Associate Professor Rietie Venter

Associate Professor UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences

City East Campus (P4-03)
tel +61 8 830 21515

email Rietie.Venter@unisa.edu.au

Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Antimicrobial resistance
Drug efflux proteins
Novel antibiotics
Mechanisms of resistance
Multidrug resistance

I obtained my BSc Hons and Master’s degrees with distinction from the University of the Free State in South Africa. As top student in my BSc Hons class I secured an international scholarship to fund my PhD studies at the University of Leeds. After completing my PhD on membrane protein biochemistry at the University of Leeds in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, I moved to Cambridge, where I spend twelve years doing research on multidrug transporters, first as a post-doc and later running my own research group as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge. During this time, I was also appointed as College Lecturer in Robinson College, University of Cambridge, where I did small-group...

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Research

Research focus

Microbiology
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Biological Sciences
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Medical Microbiology

Highlights

My research focuses on antimicrobial resistance. ‘Superbugs’ are costing the medical and veterinary industry billions of dollars a year and antimicrobial resistance is one of the world’s most pressing health problems. According to the WHO we are fast approaching a post-antibiotic era where small injuries and minor infections will once again be fatal. Work in my laboratory is aimed at finding novel ways of treating infectious disease by characterising bacterial membrane proteins that are involved in drug resistance and/or virulence and on developing drugs that act on these targets. We are currently working on drug efflux pumps, iron transporters and cell division proteins in pathogenic bacteria. Most of our work... Read more

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2015	Venter, H, Mowla, R, Ohene-Agyei, T & Ma, S 2015, 'RND-type drug efflux pumps from Gram-negative bacteria: molecular mechanism and inhibition', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 6, no. 377, pp. 1-11. Open access 232 216 2
2014	Ohene-Agyei, T, Mowla, R, Rahman, T & Venter, R 2014, 'Phytochemicals increase the antibacterial activity of antibiotics by acting on a drug efflux pump0', MicrobiologyOpen, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 885-896. Open access 92 87

Chapters

Year	Output
2020	Polyak, SW, Mowla, R & Venter, H 2020, 'Measuring small molecule binding to Escherichia coli AcrB by surface plasmon resonance', in Nikolaos E Labrou (ed.), Targeting Enzymes for Pharmaceutical Development, Humana, US, ch. 7, pp. 119-130. 1 2
2013	Du, D, Venter, H, Pos, KM & Luisi, BF 2013, 'The machinery and mechanism of multidrug efflux in Gram-negative bacteria', in EW Yu, Q Zhang & MH Brown (eds), Microbial efflux pumps: current research, Caister Academic Press, UK, ch. 3, pp. 35-49.
2008	Roach, PC, O'Reilly, J, Norbertczak, H, Hope, R, Venter, H, Patching, S, Jamshad, M, Stockley, PG, Baldwin, SA, Herbert, RB, Rutherford, NG, Bill, RM & Henderson, PJ 2008, 'Equipping a research scale fermentation laboratory for production of membrane proteins', in B McNeil & LM Harvey (eds), Practical fermentation technology, John Wiley & Sons, US, ch. 3, pp. 37 - 68. 6

