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Investigating natural product biosynthesis in Actinobacteria and fungi from Antarctic desert soils, with particular interest in polyketide synthase and non-ribosomal peptide synthetase gene clusters.

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University of New South Wales: Sydney, NSW, AU

Research Associate (School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences)
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Nicole Benaud

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University of New South Wales: Sydney, NSW, AU

2019 | PhD Biotechnology (School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences)
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Works (11)

<i>Penicillium psychrofluorescens</i> sp. nov., a naturally autofluorescent Antarctic fungus

Mycology
2025-01-02 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1080/21501203.2024.2421319
Part of ISSN: 2150-1203
Part of ISSN: 2150-1211
Contributors: Alinta Furnell; Nicole Benaud; Xabier Vázquez-Campos; Edward Liew; Allison Mertin; Jordan Amy Vink; Kate Montgomery; Marc Wilkins; Brett Summerell; Belinda Ferrari
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Nicole Benaud

Effects of increasing soil moisture on Antarctic desert microbial ecosystems

Conservation Biology
2024-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14268
Part of ISSN: 0888-8892
Part of ISSN: 1523-1739
Contributors: Eden Zhang; Sin Yin Wong; Paul Czechowski; Aleks Terauds; Angelique E. Ray; Nicole Benaud; Devan S. Chelliah; Daniel Wilkins; Kate Montgomery; Belinda Ferrari
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Nicole Benaud

Novel endolithic bacteria of phylum <i>Chloroflexota</i> reveal a myriad of potential survival strategies in the Antarctic desert

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2024-02-19 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1128/aem.02264-23
Part of ISSN: 0099-2240
Part of ISSN: 1098-5336
Contributors: Timothy Williams; Michelle Allen; Angelique Ray; Nicole Benaud; Devan S. Chelliah; Davide Albanese; Claudio Donati; Laura Selbmann; Claudia Coleine; Belinda Ferrari
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Nicole Benaud

Atmospheric chemosynthesis is phylogenetically and geographically widespread and contributes significantly to carbon fixation throughout cold deserts

ISME Journal
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-022-01298-5
EID:

2-s2.0-85135503995

Part of ISSN: 17517370 17517362
Contributors: Ray, A.E.; Zaugg, J.; Benaud, N.; Chelliah, D.S.; Bay, S.; Wong, H.L.; Leung, P.M.; Ji, M.; Terauds, A.; Montgomery, K. et al.
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Nicole Benaud via Scopus - Elsevier

Soil substrate culturing approaches recover diverse members of Actinomycetota from desert soils of Herring Island, East Antarctica

Extremophiles
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-022-01271-2
EID:

2-s2.0-85133922477

Part of ISSN: 14334909 14310651
Contributors: Benaud, N.; Chelliah, D.S.; Wong, S.Y.; Ferrari, B.C.
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Nicole Benaud via Scopus - Elsevier

The ecological roles of microbial lipopeptides: Where are we going?

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.02.017
EID:

2-s2.0-85102412079

Part of ISSN: 20010370
Contributors: Gutiérrez-Chávez, C.; Benaud, N.; Ferrari, B.C.
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Nicole Benaud via Scopus - Elsevier

Communication within east antarctic soil bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01968-19
EID:

2-s2.0-85076504814
Contributors: Wong, S.Y.; Charlesworth, J.C.; Benaud, N.; Burns, B.P.; Ferrari, B.C.
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Nicole Benaud via Scopus - Elsevier

Antarctic desert soil bacteria exhibit high novel natural product potential, evaluated through long‐read genome sequencing and comparative genomics

Environmental Microbiology
2020-11-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15300
Part of ISSN: 1462-2912
Part of ISSN: 1462-2920
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Nicole Benaud

Discovery of an Abundance of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Shark Bay Microbial Mats

Frontiers in Microbiology
2020-08-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01950
Part of ISSN: 1664-302X
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Nicole Benaud

Harnessing long-read amplicon sequencing to uncover NRPS and Type i PKS gene sequence diversity in polar desert soils

FEMS Microbiology Ecology
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiz031
EID:

2-s2.0-85064135988
Contributors: Benaud, N.; Zhang, E.; Van Dorst, J.; Brown, M.V.; Kalaitzis, J.A.; Neilan, B.A.; Ferrari, B.C.
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Nicole Benaud via Scopus - Elsevier

New insights into the microbial diversity of polar desert soils: A biotechnological perspective

Microbial Ecology of Extreme Environments
2017 | Book
Part of DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51686-8_7
EID:

2-s2.0-85034411689
Contributors: van Dorst, J.; Benaud, N.; Ferrari, B.
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Nicole Benaud via Scopus - Elsevier
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