Dr Ciara Keating

  • Affiliate Researcher (School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine)

Biography

Biography 

I am a trained microbiologist (BSc from the National University of Ireland, Galway [NUIG]). It was here at NUIG that sparked my interest in environmental microbiology and how we can harness the power of these microscopic organisms for biotechnology, agriculture and food production. This led me to pursue a PhD at NUIG, where my primary research focus was on applying microorganisms for biological waste remediation and bioenergy production in low-temperature conditions. In anaerobic digestion, a wide variety of microbes (grouped according to 'job/function') degrade organic material without oxygen and produce methane gas. This methane gas can be used as a form of renewable energy. Globally, as we try to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, these technologies can be a key player in helping us achieve a sustainable future. In 2016, I moved to the University of Glasgow (UoG) to the Water and Environment research group exploring novel anaerobic imaging, international collaborations and bioinformatic approaches in microbiology. I recently moved to the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Medicine to undertake a postdoc in soil microbial communities to diversify my research portfolio. 

My research vision is to understand and harness the true potential of the microbes underpinning various processes to develop more informed means for their manipulation.

Research interests

Current Research

I currently work on a multi-disciplinary grant funded by the BBSRC, NERC, DEFRA and the Scottish government. This project, "Building a decision support tool for potato blackleg disease." led by Prof Ian Toth (The James Hutton Institute) https://www.blackleghub.ac.uk/about-us - brings together everything I love about environmental microbiology. We want to understand the relationship between a pathogen of potatoes (Pectobacterium atrosepticum), the soil microbial community, nematodes and external factors (weather, agricultural practices) and use this to build predictive models for its control. We work closely with stakeholders and form part of a broader bacterial plant diseases research portfolio (https://www.bacterialplantdiseases.uk). 

You can watch me speak about this research here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZu5ZRTw9m4

Previous Research

As PDRA at the Water and Environment Group, I developed a platform for real-time growth analysis of anaerobic microorganisms. Through a collaboration with biomedical engineers, we have explored the use of microfluidic devices within this system to analyse single cells. We can use this platform to understand the complex cell-cell interactions of the species responsible for methane production to improve the macro scale process. This represents a step-change in lab-based methodologies for these difficult to grow microorganisms. 

I've given a seminar to the Mineralogical Society on this work which you can view here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPM-53c_23o&t=3s

Asian Institute of Technology collaboration

At the University of Glasgow, I was involved in a collaboration with the Asian Institute of Technology. This work looks to understand the microbiome of decentralised waste treatment systems. 

 

Funding

  • Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) ECR Catalyst Funding Application (£22,346) “How do free-living nematodes (FLN) interact with the microbial populations in soil?”

  • Society of Applied Microbiology studentship (£2,500) 2021: “B-cin Quest: Development of a curated database and workflow for searching for existing and novel bacteriocins produced by bacterial genera associated with plant pathogens”.

  • Co-supervisory role in mobility schemes: International Research Support Initiative Program (2021-2022), under Higher Education Commission, Pakistan Project Nos. 1-8/HEC/HRD/2021/10904; Project No. 1- 8/HEC/HRD/2020/10901; ~£14K

  • VisNET funding recipient of £4,638 in 2020 – 'Fundamentals in Anaerobic Culturing and Live-Imaging using the AnaeroGrow platform'.

  • Recipient of £2,000 from the Scottish Research Partnership in Engineering (2020) – ‘Utilising microfluidic cell culture to study strict anaerobic microorganisms in the AnaeroGrow platform’.

  • Funding from the Royal Society of Chemistry for Diversity and Inclusion (£2,500) for VisNET Collaboration Event Social Dinner. Written by Mulvana, H.E., Keating, C. et al. (2019).

  • John Robertson Bequest for £1,367 as sole Principle Investigator for a preliminary project supporting fellowship ideas (2018) on salt tolerance in Methanospirillum hungatei.

