Céline M. O’Gorman

TL;DR: It is shown that A. fumigatus possesses a fully functional sexual reproductive cycle that leads to the production of cleistothecia and ascospores, and the teleomorph Neosartorya fumgata is described, and increased genotypic variation resulting from recombination between mating type and DNA fingerprint markers in ascospore progeny from an Irish environmental subpopulation is demonstrated

TL;DR: It is argued that the formation of cleistothecia and accessory tissues, such as Hülle cells and sclerotia, should be viewed as two independent but co-ordinated developmental pathways.

TL;DR: Sexual crossing experiments demonstrated that TR34/L98H isolates could outcross with azole-susceptible isolates of different genetic backgrounds, suggesting that TR 34/L 98H isolate can undergo the sexual cycle in nature.

TL;DR: Temporal and spatial variations in airborne spore concentrations of selected allergenic and pathogenic fungi were examined in Dublin, Ireland, in 2005, and positive correlations between temperature and Cladosporium and relative humidity and Penicillium and Aspergillus were revealed.

TL;DR: Conditions under which a sexual cycle can be induced leading to production of meiotic ascospores are described and the identified heterothallic sexual cycle was used for strain development purposes, generating offspring with novel combinations of traits relevant to penicillin production.