Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Choo, J. M., J. K. Cheung, J. A. Wisniewski, D. L. Steer, D. M. Bulach, T. J. Hiscox, A. Chakravorty, A. I. Smith, D. A. Gell, J. I. Rood, M. Awad. 2016. The NEAT domain-containing proteins of Clostridium perfringens bind heme. PLOS One 11: e0162981.

Chakravorty, A., M. Awad, J, K. Cheung, T. J. Hiscox, D. Lyras, J. I. Rood. 2015. The pore-forming á-toxin from Clostridium septicum activates the MAPK pathway in a Ras-c-Raf-dependent and independent manner. Toxins (Basel) 10: 516 – 534.

Hiscox, T. J., K. Ohtani, T. Shimizu, J. K. Cheung, J. I. Rood. 2014. Identification of a two-component signal transduction system that regulates maltose genes in Clostridium perfringens. Anaerobe 30: 199 -204.

Wheelan, D. R., Hiscox, T. J., Rood, J. I., Bamberry, K., McNaughton, D., Wood, B. R. 2014. Detection of an en masse and reversible B- to A-DNA conformational transition in prokaryotes in response to desiccation. J. R. Soc. Interface 11: 20140454

Chakravorty, A, M. M. Awad, T. J. Hiscox, J. K. Cheung, J. M. Choo, D. Lyras and J. I. Rood. 2014. Opioid analgesics stop the development of clostridial gas gangrene. J. Infect. Dis. 210: 483-492

Cheung, J. K., L-Y.Low, T. J. Hiscox, and J. I. Rood. 2013. Regulation of extracellular toxin production in Clostridium perfringens. In M. L. Vasil and A. J. Darwin (Eds). Regulation of bacterial virulence. Washington: ASM Press.

Hiscox, T. J., P. Harrison, A. Chakravorty, J. M. Choo, K. Ohtani, T. Shimizu, J. K. Cheung and J. I. Rood. 2013. Regulation of sialidase activity by the orphan sensor histidine kinase ReeS. PLOS One 8: e73525.

Hiscox, T. J., A. Chakravorty, J. M. Choo, K. Ohtani, T. Shimizu, J. K. Cheung, and J. I. Rood. 2011. Regulation of virulence by the RevR response regulator in Clostridium perfringens. Infect Immun 79:2145-2153.

Chakravorty, A., M. M. Awad, T. J. Hiscox, J. K. Cheung, G. P. Carter, J. M. Choo, D. Lyras, and J. I. Rood. 2011. The cysteine protease alpha-clostripain is not essential for the pathogenesis of Clostridium perfringens-mediated myonecrosis. PloS one 6:e22762.

Kennedy, C. L., D. Lyras, J. K. Cheung, T. J. Hiscox, J. J. Emmins, and J. I. Rood. 2009. Cross-complementation of Clostridium perfringens PLC and Clostridium septicum alpha-toxin mutants reveals PLC is sufficient to mediate gas gangrene. Microbes and infection / Institut Pasteur 11:413-418.

Myers, G. S., D. A. Rasko, J. K. Cheung, J. Ravel, R. Seshadri, R. T. DeBoy, Q. Ren, J. Varga, M. M. Awad, L. M. Brinkac, S. C. Daugherty, D. H. Haft, R. J. Dodson, R. Madupu, W. C. Nelson, M. J. Rosovitz, S. A. Sullivan, H. Khouri, G. I. Dimitrov, K. L. Watkins, S. Mulligan, J. Benton, D. Radune, D. J. Fisher, H. S. Atkins, T. Hiscox, B. H. Jost, S. J. Billington, J. G. Songer, B. A. McClane, R. W. Titball, J. I. Rood, S. B. Melville, and I. T. Paulsen. 2006. Skewed genomic variability in strains of the toxigenic bacterial pathogen, Clostridium perfringens. Genome research 16:1031-1040.

Conference Presentations

2021 - Academic stress of COVID-19 on South Asian females: A comparative study between university students in London and Melbourne (invited speaker). BERA 2021, British Educational Research Association.

2020 – E-learning in the face of a pandemic (invited speaker). Post-pandemic university, Society for Research in Higher Education, University of Cambridge

2011 – RevR regulates virulence and phosphate metabolism in Clostridium perfringens. 6^th international conference on Gram positive micro-organisms, Montecatini, Italy [Poster]

2009 – Regulation of virulence by the RevR orphan response regulator in Clostridium perfringens. 6^th ClostPath international conference, Rome Italy. [Seminar]

2007 – Functional analysis of the VirJ/I two-component signal transduction system of Clostridium perfringens, Lorne, Australia. [Poster]