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Biology and Biochemistry
Australia
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
95
Citations
32668
World Ranking
1903
National Ranking
42

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Brett A. Neilan is affiliated with the University of Newcastle Australia in Australia. Their research spans several key fields within the biological and environmental sciences, with a strong focus on molecular biology and environmental chemistry.

The main fields of study for Brett A. Neilan include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Science

The subfields in which they have contributed include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Ecology
  • Oncology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The research topics Brett A. Neilan works on are varied and interdisciplinary, covering:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology

Their recent scientific papers demonstrate a focus on microbial communities, cyanobacterial blooms, and biosynthetic potential within environmental contexts. Notable recent papers include:

  • "A Pseudoalteromonas Clade with Remarkable Biosynthetic Potential" (2021), published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • "Cyanobacterial blooms in wastewater treatment facilities: Significance and emerging monitoring strategies" (2020), published in Journal of Microbiological Methods
  • "Recent developments in quantitative PCR for monitoring harmful marine microalgae" (2021), published in Harmful Algae
  • "Cyanotoxins, biosynthetic gene clusters, and factors modulating cyanotoxin biosynthesis" (2023), published in World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • "Genome mining of a fungal endophyte of Taxus yunnanensis (Chinese yew) leads to the discovery of a novel azaphilone polyketide, lijiquinone" (2020), published in Microbial Biotechnology

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Brett A. Neilan include:

  • Leanne A. Pearson
  • Verlaine Timms
  • Paul A. Barsanti
  • Diana M. Muñoz
  • Peter Teriete

Brett A. Neilan's research has been published in various scientific journals, with notable frequent venues being:

  • Cancer Research
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Harmful Algae
  • ChemBioChem

Best Publications

  • Structural organization of microcystin biosynthesis in Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806: an integrated peptide–polyketide synthetase system

    Daniel Tillett;Elke Dittmann;Marcel Erhard;Hans von Döhren

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Neurotoxic Alkaloids: Saxitoxin and Its Analogs

    Maria Wiese;Paul M D'Agostino;Troco Kaan Mihali;Michelle C Moffitt

  • rRNA Sequences and Evolutionary Relationships among Toxic and Nontoxic Cyanobacteria of the Genus Microcystis

    Brett A. Neilan;Daniel Jacobs;Del Dot Therese;Linda L. Blackall

  • On the chemistry, toxicology and genetics of the cyanobacterial toxins, microcystin, nodularin, saxitoxin and cylindrospermopsin.

    Leanne A Pearson;Troco Kaan Mihali;Michelle C Moffitt;Ralf Kellmann

  • Insertional mutagenesis of a peptide synthetase gene that is responsible for hepatotoxin production in the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806

    E Dittmann;B A Neilan;M Erhard;H von Döhren

  • Light and the transcriptional response of the microcystin biosynthesis gene cluster.

    Melanie Kaebernick;Melanie Kaebernick;Brett A. Neilan;Thomas Börner;Elke Dittmann

  • Ecological and molecular investigations of cyanotoxin production.

    Melanie Kaebernick;Brett A. Neilan

  • Biosynthetic Intermediate Analysis and Functional Homology Reveal a Saxitoxin Gene Cluster in Cyanobacteria

    Ralf Kellmann;Troco Kaan Mihali;Young Jae Jeon;Russell Pickford

  • Genetic diversity and phylogeny of toxic cyanobacteria determined by DNA polymorphisms within the phycocyanin locus.

    B A Neilan;D Jacobs;A E Goodman

  • Cyanobacterial toxins: biosynthetic routes and evolutionary roots

    Elke Dittmann;David P. Fewer;Brett A. Neilan

  • Xanthogenate nucleic acid isolation from cultured and environmental cyanobacteria

    Daniel Tillett;Brett A. Neilan

  • Nonribosomal Peptide Synthesis and Toxigenicity of Cyanobacteria

    Brett A. Neilan;Brett A. Neilan;Elke Dittmann;Leo Rouhiainen;R. Amanda Bass

  • Environmental conditions that influence toxin biosynthesis in cyanobacteria.

    Brett A. Neilan;Leanne A. Pearson;Julia Muenchhoff;Michelle C. Moffitt

  • Detection of toxigenicity by a probe for the microcystin synthetase A gene (mcyA) of the cyanobacterial genus Microcystis: comparison of toxicities with 16S rRNA and phycocyanin operon (Phycocyanin Intergenic Spacer) phylogenies.

    Daniel Tillett;Dorothy L. Parker;Brett A. Neilan

  • Exploring the potential of endophytes from medicinal plants as sources of antimycobacterial compounds

    Alfonsus Alvin;Kristin I. Miller;Brett A. Neilan

  • Effects of erythromycin, tetracycline and ibuprofen on the growth of Synechocystis sp. and Lemna minor

    Francesco Pomati;Andrew G. Netting;Davide Calamari;Brett A. Neilan

  • Characterization of the gene cluster responsible for cylindrospermopsin biosynthesis.

    Troco Kaan Mihali;Ralf Kellmann;Julia Muenchhoff;Kevin D. Barrow

  • Hydroxyamidine Inhibitors of Indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase Potently Suppress Systemic Tryptophan Catabolism and the Growth of IDO-Expressing Tumors

    Holly K. Koblish;Michael J. Hansbury;Kevin J. Bowman;Gengjie Yang

  • Identification of genes implicated in toxin production in the cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

    Mark A. Schembri;Brett A. Neilan;Christopher P. Saint

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Pomati
Francesco Pomati Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Shauna A. Murray
Shauna A. Murray University of Technology Sydney
Elke Dittmann
Elke Dittmann University of Potsdam
Thomas Börner
Thomas Börner Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
T. David Waite
T. David Waite University of New South Wales
Malcolm R. Walter
Malcolm R. Walter University of New South Wales
Michele A. Burford
Michele A. Burford Griffith University
Hazel M. Mitchell
Hazel M. Mitchell University of New South Wales
Gilles J. Guillemin
Gilles J. Guillemin Bionyeri Pty Ltd
Mark V. Brown
Mark V. Brown University of Technology Sydney

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