Brett A. Neilan

27.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
357 papers, 20.4k citations indexed

About

Brett A. Neilan is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brett A. Neilan has authored 357 papers receiving a total of 20.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 135 papers in Ecology and 131 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Brett A. Neilan's work include Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (143 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (114 papers) and Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (78 papers). Brett A. Neilan is often cited by papers focused on Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (143 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (114 papers) and Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (78 papers). Brett A. Neilan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Germany. Brett A. Neilan's co-authors include Elke Dittmann, Michelle C. Moffitt, Troco Kaan Mihali, Leanne A. Pearson, Daniel Tillett, Thomas Börner, Brendan P. Burns, Ralf Kellmann, Melanie Kaebernick and Marcel Erhard and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Brett A. Neilan

355 papers receiving 19.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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

2000 809 citations Elke Dittmann, Brett A. Neilan et al. profile →
Neurotoxic Alkaloids: Saxitoxin and Its Analogs

2010 565 citations Michelle C. Moffitt, Brett A. Neilan et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The impact of anthropogenic activities on antimicrobial and heavy metal resistance in aquatic environments 2025 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Md Javed Foysal, Brett A. Neilan, Verlaine Timms	1
2	Structure, biosynthesis and activity of indolactam alkaloids 2024 ·PubMed ·(unknown), Peter Karuso, Brett A. Neilan	2
3	Microcystins with Modified Adda⁵-Residues from a Heterologous Microcystin Expression System 2024 ·ACS Omega ·Christopher O. Miles, Pearse McCarron, Krista Thomas, Bakir Al‐Sinawi, Tianzhe Liu, Brett A. Neilan	2
4	Critical steps in an environmental metaproteomics workflow 2024 ·Environmental Microbiology ·(unknown), Leanne A. Pearson, Brett A. Neilan	10
5	Long-term stability of the genome structure of the cyanobacterium, Dolichospermum in a deep German lake 2024 ·Harmful Algae ·Jason Woodhouse, Michele A. Burford, Brett A. Neilan, Aaron R. Jex, (unknown), Kaarina Sivonen, David P. Fewer, Hans‐Peter Grossart, Anusuya Willis	1
6	Cyanobacteria as a critical reservoir of the environmental antimicrobial resistome 2023 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Verlaine Timms, Karl A. Hassan, Leanne A. Pearson, Brett A. Neilan	7
7	Microbiome analysis reveals Microcystis blooms endogenously seeded from benthos within wastewater maturation ponds 2023 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nicholas D. Crosbie, Brett A. Neilan	3
8	Heterologous Expression and Biochemical Analysis Reveal a Schizokinen-Based Siderophore Pathway in Leptolyngbya (Cyanobacteria) 2022 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Suqin Wang, Leanne A. Pearson, Rabia Mazmouz, Tianzhe Liu, Brett A. Neilan	10
9	Tailoring Enzyme Stringency Masks the Multispecificity of a Lyngbyatoxin (Indolactam Alkaloid) Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase 2021 ·ChemBioChem ·(unknown), Sarah E. Ongley, Jan‐Christoph Kehr, Russell Pickford, Elke Dittmann, Brett A. Neilan	9
10	Heterologous Expression of an Unusual Ketosynthase, SxtA, Leads to Production of Saxitoxin Intermediates in Escherichia coli 2020 ·ChemBioChem ·(unknown), Rabia Mazmouz, Russell Pickford, Bakir Al‐Sinawi, Ralf Kellmann, Leanne A. Pearson, Brett A. Neilan	11
11	Genome mining of a fungal endophyte of Taxus yunnanensis (Chinese yew) leads to the discovery of a novel azaphilone polyketide, lijiquinone 2020 ·Microbial Biotechnology ·(unknown), Kristin Miller, John A. Kalaitzis, Rocky Chau, Brett A. Neilan	17
12	Mutagenesis of the Microcystin Tailoring and Transport Proteins in a Heterologous Cyanotoxin Expression System 2019 ·ACS Synthetic Biology ·Tianzhe Liu, Rabia Mazmouz, Leanne A. Pearson, Brett A. Neilan	11
13	An In Vitro and In Vivo Study of Broad-Range Phosphopantetheinyl Transferases for Heterologous Expression of Cyanobacterial Natural Products 2018 ·ACS Synthetic Biology ·Tianzhe Liu, Rabia Mazmouz, Brett A. Neilan	11
14	Directing the Heterologous Production of Specific Cyanobacterial Toxin Variants 2017 ·ACS Chemical Biology ·Tianzhe Liu, Rabia Mazmouz, Sarah E. Ongley, Rocky Chau, Russell Pickford, Jason Woodhouse, Brett A. Neilan	34
15	Fodinomyces uranophilus gen. nov. sp. nov. and Coniochaeta fodinicola sp. nov., two uranium mine-inhabiting Ascomycota fungi from northern Australia 2014 ·Mycologia ·Xabier Vázquez-Campos, Andrew S. Kinsela, T. David Waite, Richard N. Collins, Brett A. Neilan	36
16	A Red-Shifted Chlorophyll 2010 ·Science ·Min Chen, Martin Schliep, Robert D. Willows, (unknown), Brett A. Neilan, Hugo Scheer	374
17	Improved methods for in situ enzymatic amplification and detection of low copy number genes in bacteria 2006 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Daniel Jacobs, Mark Angles, Amanda E. Goodman, Brett A. Neilan	2
18	Mucispirillum schaedleri gen. nov., sp. nov., a spiral-shaped bacterium colonizing the mucus layer of the gastrointestinal tract of laboratory rodents 2005 ·INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ·(unknown), Jani O’Rourke, Brett A. Neilan, Peter Vandamme, Stephen L. W. On, James G. Fox, Adrian V. Lee	133
19	The Molecular Evolution and DNA Profiling of Toxic Cyanobacteria 2002 ·Current Issues in Molecular Biology ·Brett A. Neilan	18
20	The expansion of mechanistic and organismic diversity associated with non-ribosomal peptides 2000 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Michelle C. Moffitt, Brett A. Neilan	40

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