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Dr

Neil Young

Nhmrc Career Development Snr Research Fellow
Veterinary Biosciences
Parasitology
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Molecular evolution
Transcriptomics
science & technology
animals
life sciences & biomedicine
parasitology
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Dr

Neil Young

 
Division
Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences
 
Primary Interest
genomic and molecular research to understand the biology of parasitic worms and the diseases that they cause
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Projects

Displaying the 8 most recent projects from 8 for Neil Young.

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NEXT-GENERATION GENOMIC RESOURCES TO TACKLE PARASITIC DISEASES OF ANIMALS

The revolution in genomics provides unprecedented opportunities to tackle destructive parasitic diseases affecting billions of animals world..

2019 - 2022
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NEXT-GENERATION GENOMIC RESOURCES TO TACKLE PARASITIC DISEASES OF ANIMALS

The revolution in genomics provides unprecedented opportunities to tackle destructive parasitic diseases affecting billions of animals world..

2019 - 2022
Active
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GENOMIC-BASED TOOLS TO SUPPORT THE CONTROL OF UROGENITAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS AND HEPATIC OPISTHORCHIASIS

Over 100 million people are affected by parasitic flukes that promote malignant tumours. Parasite control depends on a single drug, making r..

2016 - 2019
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GENOME-BASED TOOLS TO SUPPORT UROGENITAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL

More than 100 million sub-Saharan Africans have urogenital schistosomiasis, a disease that promotes malignant cancer and HIV/AIDS. Control d..

2016 - 2019
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Investigating the evolution and spread of drug resistance in liver fluke

2018 - 2019
Completed
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Harnessing next-generation technologies to tackle major food-borne parasites and design new interventions

Frontier technologies will be used in this project to unlock the molecular secrets of parasites which cause serious food-borne diseases in a..

2014 - 2017
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Harnessing next-generation technologies to tackle major food-borne parasites and design new interventions

Frontier technologies will be used in this project to unlock the molecular secrets of parasites which cause serious food-borne diseases in a..

2014 - 2017
Completed
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Schistosoma haematobium Chicago Library Quote

2015 - 2016
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

6

Research Grant

1

Internal Research Grant

1

Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 159 for Neil Young.

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Harnessing model organism genomics to underpin the machine learning-based prediction of essential genes in eukaryotes - Biotechnological implications.

Tulio L Campos, Pasi K Korhonen, Andreas Hofmann, Robin B Gasser, Neil D Young

Journal article  |  2021  |  Biotechnol Adv

The availability of high-quality genomes and advances in functional genomics have enabled large-scale studies of essential genes i..

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3D genomics across the tree of life reveals condensin II as a determinant of architecture type

Claire Hoencamp, Olga Dudchenko, Ahmed MO Elbatsh, Sumitabha Brahmachari, Jonne A Raaijmakers, Tom van Schaik, Angela Sedeno Cacciatore, Vinicius G Contessoto, Roy GHP van Heesbeen, Bram van den Broek, Aditya N Mhaskar, Hans Teunissen, Brian Glenn St Hilaire, David Weisz, Arina D Omer, Melanie Pham, Zane Colaric, Zhenzhen Yang, Suhas SP Rao, Namita Mitra, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENCE

We investigated genome folding across the eukaryotic tree of life. We find two types of three-dimensional (3D) genome architecture..

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Dipylidium caninum draft genome-a new resource for comparative genomic and genetic explorations of flatworms

Guo-Hua Liu, Pasi K Korhonen, Neil D Young, Jiang Lu, Tao Wang, Yi-Tian Fu, Anson V Koehler, Andreas Hofmann, Bill CH Chang, Shuai Wang, Nan Li, Chu-Yu Lin, Hui Zhang, Lingzi Xiangli, Lin Lin, Wei-Min Liu, Nan Li, Hua-Wei Li, Robin B Gasser, Xing-Quan Zhu

Journal article  |  2021  |  GENOMICS

Here, we present a draft genome of the tapeworm Dipylidium caninum (family Dipylidiidae) and compare it with other cestode genomes..

