By Adjunct Professor Brett Anthony Neilan

Journal articles

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

Burns B; Neilan B, 2008, 'Session 18. Functional Complexity of Modern Stromatolites and Microbial Mats', Astrobiology, 8, pp. 378 - 383, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2008.1242

Ingrey SD; Neilan BA, 2008, 'The genetic basis for bioactivity in the traditional medicine plants of Australia', Planta Medica, 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1083891

Pearson LA; Moffitt MC; Ginn H; Neilan BA, 2008, 'The Molecular Genetics and Regulation of Cyanobacterial Peptide Hepatotoxin Biosynthesis', Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 38, pp. 847 - 856

Pearson LA; Neilan BA, 2008, 'The molecular genetics of cyanobacterial toxicity as a basis for monitoring water quality and public health risk', Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 19, pp. 281 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2008.03.002

Roberts AA; Pearson LA; Copp JN; Neilan BA, 2008, 'Unnatural production of natural products: Heterologous expression and combinatorial biosynthesis of novel cyanobacterial-derived compounds', Planta Medica, 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1083946

Goh F; Jeon YJ; Barrow K; Neilan BA; Burns BP, 2007, 'Osmoadaptation of microorganisms from stromatolites', , pp. 203 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.11490/isea.2005.0.203.0

Leuko S; Goh F; Allen MA; Burns BP; Walter MR; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Analysis of intergenic spacer region length polymorphisms to investigate the halophilic archaeal diversity of stromatolites and microbial mats', Extremophiles, 11, pp. 203 - 210

Izaguirre G; Jungblut A; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Benthic cyanobacteria (Oscillatoriaceae) that produce microcystin-LR, isolated from four reservoirs in southern California', Water Research, 41, pp. 492 - 498

Kellmann R; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Biochemical characterization of paralytic shellfish toxin biosynthesis in vitro', Journal of Phycology, 43, pp. 497 - 508

Marshall C; Leuko S; Coyle C; Walter MR; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Carotenoid analysis of halophilic archaea by resonance Raman Spectroscopy', Astrobiology, 7, pp. 631 - 643

Copp JN; Roberts A; Marahiel M; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Characterization of PPTNs, a cyanobacterial phosphopantetheinyl transferase from Nodularia spumigena NSOR10', Journal of Bacteriology, 189, pp. 3133 - 3139

Pearson LA; Barrow KD; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Characterization of the 2-hydroxy-acid dehydrogenase Mcyl, encoded within the microcystin biosynthesis gene cluster of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282, pp. 4681 - 4692

Nakasugi K; Alexova R; Svenson CJ; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Functional analysis of PilT from the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806', Journal of Bacteriology, 189, pp. 1689 - 1697

Munchhoff J; Hirose E; Maruyama T; Sunairi M; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Host specificity and phylogeography of the prochlorophyte Prochloron sp., an obligate symbiont in didemnid ascidians', Environmental Microbiology, 9, pp. 890 - 899

Leuko S; Walter MR; Rogoff D; Rothschild L; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Modern stromatolites: What can they tell us about the evolution of life?', Astrobiology, 7, pp. 489 - 489, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000248166900045&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Sertan-de Guzman A; Predicala R; Bernardo EB; Neilan BA; Elardo S; Mangalindan G; Tasdemir D; Ireland C; Barraquio W; Concepcion G, 2007, 'Pseudovibrio denitrificans strain Z143-1, a heptylprodigiosin-producing bacterium isolated from a Philippine tunicate', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 277, pp. 188 - 196

Jungblut A; Hoeger S; Mountfort D; Hitzfeld B; Dietrich D; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Characterization of microcystin production in an Antarctic cyanobacterial mat community', Toxicon, 47, pp. 271 - 278

Pomati F; Kellmann R; Cavaliere R; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Comparative gene expression of PSP-toxin producing and non-toxic Anabaena circinalis strains', Environment International, 32, pp. 743 - 748, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2006.03.010

Crispim C; Gaylarde PM; Gaylarde CC; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Deteriogenic cyanobacteria, on historic buildings in Brazil detected by culture and molecular techniques', International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, 57, pp. 239 - 243

Gaylarde P; Jungblut A; Gaylarde C; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Endolithic phototrophs from an active geothermal region in New Zealand', Geomicrobiology Journal, 23, pp. 579 - 587

Kellmann R; Neilan BA; Mills T, 2006, 'Functional modeling and phylogenetic distribution of putative cylindrospermopsin biosynthesis enzymes', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 62, pp. 267 - 280

Goh QY; Leuko S; Allen MA; Bowman J; Kamekura M; Neilan BA; Burns BP, 2006, 'Halococcus hamelinensis sp nov., a novel halophilic archaeon isolated from stromatolites in Shark Bay, Australia', International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 56, pp. 1323 - 1329

Fong JC; Svenson CJ; Nakasugi K; Leong C; Bowman J; Chen B; Glenn DR; Neilan BA; Rogers PL, 2006, 'Isolation and characterization of two novel ethanol-tolerant facultative-anaerobic thermophilic bacteria strains from waste compost', Extremophiles, 10, pp. 363 - 372