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2025	Sapula, SA, Wang, Y, Hart, BJ, Whittall, JJ & Venter, H 2025, 'The continued evolution of the L2 cephalosporinase in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: a key driver of beta-lactam resistance', Biochemical Journal, vol. 482, no. 3, pp. 119-133. Open access
2025	Sharifian Gh, M, Norouzi, F, Sorci, M, Zaidi, TS, Pier, GB, Achimovich, A, Ongwae, GM, Liang, B, Ryan, M, Lemke, M, Belfort, G, Gadjeva, M, Gahlmann, A, Pires, MM, Venter, H, Harris, TE & Laurie, GW 2025, 'Lacritin cleavage-potentiated targeting of iron - respiratory reciprocity promotes bacterial death', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 301, no. 5, article no. 108455, pp. 1-22. Open access
2025	Tesalona, SD, Abulencia, MFB, Pineda-Cortel, MRB, Sapula, SA, Venter, H & Lagamayo, EN 2025, 'Identification of a potential high-risk clone and novel sequence type of Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in Metro Manila, Philippines', Antibiotics, vol. 14, no. 4, article no. 362, pp. 1-17. Open access
2024	Blaikie, J, Sapula, SA, Siderius, NL, Hart , BJ, Amsalu, A, Leong, LE, Warner, MS & Venter, H 2024, 'Resistome Analysis of Klebsiella pneumoniae Complex from Residential Aged Care Facilities Demonstrates Intra-facility Clonal Spread of Multidrug-Resistant Isolates', Microorganisms, vol. 12, no. 4, article no. 751, pp. 1-20. Open access 3 2 1
2024	Chowdhury, PR, Alhamami, T, Venter, H, Veltman, T, Carr, M, Mollinger, J, Trott, DJ & Djordjevic, SP 2024, 'Identification and evolution of ICE-PmuST394: a novel integrative conjugative element in Pasteurella multocida ST394', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 851-858. Open access 6 6 1
2024	Ogunniyi, AD, Venter, H & Blaskovich, MA 2024, 'New antibiotics to combat One Health AMR', Microbiology Australia, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 74-78. Open access 2
2024	Sapula, SA, Hart, BJ, Siderius, NL, Amsalu, A, Blaikie, JM & Venter, H 2024, 'Multidrug-resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in residential aged care facilities: an emerging threat', MicrobiologyOpen, vol. 13, no. 3, article no. e1409, pp. 1-18. Open access 2 2
2024	Siderius, NL, Sapula, SA, Hart, BJ, Hutchings, JL & Venter, H 2024, 'Enterobacter adelaidei sp. nov. Isolation of an extensively drug resistant strain from hospital wastewater in Australia and the global distribution of the species', Microbiological Research, vol. 288, pp. 1-15. Open access
2024	Wang, Y, Sapula, SA, Whittall, JJ, Blaikie, JM, Lomovskaya, O & Venter, H 2024, 'Identification and characterization of CIM-1, a carbapenemase that adds to the family of resistance factors against last resort antibiotics', Communications Biology, vol. 7, article no. 282, pp. 1-13. Open access 1 2 5
2023	Alhamami, T, Roy Chowdhury, P, Venter, H, Veltman, T, Truswell, A, Abraham, S, Sapula, SA, Carr, M, Djordjevic, SP & Trott, DJ 2023, 'Genomic profiling of pasteurella multocida isolated from feedlot cases of bovine respiratory disease', Veterinary Microbiology, vol. 283, article no. 109773. Open access 11 7
2023	Guo, T, Chen, Y, Chen, W, Semple, SJ, Gu, X, Polyak, SW, Sun, G, Venter, H & Ma, S 2023, 'Design and synthesis of benzochromene derivatives as AcrB inhibitors for the reversal of bacterial multidrug resistance', European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 249, article no. 11548. 6 5 6
2023	Honda, R, Kumar, M, Mardalisa, N, Wang, R, Venter, H & Suzuki, S and 16 other authors 2023, 'Recommendations of key elements within an integrated monitoring framework of antimicrobial resistance for Asian countries', Environmental Science and Technology Letters, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 5-8. Open access 3 4 5
