Biography
Dr. Naughton completed a PhD in 2007 carried out in TCD and Liverpool School of tropical Medicine, investigating the potential of specific novel antimalarial agents. She then moved to UCD/Crumlin Childrens research centre as part of an SFI funded glycobiology research cluster. She has had a long-standing collaboration with the Civil Engineering Dept., TCD investigating the prevalence and importance of microbes in water and has expanded this research recently to encompass antibiotic resistance in environmental microbes. Currently she is a Lecturer in Microbiology and Biotechnology in the School of Biological and Health Sciences and the chair of the Irish Research Staff Association in which role she was involved in the formation of an international researcher network, IcoRSA.
Qualifications
BA Mod (hons) Microbiology, PhD Molecular Microbiology and Parasitology
Research Themes
Environmental Microbiology, Antibiotic Resistance; Infection Biology; Glycobiology
Keywords
Antibiotic resistance, environmental microbiology, microbial source tracking, cell biology, microbiome, glycobiology, glycomics
Key Publications
Clyne, M; Duggan, G; Naughton, JA; Burke, B. Methods to assess the direct interaction of C. jejuni with mucins. Methods Mol Biol. 2017. 1512:107-115.
Cairns, MT; Gupta, A; Naughton, JA, Kane, M, Clyne M and Joshi, L. Glycosylation-related gene expression in the mucous-secreting gastrointestinal cell line HT29-MTX-E12 in response to infection by Helicobacter pylori (submitted for publication to World Journal of Gastroenterology, November 2016)
Naughton J, Duggan G, Bourke B, Clyne M. Interaction of microbes with mucus and mucins: recent developments. Gut Microbes. 2014 Jan-Feb;5(1)
Professional Memberships
- EPA Catalogue of Environmental Research Expertise in Ireland.
- Microbiology Society (UK and Ireland)
External Activities/Outreach
Founding member of the steering group for the Irish Health Research Forum (http://www.ihrf.ie/steering-group). The forum was established as a result of recommendations by a report undertaken on behalf of the Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG). This report identified the need for key health research stakeholders to work together to instigate change in policy and practice in health research.