By Adjunct Professor Brett Anthony Neilan

Journal articles

Kerr A; Jeon YJ; Svenson CJ; Rogers PL; Neilan BA, 2011, 'DNA restriction-modification systems in the ethanologen, Zymomonas mobilis ZM4', Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 89, pp. 761 - 769

Chiu AS; Gehringer MM; Welch JH; Neilan BA, 2011, 'Does alpha-amino-beta-methylaminopropionic acid (BMAA) play a role in neurodegeneration?', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 8, pp. 3728 - 3746, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph8093728

Murray SA; Mihali TK; Neilan BA, 2011, 'Extraordinary conservation, gene loss and positive selection in the evolution of an ancient neurotoxin', Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28, pp. 1173 - 1182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq295

Timms VJ; Gehringer MM; Mitchell HM; Daskalopoulos G; Neilan BA, 2011, 'How accurately can we detect Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection?', Journal of Microbiological Methods, 85, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2011.01.026

Alexova R; Fujii M; Birch D; Cheng J; Waite TD; Ferrari BC; Neilan BA, 2011, 'Iron uptake and toxin synthesis in the bloom-forming Microcystis aeruginosa under iron limitation', Environmental Microbiology, 13, pp. 1064 - 1077, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02412.x

Leuko S; Neilan BA; Burns BP; Walter MR; Rothschild L, 2011, 'Molecular assessment of UVC radiation-induced DNA damage repair in the stromatolitic halophilic archaeon, Halococcus hamelinensis', Photochemistry and Photobiology, 102, pp. 140 - 145

Kwei CK; Lewis D; King K; Donohue W; Neilan BA, 2011, 'Molecular classification of commercial Spirulina strains and identification of their sulfolipid biosynthesis genes', Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 21, pp. 359 - 365, http://dx.doi.org/10.4014/jmb.1008.08016

Chau R; Kalaitzis J; Neilan BA, 2011, 'On the origins and biosynthesis of tetrodotoxin', Aquatic Toxicology, 104, pp. 61 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.04.001

Goh F; Jeon YJ; Barrow KD; Neilan BA; Burns BP, 2011, 'Osmoadaptive strategies of the archaeon Halococcus hamelinensis isolated from a hypersaline stromatolite environment', Astrobiology, 11, pp. 529 - 536, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2010.0591

Murray SA; Stuken A; Neilan BA, 2011, 'SxtA-based quantitative molecular assay to identify saxitoxin-producing harmful algal blooms in marine waters', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77, pp. 7050 - 7057, http://aem.asm.org/content/77/19/7050.full

Coldham T; Rose K; O Rourke JL; Neilan BA; Dalton HE; Lee A; Mitchell HM, 2011, 'The detection, isolation and characterisation of Helicobacter species from the gastrointestinal tract of brushtail possum', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77, pp. 1581 - 1587, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01960-10

Bertrand E; Saito M; Jeon YJ; Neilan BA, 2011, 'Vitamin B12 biosynthesis gene diversity in the Ross Sea: the identification of a new group of putative polar', Environmental Microbiology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02428.x

Miller KI; Ingrey SD; Alvin A; Sze MYD; Roufogalis BD; Neilan BA, 2010, 'Endophytes and the microbial genetics of traditional medicines', MICROBIOLOGY AUSTRALIA, 31, pp. 60 - 63, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000216291500005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Kalaitzis JA; Lauro FM; Neilan BA, 2010, 'ChemInform Abstract: Mining Cyanobacterial Genomes for Genes Encoding Complex Biosynthetic Pathways', ChemInform, 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chin.201003271

Muenchhoff J; Siddiqui KS; Poljak A; Raftery MJ; Barrow KD; Neilan BA, 2010, 'A novel prokaryotic L-arginine:glycine amidinotransferase is involved in cylindrospermopsin biosynthesis', FEBS Journal, 277, pp. 3844 - 3860

Chen M; Schliep M; Willows R; Cai Z; Neilan BA; Scheer H, 2010, 'A red-shifted chlorophyll', Science, 10, pp. 1318 - 1319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1191127

Kalaitzis J; Chau R; Kohli G; Murray SA; Neilan BA, 2010, 'Biosynthesis of toxic naturally occurring seafood contaminants.', Toxicon, 56, pp. 244 - 258

