Developing synthetic biology solutions to combat climate change, facilitate space habitation, and advance innovations in medicine and agriculture.
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Research Interests
Developing synthetic biology solutions to combat climate change, facilitate space habitation, and advance innovations in medicine and agriculture.
Recent Publications
- Kessans S., Parker EJ. and Nicholson MJ. (2020) Delivering methane inhibitors to pasture-fed ruminants. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry for Primary Industries and Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Annual Science Presentations, 4-6 Aug 2020.
- Kessans S., Parker EJ. and Nicholson MJ. (2020) Delivering methane inhibitors to pasture-fed ruminants. In Delivering methane inhibitors to pasture-fed ruminants final report, Commissioned by New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre.
- Kessans SA., Nicholson MJ., Parker EJ., Rodriguez LYB., Scott DB., Van de Bittner KC., van Dolleweerd CJ. and Kessans S. (2020) Heterologous biosynthesis of nodulisporic acid.Patent No. 2020/0299700 A1, USA.
- Meador LR., Kessans SA., Kilbourne J., Kibler KV., Pantaleo G., Esteban M., Blattman JN., Jacobs BL. and Mor TS. (2019) Corrigendum to “A heterologous prime-boosting strategy with replicating Vaccinia virus vectors and plant-produced HIV-1 Gag/dgp41 virus-like particles” (Virology (2017) 507 (242–256), (S0042682217301095), (10.1016/j.virol.2017.04.008)). Virology 534: 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2019.05.018.
- Van De Bittner KC., Cameron RC., Bustamante LY., Bundela R., Kessans SA., Vorster J., Nicholson MJ. and Parker EJ. (2019) Nodulisporic acid e biosynthesis:: In vivo characterisation of NodD1, an indole-diterpene prenyltransferase that acts on an emindole SB derived indole-diterpene scaffold. MedChemComm 10(7): 1160-1164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9md00143c.