Hirose E; Hirose M; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Localization of symbiotic cyanobacteria in the colonial ascidian Trididemnum miniatum (Didemnidae, Ascidiacea)', Zoological Science, 23, pp. 435 - 442

Jungblut A; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Molecular identification and evolution of the cyclic peptide hepatotoxins, microcystin and nodularin, synthetase genes in three orders of cyanobacteria', Archives of Microbiology, 185, pp. 107 - 114

Yokobori S; Kurabayashi A; Neilan BA; Maruyama T; Hirose E, 2006, 'Multiple origins of the ascidian-Prochloron symbiosis: Molecular phylogeny of photosymbiotic and non-symbiotic colonial ascidians inferred from 18S rDNA sequences', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40, pp. 8 - 19

Burns BP; Pomati F; Goh F; Yasar S; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Stromatolites as a resource for novel natural products', Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 36, pp. 623 - 624

Urai M; Aizawa T; Anzai H; Ogihara J; Iwabuchi N; Neilan BA; Couperwhite I; Nakajima M; Sunairi M, 2006, 'Structural analysis of an extracellular polysaccharide produced by a benzene tolerant bacterium, Rhodococcus sp 33', Carbohydrate Research, 341, pp. 616 - 623

Nakasugi K; Svenson CJ; Neilan BA, 2006, 'The competence gene, comF, from Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 is involved in natural transformation, phototactic motility and piliation', Microbiology, 152, pp. 3623 - 3631

Salmon TP; Rose AL; Neilan BA; Waite TD, 2006, 'The FeL model of iron acquisition: Nondissociative reduction of ferric complexes in the marine environment', Limnology and Oceanography, 51, pp. 1744 - 1754

Copp JN; Neilan BA, 2006, 'The phosphopantetheinyl transferase superfamily: Phylogenetic analysis and functional implications in cyanobacteria', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72, pp. 2298 - 2305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.72.4.2298-2305.2006

Hawkins PR; Novic S; Cox P; Neilan BA; Burns BP; Shaw G; Wickramasinghe WA; Peerapornpisal Y; Ruangyuttikarn W; Itayama T; Shaitou T; Mizuochi M; Inamori Y, 2005, 'A review of analytical methods for assessing the public health risk from microcystin in the aquatic environment', Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology, 54, pp. 509 - 518

Fiore M; Neilan BA; Copp JN; Rodrigues J; Tsai S; Lee H; Trevors J, 2005, 'Characterization of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in the Brazilian Amazon floodplain', Water Research, 39, pp. 5017 - 5026

Gaylarde PM; Crispim C; Neilan BA; Gaylarde CC, 2005, 'Cyanobacteria from Brazilian building walls are distant relatives of aquatic genera', Omics-A Journal of Integrative Biology, 9, pp. 30 - 42

Saker M; Jungblut A; Neilan BA; Rawn D; Vasconcelos VM, 2005, 'Detection of microcystin synthetase genes in health food supplements containing the freshwater cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon flos-aquae', Toxicon, 46, pp. 555 - 562, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TCS-4GV9S7G-1/2/a1c98ea3d6addbaeb1705832d099840c

Jungblut A; Hawes I; Mountfort D; Hitzfeld B; Dietrich D; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2005, 'Diversity within cyanobacterial mat communities in variable salinity meltwater ponds of McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica', Environmental Microbiology, 7, pp. 519 - 529

Burns BP; Seifert A; Goh F; Pomati F; Jungblut A; Yasar SA; Neilan BA, 2005, 'Genetic potential for secondary metabolite production in stromatolite communities', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 243, pp. 293 - 301, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T2W-4F3FBHT-3/2/d650a0cb2be4dfcc17a343948e716905

Wilson AW; Sarnelle O; Neilan BA; Salmon TP; Gehringer MM; Hay M, 2005, 'Genetic variation of the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa within and among lakes: Implications for harmful algal blooms', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71, pp. 6126 - 6133

Nakasugi K; Neilan BA, 2005, 'Identification of pilus-like structures and genes in Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71, pp. 7621 - 7625

Dasey M; Ryan N; Wilson J; McGregor G; Fabbro L; Neilan BA; Burns BP; Kankaanpaa H; Morrison L; Codd G; Rissik D; Bowling L, 2005, 'Investigations into the taxonomy, toxicity and ecology of benthiccyano bacterial accumulations in Myall Lake, Australia', Marine and Freshwater Research, 56, pp. 45 - 55

Robertson BR; O Rourke JL; Neilan BA; Vandamme P; On S; Fox J; Lee A, 2005, 'Mucispirillum schaedleri gen. nov., sp nov., a spiral-shaped bacterium colonizing the mucus layer of the gastrointestinal tract of laboratory rodents', International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 55, pp. 1199 - 1204

Aizawa T; Neilan BA; Couperwhite I; Urai M; Anzai H; Iwabuchi N; Nakajima M; Sunairi M, 2005, 'Relationship between Extracellular Polysaccharide and Benzene Tolerance of Rhodococcus sp. 33', Actinomycctologica, 19, pp. 1 - 6

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