Al Tebrineh J; Mihali TK; Pomati F; Neilan BA, 2010, 'Detection of saxitoxin-producing cyanobacteria and Anabaena circinalis in environmental water blooms by quantitative PCR', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76, pp. 7836 - 7842, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00174-10

Gehringer MM; Pengelly JJL; Cuddy WS; Fieker C; Forster PI; Neilan BA, 2010, 'Host Selection of Symbiotic Cyanobacteria in 31 Species of the Australian Cycad Genus: Macrozamia (Zamiaceae)', Molecular Plant - Microbe Interactions, 23, pp. 811 - 822

Goh QY; Barrow KD; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2010, 'Identification and regulation of novel compatible solutes from hypersaline stromatolite-associated cyanobacteria', Archives of Microbiology, 192, pp. 1031 - 1038, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00203-010-0634-0

Allen MA; Neilan BA; Burns BP; Jahnke LL; Summons RE, 2010, 'Lipid biomarkers in Hamelin Pool microbial mats and stromatolites', Organic Geochemistry, 41, pp. 1207 - 1218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.07.007

Leuko S; Neilan BA; Rothschild L, 2010, 'Modern extreme environments: The key to study the evolution of life?', Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, Special Issue: Abstracts from the 9th European Workshop on Astrobiology, Brussels, October 2009, 40, pp. 555 - 555, http://gateway.isiknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;KeyUT=000285069400051

Neilan BA; Weise M; D'Agostino P; Mihali TK; Moffitt MC, 2010, 'Neurotoxic alkaloids: saxitoxin and its analogs', Marine Drugs, 8, pp. 2185 - 2211

Jungblut A; Neilan BA, 2010, 'NifH gene diversity and expression in a microbial mat community on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica', Antarctic Science, 22, pp. 117 - 122

Ginn H; Pearson LA; Neilan BA, 2010, 'NtcA from Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806 Is Autoregulatory and Binds to the Microcystin Promoter', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76, pp. 4362 - 4368

Pearson LA; Mihali TK; Moffitt MC; Kellmann R; Neilan BA, 2010, 'On the chemistry, toxicology and genetics of the cyanobacterial toxins, microcystin, nodularin, saxitoxin and cylindrospermopsin', Marine Drugs, 8, pp. 1650 - 1680, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md8051650

Kellmann R; Mihali TK; Neilan BA, 2009, 'Erratum: Identification of a saxitoxin biosynthesis gene with a history of frequent horizontal gene transfers (Journal of Molecular Evolution (2008) 67 (526-538) DOI: 10.1007/s00239-008-9169-2)', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 68, pp. 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00239-009-9210-0

Allen MA; Goh F; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2009, 'Bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic diversity of smooth and pustular microbial mat communities in the hypersaline lagoon of Shark Bay', Geobiology, 7, pp. 82 - 96

Mihali TK; Kellmann R; Neilan BA, 2009, 'Characterisation of the paralytic shellfish toxin biosynthesis gene clusters in Anabaena circinalis AWQC131C and Aphanizomenon sp. NH-5', BMC Biochemistry, 10, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2091-10-8

Okano K; Shimizu K; Kawauchi Y; Maseda H; Utsumi M; Zhang Z; Neilan BA; Sugiura N, 2009, 'Characteristics of a Microcystin-Degrading Bacterium under Alkaline Environmental Conditions', Journal of Toxicology, 2009

Goh F; Allen MA; Leuko S; Kawaguchi T; Decho A; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2009, 'Determining the specific microbial populations and their spatial distribution within the stromatolite ecosystem of Shark Bay', ISME Journal, 3, pp. 383 - 396

Murray SA; O Connor W; Alvin A; Mihali TK; Kalaitzis J; Neilan BA, 2009, 'Differential accumulation of paralytic shellfish toxins from Alexandrium minutum in the pearl oyster, Pinctada imbricata', Toxicon, 54, pp. 217 - 223

Saker M; Moreira C; Martins J; Neilan BA; Vasconcelos VM, 2009, 'DNA profiling of complex bacterial populations: toxic cyanobacterial blooms', Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 85, pp. 237 - 252

