Area of research
Pharmacology · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research interests include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Fungal Biology and Applications, Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases.
Genome-Guided Discovery and Heterologous Biosynthesis of Alkylresorcinols by Collaborating Highly Reducing and Type III Polyketide Synthases.
Draft genome sequences of the pathogenic fungi <i>Scedosporium aurantiacum</i> and <i>Scedosporium apiospermum</i> from clinical isolates.
Metabologenomic profiling of the endemic Australian fungus
<i>Aspergillus luteorubrus</i>
MIBiG 4.0: advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration.
Self-Resistance Gene-Guided Discovery of the Molecular Basis for Biosynthesis of the Fatty Acid Synthase Inhibitor Cerulenin.
Actinobacteria Warfare Against the Plant Pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: 2,4,6-Trimethylpyridine Identified as a Bacterial Derived Volatile With Antifungal Activity.
SpectroIBIS: Automated Data Processing for Multiconformer Quantum Chemical Spectroscopic Calculations.
An expanded database of high-resolution MS/MS spectra for lichen-derived natural products.
Transcriptomics-Driven Discovery of New Meroterpenoid Rhynchospenes Involved in the Virulence of the Barley Pathogen <i>Rhynchosporium commune</i>.
Heterologous expression of an <i>in planta</i>-upregulated gene cluster in the wheat pathogen <i>Parastagonospora nodorum</i> establishes the biosynthesis of methylene-bridged depsides.
MIBiG 4.0: advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration
Discovery and heterologous biosynthesis of glycosylated polyketide luteodienoside A reveals unprecedented glucinol-mediated product offloading by a fungal carnitine <i>O</i>-acyltransferase domain.
Next-generation AMA1-based plasmids for enhanced heterologous expression in filamentous fungi.
Heterologous Biosynthesis of the Sterol <i>O</i>-Acyltransferase Inhibitor Helvamide Unveils an α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Cross-Linking Oxygenase.
The aquastatin biosynthetic gene cluster encodes a versatile polyketide synthase capable of synthesising heteromeric depsides with diverse alkyl side chains.
Discovery of Two Novel Phthalide Phytotoxins from the Wheat Tan Spot Fungal Pathogen <i>Pyrenophora tritici-repentis</i>.
Ether-Diol Ambiguity: An Inconspicuous Issue in the Structure Elucidation of Oxygenated Natural Products.
The Velvet transcription factor PnVeA regulates necrotrophic effectors and secondary metabolism in the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum.
Geministatins: new depside antibiotics from the fungus Austroacremonium gemini.
Self‐Resistance Gene‐Guided Discovery of the Molecular Basis for Biosynthesis of the Fatty Acid Synthase Inhibitor Cerulenin
Next generation AMA1-based plasmids for enhanced heterologous expression in filamentous fungi
CAGECAT: The CompArative GEne Cluster Analysis Toolbox for rapid search and visualisation of homologous gene clusters.
The expanding CRISPR toolbox for natural product discovery and engineering in filamentous fungi.
Discovery, bioactivity and biosynthesis of fungal piperazines.
Turonicin A, an Antifungal Linear Polyene Polyketide from an Australian <i>Streptomyces</i> sp.
Stereodivergent Hydroxylation of Berkeleylactones by <i>Penicillium turbatum</i>.
Resorculins: hybrid polyketide macrolides from <i>Streptomyces</i> sp. MST-91080.
CAGECAT: The CompArative GEne Cluster Analysis Toolbox for rapid search and visualisation of homologous gene clusters
The Velvet transcription factor PnVeA regulates necrotrophic effectors and secondary metabolism in the wheat pathogen <i>Parastagonospora nodorum</i>
Out for a RiPP: challenges and advances in genome mining of ribosomal peptides from fungi.