By Adjunct Professor Brett Anthony Neilan

Journal articles

D'Agostino PM; Woodhouse JN; Liew HT; Sehnal L; Pickford R; Wong HL; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2019, 'Bioinformatic, phylogenetic and chemical analysis of the UV-absorbing compounds scytonemin and mycosporine-like amino acids from the microbial mat communities of Shark Bay, Australia', Environmental Microbiology, 21, pp. 702 - 715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14517

D'Agostino PM; Boundy MJ; Harwood TD; Carmichael WW; Neilan BA; Wood SA, 2019, 'Re-evaluation of paralytic shellfish toxin profiles in cyanobacteria using hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry', Toxicon, 158, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2018.11.301

Pearson LA; Crosbie ND; Neilan BA, 2019, 'Distribution and conservation of known secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in the genomes of geographically diverse Microcystis aeruginosa strains', Marine and Freshwater Research, 71, pp. 701 - 716, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF18406

Hardwick SA; Chen WY; Wong T; Kanakamedala BS; Deveson IW; Ongley SE; Santini NS; Marcellin E; Smith MA; Nielsen LK; Lovelock CE; Neilan BA; Mercer TR, 2018, 'Synthetic microbe communities provide internal reference standards for metagenome sequencing and analysis', Nature Communications, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05555-0

Cullen A; D'Agostino PM; Mazmouz R; Pickford R; Wood S; Neilan BA, 2018, 'Insertions within the Saxitoxin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Result in Differential Toxin Profiles', ACS Chemical Biology, 13, pp. 3107 - 3114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.8b00608

Vardeh DP; Woodhouse JN; Neilan BA, 2018, 'Microbial diversity of speleothems in two southeast Australian limestone cave arches', Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 80, pp. 121 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.4311/2017MB0119

Chilton AM; Neilan BA; Eldridge DJ, 2018, 'Biocrust morphology is linked to marked differences in microbial community composition', Plant and Soil, 429, pp. 65 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-017-3442-3

Muñoz-Rojas M; Chilton A; Liyanage GS; Erickson TE; Merritt DJ; Neilan BA; Ooi MKJ; Munoz-Rojas M, 2018, 'Effects of indigenous soil cyanobacteria on seed germination and seedling growth of arid species used in restoration', Plant and Soil, 429, pp. 91 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-018-3607-8

White RA; Wong HL; Ruvindy R; Neilan BA; Burns BP, 2018, 'Viral communities of Shark Bay modern stromatolites', Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, pp. 1223, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01223

Woodhouse JN; Ziegler J; Grossart HP; Neilan BA, 2018, 'Cyanobacterial community composition and bacteria-bacteria interactions promote the stable occurrence of particle-associated bacteria', Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00777

Liu T; Mazmouz R; Neilan BA, 2018, 'An in Vitro and in Vivo Study of Broad-Range Phosphopantetheinyl Transferases for Heterologous Expression of Cyanobacterial Natural Products', ACS Synthetic Biology, 7, pp. 1143 - 1151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00091

Willis A; Woodhouse JN; Ongley SE; Jex AR; Burford MA; Neilan BA, 2018, 'Genome variation in nine co-occurring toxic Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii strains', Harmful Algae, 73, pp. 157 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2018.03.001

Mello FD; Braidy N; Marçal H; Guillemin G; Nabavi SM; Neilan BA, 2018, 'Mechanisms and Effects Posed by Neurotoxic Products of Cyanobacteria/Microbial Eukaryotes/Dinoflagellates in Algae Blooms: a Review', Neurotoxicity Research, 33, pp. 153 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12640-017-9780-3

Mazmouz R; Liu T; Neilan B; Mejean A; Ploux O, 2018, 'Cyanotoxins: Toxins from prokaryotic blue-green algae with immense impact', Toxicon, 149, pp. 101 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2018.02.023

Osborne N; Dawson A; Buckley N; Neilan B; Mueller J; Mohamed F, 2018, 'Water Quality and Links to Undetermined CKD in Sri Lanka: An Ecological Pilot Study', ISEE Conference Abstracts, 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/isee.2017.2017-351

