fuchs TM, myo-Inositol transport by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium., Microbiology (Reading, England), 156, (Pt 1), 2010, p128-38
Kröger C, Fuchs TM, Characterization of the myo-inositol utilization island of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium., Journal of bacteriology, 191, (2), 2009, p545-54
Kreutzenbeck P, Kröger C, Lausberg F, Blaudeck N, Sprenger GA, Freudl R, Escherichia coli twin arginine (Tat) mutant translocases possessing relaxed signal peptide recognition specificities., The Journal of biological chemistry, 282, (11), 2007, p7903-11
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Hamrock FJ, Ryan D, Shaibah A, Ershova AS, Mogre A, Sulimani MM, Reichardt S, Hokamp K, Westermann AJ, Kröger C, Global analysis of the RNA-RNA interactome in Acinetobacter baumannii AB5075 uncovers a small regulatory RNA repressing the virulence-related outer membrane protein CarO, bioRxiv, (2023.12. 04.569942), 2023
Nolan R and Kröger C, Initial Characterisation of the Twin-Arginine Translocation System in Acinetobacter baumannii, 4th VAAM discussion meeting 'Microbial Cell Biology', Berlin, 2022
Hamrock FH, Ryan D, Hokamp K, Westermann AJ and Kröger, C, Functional Characterisation of small RNAs in Acinetobacter baumannii, Molecular Microbiology Conference, Birmingham, 2022, 2022
Velasco-Berrelleza V, Mogre A, Faulkner Rainford P, Dorman CJ, Kröger C, Stepney S, Harris S, Physical model of supercoiling mediated regulation in synthetic gene circuits, Synthetic Biology UK 2022, Newcastle UK, November 7, 2022
Ershova AS, Kröger, C, Restriction-Modification Systems in Acinetobacter baumannii, European Conference on Computational Biology, 2021
Bakheet A and Kröger C, Characterization of the role of small RNAs and their binding proteins in Acinetobacter baumannii during antibiotic resistance and environmental stress, DAPI, Dublin, 2020
Hamrock F and Kröger C, Identifying posttranscriptional regulation in A. baumannii, DAPI, Dublin, 2020
Owen SV, Canals R, Wenner N, Hammarlöf DL, Kröger C and Hinton JCD, A window into lysogeny: Revealing temperate phage biology with transcriptomics, biorxiv, 2019
Kröger C, FNR regulates the expression of SPI-2 in Salmonella Typhimurium, University of Liverpool, 2019
Pulford CV, Wenner N, Redway ML, Rodwell EV, Webster HJ, Escudero R, Kröger C, Canals R, Rowe W, Lopez J, Hall N, Rowley PD, Timofte D, Harrison RA, Baker KS and Hinton JCD, The diversity, evolution and ecology of Salmonella in venomous snakes, bioRxiv, 2019
Kröger C, RNA-seq analysis of bacterial transcriptome architecture: Why understanding gene regulation is important, Advances in Infection Research, UCD, Dublin, 2019
Kröger C, The Primary Transcriptome of Acinetobacter baumannii, Health Protection and Surveillance Centre Dublin, 2019
Kröger C, FNR is a Regulator of Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2, Microbes in Medicine, TCD, 2019, Microbiology Society
Kröger C, Acinetobacter baumannii: Microbial Pathogenicity and Diagnostics, MSc in Clinical Laboratory Science, TU Dublin, 2019
Kary SC and Kröger C, FNR is a Repressor of SPI-2 in Salmonella Typhimurium, DAPI, Dublin, 2018
Kary SC and Kröger C, FNR is a Regulator of SPI-2 in Salmonella Typhimurium, DAPI, Dublin, 2018
Kary SC and Kröger C, FNR is a regulator of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 in Salmonella Typhimurium, Canadian Society of Microbiology Annual Conference, Winnipeg, Canada, 2018
Kröger C, MacKenzie KD, Hinton JCD, Hokamp K, Cameron ADS, The Primary Transcriptome, small RNAs and Regulation of Antimicrobial Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii, 5th Meeting of Regulating with RNA in Bacteria & Archaea, Seville, Spain, 2018, 2018
Miranda Caso Luengo AA and Kröger C, RNA-seq analysis of bacterial transcriptome architecture, Advances in Infection Research, UCD, Dublin, 2018
Kröger C, The importance of understanding gene regulation in bacterial pathogens, VAAM Summer School, Tutzing, Germany, 2018
