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Email

megan.maher@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor in Chemical Biology
School of Chemistry
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
The University of Queensland
ORCID

0000-0003-0848-9640

Prof Megan Maher

Professor in Chemical Biology
School of Chemistry

98 Scholarly works
21 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Dormancy regulon reduction was pivotal to the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71566-x
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Structural basis of allosteric activation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isocitrate lyase 2.
    DOI: 10.1038/s42003-026-09821-6
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Structural and mechanistic basis of sulfolytic C–S bond cleavage by an Fe(ii)/α-ketoglutarate-dependent sulfoquinovose dioxygenase
    DOI: 10.1039/d5sc09188h
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Harnessing Structural Insights Into Bacterial Zinc Efflux for New Therapeutics
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Biochemical Characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans Ferritins
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00005
  • 2021

    Research Grant

    Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange System - a Missing Link in Protein Analysis
  • 2021

    Research Grant

    New Biomolecular Capabilities for the Melbourne Magnetic Resonance Facility
Megan Maher

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2019
ARC Future Fellow
2017
Georgina Sweet Award for Women in Quantitative Biomedical Science ARC/University of Melbourne
2012
La Trobe University LIMS Senior Research Fellow
2008
Cancer Institute of NSW Career Development Fellow

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2023

    Journal article

    Human Tim8a, Tim8b and Tim13 are auxiliary assembly factors of mature Complex IV
    DOI: 10.15252/embr.202256430
  • 2023

    Journal article

    The structure of the complex between the arsenite oxidase from Pseudorhizobium banfieldiae sp. strain NT-26 and its native electron acceptor cytochrome c552
    DOI: 10.1107/S2059798323002103
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Novel insecticidal proteins from ferns resemble insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2306177120
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Mitochondrial COA7 is a heme-binding protein with disulfide reductase activity, which acts in the early stages of complex IV assembly
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2110357119
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Dysregulation of Streptococcus pneumoniae zinc homeostasis breaks ampicillin resistance in a pneumonia infection model
    DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110202
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Crystal structure of a complex between the electron-transfer partners arsenite oxidase and cytochrome c552, from the arsenite respiring bacterium Rhizobium sp. NT-26
    DOI: 10.1107/s0108767321092539

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2026

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Deciphering the Molecular Architecture of the Pneumococcal Manganese Transport for New Therapeutics
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    A Mechanistic Exploration of Fern Proteins That Target Lepidopteran Pests

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