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High-quality reference genome for Clonorchis sinensis

Neil D Young, Andreas J Stroehlein, Liina Kinkar, Tao Wang, Woon-Mok Sohn, Bill CH Chang, Parwinder Kaur, David Weisz, Olga Dudchenko, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Pasi K Korhonen, Robin B Gasser

Journal article  |  2021  |  GENOMICS

The Chinese liver fluke, Clonorchis sinensis, causes the disease clonorchiasis, affecting ~35 million people in regions of China, ..

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Cross-Predicting Essential Genes between Two Model Eukaryotic Species Using Machine Learning

Tulio L Campos, Pasi K Korhonen, Neil D Young

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Experimental studies of Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster have contributed substantially to our understanding of ..

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Transcriptomic Analysis of Long-Term Protective Immunity Induced by Vaccination With Mycoplasma gallisepticum Strain ts-304

Sathya N Kulappu Arachchige, Neil D Young, Anna Kanci Condello, Oluwadamilola S Omotainse, Amir H Noormohammadi, Nadeeka K Wawegama, Glenn F Browning

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Live attenuated vaccines are commonly used to control Mycoplasma gallisepticum infections in chickens. M. gallisepticum ts-304 is ..

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Nanopore Sequencing Resolves Elusive Long Tandem-Repeat Regions in Mitochondrial Genomes

Liina Kinkar, Robin B Gasser, Bonnie L Webster, David Rollinson, D Timothy J Littlewood, Bill CH Chang, Andreas J Stroehlein, Pasi K Korhonen, Neil D Young

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Long non-coding, tandem-repetitive regions in mitochondrial (mt) genomes of many metazoans have been notoriously difficult to char..

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OGEE v3: Online GEne Essentiality database with increased coverage of organisms and human cell lines

Sanathoi Gurumayum, Puzi Jiang, Xiaowen Hao, Tulio L Campos, Neil D Young, Pasi K Korhonen, Robin B Gasser, Peer Bork, Xing-Ming Zhao, Li-jie He, Wei-Hua Chen

Journal article  |  2021  |  NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

OGEE is an Online GEne Essentiality database. Gene essentiality is not a static and binary property, rather a context-dependent an..

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Bulinus truncatus transcriptome – a resource to enable molecular studies of snail and schistosome biology

Andreas J Stroehlein, Pasi K Korhonen, David Rollinson, J Russell Stothard, Ross S Hall, Robin B Gasser, Neil D Young

Journal article  |  2021  |  Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases

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Mitochondrial genome of Bulinus truncatus (Gastropoda: Lymnaeoidea): Implications for snail systematics and schistosome epidemiology

Neil D Young, Liina Kinkar, Andreas J Stroehlein, Pasi K Korhonen, J Russell Stothard, David Rollinson, Robin B Gasser

Journal article  |  2021  |  Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases

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Expanding Knowledge
Veterinary Sciences
Medical Microbiology
Genetics
Clinical Health
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Microbiology
Evolutionary Biology
Other Health

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2014

Postdoctoral researcher oral presentation award at the Anniversary (50th) Conference of the Australian Society of Parasitology (ASP), Canberra, Austra

Australian Society for Parasitology
2014

CASS Travel Grant

Contributing to Australian Scholarship and Science (CASS)
2009

Endeavour Research Fellowship (Awardee ID number 1511_2010)

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
2009

Rob Lewis medal for excellence in postgraduate research

University of Tasmania
2008

Student oral presentation award at the Australian Society for Parasitology (ASP) Conference

Australian Society for Parasitology
2008

Travel Support Scholarship

Aquafin CRC
2008

Mentoring scheme travel support

ARC/NHMRC Research Network for Parasitolog
2007

Student oral presentation award at the University of Tasmania - Research Conference: Sharing Excellence in Research

University of Tasmania
2006

Travel Support Scholarship

Aquafin CRC
2006

ARC/NHMRC Research Network for Parasitology travel support scholarship

ARC/NHMRC Research Network for Parasitology

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Nhmrc Career Development Snr Research Fellow

Veterinary Biosciences

Ordinary Member Of The Society

Genetics Society of AustralAsia

Victorian Representative On The Australian Society For Parasitology Council

Australian Society for Parasitology

Ordinary Member Of The Alliance

Melbourne Bioinformatics Alliance

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Tasmania

Bachelor of Science

James Cook University of North Queensland

Aquatic Resource Management

Central Queensland University

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