Microbiology

Contact Us Department of Microbiology
Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine
School of Genetics and Microbiology
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland

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Publications

Selected Publications.

Full list of publications, including contributions to COVID-19 research through COG-UK Consortium membership: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57191330782

Selected research articles:

*: joint first-author; ‡: corresponding/senior author; &: undergraduate lead-author

Published since TCD group established:

Singh N*, Golicha RO*, Thakur C, Beale MA, Dorman MJ, Cazares A, Taylor-Brown A, Johura FT, Rashid MU, Monira S, Zohura F, Parvin T, Bhuiyan SI, Sultana M, Mohan B, Domman D, George CM, Kariuki S, Alam M, Taneja N, Thomson NR (2026). Aeromonas in South Asia: genomic insights into an environmental pathogen and reservoir of antimicrobial resistance. Nature Communications.  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-68712-w. Online ahead of print.

Ng'ombe H, Luchen CC, Bote L, Kasonde M, Musonda K, Mwape KK, Kuntawala DH, Silwamba S, Chibuye M, Chibesa K, Mbewe N, Bosomprah S, Khan W, Liebenberg L, de Oliveira T, Wilkinson E, Dorman MJ, Coghlan A, Simuyandi M, Chilengi R, Chisenga C, Thomson NR (2025). Genomic analysis and antimicrobial resistance of Vibrio cholerae isolated during Zambia's 2023 cholera epidemic. Microbial Genomics 11 (12): 001566. DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.001566.

Naughton EP, Dorman MJ‡ (2025). ChiVariARIBA: A modular, editable workflow and database for characterising chitin gene variation in Vibrio spp. and related bacteria. Microbial Genomics 11 (7): 001439. DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.001439.

Current preprints:

Beale MA, Shetty V, Ambridge KA, Lacey G, Dougan S, Roberts-Sengier W, Sampher B, Lassalle F, Dorman MJ, Mahlangu MP, Venter JME, Da Costa Dias B, Chipinduro M, Washaya TM, Rodgers L, Makamure B, Dauya E, Marks M, Muller E, Ferrand R, Thomson NR. Phylo-Plex: A phylogenetically informed, low-cost amplicon sequencing platform for deployable high-resolution genomic epidemiology. medRxiv preprint DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.19.25322526

Matanza XM, Leung PB, Torraca V, Watson J, Dorman MJ, Thomson NR, Clements A. Genome-wide analysis exploring mechanisms used by Shigella sonnei to survive long-term nutrient starvation. bioRxiv preprint DOI: 10.1101/2025.11.20.689435

Published prior to joining TCD:

Lassalle F, Al-Shalali S, Al-Hakimi M, Njamkepo E, Bashir I, Dorman MJ, Rauzier J, Blackwell GA, Taylor-Brown A, Beale MA, Cazares A, Al-Somainy AA, Al-Mahbashi A, Almoayed K, Aldawla M, Al-Harazi A, Quilici M-L, Weill F-X, Dhabaan G, Thomson NR (2023). Genomic epidemiology of the cholera outbreak in Yemen shows the spread of a multi-drug resistance plasmid between diverse lineages of Vibrio cholerae. Nature Microbiology 8: 1787-1798. DOI: 10.1038/s41564-023-01472-1.

Soontarach R, Srimanote P, Enright MC, Blundell-Hunter G, Dorman MJ, Thomson NR, Taylor PW, Voravuthikunchai SP (2022). Isolation and characterisation of bacteriophage selective for key Acinetobacter baumannii capsule chemotypes. Pharmaceuticals 15 (4): 443. DOI: 10.3390/ph15040443

Fennell TG&, Blackwell GA, Thomson NR, Dorman MJ‡ (2021). gbpA and chiA genes are not uniformly distributed amongst diverse Vibrio cholerae. Microbial Genomics 7 (6): 000594. DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000594.

