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Journal articles
, 2026, 'Invited review: Turning dairy food waste into valuable products via yeast bioproduction', Journal of Dairy Science, 109, pp. 6691 - 6710, http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.2025-27900
, 2026, 'Microbial lipids for a sustainable future: the growing potential of synthetic microbial engineering for consumer oils', Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, 46, pp. 477 - 500, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07388551.2026.2615047
, 2026, 'Omics, synthetic biology and biotechnology in Australian marine science', Australian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18366503.2026.2694228
, 2025, 'Building synthetic chromosomes one yeast at a time: insights from Sc2.0', Nature Biotechnology, 43, pp. 1911 - 1918, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02913-4
, 2025, 'Construction and iterative redesign of synXVI a 903 kb synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome', Nature Communications, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55318-3
, 2025, 'Large molecular weight DNA synthesis to combat invasive risks to Australia', Microbiology Australia, 46, pp. 224 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MA25063
, 2025, 'Photophysiological and transcriptomic response to the broad-spectrum herbicides atrazine and glyphosate in a photosynthetic picoeukaryote', Microbial Genomics, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001402
, 2025, 'Genome-Wide Association Study Elucidates the Genetic Architecture of Manganese Tolerance in Brassica napus', Plant Cell and Environment, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pce.15433
, 2025, 'Synthesising success', Biologist, 72, pp. 30 - 33
, 2024, 'The synthetic future of algal genomes', Cell Genomics, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100505
, 2024, 'Chromosome-scale assembly of the streamlined picoeukaryote Picochlorum sp. SENEW3 genome reveals Rabl-like chromatin structure and potential for C4 photosynthesis', Microbial Genomics, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001223
, 2023, 'Parallel laboratory evolution and rational debugging reveal genomic plasticity to S. cerevisiae synthetic chromosome XIV defects', Cell Genomics, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100379
, 2022, 'Construction of a synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae pan-genome neo-chromosome', Nature Communications, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31305-4
, 2022, 'Harnessing bioengineered microbes as a versatile platform for space nutrition', Nature Communications, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33974-7
, 2022, 'Picochlorum sp. SENEW3', Trends in Genetics, 38, pp. 209 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2021.09.012
, 2022, 'Corrigendum', Journal of Phycology, 58, pp. 182 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13228
, 2020, 'Restore or Redefine: Future Trajectories for Restoration', Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, pp. 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00237
, 2019, 'Salt-Treated Roots of Oryza australiensis Seedlings are Enriched with Proteins Involved in Energetics and Transport', Proteomics, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201900175
, 2019, 'Harnessing synthetic biology for kelp forest conservation1', Journal of Phycology, 55, pp. 745 - 751, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12888
, 2018, 'Emerging opportunities for synthetic biology in agriculture', Genes, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes9070341
, 2018, 'The multiplanetary future of plant synthetic biology', Genes, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes9070348
, 2017, 'Yeast's balancing act between ethanol and glycerol production in low-alcohol wines', Microbial Biotechnology, 10, pp. 264 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.12488
, 2016, 'Saturating light induces sustained accumulation of oil in plastidal lipid droplets in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii', Plant Physiology, 171, pp. 2406 - 2417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.16.00718
, 2016, 'Whole Genome Re-Sequencing Identifies a Quantitative Trait Locus Repressing Carbon Reserve Accumulation during Optimal Growth in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii', Scientific Reports, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep25209
, 2015, 'Microalgal lipid droplets: composition, diversity, biogenesis and functions', Plant Cell Reports, 34, pp. 545 - 555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00299-014-1711-7
, 2011, 'Langerhans cells regulate cutaneous injury by licensing CD8 effector cells recruited to the skin', Blood, 117, pp. 7063 - 7069, http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2011-01-329185
, 2011, 'Conventional dendritic cells are required for the activation of helper-dependent CD8 T cell responses to a model antigen after cutaneous vaccination with lentiviral vectors', Journal of Immunology, 186, pp. 4565 - 4572, http://dx.doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1002529
, 2011, 'The role of direct presentation by donor dendritic cells in rejection of minor histocompatibility antigen-mismatched skin and hematopoietic cell grafts', Transplantation, 91, pp. 154 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/TP.0b013e318201ac27
, 2010, 'Abstracts of EBMT (European Group for Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation) 2010. March 21-14, 2010. Vienna, Austria.', Bone Marrow Transplantation, 45 Suppl 2, pp. S1 - 427
, 2008, 'Abstracts from the Annual Congress of the British Society for Immunology. November 17-21, 2008. Glasgow, United Kingdom.', Immunology, 125 Suppl 1, pp. 1 - 144
Conference Papers
, 2010, 'Distinct temporal and spatial roles for host conventional and Langerhans cells in the development of graft-versus-host injury', in BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION, NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, AUSTRIA, Vienna, pp. S15 - S15, presented at 36th Annual Meeting of the European-Group-for-Blood-and-Marrow-Transplantat/9th Meeting of the EBMT Data-Management-Group/26th Meeting of the EBMT Nurses Group/2nd EBMT Qual Management Meeting, AUSTRIA, Vienna, 21 March 2010 - 24 March 2010
, 2008, 'Investigation of the requirement for skin DC in the activation of lentiviral vaccination responses', in IMMUNOLOGY, WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, SCOTLAND, Glasgow, pp. 53 - 53, presented at Annual Congress of the British-Society-of-Immunology, SCOTLAND, Glasgow, 17 November 2008 - 21 November 2008
Preprints
, Genome-wide association study elucidates the genetic architecture of manganese tolerance in Brassica napus, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.27.586972
, Laboratory evolution and polyploid SCRaMbLE reveal genomic plasticity to synthetic chromosome defects and rearrangements, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.22.501046