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Trego, Anna, O'Flaherty, Vincent and Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan (2025) Microbiomes of high-rate anaerobic digestors reveal ‘study’-specific factors and limitations of synthetic wastewater. Water Research, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Ameer, Aqsa, Saleem, Farrukh, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Gundogdu, Ozan, Ijaz, Umer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Javed, Sundus (2024) Dataset of 16S rRNA gene sequences of 111 healthy and Newcastle disease infected caecal samples from multiple chicken breeds of Pakistan. Data In Brief, 57, 110957. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110957)

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Kilbride, Elizabeth, Stalham, Mark A., Nellist, Charlotte, Milner, Joel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295, Humphris, Sonia, Toth, Ian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4966-4727, Mable, Barbara K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7118-4116 and Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 (2024) Balancing the scales: assessing the impact of irrigation and pathogen burden on potato blackleg disease and soil microbial communities. Microbiome, 12, 210. (doi: 10.1186/s40168-024-01918-6)

Ameer, Aqsa, Saleem, Farrukh, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Gundogdu, Ozan, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Javed, Sundus (2024) Dataset of 130 metagenome-assembled genomes of healthy and diseased broiler chicken caeca from Pakistan. Data In Brief, 54, 110487. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110487)

Saleem, Farrukh, Ameer, Aqsa, Star-Shirko, Banaz, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Gundogdu, Ozan, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Javed, Sundus (2024) Dataset of 569 metagenome-assembled genomes from the caeca of multiple chicken breeds from commercial and backyard farming setups of Pakistan. Data In Brief, 54, 110552. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110552)

Gul, Farzana, Herrema, Hilde, Davids, Mark, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Nasir, Arshan, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Javed, Sundus (2024) Gut microbial ecology and exposome of a healthy Pakistani cohort. Gut Pathogens, 16, 5. (doi: 10.1186/s13099-024-00596-x)

2023

Singh, Suniti, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Hassard, Francis (2023) Molecular insights informing factors affecting low temperature anaerobic applications: diversity, collated core microbiomes and complexity stability relationships in LCFA-fed systems. Science of the Total Environment, 874, 162420. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162420) (PMID:36842571)

Batool, Maria, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Javed, Sundus, Nasir, Arshan, Muddassar, Muhammad and Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 (2023) A cross-sectional study of potential antimicrobial resistance and ecology in gastrointestinal and oral microbial communities of young normoweight Pakistani individuals. Microorganisms, 11(2), 279. (doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11020279) (PMID:36838244) (PMCID:PMC9965051)

2022

Trego, Anna, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Nzeteu, Corine, Graham, ALison, O'Flaherty, Vincent and Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 (2022) Beyond basic diversity estimates – analytical tools for mechanistic interpretations of amplicon sequencing data. Microorganisms, 10(10), 1961. (doi: 10.3390/microorganisms10101961) (PMID:36296237) (PMCID:PMC9609705)

Ijaz, U. Z. et al. (2022) Analysis of pit latrine microbiota reveals depth-related variation in composition, and key parameters and taxa associated with latrine fill-up rate. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 960747. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.960747) (PMID:36212864) (PMCID:PMC9539666)

Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Bolton-Warberg, M., Hinchcliffe, J., Davies, R., Whelan, S., Wan, A.H.L., Fitzgerald, R.D., Davies, S.J., Smith, C.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0730 and Ijaz, U.Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 (2022) Drivers of ecological assembly in the hindgut of Atlantic Cod fed a macroalgal supplemented diet. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 8, 36. (doi: 10.1038/s41522-022-00296-x) (PMID:35508464) (PMCID:PMC9068720)

Rashid, Aneeba, Mirza, Safdar A., Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Ali, Sikander and Campos, Luiza C. (2022) Indigenous Bacillus paramycoides spp. and Alcaligenes faecalis: sustainable solution for bioremediation of hospital wastewater. Environmental Technology, 43(12), pp. 1903-1916. (doi: 10.1080/09593330.2020.1858180) (PMID:33342352)

Rashid, Aneeba, Mirza, Safdar A., Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Ijaz, Umer Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551, Ali, Sikander and Campos, Luiza C. (2022) Machine learning approach to predict quality parameters for bacterial consortium-treated hospital wastewater and phytotoxicity assessment on radish, cauliflower, hot pepper, rice and wheat crops. Water, 14(1), 116. (doi: 10.3390/w14010116)