Blundell-Hunter G, Enright MC, Negus D, Dorman MJ, Beecham GE, Pickard DJ, Wintachai P, Voravuthikunchai SP, Thomson NR, Taylor PW (2021). Characterisation of bacteriophage-encoded depolymerases selective for key Klebsiella pneumoniae capsular exopolysaccharides. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 11: 686090. DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.686090

Dorman MJ, Thomson NR, Campos J (2021). Genomic contextualisation of ancient DNA molecular data from an Argentinian fifth pandemic Vibrio cholerae infection. Microbial Genomics 7 (6):  000580. DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000580.

Dorman MJ, Domman D, Poklepovich T, Tolley C, Zolezzi G, Kane L, Viñas MR, Panagópulo M, Moroni M, Binsztein N, Caffer MI, Clare S, Dougan G, Salmond GPC, Parkhill J, Campos J, Thomson NR (2020). Genomics of the Argentinian cholera epidemic elucidate the contrasting dynamics of epidemic and endemic Vibrio cholerae. Nature Communications 11 (1): 4918. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18647-7.

Horesh G, Harms A, Fino C, Dorman MJ, Parts L, Gerdes K, Heinz E, Thomson NR (2020). Type II and type IV toxin-antitoxin systems show different evolutionary patterns in the global K. pneumoniae population. Nucleic Acids Research 48 (8): 4357-4370. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa198

Dorman MJ, Kane L, Domman D, Turnbull JD, Cormie C, Fazal M-A, Goulding DA, Russell JE, Alexander S, Thomson NR (2019). The history, genome and biology of NCTC 30: a non-pandemic Vibrio cholerae isolate from World War One. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1900): 20182025. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2025.

Hill IT, Tallo T, Dorman MJ, Dove SL (2019). Loss of RNA chaperone Hfq unveils a toxic pathway in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Bacteriology 201 (20): e00232-19. DOI: 10.1128/JB.00232-19.

Dorman MJ*, Domman D*, Uddin MI*, Sharmin S, Afrad MH, Begum YA, Qadri F, Thomson NR (2019). High quality reference genomes for toxigenic and non-toxigenic Vibrio cholerae serogroup O139. Scientific Reports 9 (1): 5865. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41883-x.

Ellington MJ, Heinz E, Wailan AM, Dorman MJ, de Goffau MC, Cain A, Henson S, Gleadall N, Boinett C, Dougan G, Brown NM, Woodford N, Parkhill J, Török EM, Peacock SJ, Thomson NR (2019). Contrasting patterns of longitudinal population dynamics and antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in two priority bacterial pathogens over 7 years in a single center. Genome Biology 20: 184. DOI: 10.1186/s13059-019-1785-1

Feltwell T, Dorman MJ, Goulding DA, Parkhill J, Short FL (2019). Separating bacteria by capsule amount using a discontinuous density gradient. Journal of Visual Experiments 143: e58679. DOI: 10.3791/58679

Domman D, Chowdhury F, Khan AI, Dorman MJ, Mutreja A, Uddin MI, Paul A, Begum YA, Charles RC, Calderwood SC, Bhuiyan TR, Harris JB, LaRocque RC, Ryan ET, Qadri F, Thomson NR (2018). Defining endemic cholera at three levels of spatiotemporal resolution within Bangladesh. Nature Genetics 50: 951–955. DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0150-8

Dorman MJ, Feltwell T, Goulding DA, Parkhill J, Short FL (2018). The capsule regulatory network of Klebsiella pneumoniae defined by density-TraDISort. mBio 9 (6): e01863-18. DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01863-18. 

Domman D, Quilici M-L, Dorman MJ, Njamkepo E, Mutreja A, Mather AE, Delgado G, Morales-Espinosa R, Grimont PAD, Lizárraga-Partida ML, Bouchier C, Aanensen DA, Kuri-Morales P, Dougan G, Parkhill J, Campos J, Cravioto A, Weill F-X, Thomson NR (2017). Integrated view of Vibrio cholerae in the Americas. Science 358 (6364): 789-793. DOI: 10.1126/science.aao2136