Publications
2010
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Howden BP, Seemann T, Harrison PF, McEvoy CR, Stanton JA,
Rand CJ, Mason CW, Jensen SO, Firth N, Davies JK, Johnson PD, Stinear TP.
Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus strain JKD6008, a ST239
clone of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus with intermediate level
vancomycin resistance.
J Bacteriol. 2010 Aug 27.
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Chua K, Seemann T, Harrison PF, Davies JK, Coutts SJ,
Chen H, Haring V, Moore R, Howden BP, Stinear TP.
Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus strain JKD6159, a Unique
Australian clone of ST93-IV Community Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
J Bacteriol. 2010 Aug 20.
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Fyfe JAM, Lavender CJ, Handasyde KA, Legione AR, O'Brien CR,
Stinear TP, Pidot SJ, Seemann T, Benbow EM, Wallace JR, McCowan C, Johnson PDR.
A Major Role for Mammals in the Ecology of Mycobacterium ulcerans.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis.
2010 4(8):e791.
[online]
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Katharina Röltgen, Weihong Qi, Marie-Thérèse Ruf, Ernestina
Mensah-Quainoo, Sacha J. Pidot, Torsten Seemann, Timothy P. Stinear, Michael
Käser, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Gerd Pluschke.
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Typing of Mycobacterium ulcerans Reveals
Focal Transmission of Buruli Ulcer in a Highly Endemic Region of Ghana
PLoS Negl Trop Dis.
2010 Jul 20;4(7):e751.
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Wei Gao, Kyra Chua, John K Davies, Hayley J Newton,
Torsten Seemann, Paul Harrison,
Natasha E Holmes, Hyun-Woo Rhee, Jong-In Hong,
Elizabeth L Hartland, Timothy P Stinear, Benjamin P Howden.
Two Novel Point Mutations in Clinical Staphylococcus aureus Reduce Linezolid Susceptibility
and Switch on the Stringent Response to Promote Persistent Infection
PLoS Pathog.
6(6):e1000944
[online]
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Jason A Steen, Jennifer A Steen, Paul Harrison, Torsten Seemann,
Ian Wilkie, Marina Harper, Ben Adler, John D Boyce.
Fis is essential for capsule production in Pasteurella multocida and
regulates expression of other important virulence factors
PLoS Pathog.
2010 6(2):e1000750
[online]
2009
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Nicholas J. Tobias, Torsten Seemann, Sacha J. Pidot, Benjamin P. Howden, John K. Davies, Grant A. Jenkin and Timothy P. Stinear
Mycolactone Gene Expression Is Controlled by Strong SigA-Like Promoters with Utility in Studies of Mycobacterium ulcerans and Buruli Ulcer
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
2009 3(11):e553.
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K. Chua, G. Coombs, T. Seemann, J.K. Davies, R. Moore, V. Haring, T.P. Stinear, B.P. Howden
Whole Genome Sequence of ST93-MRSA-IV, a Unique Australian
Clone of Community-Associated, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
49th ICAAC,
Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
San Francisco, California 12-15 Sep 2009.
[online]
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Hayley J. Newton, Joan Sloan, Dieter M. Bulach, Torsten Seemann, Cody Allison, Marija Tauschek, Roy M Robins-Browne, James C Paton, Thomas S Whittam, Adrienne W Paton and Elizabeth L Hartland.
Shiga Toxin producing Escherichia coli Strains Negative for Locus of Enterocyte Effacement
Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 15, No. 3, March 2009.
[online]
2008
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Sacha J Pidot, Hui Hong, Torsten Seemann, Jessica L Porter, Marcus J Yip,
Artem Men, Matthew Johnson, Peter Wilson, John K Davies, Peter F Leadlay and Timothy P Stinear
Deciphering the Genetic Basis for Polyketide Variation Among Mycobacteria Producing Mycolactones
BMC Genomics 2008, 9:462
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Kevin R Nicholas, Amit Kumar, Yvan Strahm, David Powell, Torsten Seemann,
Kerry A. Daly, Amelia Brennan, Karensa Menzies, Julie Sharp, Matthew Digby
and Christophe Lefevre.
MammoSapiens: eResearch of the lactation
program.Building online facilities for collaborative molecular and
evolutionary analysis of lactation and other biological systems from gene
sequences and gene expression data.
eResearch Australasia 2008
29 Sep - 1 Oct, Melbourne, Australia.
[online]
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Stinear TP, Seemann T, Harrison PF,
Jenkin GA, Davies JK, Johnson PD, Abdellah Z, Arrowsmith C,
Chillingworth T, Churcher C, Clarke K, Cronin A, Davis P, Goodhead I,
Holroyd N, Jagels K, Lord A, Moule S, Mungall K, Norbertczak H, Quail MA,
Rabbinowitsch E, Walker D, White B, Whitehead S, Small PL, Brosch R,
Ramakrishnan L, Fischbach MA, Parkhill J, Cole ST.