2021

Trego, Anna Christine, Conall Holohan, B., Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Graham, Alison, O'Connor, Sandra, Gerardo, Michael, Hughes, Dermot, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and O'Flaherty, Vincent (2021) First proof of concept for full-scale, direct, low-temperature anaerobic treatment of municipal wastewater. Bioresource Technology, 341, 125786. (doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125786) (PMID:34523560)

Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Bolton-Warberg, M., Hinchcliffe, J., Davies, R., Whelan, S., Wan, A.H.L., Fitzgerald, R.D., Davies, S.J., Ijaz, U.Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Smith, C.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0730 (2021) Temporal changes in the gut microbiota in farmed Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) outweigh the response to diet supplementation with macroalgae. Animal Microbiome, 3, 7. (doi: 10.1186/s42523-020-00065-1) (PMID:33500003) (PMCID:PMC7934267)

Rashid, Aneeba, Mirza, Safdar A., Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Ali, Sikander and Campos, Luiza C. (2021) Hospital wastewater treated with a novel bacterial consortium (Alcaligenes faecalis and Bacillus paramycoides spp.) for phytotoxicity reduction in Berseem clover and Tomato crops. Water Science and Technology, 83(7), pp. 1764-1780. (doi: 10.2166/wst.2021.079) (PMID:33843758)

2019

Connelly, Stephanie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5261-2090, Pussayanavin, Tatchai, Randle-Boggis, Richard, Wicheansan, Araya, Jampathong, Suparat, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Ijaz, Umer Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551, Sloan, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 and Koottatep, Thammarat (2019) Solar Septic Tank: next generation sequencing reveals effluent microbial community composition as a useful index of system performance. Water, 11(12), 2660. (doi: 10.3390/w11122660)

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Song, Yanqing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-4016, Ogundero, Ayo, Mathur, Neha ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2918-6908, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro, Rebeca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4000-5928, Quince, Christopher, Collins, Gavin, Yin, Huabing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7693-377X and Sloan, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2019) Development of a Novel Anaerobic Incubation and Monitoring Platform Embedded with Microfluidics for Real-Time Growth Analysis of Anaerobic Cells. The Gordon Research Seminar on Archaea: Ecology, Metabolism and Molecular Biology, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 20-21 July 2019.

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Hinchcliff, James, Davies, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6342-2222, Wan, Alexander, Davies, Simon, Fitzgerald, Richard, Ijaz, Umer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551, Smith, Cindy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0730 and Bolton, Majbritt (2019) Effects of Supplementing a Fishmeal Diet with Algae on the Hindgut Microbiome of Farmed Atlantic Cod (Gadus Morhua) [Poster]. 8th Congress of European Microbiologists, Glasgow, UK, 07-11 Jul 2019.

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Song, Yanqing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-4016, Ogundero, Ayo, Mathur, Neha ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2918-6908, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro, Rebeca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4000-5928, Quince, Chris, Collins, Gavin, Yin, Huabing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7693-377X and Sloan, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2019) Single-Cell Real Time Analysis of the Anaerobic Bacteria Desulfovibrio Vulgaris Demonstrates Population Heterogeneity That Decreases with Increasing pH Stress [Poster]. 8th Congress of European Microbiologists, Glasgow, UK, 07-11 Jul 2019.

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Song, Yanqing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-4016, Ogundero, Ayo, Mathur, Neha ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2918-6908, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro, Rebeca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4000-5928, Quince, Chris, Collins, Gavin, Yin, Huabing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7693-377X and Sloan, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2019) Single-Cell Real Time Analysis of the Anaerobic Bacteria Desulfovibrio Vulgaris Demonstrates Population Heterogeneity That Decreases with Increasing pH Stress [Poster]. 16th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion (AD16), Delft, The Netherlands, 23-27 Jun 2019.