2023	Nguyen, HT, Venter, H, Woolford, L, Young, KA, McCluskey, A, Garg, S, Sapula, SS, Page, SW, Ogunniyi, AD & Trott, DJ 2023, 'Oral administration of a 2-aminopyrimidine robenidine analogue (NCL1 95) significantly reduces Staphylococcus aureus infection and reduces Escherichia coli infection in combination with sub -inhibitory colistin concentrations in a bioluminescent mouse model', Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 1-13. Open access 1
2023	Pisoni, LA, Semple, SJ, Liu, S, Sykes, MJ & Venter, H 2023, 'Combined structure- and ligand-based approach for the identification of inhibitors of AcrAB-TolC in Escherichia coli', ACS Infectious Diseases, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 2504-2522. Open access 4 4 3
2023	Sapula, SA, Amsalu, A, Whittall, JJ, Hart, BJ, Siderius, NL, Nguyen, L, Gerber, C, Turnidge, J & Venter, H 2023, 'The scope of antimicrobial resistance in residential aged care facilities determined through analysis of Escherichia coli and the total wastewater resistome', Microbiology Spectrum, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1-20. Open access 2 2 128
2023	Zhao, Y, Gericke, O, Li, T, Kjaerulff, L, Kongstad, KT, Heskes, AM, Møller, BL, Jørgensen, FS, Venter, H, Coriani, S, Semple, SJ & Staerk, D 2023, 'Polypharmacology-labeled molecular networking: an analytical technology workflow for accelerated identification of multiple bioactive constituents in complex extracts', Analytical Chemistry, vol. 95, no. 9, pp. 4381-4389. 8 7
2023	Zhao, Y, Li, T, Kjaerulff, L, Venter, H, Coriani, S, Møller, BL, Semple, S & Staerk, D 2023, 'Orthogonal reversed-phase C₁₈ and pentafluorophenyl HPLC separation for phytochemical profiling of serrulatanes in Eremophila denticulata', Journal of Natural Products, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 2638-2650. 4 4
2022	Alhamami, T, Low, WY, Ren, Y, Taylor, K, Khazandi, M, Veltman, T, Venter, H, Carr, M, Turni, C, Abraham, S & Trott, DJ 2022, 'Antimicrobial susceptibility and genomic analysis of Histophilus somni isolated from cases of bovine respiratory disease in Autralian feedlot cattle', Veterinary Microbiology, vol. 270, article no. 109460, pp. 1-9. 4 4
2022	Burns, AL, Sleebs, BE, Gancheva, M, McLean, KT, Siddiqui, G, Venter, H, Beeson, JG, O'Handley, R, Creek, DJ, Ma, S, Frölich, S, Goodman, CD, McFadden, GI & Wilson, DW 2022, 'Targeting malaria parasites with novel derivatives of azithromycin', Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, vol. 12, article no. 1063407, pp. 1-16. Open access 4 5 2
2022	Chai, WC, Whittall, JJ, Polyak, SW, Foo, K, Li, X, Dutschke, CJ, Ogunniyi, AD, Ma, S, Sykes, MJ, Semple, SJ & Venter, H 2022, 'Cinnamaldehyde derivatives act as antimicrobial agents against Acinetobacter baumannii through the inhibition of cell division', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 13, article no. 967949, pp. 1-13. Open access 15 15 5
2022	Chowdhury, PR, Alhamami, T, Venter, H, Veltman, T, Carr, M, Mollinger, J, Trott, DJ & Djordjevic, SP 2022, 'Complete genome sequence of Pasteurella multocida sequence type 394, isolated from a case of bovine respiratory disease in Australia', Microbiology Resource Announcements, vol.11, no. 3, article no. e00890-21, pp. 1-4. Open access 5 5 1
2022	Nguyen, HT, Venter, H, Woolford, L, Young, K, McCluskey, A, Garg, S, Page, SW, Trott, DJ & Ogunniyi, AD 2022, 'Impact of a novel anticoccidial analogue on systemic Staphylococcus aureus infection in a bioluminescent mouse model', Antibiotics, vol. 11, no. 1, article no. 65. Open access 2 2 4