Pereyra JPA; D'Agostino PM; Mazmouz R; Woodhouse JN; Pickford R; Jameson I; Neilan BA, 2017, 'Molecular and morphological survey of saxitoxin-producing cyanobacterium Dolichospermum circinale (Anabaena circinalis) isolated from geographically distinct regions of Australia', Toxicon, 138, pp. 68 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2017.08.006

Kuenstner JT; Naser S; Chamberlin W; Borody T; Graham DY; McNees A; Hermon-Taylor J; Hermon-Taylor A; Thomas Dow C; Thayer W; Biesecker J; Collins MT; Sechi LA; Singh SV; Zhang P; Shafran I; Weg S; Telega G; Rothstein R; Oken H; Schimpff S; Bach H; Bull T; Grant I; Ellingson J; Dahmen H; Lipton J; Gupta S; Chaubey K; Singh M; Agarwal P; Kumar A; Misri J; Sohal J; Dhama K; Hemati Z; Davis W; Hier M; Aitken J; Pierce E; Parrish N; Goldberg N; Kali M; Bendre S; Agrawal G; Baldassano R; Linn P; Sweeney RW; Fecteau M; Hofstaedter C; Potula R; Timofeeva O; Geier S; John K; Zayanni N; Malaty HM; Kahlenborn C; Kravitz A; Bulfon A; Daskalopoulos G; Mitchell H; Neilan B; Timms V; Cossu D; Mameli G; Angermeier P; Jelic T; Goethe R; Juste RA; Kuenstner L, 2017, 'The consensus from the Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) conference 2017', Frontiers in Public Health, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00208

Liu T; Mazmouz R; Ongley SE; Chau R; Pickford R; Woodhouse JN; Neilan BA, 2017, 'Directing the Heterologous Production of Specific Cyanobacterial Toxin Variants', ACS Chemical Biology, 12, pp. 2021 - 2029, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.7b00181

Eldridge DJ; Delgado-Baquerizo M; Woodhouse JN; Neilan BA, 2017, 'Contrasting effects of two mammalian soil engineers on microbial communities', Austral Ecology, 42, pp. 380 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12467

Alvin A; Kim J; Jeong GT; Tsang YF; Kwon EE; Neilan BA; Jeon YJ, 2017, 'Industrial robustness linked to the gluconolactonase from Zymomonas mobilis', Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 101, pp. 5089 - 5099, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00253-017-8248-y

Hudek L; Torriero AAJ; Michalczyk AA; Neilan BA; Ackland ML; Bräu L, 2017, 'Peroxide reduction by a metal-dependent catalase in Nostoc punctiforme (cyanobacteria)', Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 101, pp. 3781 - 3800, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00253-017-8130-y

D‘Mello F; Braidy N; Marçal H; Guillemin G; Rossi F; Chinian M; Laurent D; Teo C; Neilan BA, 2017, 'Cytotoxic Effects of Environmental Toxins on Human Glial Cells', Neurotoxicity Research, 31, pp. 245 - 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12640-016-9678-5

Yeung T; Kwan M; Adler L; Mills TJ; Neilan BA; Conibeer G; Patterson R, 2017, 'Increased methane production in cyanobacteria and methanogenic microbe co-cultures', Bioresource Technology, 243, pp. 686 - 692, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2017.06.126

Garby TJ; Matys ED; Ongley SE; Salih A; Larkum AWD; Walter MR; Summons RE; Neilan BA, 2017, 'Lack of methylated hopanoids renders the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme sensitive to osmotic and pH stress', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00777-17

Köker L; Akçaalan R; Albay M; Neilan BA, 2017, 'Molecular detection of hepatotoxic cyanobacteria in inland water bodies of the Marmara region, Turkey', Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/aiol.2017.6394

Vázquez-Campos X; Kinsela AS; Collins RN; Neilan BA; Waite TD, 2017, 'Uranium extraction from a low-grade, stockpiled, non-sulfidic ore: Impact of added iron and the native microbial consortia', Hydrometallurgy, 167, pp. 81 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hydromet.2016.11.002