2018

Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Hughes, D., Mahony, T., Cysneiros, D., Ijaz, U.Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551, Smith, C.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0730 and O‘Flaherty, V. (2018) Cold adaptation and replicable microbial community development during long-term low temperature anaerobic digestion treatment of synthetic sewage. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(7), fiy095. (doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiy095) (PMID:29846574) (PMCID:PMC5995215)

2017

Tsagkari, Erifyli ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7810-3048, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Couto, Jillian M. and Sloan, William T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2017) A keystone Methylobacterium strain in biofilm formation in drinking water. Water, 9(10), 778. (doi: 10.3390/w9100778)

Tsagkari, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7810-3048, Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Couto, J. and Sloan, W.T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2017) Impact of a Methylobacterium Species in Drinking Water Biofilms. Eurobiofilms 2017. 5th European Congress on Microbial Biofilms, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 19-22 September 2017.

2016

Boura, Marcia, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Royet, Kevin, Paudyal, Ranju, O'Donoghue, Beth, O'Byrne, Conor P. and Karatzas, Kimon A.G. (2016) Loss of SigB in listeria monocytogenes strains EGD-e and 10403S confers hyperresistance to hydrogen peroxide in stationary phase under aerobic conditions. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(15), pp. 4584-4591. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.00709-16) (PMID:27208116) (PMCID:PMC4984283)

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Chin, Jason P., Hughes, Dermot, Manesiotis, Panagiotis, Cysneiros, Denise, Mahony, Therese, Smith, Cindy J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0730, McGrath, John W. and O’Flaherty, Vincent (2016) Biological phosphorus removal during high-rate, low-temperature, anaerobic digestion of wastewater. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7, 226. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00226) (PMID:26973608) (PMCID:PMC4776080)

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Song, Yanqing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-4016, Quince, Chris, Collins, Gavin, Yin, Huabing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7693-377X and Sloan, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2016) Understanding Syntrophy in Anaerobic Digestion. Brazil Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop – Water, Sanitation, Energy Nexus, Goania, Brazil, 13-16 Sep 2016.

Tsagkari, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7810-3048, Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068 and Sloan, W.T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2016) Turbulence Promotes Core-and-mantle Structure in Drinking Water Bacterial Aggregates. MEWE 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-7 Sept 2016.

2015

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, Denise, Hughes, Dermot, Mahony, Therese and O'Flaherty, Vincent (2015) Bioreactor Performance, Hydrolysis and Microbial Community Development During Anaerobic Treatment of Synthetic Sewage. Society of General Microbiology, Irish Division Meeting: Microbial Interfaces, Galway, Ireland, 17-19 Jun 2015.

2013

Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, D., Mahony, T. and O'Flaherty, V. (2013) The hydrolysis and biogas production of complex cellulosic substrates using three anaerobic biomass sources. Water Science and Technology, 67(2), pp. 293-298. (doi: 10.2166/wst.2012.543) (PMID:23168626)

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, Denise, Hughes, Dermot, Mahony, Therese and O'Flaherty, Vincent (2013) Bioreactor Performance, Hydrolysis and Microbial Community Development During Anaerobic Treatment of Synthetic Sewage. 13th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion (AD13), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 25-28 Jun 2013.

2012

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, Denise, Hughes, Dermot, Mahony, Therese and O'Flaherty, Vincent (2012) Hydrolytic Community Development in Low Temperature Anaerobic Bioreactors Treating Synthetic Sewage [Poster]. ISME14, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-21 Aug 2012.

2011

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, Denise, Hughes, Dermot, Mahony, Therese and O'Flaherty, Vincent (2011) Hydrolysis and Methanogenesis of Complex Substrates by Three Anaerobic Biomass Sources. IWA-Symposium on Anaerobic Digestion of Solid Waste and Energy Crops, Vienna, Austria, 28 Aug - 01 Sep 2011.

2010

Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, D., Thuillier, M., Villemont, R., Mahony, T. and O'Flaherty, V. (2010) Hydrolysis of Cellulose-Rich Substrates in Psychrophilic and Mesophilic Leach-Bed Reactors [Poster]. 12th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion (AD12), Guadalajara, Mexico, 31 Oct - 04 Nov 2010.

