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Fergal Hamrock

@hamrockfergal.bsky.social
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RNA Biology & AMR Researcher | PhD Microbiology (2024, TCD) | Bacterial Pathogenesis | Transcriptomics | Recipient of the EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant (2022) and Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (2024)

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Kröger Lab @kroegerlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New pre-print from our lab looking at antibiotic resistance and sensitivity of AB5075 lacking p1AB5075 - a serendipitous isolation. We also included a full sequence of the widely used pWH1266 E.coli-Acinetobacter shuttle plasmid: GenBank accession no.: PV577797.1.
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Fergal Hamrock @hamrockfergal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🧬 New preprint out! Thrilled to share our latest study uncovering Arp, a small RNA that represses DNA uptake and twitching motility in Acinetobacter baumannii by directly blocking pilin translation. Massive thanks to my co-authors for a fantastic collaboration!
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Kröger Lab @kroegerlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Our lab contributed to this including @hamrockfergal.bsky.social : CsrA-mediated regulation of a virulence switch in Acinetobacter baumannii. Great work led by Phil Rather's group. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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CsrA-mediated regulation of a virulence switch in Acinetobacter baumannii | mBio
The World Health Organization has ranked Acinetobacter baumannii atop its “priority pathogens” list highlighting the urgent need for new therapeutics against this pathogen. Many A. baumannii strains i...
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