Assoc ProfessorTadhg Ó'Cróinín

Dr Ó Cróinín studied Microbiology in Trinity College Dublin where he graduated with a BA.mod in 1995, From 1995-1999 he carried out his PhD in the Department of Paediatrics in UCD based in the Childrens Research Centre at Our Ladys Hospital for Sick Children studying Helicobacter mustelae as a model organism of Helicobacter pylori infection in humans. From 1999-2000 he carried out a short term EMBO fellowship in the Vrije Univeristy in Amsterdam developing a strategy to create a mutant library in Helicobacter mustelae. From 2001-2003 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Food and Drug Administration at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda USA where he investigated the repression of virulence genes in Bordetella pertussis. In 2004 he returned to Ireland to take up an SFI Reserach fellowship in Trinity College Dubln to investigate the regulation of virulence factors through DNA supercoiling by Salmonella Typhimurium. In 2008 he was appointed as a lecturer in the school of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science in UCD.