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Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Trego, Anna, O'Flaherty, Vincent and Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan (2025) Microbiomes of high-rate anaerobic digestors reveal ‘study’-specific factors and limitations of synthetic wastewater. Water Research, (Accepted for Publication)

Ameer, Aqsa, Saleem, Farrukh, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Gundogdu, Ozan, Ijaz, Umer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Javed, Sundus (2024) Dataset of 16S rRNA gene sequences of 111 healthy and Newcastle disease infected caecal samples from multiple chicken breeds of Pakistan. Data In Brief, 57, 110957. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110957)

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Kilbride, Elizabeth, Stalham, Mark A., Nellist, Charlotte, Milner, Joel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295, Humphris, Sonia, Toth, Ian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4966-4727, Mable, Barbara K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7118-4116 and Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 (2024) Balancing the scales: assessing the impact of irrigation and pathogen burden on potato blackleg disease and soil microbial communities. Microbiome, 12, 210. (doi: 10.1186/s40168-024-01918-6)

Ameer, Aqsa, Saleem, Farrukh, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Gundogdu, Ozan, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Javed, Sundus (2024) Dataset of 130 metagenome-assembled genomes of healthy and diseased broiler chicken caeca from Pakistan. Data In Brief, 54, 110487. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110487)

Saleem, Farrukh, Ameer, Aqsa, Star-Shirko, Banaz, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Gundogdu, Ozan, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Javed, Sundus (2024) Dataset of 569 metagenome-assembled genomes from the caeca of multiple chicken breeds from commercial and backyard farming setups of Pakistan. Data In Brief, 54, 110552. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110552)

Gul, Farzana, Herrema, Hilde, Davids, Mark, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Nasir, Arshan, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Javed, Sundus (2024) Gut microbial ecology and exposome of a healthy Pakistani cohort. Gut Pathogens, 16, 5. (doi: 10.1186/s13099-024-00596-x)

Singh, Suniti, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Hassard, Francis (2023) Molecular insights informing factors affecting low temperature anaerobic applications: diversity, collated core microbiomes and complexity stability relationships in LCFA-fed systems. Science of the Total Environment, 874, 162420. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162420) (PMID:36842571)

Batool, Maria, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Javed, Sundus, Nasir, Arshan, Muddassar, Muhammad and Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 (2023) A cross-sectional study of potential antimicrobial resistance and ecology in gastrointestinal and oral microbial communities of young normoweight Pakistani individuals. Microorganisms, 11(2), 279. (doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11020279) (PMID:36838244) (PMCID:PMC9965051)

Trego, Anna, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Nzeteu, Corine, Graham, ALison, O'Flaherty, Vincent and Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 (2022) Beyond basic diversity estimates – analytical tools for mechanistic interpretations of amplicon sequencing data. Microorganisms, 10(10), 1961. (doi: 10.3390/microorganisms10101961) (PMID:36296237) (PMCID:PMC9609705)

Ijaz, U. Z. et al. (2022) Analysis of pit latrine microbiota reveals depth-related variation in composition, and key parameters and taxa associated with latrine fill-up rate. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 960747. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.960747) (PMID:36212864) (PMCID:PMC9539666)

Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Bolton-Warberg, M., Hinchcliffe, J., Davies, R., Whelan, S., Wan, A.H.L., Fitzgerald, R.D., Davies, S.J., Smith, C.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0730 and Ijaz, U.Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 (2022) Drivers of ecological assembly in the hindgut of Atlantic Cod fed a macroalgal supplemented diet. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 8, 36. (doi: 10.1038/s41522-022-00296-x) (PMID:35508464) (PMCID:PMC9068720)

Rashid, Aneeba, Mirza, Safdar A., Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Ali, Sikander and Campos, Luiza C. (2022) Indigenous Bacillus paramycoides spp. and Alcaligenes faecalis: sustainable solution for bioremediation of hospital wastewater. Environmental Technology, 43(12), pp. 1903-1916. (doi: 10.1080/09593330.2020.1858180) (PMID:33342352)

Rashid, Aneeba, Mirza, Safdar A., Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Ijaz, Umer Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551, Ali, Sikander and Campos, Luiza C. (2022) Machine learning approach to predict quality parameters for bacterial consortium-treated hospital wastewater and phytotoxicity assessment on radish, cauliflower, hot pepper, rice and wheat crops. Water, 14(1), 116. (doi: 10.3390/w14010116)

