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Alexander Idnurm is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work focuses particularly on plant science, cell biology, molecular biology, pharmacology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's research primarily addresses topics such as plant pathogens and fungal diseases, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, yeasts and rust fungi studies, plant disease resistance and genetics, fungal biology and applications, and plant pathogenic bacteria studies.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Alexander Idnurm include the following:

  • "A new family of structurally conserved fungal effectors displays epistatic interactions with plant resistance proteins" (2022), published in PLoS Pathogens
  • "A large transposable element mediates metal resistance in the fungus Paecilomyces variotii" (2022), published in Current Biology
  • "Starships are active eukaryotic transposable elements mobilized by a new family of tyrosine recombinases" (2023), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Epidemiology and management of blackleg of canola in response to changing farming practices in Australia" (2021), published in Australasian Plant Pathology
  • "Sterol Demethylation Inhibitor Fungicide Resistance in Leptosphaeria maculans is Caused by Modifications in the Regulatory Region of ERG11" (2020), published in Plant Disease

Frequent co-authors in Alexander Idnurm's research include:

  • Angela P. Van de Wouw
  • Andrew S. Urquhart
  • Niloofar Vaghefi
  • Pipob Suwanchaikasem
  • Jamie Selby-Pham

The scientist's work has appeared frequently in several publication venues, including:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plant Pathology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Australasian Plant Pathology

Best Publications

  • Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, the Etiologic Agents of Cryptococcosis

    Kyung J. Kwon-Chung;James A. Fraser;Tamara L. Doering;Zhuo A. Wang

  • Galleria mellonella as a Model System To Study Cryptococcus neoformans Pathogenesis

    Eleftherios Mylonakis;Roberto Moreno;Joseph B. El Khoury;Alexander Idnurm

  • Sensing the environment: lessons from fungi

    Yong Sun Bahn;Chaoyang Xue;Alexander Idnurm;Julian C. Rutherford

  • Deciphering the model pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.

    Alexander Idnurm;Yong Sun Bahn;Kirsten Nielsen;Xiaorong Lin

  • Analysis of the Genome and Transcriptome of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii Reveals Complex RNA Expression and Microevolution Leading to Virulence Attenuation

    Guilhem Janbon;Kate L. Ormerod;Damien Paulet;Edmond J. Byrnes

  • Genomic Analysis of the Basal Lineage Fungus Rhizopus oryzae Reveals a Whole-Genome Duplication

    Li Jun Ma;Ashraf S. Ibrahim;Christopher Skory;Manfred G. Grabherr

  • Light Controls Growth and Development via a Conserved Pathway in the Fungal Kingdom

    Alexander Idnurm;Joseph Heitman

  • Pathogenicity genes of phytopathogenic fungi.

    Alexander Idnurm;Barbara J. Howlett

  • Novel gene functions required for melanization of the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.

    Felicia J. Walton;Alexander Idnurm;Joseph Heitman

  • Cryptococcus neoformans virulence gene discovery through insertional mutagenesis.

    Alexander Idnurm;Jennifer L. Reedy;Jesse C. Nussbaum;Joseph Heitman

  • Leptosphaeria maculans, the causal agent of blackleg disease of Brassicas.

    B. J. Howlett;A. Idnurm;M. S. C. Pedras

  • A glimpse into the basis of vision in the kingdom Mycota.

    Alexander Idnurm;Surbhi Verma;Luis M. Corrochano

  • Isocitrate Lyase Is Essential for Pathogenicity of the Fungus Leptosphaeria maculans to Canola (Brassica napus)

    Alexander Idnurm;Barbara J. Howlett

  • Identification of the sex genes in an early diverged fungus

    Alexander Idnurm;Alexander Idnurm;Felicia J. Walton;Anna Floyd;Joseph Heitman

  • Expansion of Signal Transduction Pathways in Fungi by Extensive Genome Duplication.

    Luis M. Corrochano;Alan Kuo;Marina Marcet-Houben;Silvia Polaino

  • The Phycomyces madA gene encodes a blue-light photoreceptor for phototropism and other light responses

    Alexander Idnurm;Julio Rodríguez-Romero;Luis M. Corrochano;Catalina Sanz

  • Importance of resolving fungal nomenclature: The case of multiple pathogenic species in the Cryptococcus genus

    Ferry Hagen;H. Thorsten Lumbsch;Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic;Hamid Badali

  • Phylogenetic relationships in the Gesnerioideae (Gesneriaceae) based on nrDNA ITS and cpDNA trnL‐F and trnE‐T spacer region sequences

    Elizabeth A. Zimmer;Eric H. Roalson;Laurence E. Skog;John K. Boggan

  • Analysis of loss of pathogenicity mutants reveals that repeat-induced point mutations can occur in the Dothideomycete Leptosphaeria maculans

    Alexander Idnurm;Barbara J. Howlett

  • Searching for Genes Responsible for Patulin Degradation in a Biocontrol Yeast Provides Insight into the Basis for Resistance to This Mycotoxin

    G. Ianiri;G. Ianiri;A. Idnurm;Sandra A. I. Wright;R. Durán-Patrón

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Heitman
Joseph Heitman Duke University
Barbara J. Howlett
Barbara J. Howlett University of Melbourne
Xiaorong Lin
Xiaorong Lin University of Georgia
Kirsten Nielsen
Kirsten Nielsen University of Minnesota
Robin C. May
Robin C. May University of Birmingham
Vera Meyer
Vera Meyer Technical University of Berlin
James A. Fraser
James A. Fraser University of Queensland
Jason E. Stajich
Jason E. Stajich University of California, Riverside
Eleftherios Mylonakis
Eleftherios Mylonakis Houston Methodist
Stephen B. Calderwood
Stephen B. Calderwood Massachusetts General Hospital

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