Eldridge DJ; Delgado-Baquerizo M; Woodhouse JN; Neilan BA, 2016, 'Mammalian engineers drive soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions across a disturbance gradient', Journal of Animal Ecology, 85, pp. 1636 - 1646, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12574

Ongley SE; Pengelly JJL; Neilan BA, 2016, 'A multidrug efflux response to methyl viologen and acriflavine toxicity in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803', Journal of Applied Phycology, 28, pp. 2793 - 2803, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10811-016-0816-5

Willis A; Chuang AW; Woodhouse JN; Neilan BA; Burford MA, 2016, 'Intraspecific variation in growth, morphology and toxin quotas for the cyanobacterium, Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii', Toxicon, 119, pp. 307 - 310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2016.07.005

Woodhouse JN; Kinsela AS; Collins RN; Bowling LC; Honeyman GL; Holliday JK; Neilan BA, 2016, 'Microbial communities reflect temporal changes in cyanobacterial composition in a shallow ephemeral freshwater lake', ISME Journal, 10, pp. 1337 - 1351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.218

Alvin A; Kalaitzis JA; Sasia B; Neilan BA, 2016, 'Combined genetic and bioactivity-based prioritization leads to the isolation of an endophyte-derived antimycobacterial compound', Journal of Applied Microbiology, 120, pp. 1229 - 1239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jam.13062

D'Agostino PM; Woodhouse JN; Makower AK; Yeung ACY; Ongley SE; Micallef ML; Moffitt MC; Neilan BA, 2016, 'Advances in genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics of toxin-producing cyanobacteria', Environmental Microbiology Reports, 8, pp. 3 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12366

Ongley SE; Pengelly JJL; Neilan BA, 2016, 'Elevated Na⁺ and pH influence the production and transport of saxitoxin in the cyanobacteria Anabaena circinalisAWQC131C and Cylindrospermopsis raciborskiiT3', Environmental Microbiology, 18, pp. 427 - 438, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13048

D'Agostino PM; Song X; Neilan BA; Moffitt MC, 2016, 'Proteogenomics of a saxitoxin-producing and non-toxic strain of Anabaena circinalis (cyanobacteria) in response to extracellular NaCl and phosphate depletion', Environmental Microbiology, 18, pp. 461 - 476, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13131

Alexova R; Dang TC; Fujii M; Raftery MJ; Waite TD; Ferrari BC; Neilan BA, 2016, 'Specific global responses to N and Fe nutrition in toxic and non-toxic Microcystis aeruginosa', Environmental Microbiology, 18, pp. 401 - 413, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12958

Timms VJ; Daskalopoulos G; Mitchell HM; Neilan BA, 2016, 'The association of mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis with inflammatory bowel disease', PLoS ONE, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148731

Lawes JC; Neilan BA; Brown MV; Clark GF; Johnston EL, 2016, 'Elevated nutrients change bacterial community composition and connectivity: high throughput sequencing of young marine biofilms', Biofouling, 32, pp. 57 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2015.1126581

D'Agostino PM; Javalkote VS; Mazmouz R; Pickford R; Puranik PR; Neilan BA, 2016, 'Comparative profiling and discovery of novel glycosylated mycosporine-like amino acids in two strains of the cyanobacterium Scytonema cf. crispum', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82, pp. 5951 - 5959, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01633-16

Kalaitzis JA; Ingrey SD; Chau R; Simon Y; Neilan BA, 2016, 'Genome-Guided Discovery of Natural Products and Biosynthetic Pathways from Australia's Untapped Microbial Megadiversity', Australian Journal of Chemistry, 69, pp. 129 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH15601

Katoch M; Mazmouz R; Chau R; Pearson LA; Pickford R; Neilan BA, 2016, 'Heterologous production of cyanobacterial mycosporine-like amino acids mycosporine-ornithine and mycosporine-lysine in Escherichia coli', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82, pp. 6167 - 6173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01632-16

Yeung ACY; D'Agostino PM; Poljak A; McDonald J; Bligh MW; Waite TD; Neilan BA, 2016, 'Physiological and proteomic responses of continuous cultures of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806 to changes in iron bioavailability and growth rate', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82, pp. 5918 - 5929, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01207-16