Canals R, Hammarlöf DL, Kröger C, Owen SV, Fong WY, Lacharme-Lora L, Zhu X, Wenner N, Carden SE, Honeycutt J, Monack DM, Kingsley RA, Brownridge P, Chaudhuri RR, Rowe WPM, Predeus AV, Hokamp K, Gordon MA, Hinton JCD, Adding function to the genome of African Salmonella ST313, bioRxiv, 2018
Kröger C, FNR regulates the expression of SPI-2 in Salmonella Typhimurium, Microbiological Seminar, University of Regina, Canada, 2018
Kröger C, MacKenzie KD, Al-Shabib EY, Kirzinger MWB, Suchan DM, Chao TC, Akulova V, Miranda-CasoLuengo AA, Monzon VA, Conway T, Sivasankaran SK, Hinton JCD, Hokamp K, Cameron ADS, The primary transcriptome, small RNAs, and regulation of antimicrobial resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii, bioRxiv, 2017, p236794-
Kröger C, Navigating the Transcriptional Landscape of Salmonella using RNA-seq, SFB 944 Seminar, University of Osnabrück, 10th January, 2017
Hammarlöf DL, Kröger C, Owen SV, Canals R, Lacharme-Lora L, Wenner N, Wells TJ, Henderson IJ, Wigley P, Hokamp K, Feasey NA, Gordon MA, Hinton JCD, The role of a single non-coding nucleotide in the evolution of an epidemic African clade of Salmonella, bioRxiv, 2017, p175265-
Kary S, S Dillon, A Colgan, S Sivasankaran, K Hokamp, CJ Dorman, J Hinton, A Cameron, C Kroger, FNR is a regulator of SPI2 in Salmonella Typhimurium , Microbiology Society Annual Conference, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, April 3, 2017, pp570 - 570
Kröger C, Pathogenesis of Acinetobacter infections, MSc in Clinical Laboratory Science, TU Dublin, 2017
Kröger C, RNA-seq analysis of bacterial transcriptome architecture, Advances in Infection Research, UCD, Dublin, 2017
Kary SC and Kröger C, FNR is a regulator of SPI-2 in Salmonella Typhimurium, Departmental Seminar, Univerity of Regina, 2017
Pulford CV, Escudero R, Kröger C, Wenner N, Rowley P, Harrison R and Hinton JC, Genome-based Analyses Of Salmonella Associated With A Collection Of Venemous Snakesq, 5th ASM Conference on Salmonella, Potsdam, Germany, 2016
Srikumar S, Kröger C, Hebrard M, Colgan A, Owen S, Sivasankaran SK, Cameron A, Hokamp K and Hinton J, RNA-seq Brings New Insights to the Intra-Macrophage Transcriptome of Salmonella Typhimurium, 5th ASM Conference on Salmonella, Potsdam, Germany, 2016
Canals R, Hammaröf D, Kröger C, Owen SV, Rowe WP, Hokamp K, Gordon MA and Hinton JCD, Comparative multi-condition interstrain transcriptomics identifies unexpected differences between global and african sequence types of Salmonella Typhimurium, 5th ASM Conference on Salmonella, Potsdam, Germany, 2016
Srikumar S, Kröger C, Hebrard M, Colgan A, Owen SV, Sivasankaran SK, Cameron ADS, Hokamp K and Hinton JCD, RNA-seq Brings New Insights to the Intra-Macrophage Transcriptome of Salmonella Typhimurium, DAPI, Dublin, 2016
Kröger C, Navigating the Transcriptional Landscape in Salmonella Typhimurium, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, 2nd September, 2016
Kröger C, Colgan A, Srikumar S, Diard M, Hardt WD, Hokamp K, Hinton JCD, SalComRegulon Adds Regulatory Insights to the Online SalCom Salmonella Gene Expression Compendium, 5th ASM Conference on Salmonella, Potsdam, Germany, 2016
Kumwenda B, Kröger C, Canals R, Owen SV, Darby A, Everett D, Heyderman R, Godron MA, Msefula CL and Hinton JCD, Comparative Genomic Analysis of a sub-lineage of multi-drug resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 that has recently emerged in Blantyre, Malawi, 5th ASM Conference on Salmonella, Potsdam, Germany, 2016
Kröger C, Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 and invasive Salmonella disease , Microbiological Seminar, Institute for Microbial Systems and Society, University of Regina, Canada, 2015
Kröger C, Regulation of SPI2 by FNR, 2nd Small RNA retreat, Berlin, Germany, 2015
Cameron ADS, C Kroger, S Dillon, L Beran, J Hinton, CJ Dorman, Transcriptional activity is localised to specific chromosomal macro domains in Salmonella enterica, BacNet 15, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, May 9-14,, 2015
Kröger C, RNA-seq reveals the choreography of transcription in Salmonella, Gene Expression Workshop, Centre for Genomic Research, Liverpool, UK, 2015
Kröger C, Navigating the Bacterial Transcriptome using RNA-seq, Northwest Microbiology Conference, Salford, UK, 2014