Trego, Anna Christine, Conall Holohan, B., Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Graham, Alison, O'Connor, Sandra, Gerardo, Michael, Hughes, Dermot, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and O'Flaherty, Vincent (2021) First proof of concept for full-scale, direct, low-temperature anaerobic treatment of municipal wastewater. Bioresource Technology, 341, 125786. (doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125786) (PMID:34523560)

Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Bolton-Warberg, M., Hinchcliffe, J., Davies, R., Whelan, S., Wan, A.H.L., Fitzgerald, R.D., Davies, S.J., Ijaz, U.Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551 and Smith, C.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0730 (2021) Temporal changes in the gut microbiota in farmed Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) outweigh the response to diet supplementation with macroalgae. Animal Microbiome, 3, 7. (doi: 10.1186/s42523-020-00065-1) (PMID:33500003) (PMCID:PMC7934267)

Rashid, Aneeba, Mirza, Safdar A., Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Ali, Sikander and Campos, Luiza C. (2021) Hospital wastewater treated with a novel bacterial consortium (Alcaligenes faecalis and Bacillus paramycoides spp.) for phytotoxicity reduction in Berseem clover and Tomato crops. Water Science and Technology, 83(7), pp. 1764-1780. (doi: 10.2166/wst.2021.079) (PMID:33843758)

Connelly, Stephanie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5261-2090, Pussayanavin, Tatchai, Randle-Boggis, Richard, Wicheansan, Araya, Jampathong, Suparat, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Ijaz, Umer Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551, Sloan, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 and Koottatep, Thammarat (2019) Solar Septic Tank: next generation sequencing reveals effluent microbial community composition as a useful index of system performance. Water, 11(12), 2660. (doi: 10.3390/w11122660)

Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Hughes, D., Mahony, T., Cysneiros, D., Ijaz, U.Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551, Smith, C.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0730 and O‘Flaherty, V. (2018) Cold adaptation and replicable microbial community development during long-term low temperature anaerobic digestion treatment of synthetic sewage. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(7), fiy095. (doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiy095) (PMID:29846574) (PMCID:PMC5995215)

Tsagkari, Erifyli ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7810-3048, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Couto, Jillian M. and Sloan, William T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2017) A keystone Methylobacterium strain in biofilm formation in drinking water. Water, 9(10), 778. (doi: 10.3390/w9100778)

Boura, Marcia, Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Royet, Kevin, Paudyal, Ranju, O'Donoghue, Beth, O'Byrne, Conor P. and Karatzas, Kimon A.G. (2016) Loss of SigB in listeria monocytogenes strains EGD-e and 10403S confers hyperresistance to hydrogen peroxide in stationary phase under aerobic conditions. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(15), pp. 4584-4591. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.00709-16) (PMID:27208116) (PMCID:PMC4984283)

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Chin, Jason P., Hughes, Dermot, Manesiotis, Panagiotis, Cysneiros, Denise, Mahony, Therese, Smith, Cindy J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0730, McGrath, John W. and O’Flaherty, Vincent (2016) Biological phosphorus removal during high-rate, low-temperature, anaerobic digestion of wastewater. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7, 226. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00226) (PMID:26973608) (PMCID:PMC4776080)

Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, D., Mahony, T. and O'Flaherty, V. (2013) The hydrolysis and biogas production of complex cellulosic substrates using three anaerobic biomass sources. Water Science and Technology, 67(2), pp. 293-298. (doi: 10.2166/wst.2012.543) (PMID:23168626)

Conference or Workshop Item

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Song, Yanqing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-4016, Ogundero, Ayo, Mathur, Neha ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2918-6908, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro, Rebeca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4000-5928, Quince, Christopher, Collins, Gavin, Yin, Huabing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7693-377X and Sloan, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2019) Development of a Novel Anaerobic Incubation and Monitoring Platform Embedded with Microfluidics for Real-Time Growth Analysis of Anaerobic Cells. The Gordon Research Seminar on Archaea: Ecology, Metabolism and Molecular Biology, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 20-21 July 2019.