Pearson LA; Dittmann E; Mazmouz R; Ongley SE; D'Agostino PM; Neilan BA, 2016, 'The genetics, biosynthesis and regulation of toxic specialized metabolites of cyanobacteria', Harmful Algae, 54, pp. 98 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2015.11.002

Burford MA; Beardall J; Willis A; Orr PT; Magalhaes VF; Rangel LM; Azevedo SMFOE; Neilan BA, 2016, 'Understanding the winning strategies used by the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii', Harmful Algae, 54, pp. 44 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2015.10.012

Ruvindy R; White RA; Neilan BA; Burns BP, 2016, 'Unravelling core microbial metabolisms in the hypersaline microbial mats of Shark Bay using high-throughput metagenomics', ISME Journal, 10, pp. 183 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.87

Chen JK; Yang D; Shen B; Neilan BA; Murray V, 2016, 'Zorbamycin has a different DNA sequence selectivity compared with bleomycin and analogues', Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 24, pp. 6094 - 6101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2016.09.072

Eldridge DJ; Woodhouse JN; Curlevski NJA; Hayward M; Brown MV; Neilan BA, 2015, 'Soil-foraging animals alter the composition and co-occurrence of microbial communities in a desert shrubland', ISME Journal, 9, pp. 2671 - 2681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.70

Hudek L; Bräu L; Michalczyk AA; Neilan BA; Meeks JC; Ackland ML, 2015, 'The ZntA-like NpunR4017 plays a key role in maintaining homeostatic levels of zinc in Nostoc punctiforme', Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 99, pp. 10559 - 10574, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00253-015-6922-5

Hudek L; Pearson L; Michalczyk AA; Bräu L; Neilan BA; Ackland ML, 2015, 'Characterization of two cation diffusion facilitators NpunF0707 and NpunF1794 in Nostoc punctiforme', Journal of Applied Microbiology, 119, pp. 1357 - 1370, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jam.12942

Timms VJ; Hassan KA; Mitchell HM; Neilan BA, 2015, 'Comparative genomics between human and animal associated subspecies of the Mycobacterium avium complex: A basis for pathogenicity', BMC Genomics, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1889-2

Medema MH; Kottmann R; Yilmaz P; Cummings M; Biggins JB; Blin K; De Bruijn I; Chooi YH; Claesen J; Coates RC; Cruz-Morales P; Duddela S; Düsterhus S; Edwards DJ; Fewer DP; Garg N; Geiger C; Gomez-Escribano JP; Greule A; Hadjithomas M; Haines AS; Helfrich EJN; Hillwig ML; Ishida K; Jones AC; Jones CS; Jungmann K; Kegler C; Kim HU; Kötter P; Krug D; Masschelein J; Melnik AV; Mantovani SM; Monroe EA; Moore M; Moss N; Nützmann HW; Pan G; Pati A; Petras D; Reen FJ; Rosconi F; Rui Z; Tian Z; Tobias NJ; Tsunematsu Y; Wiemann P; Wyckoff E; Yan X; Yim G; Yu F; Xie Y; Aigle B; Apel AK; Balibar CJ; Balskus EP; Barona-Gómez F; Bechthold A; Bode HB; Borriss R; Brady SF; Brakhage AA; Caffrey P; Cheng YQ; Clardy J; Cox RJ; De Mot R; Donadio S; Donia MS; Van Der Donk WA; Dorrestein PC; Doyle S; Driessen AJM; Ehling-Schulz M; Entian KD; Fischbach MA; Gerwick L; Gerwick WH; Gross H; Gust B; Hertweck C; Höfte M; Jensen SE; Ju J; Katz L; Kaysser L; Klassen JL; Keller NP; Kormanec J; Kuipers OP; Kuzuyama T; Kyrpides NC; Kwon HJ; Lautru S; Lavigne R; Lee CY; Linquan B; Liu X; Liu W, 2015, 'Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster', Nature Chemical Biology, 11, pp. 625 - 631, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1890

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