Kröger C, Transcriptome comparisons of gastroenteritis NTS with emerging invasive Salmonella Typhimurium strains, Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research Annual Scientific Meeting, Chester, UK, 2014
Kröger C, Navigating the Bacterial Transcriptome using RNA-seq , Microbiological Seminar, Max von Pettenkofer Institute, LMU Munich, Germany, 2014
Canals R, Hammarlöf D, Kröger C, Sivasankaran S, Hokamp K, Chaudhuri R, Owen S and Hinton J, Differential gene expression of two closelyrelated Salmonella Typhimurium strains under infection-relevant conditions, Microbiology Society Annual Conference, Liverpool, UK, 2014
Srikumar S, Kröger C, Hebrard M, Colgan A, Beckett M, Wang L, Sivasankaran SK, Breen K, Hokamp K, Zhou D and Hinton JCD, The sRNA landscape of intra-macrophage Salmonella Typhimurium, Microbiology Society Annual Conference, Liverpool, UK, 2014
Hammarlöf DL, Kröger C, Sivasankaran SK, Hokamp K, Chaudhuri RR, Gordon M and Hinton JCD, The primary transcriptome of invasive S. Typhimurium D23580 reveals new mechanisms of gene regulation, Microbiology Society Annual Conference, Liverpool, UK, 2014
Kröger C, RNA-seq-based transcriptome analysis of Salmonella Typhimurium, Young Microbiologists Symposium, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, 2013
Kröger C, Colgan A, Sivasankaran SK, Srikumar S, Hokamp K and Hinton JCD, Identification of bacterial promoters and small RNAs using RNA-seq, Regulating with RNA in Bacteria, Würzburg, Germany, 2013
Kröger C, A comprehensive online resource that details expression of S. Typhimurium genes, 4th ASM Conference on Salmonella: The bacterium, the Host and the Environment, Boston, USA, 2013
Hebrard M, Kröger C, Sivasankaran SK, Sittka A, Papenfort K, Lucchini S, Sharma C, Vogel J and Hinton JCD, Identification of novel small non-‐coding RNAs and the transcriptional architecture of Salmonella Typhimurium, DAPI, Dublin, 2013
Kröger C, Dillon SC, Cameron ADS, Sivasankaran SK, Hokamp K, Sittka A, Leekitcharoenphon P, Ussery DW, Dorman CJ, Vogel J and Hinton JCD, Global Transcriptional Mapping and the sRNA complement of Salmonella Typhimurium, Microbiology Society Annual Conference, Dublin, 2012
Cameron ADS, Kröger C, Dillon SC, Handler K, Hinton J, Dorman CJ, Transcriptional activity is localized to specific chromosomal macrodomains in Salmonella enterica, Canadian Society for Microbiology meeting, University of British Columbia, Canada, June, 2012
Kröger C, Navigating the transcriptional landscape of Salmonella Typhimurium using RNA-seq, Medical Infection Genomics, RNA-seq workshop , University of Würzburg, 2012
Kröger C, Global Transcriptional Mapping and the sRNA complement of Salmonella Typhimurium, Small RNA retreat, Scheffau, Germany, 2012
Kröger C, Hebrard M, Sittka A, Papenfort K, Lucchini S, Sharma C, Vogel J and Hinton JC, Identification of novel small non-coding RNAs and the transcriptional architecture of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, Cold Spring Harbor Conference, Cold Spring Harbor, US, 2011
Hebrard M, Kröger C, Sivasankaran SK, Handler K, Pare S, Hokamp K, Sittka A, Chao Y, Papenfort K, Sharma C, Vogel J and Hinton JCD, The virulence of Salmonella Typhimurium is regulated by sRNA, DAPI, Dublin, 2011
Kröger C, The Transcriptional Architecture of Salmonella Typhimurium SL1344, 5th IECA Conferences, Cancun, Mexico, 2011
Hebrard M, Kröger C, Sivasankaran SK, Sittka A, Papenfort K, Lucchini S, Sharma C, Vogel J and Hinton JCD, Identification of novel small non-coding RNAs and the transcriptional architecture of Salmonella Typhimurium, ASM Conference on Regulating with RNA in bacteria, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2011
Kröger C and Fuchs TM, myo-Inositol Metabolism of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, Metabolism Meets Virulence: International Symposium on Metabolism and Bacterial Pathogenesis, Hohenkammer, Germany, 2009
Research Expertise
Recognition
Awards and Honours
IRC Ulysses Awardee 2021
Memberships
Microbiology Society
American Society for Microbiology
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Society for Applied Microbiology