Global Utilities

Staff Profile

 
Daniel Tillett
BSc(Hons) UNSW, PhD UNSW
Senior Lecturer
Room Location: Applied Science 1, Room 2.12B
Ph: 5444 7361
Fx: 5444 7476
Email:d.tillett@latrobe.edu.au


Teaching Responsibilities
  Microbiology and Biotechnology

Research Interests
  Genomic and DNA sequencing
DNA sequencing software
Automated DNA sequencing reagents
  Bioinformatics
  Molecular biology method development

Higher Degree Supervision
  Joyce Chu (PhD)

Recent Publications
  Chiu, J., P. E. March, R. Lee & D. Tillett (2004). Site-directed, Ligase Independent Mutagenesis (SLIM): A single-tube methodology approaching 100% efficiency in 4 hours. Nucleics Acids Research 32: e174.
  Neilan, B.A & D. Tillett (2002) Enzyme-free cloning of PCR products and fusion protein expression. Methods in Molecular Biology 192: 125-32.
  Tillett, D., D. P. Parker & B. A. Neilan (2001). Detection of toxigenicity by a probe for the microcystin synthetase A gene (mcyA) of the cyanobacterial genus Microcystis: comparison of toxicities with 16S rRNA and phycocyanin operon (Phycocyanin Intergenic Spacer) phylogenies. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 2810-8
  Tillett, D., E. Dittmann, M. Erhard, H. von Doehren, T. Boerner & B. A. Neilan (2000). Structural organization of microcystin biosynthesis in Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806: an integrated peptide-polyketide synthetase system. Chemistry and Biology 7: 753-64
  Burns, B. P., D. Tillett, S. L. Hazell, G. L. Mendz T. Kolesnikow & B. A. Neilan (2000). The Helicobacter pylori pyrB gene encoding aspartate caramoyltransferase is essential for bacterial survival. Archives in Biochemistry and Biophysics 380: 78-84.
  Tillett, D. & B. A. Neilan (2000). Xanthogenate nucleic acid isolation from cultured and environmental Cyanobacteria. Journal of Phycology 36: 251-258.
  Tillett, D., B. P. Burns & B. A. Neilan (2000). Optimized rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) for mapping bacterial mRNA transcripts. BioTechniques 28: 448-456.
  Tillett, D. & B. A. Neilan (1999). Enzyme-free cloning. Nucleic Acids Research 27: e26.
  Tillett, D. & B. A. Neilan (1999). Simple n-butanol purification of dye terminator sequencing reactions. BioTechniques 26: 606-610.
  Tillett, D. & B. A. Neilan (1999). An improved method for the purification of large DNA fragments from agarose gels using Wizard Plus SV columns. Analytical Biochemistry 269: 218-219.
   
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