By Adjunct Professor Brett Anthony Neilan

Journal articles

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

Vázquez-Campos X; Kinsela AS; Collins RN; Neilan BA; Aoyagi N; Waite TD, 2015, 'Uranium Binding Mechanisms of the Acid-Tolerant Fungus Coniochaeta fodinicola', Environmental Science and Technology, 49, pp. 8487 - 8496, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b01342

Micallef ML; D'Agostino PM; Al-Sinawi B; Neilan BA; Moffitt MC, 2015, 'Exploring cyanobacterial genomes for natural product biosynthesis pathways', Marine Genomics, 21, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margen.2014.11.009

Chiu AS; Braidy N; Marçal H; Welch JH; Gehringer MM; Guillemin GJ; Neilan BA, 2015, 'Global cellular responses to β-methyl-amino-l-alanine (BMAA) by olfactory ensheathing glial cells (OEC)', Toxicon, 99, pp. 136 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2015.03.009

Timms VJ; Mitchell HM; Neilan BA, 2015, 'Optimisation of DNA extraction and validation of PCR assays to detect Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis', Journal of Microbiological Methods, 112, pp. 99 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2015.03.016

Singh S; Rai PK; Chau R; Ravi AK; Neilan BA; Asthana RK, 2015, 'Temporal variations in microcystin-producing cells and microcystin concentrations in two fresh water ponds', Water Research, 69, pp. 131 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2014.11.015

Gudhka RK; Neilan BA; Burns BP, 2015, 'Adaptation, ecology, and evolution of the halophilic stromatolite archaeon halococcus hamelinensis inferred through genome analyses', Archaea, 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/241608

Pierangelini M; Sinha R; Willis A; Burford MA; Orr PT; Beardall J; Neilan BA, 2015, 'Constitutive cylindrospermopsin pool size in Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii under different light and CO2 partial pressure conditions', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81, pp. 3069 - 3076, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03556-14

Alexova R; Dang TC; Fujii M; Raftery MJ; Waite TD; Ferrari BC; Neilan BA, 2015, 'Specific global responses to N and Fe nutrition in toxic and non-toxic Microcystis aeruginosa', Environmental Microbiology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12958

Wiese M; Murray SA; Alvin A; Neilan BA, 2014, 'Gene expression and molecular evolution of sxtA4 in a saxitoxin producing dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella', Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology, 92, pp. 102 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2014.09.015

Kohli GS; Murray SA; Neilan BA; Rhodes LL; Harwood DT; Smith KF; Meyer L; Capper A; Brett S; Hallegraeff GM, 2014, 'High abundance of the potentially maitotoxic dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus carpenteri in temperate waters of New South Wales, Australia', Harmful Algae, 39, pp. 134 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2014.07.007

D'Agostino PM; Song X; Neilan BA; Moffitt MC, 2014, 'Comparative proteomics reveals that a saxitoxin-producing and a nontoxic strain of Anabaena circinalis are two different ecotypes', Journal of Proteome Research, 13, pp. 1474 - 1484, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/pr401007k

Ferrari B; Winsley T; Ji M; Neilan B, 2014, 'Insights into the distribution and abundance of the ubiquitous candidatus Saccharibacteria phylum following tag pyrosequencing', Scientific Reports, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03957

Kohli GS; Neilan BA; Brown MV; Hoppenrath M; Murray SA, 2014, 'Cob gene pyrosequencing enables characterization of benthic dinoflagellate diversity and biogeography', Environmental Microbiology, 16, pp. 467 - 485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12275

Sinha R; Pearson LA; Davis TW; Muenchhoff J; Pratama R; Jex A; Burford MA; Neilan BA, 2014, 'Comparative genomics of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii strains with differential toxicities', BMC Genomics, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-83

Murray SA; Hoppenrath M; Orr RJS; Bolch C; John U; Diwan R; Yauwenas R; Harwood T; de Salas M; Neilan B; Hallegraeff G, 2014, 'Alexandrium diversaporum sp. nov., a new non-saxitoxin producing species: Phylogeny, morphology and sxtA genes', Harmful Algae, 31, pp. 54 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2013.09.005

Alvin A; Miller KI; Neilan BA, 2014, 'Exploring the potential of endophytes from medicinal plants as sources of antimycobacterial compounds', Microbiological Research, 169, pp. 483 - 495, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2013.12.009

Vázquez-Campos X; Kinsela AS; Waite TD; Collins RN; Neilan BA, 2014, 'Fodinomyces uranophilus gen. nov. sp. nov. and Coniochaeta fodinicola sp. nov., two uranium mine-inhabiting Ascomycota fungi from northern Australia', Mycologia, 106, pp. 1073 - 1089, http://dx.doi.org/10.3852/14-013

Burford MA; Davis TW; Orr PT; Sinha R; Willis A; Neilan BA, 2014, 'Nutrient-related changes in the toxicity of field blooms of the cyanobacterium, Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii', FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 89, pp. 135 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12341

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