BABS - Staff Profile of Brett Neilan

	Prof Brett Neilan
	BappSc PhD MASM
	Professor
	Room No:	344
	Office:	Cyanobacteria and Astrobiology Research Lab, Level 3, Biological Science Bldg
	Phone:	9385 3235
	Fax:	9385 1591
	Email:	b.neilan@unsw.edu.au

Teaching Responsibilities:

MICR3071 Course Coordinator/Lecturer

MICR3081 Course Coordinator

Research Description:

Our interests can be divided into several programs that are linked by the underlying theory that the diversity of life forms on Earth is the basis for the evolution of natural products. The measurement of biological diversity and detection of previously unknown organisms is essential to the process of drug discovery and successive drug design.

Selected Publications:

Neilan, B. A., Dittmann, E., Rouhiainen, L., Bass, R. A., Schaub, V., Sivonen, K., and Borner, T. (1999) Nonribosomal peptide synthesis and the toxigenicity of cyanobacteria. Journal of Bacteriology 181, 4089-4097.

Neilan BA (2001) Genomic polymorphisms and the diversity of oxygenic phototrophs. In Environmental molecular microbiology: protocols and applications. Ed. P. Rochelle, Horizon Scientific Press, San Diego. p. 75-90.

Neilan BA, Burns BP, Relman DA, Lowe DR (2002) Molecular identification of cyanobacteria associated with stromatolites from distinct geographical locations. Astrobiology 2(3), 271-280.

Neilan BA, Saker ML, Fastner J, Torokne A, Burns BP (2003) Phylogeography of the invasive cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii. Molecular Ecology 12(1), 133-140.

Other Professional Activities:

BABS-UNSW Adjunct Professor, Institute for Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science Senior Associate of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology Deputy Director (Education) and member of the executive committee for the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Centre for Gene Function Analysis Member of the executive for the Australian Society for Microbiology (NSW branch)

Prof Brett Neilan

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