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Hinchcliff, James, Davies, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6342-2222, Wan, Alexander, Davies, Simon, Fitzgerald, Richard, Ijaz, Umer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551, Smith, Cindy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0730 and Bolton, Majbritt (2019) Effects of Supplementing a Fishmeal Diet with Algae on the Hindgut Microbiome of Farmed Atlantic Cod (Gadus Morhua) [Poster]. 8th Congress of European Microbiologists, Glasgow, UK, 07-11 Jul 2019.

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Song, Yanqing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-4016, Ogundero, Ayo, Mathur, Neha ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2918-6908, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro, Rebeca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4000-5928, Quince, Chris, Collins, Gavin, Yin, Huabing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7693-377X and Sloan, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2019) Single-Cell Real Time Analysis of the Anaerobic Bacteria Desulfovibrio Vulgaris Demonstrates Population Heterogeneity That Decreases with Increasing pH Stress [Poster]. 8th Congress of European Microbiologists, Glasgow, UK, 07-11 Jul 2019.

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Song, Yanqing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-4016, Ogundero, Ayo, Mathur, Neha ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2918-6908, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro, Rebeca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4000-5928, Quince, Chris, Collins, Gavin, Yin, Huabing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7693-377X and Sloan, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2019) Single-Cell Real Time Analysis of the Anaerobic Bacteria Desulfovibrio Vulgaris Demonstrates Population Heterogeneity That Decreases with Increasing pH Stress [Poster]. 16th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion (AD16), Delft, The Netherlands, 23-27 Jun 2019.

Tsagkari, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7810-3048, Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Couto, J. and Sloan, W.T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2017) Impact of a Methylobacterium Species in Drinking Water Biofilms. Eurobiofilms 2017. 5th European Congress on Microbial Biofilms, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 19-22 September 2017.

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Song, Yanqing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-4016, Quince, Chris, Collins, Gavin, Yin, Huabing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7693-377X and Sloan, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2016) Understanding Syntrophy in Anaerobic Digestion. Brazil Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop – Water, Sanitation, Energy Nexus, Goania, Brazil, 13-16 Sep 2016.

Tsagkari, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7810-3048, Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068 and Sloan, W.T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384 (2016) Turbulence Promotes Core-and-mantle Structure in Drinking Water Bacterial Aggregates. MEWE 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-7 Sept 2016.

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, Denise, Hughes, Dermot, Mahony, Therese and O'Flaherty, Vincent (2015) Bioreactor Performance, Hydrolysis and Microbial Community Development During Anaerobic Treatment of Synthetic Sewage. Society of General Microbiology, Irish Division Meeting: Microbial Interfaces, Galway, Ireland, 17-19 Jun 2015.

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, Denise, Hughes, Dermot, Mahony, Therese and O'Flaherty, Vincent (2013) Bioreactor Performance, Hydrolysis and Microbial Community Development During Anaerobic Treatment of Synthetic Sewage. 13th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion (AD13), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 25-28 Jun 2013.

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, Denise, Hughes, Dermot, Mahony, Therese and O'Flaherty, Vincent (2012) Hydrolytic Community Development in Low Temperature Anaerobic Bioreactors Treating Synthetic Sewage [Poster]. ISME14, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-21 Aug 2012.

Keating, Ciara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, Denise, Hughes, Dermot, Mahony, Therese and O'Flaherty, Vincent (2011) Hydrolysis and Methanogenesis of Complex Substrates by Three Anaerobic Biomass Sources. IWA-Symposium on Anaerobic Digestion of Solid Waste and Energy Crops, Vienna, Austria, 28 Aug - 01 Sep 2011.

Keating, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-3068, Cysneiros, D., Thuillier, M., Villemont, R., Mahony, T. and O'Flaherty, V. (2010) Hydrolysis of Cellulose-Rich Substrates in Psychrophilic and Mesophilic Leach-Bed Reactors [Poster]. 12th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion (AD12), Guadalajara, Mexico, 31 Oct - 04 Nov 2010.

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • How do free-living nematodes (FLN) interact with the microbial populations in soil?
    Wellcome Trust
    2021 - 2023
     

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2017: (Prof. Anthony Moran Prize)

Selected international presentations

  • 2019: Gordon Research Conference on 'Archaea' (Les Diablerets, Switzerland)

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