Leuko S; Raftery MJ; Burns BP; Walter MR; Neilan BA, 2009, 'Global protein-level responses of halobacterium salinarum NRC-1 to prolonged changes in external sodium chloride concentrations', Journal of Proteome Research, 8, pp. 2218 - 2225

Ginn H; Pearson LA; Neilan BA, 2009, 'Hepatotoxin Biosynthesis and Regulation in Cyanobacteria- the Putative Involvement of Nitrogen and Iron Homeostasis Mechanisms', Chiang Mai Journal of Science, 36, pp. 200 - 223

Kellmann R; Mihali TK; Neilan BA, 2009, 'Identification of a Saxitoxin Biosynthesis Gene with a History of Frequent Horizontal Gene Transfers (vol 67, pg 526, 2008)', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 68, pp. 292 - 292

Jungblut A; Allen MA; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2009, 'Lipid biomarker analysis of cyanobacteria-dominated microbial mats in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica', Organic Geochemistry, 40, pp. 258 - 269

Kalaitzis J; Lauro FM; Neilan BA, 2009, 'Mining cyanobacterial genomes for genes encoding complex biosynthetic pathways', Natural Product Reports, 26, pp. 1447 - 1465

Burns BP; Anitori R; Butterworth P; Henneberger R; Goh F; Allen MA; Ibanez-Peral R; Bergquist P; Walter MR; Neilan BA, 2009, 'Modern analogues and the early history of microbial life', Precambrian Research, 173, pp. 10 - 18

Srivastava A; Bhargava P; Rai L; Neilan BA; Kumar A, 2009, 'Molecular characterization and the effect of salinity on cyanobacterial diversity in the rice fields of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India', Saline Systems, 5

Roberts A; Copp JN; Marahiel M; Neilan BA, 2009, 'The Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 Sfp-type phosphopantetheinyl transferase does not possess characteristic broad-range activity', Chembiochem, 10, pp. 1869 - 1877

Neilan BA; Pearson LA; Moffitt MC; Mihali KT; Kaebernick M; Kellmann R; Pomati F, 2008, 'The genetics and genomics of cyanobacterial toxicity.', Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 619, pp. 417 - 452, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75865-7_17

Kellmann R; Mihali TK; Jae jeon Y; Pickford R; Pomati F; Neilan BA, 2008, 'Biosynthetic intermediate analysis and functional homology reveal a saxitoxin gene cluster in cyanobacteria', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74, pp. 4044 - 4053, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00353-08

Mihali TK; Kellmann R; Muenchhoff J; Barrow KD; Neilan BA, 2008, 'Characterization of the gene cluster responsible for cylindrospermopsin biosynthesis', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74, pp. 716 - 722, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01988-07

Miller K; Neilan BA; Sze D, 2008, 'Development of taxol and other endophyte produced anti-cancer agents', RECENT PATENTS ON ANTI-CANCER DRUG DISCOVERY, 3, pp. 14 - 19

Allen MA; Goh QY; Leuko S; Igo A; Mizuki T; Usami R; Karnekura M; Neilan BA; Burns BP, 2008, 'Haloferax elongans sp nov and Haloterax mucosum sp nov., isolated from microbial mats from Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Australia', International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 58, pp. 798 - 802, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65360-0

Jeon YJ; Fong JC; Riyanti EI; Neilan BA; Rogers PL; Svenson CJ, 2008, 'Heterologous expression of the alcohol dehydrogenase (adhI) gene from Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius strain M10EXG', Journal of Biotechnology, 135, pp. 127 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2008.02.018

Kellmann R; Michali T; Neilan BA, 2008, 'Identification of a Saxitoxin Biosynthesis Gene with a History of Frequent Horizontal Gene Transfers', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 67, pp. 526 - 538

Leuko S; Goh QY; Ibanezz-Peral R; Burns BP; Walter MR; Neilan BA, 2008, 'Lysis efficiency of standard DNA extraction methods for Halococcus spp. in an organic rich environment', Extremophiles, 12, pp. 301 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00792-007-0124-8

Castiglioni S; Pomati F; Miller K; Burns BP; Zuccato E; Calamari D; Neilan BA, 2008, 'Novel homologs of the multiple resistance regulator marA in antibiotic-contaminated environments', Water Research, 42, pp. 4271 - 4280

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