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Personal Information
College Photo Name Coleman, David
Main Department Dental Science
College Title Personal Chair
E-mail dcoleman@tcd.ie
College Tel +353 1 6127276
Web http://people.tcd.ie/dcoleman
Fax +353 1 612 7295
Notes Current Thomson Reuters Web of Science H-index rating: 41. Current Google Scholar Citations H-index rating: 46
 
Representations
Details Date
Health Protection Surveillance Centre Scientific Advisory Committee Legionnaires' Disease Sub-Committee 2005-Present
Health Research Board Physiological Systems Committee 2005-2009
Chairman of the Investigation Team on Legionellosis at Waterford Regional Hospital 2003
Health Research Board Infection and Immunity Committee 2000-2004
Health Research Board Digestive Sciences Committee 2000-2004
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Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies
Details Date From Date To
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS 2001 PRESENT
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS 1993 2000
MEMBER OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL MYCOLOGY 1990 PRESENT
MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH 1990 PRESENT
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY 1990 PRESENT
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Awards and Honours
Award Date
F.T.C.D. 1994
ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR MICROBIOLOGY SILVER MEDAL AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE IN MICROBIOLOGY 1997
 
Languages
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
 
Description of Research Interests
Automated control and management of microbial biofilms in water systems linked to medical devices. Automated microbial biofilm management in large water distribution systems in healthcare facilities. Molecular epidemiology and population structure of hospital-acquired and community acquired MRSA. Molecular analysis of SCCmec elements in pandemic, epidemic and sporadic MRSA and MSSA. Molecular epidemiology, population structure, antifungal drug resistance mechanisms in Candida dubliniensis and other oral Candida species. Management of Legionella bacteria in water distribution systems Application of electrochemically activated solutions to control microbial proliferation in the environment, in water distribution systems and in medical devices.
 
Research Interests
A GENE A GENE FAMILY A GENE-EXPRESSION A OUTBREAK
ABC TRANSPORTER ACQUIRED-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-SYNDROME ACRYLIC RESIN ACT1
ACTIVATION AIDS ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE Antibiotics
Applied and Environmental microbiology BACTERIAL-CONTAMINATION BACTERIOPHAGE CONVERSION BIOFILM
BIOFILM FORMATION Bacterial pathogenicity Bacteriology and bacterial pathogenesis Biomedical sciences
CANDIDA ALBICANS CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS SP NOV Chemotherapeutic Agents Communicable Diseases
DEFINITIVE DIAGNOSIS DENTAL CHAIR WATERLINES DENTAL CLINIC DENTAL DISINFECTANTS
DENTAL HANDPIECES DENTAL PLAQUE MICROBIOLOGY DIAGNOSIS DIFFERENTIATION
DIVERSITY DNA DNA TYPING METHODS DNA typing
DUBLIN DUBLIN HOSPITALS DUBLINIENSIS DUODENAL-ULCER
Diagnostics Drug Resistance ELECTROPHORETIC KARYOTYPE ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
ENZYME FRAGMENTATION PATTERNS ENZYME-MEDIATED INTEGRATION EPIDEMIOLOGY EPITHELIAL-CELLS
EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS EPSTEIN-BARR-VIRUS ESCHERICHIA-COLI EXPRESSION
Epidemiology Eukaryotic gene regulation Evolutionary genetics FIELD GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS
FLUCONAZOLE FUNGAL-INFECTIONS FUSARIUM FUSARIUM-SOLANI
Fungal Diseases Fungi GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS GENE
GENOME GENTAMICIN-RESISTANT GERM TUBES GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA
Gene Cloning Genetic Engineering Genetic Manipulation Genetic Mapping, Gene Sequence
Genetic Resistance Genetic/Molecular epidemiology Genetically Modified Organisms Genetics
Genomes, Genomics Genomic structure and function, molecular approaches to gene function HAIRY LEUKOPLAKIA HEALTHY-INDIVIDUALS
HIV Infection HIV opportunistic infections HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS HIV-INFECTION
HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS Host, Pathogen interactions IDENTIFICATION IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION
IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION IN-VITRO INFECTED INDIVIDUALS INFECTION
INFECTIONS Infectious diseases LEGIONELLA LYSIN
MRSA Medical Devices Molecular Biology Molecular Cloning
Molecular Genetics Molecular Probes Molecular genetics of gram positive pathogens Mycology
Mycology and fungal pathogenesis Nucleic Acid Sequencing Oral Diseases Oral diseases and Oral medicine
Oral microbiology PATHOGENS PLASMID DNA PREVALENCE
PROFILES Pathogenesis Procaryotic gene regulation Prokaryotic and eukaryotic genetics and genomics
Quantitative and molecular genetics RAPID IDENTIFICATION RIBOSOMAL-RNA Regulatory methods of gene expression
STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION WATER WATER ACTIVITY
WATER MICROBIOLOGY WATER QUALITY WATER-BORNE WATER-QUALITY
YEAST YEAST CULTURES YEAST KILLER PHENOMENON YEAST TOXINS
 
Publications
Peer Reviewed
BOYLE MA, O'DONNELL MJ, MILLER A, RUSSELL RJ, COLEMAN DC, CONTROL OF BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION OF WASHBASIN TAPS AND OUTPUT WATER USING ECASOL: A ONE YEAR STUDY, JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION, 80, (4), 2012, p288 - 292
Notes: [28th February; Epub ahead of print]
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MONECKE S, ENGELMANN I, ARCHAMBAULT M, COLEMAN DC, COOMBS GW, CORTEZ DE JÄCKEL S, PELLETIER-JACQUES G, SCHWARZ S, SHORE AC, SLICKERS P, EHRICHT R, DISTRIBUTION OF SCCmec-ASSOCIATED PHENOL-SOLUBLE MODULIN IN STAPHYLOCOCCI, MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PROBES, 26, (2), 2012, p99 - 103
Notes: [11 January; Epub ahead of print]
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BRENNAN GI, SHORE AC, CORCORAN S, TECKLENBORG S, COLEMAN DC, O'CONNELL B, EMERGENCE OF HOSPITAL- AND COMMUNITY-ASSOCIATED PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN-POSITIVE METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS GENOTYPE ST772-MRSA-V IN IRELAND AND DETAILED INVESTIGATION OF A ST772-MRSA-V CLUSTER IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT , JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 50, (3), 2012, p841 - 847
Notes: [21 December; Epub ahead of print]
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MEDICALLY IMPORTANT CANDIDA SPECIES in, editor(s)RICHARD A. CALDERONE AND CORNELIUS J. CLANCY , CANDIDA AND CANDIDIASIS, 2ND EDITION, WASHINGTON DC, ASM PRESS, 2012, pp11 - 25, [ GARY MORAN, DAVID COLEMAN, AND DEREK SULLIVAN]
GALVIN S, BOYLE M, RUSSELL RJ, COLEMAN DC, CREAMER E, O'GARA JP, FITZGERALD-HUGHES D, HUMPHREYS H, EVALUATION OF VAPORIZED HYDROGEN PEROXIDE, CITROX AND PH NEUTRAL ECASOL FOR DECONTAMINATION OF AN ENCLOSED AREA: A PILOT STUDY, JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION, 80, (1), 2012, p67 - 70
Notes: [28 November; Epub ahead of print]
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