By Dr Uthpala Buthpitiya Lekamlage Don

Book Chapters

Buthpitiya Lekamlage Don U; Tandon K; Juntong H; Pasella MM; Verbruggen H, 2025, 'Coral Skeleton Dwelling Endolithic Algae: Ostreobium and Its Biology', in Coral Reef Microbiome, pp. 41 - 46, https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10592048#page=47

Journal articles

van Dorst J; Uthpala Pushpakumara BLD; Katz T; Hudson J; Ting Z; McKay I; Tam RY; Chan C; Coffey M; Ooi CY, 2026, 'Children with cystic fibrosis have an early-life disparity in fecal short chain fatty acid concentrations', Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 25, pp. 513 - 520, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2026.01.002

van Dorst J; Taylor N; Pushpakumara BLDU; Tan ZT; Buchanan DD; Haber PS; Nash E; Visser S; Volovets A; Sivam S; Ooi CY, 2026, 'Genotoxic pks + E. coli is strongly associated with ileocolonic neoplasia in adults with Cystic Fibrosis', Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2026.05.016

Pushpakumara BLDU; Coffey MJ; Hudson J; Halim J; Chuang S; Prentice B; Jaffe A; Edwards R; Day AS; Oliver M; Ranganathan S; Wainwright C; Selvadurai H; van Dorst J; Ooi CY, 2026, 'The cystic fibrosis gut microbial dysbiosis index (CF-GMDI): a quantitative measure of gut microbial imbalance in children with cystic fibrosis', Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2026.08.007

Pushpakumara BLDU; Tandon K; Willis A; Verbruggen H, 2023, 'Unravelling microalgal-bacterial interactions in aquatic ecosystems through 16S rRNA gene-based co-occurrence networks', Scientific Reports, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27816-9

Pushpakumara BLDU; Tandon K; Willis A; Verbruggen H, 2023, 'The Bacterial Microbiome of the Coral Skeleton Algal Symbiont Ostreobium Shows Preferential Associations and Signatures of Phylosymbiosis', Microbial Ecology, 86, pp. 2032 - 2046, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00248-023-02209-7

Pushpakumara BLDU; Gunawardana D, 2018, 'Preliminary data on the presence of an alternate vanadium nitrogenase in a culturable cyanobiont of Azolla pinnata R. Brown: Implications on Chronic Kidney Disease of an unknown etiology (CKDu)', Data in Brief, 21, pp. 2590 - 2597, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.073

Conference Papers

Hudson J; Taylor N; Coffey MJ; Pushpakumara BLDU; Prentice B; Jaffe A; Visser S; Sivam S; Day AS; Oliver M; Ranganathan S; Selvadurai H; Wainwright C; Ooi CY; van Dorst J, 2026, 'Is the gut a reservoir of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in people with cystic fibrosis?', in Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2026.06.001

Conference Abstracts

Buthpitiya Lekamlage Don U; Becirovic R; van Dorst J; Coffey M; Halim J; Beheshti, B; Argha R; Alinejad-Rokny H; Ooi KC, 2025, 'Artificial intelligence integrating gut microbiome multi-omics to predict clinical outcomes in children with cystic fibrosis', in 16 Artificial intelligence integrating gut microbiome multi-omics to predict clinical outcomes in children with cystic fibrosis, presented at North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference

van Dorst J; Coffey M; Halim J; Anderson D; Pushpakumara BLDU; Ooi CY, 2024, 'The cystic fibrosis metabolome across the first six years of life', in Respirology, Wiley, Vol. 29, pp. 35 - 35, presented at 15th Australasian Cystic Fibrosis Conference, https://doi.org/10.1111/resp.14771

Preprints

Pushpakumara BLDU; Gunawardana D, Molecular Characterization of Fischerella uthpalarensis, the first subsection V cyanobiont from a tropical Azolla species containing dual nitrogenases, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.07.531633

Pushpakumara BLDU; Tandon K; Willis A; Verbruggen H, The bacterial microbiome of the coral skeleton algal symbiont Ostreobium shows preferential associations and signatures of phylosymbiosis, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.13.520198

Pushpakumara BLDU; Tandon K; Willis A; Verbruggen H, Unravelling microalgal-bacterial interactions in aquatic ecosystems through 16S rRNA gene-based co-occurrence networks, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.05.475147

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