Insights from the complete genome sequence of Mycobacterium marinum on the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Genome Res. 2008 18: 729-741. 10.1101/gr.075069.107
PMID: 18403782
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Picardeau M, Bulach DM, Bouchier C, Zuerner RL, Zidane N, Wilson PJ,
Creno S, Kuczek ES, Bommezzadri S, Davis JC, McGrath A,
Johnson MJ, Boursaux-Eude C,
Seemann T,
Rouy Z, Coppel RL,
Rood JI, Lajus A, Davies JK, Medigue C, Adler B.
Genome Sequence of the Saprophyte Leptospira biflexa Provides Insights into the Evolution of Leptospira and the Pathogenesis of Leptospirosis.
PLoS ONE. 2008 Feb 13;3(2):e1607.
PMID: 18270594
[online]
2007
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Garry S. A. Myers, Dane Parker, Keith Al-Hasani, Ruth M. Kennan,
Torsten Seemann,
Qing-hu Ren, Jonathan H. Badger, Jeremy D. Selengut, Robert T. DeBoy,
Herv Tettelin, John D. Boyce, Victoria P. McCarl,
William Nelson, Ramana Madupu, Yasmin Mohamoud, Tara Holley,
Nadia Fedorova, Hoda Khouri, Steven P. Bottomley,
Richard J. Whittington, Ben Adler, J. Glenn Songer, Julian I. Rood
and Ian T. Paulsen,
Genome sequence and identification of candidate vaccine antigens from the animal pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus
Nature Biotechnology 25, p569-572, 2007.
doi:10.1038/nbt1302
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Timothy P. Stinear, Torsten Seemann, Sacha Pidot, Wafa Frigui, Gilles
Reysset, Thierry Garnier, Guillaume Meurice, David Simon, Christiane
Bouchier, Laurence Ma, Magali Tichit, Jessica L. Porter, Janine Ryan,
Paul D.R. Johnson, John K. Davies, Grant A. Jenkin, Pamela L.C. Small,
Louis M. Jones, Fredj Tekaia, Franoise Laval, Mamadou Daff, Julian
Parkhill, and Stewart T. Cole
Reductive evolution and niche adaptation inferred from the genome of
Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of Buruli ulcer
Genome Res., Feb 2007; 17: 192 - 200 ;
doi:10.1101/gr.5942807
[online]
2006
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Torsten Seemann,
Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium,
Asia Pacific Biotech News,
Vol 10, No 24, 30 December 2006
[online]
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Dieter M. Bulach, Richard L. Zuerner, Peter Wilson, Torsten Seemann,
Annette McGrath, Paul A. Cullen, John Davis, Matthew Johnson,
Elizabeth Kuczek, David P. Alt, Brooke Peterson-Burch, Ross L. Coppel,
Julian I. Rood, John K. Davies, and Ben Adler
Genomic Reduction in Leptospira borgpetersenii reflects Limited Transmission Potential.,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
published September 14, 2006,
doi:10.1073/pnas.0603979103
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R. Zuerner, D. Bulach, T. Seemann et al,
Chapter Comparative Analysis of Pathogenic Leptospira Genomes
Molecular Biology of Spirochetes,
Volume 373 NATO Science Series: Life and Behavioural Sciences,
Edited by: F.C. Cabello, D. Hulinska and H.P. Godfrey
October 2006, IOS Press. The Netherlands. ISBN: 1-58603-665-3
[online]
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Lo M, Bulach DM, Powell DR, Haake DA, Matsunaga J, Paustian ML, Zuerner RL, Adler B.
Effects of temperature on gene expression patterns in Leptospira interrogans serovar Lai
as assessed by whole-genome microarrays.
Infect Immun.
2006 Oct;74(10):5848-59.
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Bulach DM, Seemann T, Zuerner RL, Adler B (2006) The organization of
Leptospira at a genomic level. In, Bacterial Genomes and Infectious Diseases
(Chan VL, Sherman PM, Bourke B, Eds). pp 109-123. Humana Press, Totowa, USA.
[online]
2005
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B Adler, D Bulach, P Cullen, J Davies, J Rood, R Coppel, T Seemann,
R Zuerner, D Alt, A McGrath, P Wilson and E Kuczek:
What Can We Learn From Comparative Genomics of Leptospira?, (abstract),
4th International Leptospirosis Society Meeting Abstracts and Proceedings,
November 2005, pp 130.
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D M Bulach, T Seemann, A McGrath, E Kuczek, R L Coppel, J K Davies,
J I Rood, D P Alt, R L Zuerner and B Adler:
The Genome of Leptospira Biflexa, (abstract),
4th International Leptospirosis Society Meeting
Abstracts and proceedings, November 2005, pp 136.
[online]
2004
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Adler B, Bulach D, Cullen P, Davies J, Rood J, Coppel R, Seemann T,
Zuerner R, Alt D, McGrath A, Wilson P & Kuczek E
What can we learn from comparative genomics of Leptospira?,
Aust. Soc. Microbiol. SY 11.1 Sydney, Australia. (2004).
2003
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A McGrath, J Davis, P J Wilson, D Bulach, T Seemann,
J Davies, R Coppel, B Adler and E S Kuczek,
Assembly and Annotation of the Leptospira Borgpetersenii Serovar Hardjobovis Genome Sequence,
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2003)
, Brisbane,QLD, Australia, 29 June - 3 July 2003, 1pp.
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