2022	Pi, H, Venter, H, Russell, CC, Young, KA, McCluskey, A, Page, SW, Ogunniyi, AD & Trott, DJ 2022, 'In vitro activity of robenidine analogues NCL259 and NCL265 against Gram-negative pathogens', Antibiotics, vol. 11, no. 10, article no. 1301, pp. 1-12. Open access 1 1 1
2022	Vargiu, AV, Phan, G, Venter, H & Broutin, I 2022, 'The structural and functional study of efflux pumps belonging to the RND transporters family from gram-negative bacteria', Antibiotics, vol. 11, no. 4, article no. 429. Open access 1 1
2021	Alhamami, T, Chowdhury, PR, Gomes, N, Carr, M, Veltman, T, Khazandi, M, Mollinger, J, Deutscher, AT, Turni, C, Mahdi, L, Venter, H, Abraham, S, Djordjevic, SP & Trott, DJ 2021, 'First emergence of resistance to macrolides and tetracycline identified in mannheimia haemolytica and pasteurella multocida isolates from beef feedlots in Australia', Microorganisms, vol. 9, no. 6, article no. 1322, pp. 1-17. Open access 15 18 1
2021	Amsalu, A, Sapula, SA, Whittall, JJ, Hart, BJ, Bell, JM, Turnidge, J & Venter, H 2021, 'Worldwide distribution and environmental origin of the Adelaide imipenemase (AIM-1), a potent carbapenemase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa', Microbial Genomics, vol. 7, no. 12, article no. 000715, pp. 1-11. Open access 12 13 77
2021	André, GO, Borges, MT, Assoni, L, Ferraz, LF, Sakshi, P, Adamson, P, Gordon, DL, Ogunniyi, AD, Venter, H, Converso, TR & Darrieux, M 2021, 'Protective role of PhtD and its amino and carboxyl fragments against pneumococcal sepsis', Vaccine, vol. 39, no. 27, pp. 3626-3632. Open access 11 10
2021	Hu, S, Chai, WC, Xu, L, Li, S, Jin, C, Zhu, R, Yang, L, Zhang, R, Tang, K, Li, P, Yang, E, Chang, W, Shen, T, Semple, S, Venter, H & Xiang, L 2021, 'Catecholic alkaloid sulfonates and aromatic nitro compounds from Portulaca oleracea and screening of their anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial activities', Phytochemistry: The International Journal of Plant Chemistry, Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, vol. 181, article no. 112587, pp. 1-11. 15 13 1
2021	Li, P, Chai, WC, Wang, Z-Y, Tang, KJ, Chen, JY, Venter, H, Semple, SJ & Xiang, L 2021, 'Bioactivity-guided isolation of compounds from Sophora flavescens with antibacterial activity against Acinetobacter baumannii', Natural Product Research, vol. 36, no. 17, pp. 4340-4348. 12 17 1
2021	Nguyen, HT, Morshed, MT, Vuong, D, Crombie, A, Lacey, E, Garg, S, Pi, H, Woolford, L, Venter, H, Page, SW, Piggott, AM, Trott, DJ & Ogunniyi, AD 2021, 'Evaluation of benzguinols as next-generation antibiotics for the treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections', Antibiotics, vol. 10, no. 6, article no. 727, pp. 1-17. Open access 1 6
2021	Nguyen, HT, O'donovan, LA, Venter, H, Russell, CC, McCluskey, A, Page, SW, Trott, DJ & Ogunniyi, AD 2021, 'Comparison of two transmission electron microscopy methods to visualize drug-induced alterations of gram-negative bacterial morphology', Antibiotics, vol. 10, no. 3, article no. 307. Open access 17 16 1
2021	Nguyen, HT, Venter, H, Veltman, T, Williams, R, O'Donovan, LA, Russell, CC, McCluskey, A, Page, SW, Ogunniyi, AD & Trott, DJ 2021, 'In vitro synergistic activity of NCL195 in combination with colistin against Gram-negative bacterial pathogens', International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1-13. 17 16 2
2021	Ogunniyi, AD, Dandie, CE, Brunetti, G, Drigo, B, Aleer, S, Hall, B, Ferro, S, Deo, P, Venter, H, Myers, B, Donner, E & Lombi, E 2021, 'Neutral electrolyzed oxidizing water is effective for pre-harvest decontamination of fresh produce', Food Microbiology, vol. 93, article no. 103610, pp. 1-41. Open access 10 7 1
2021	Ogunniyi, AD, Tenzin, S, Ferro, S, Venter, H, Pi, H, Amorico, T, Deo, P & Trott, DJ 2021, 'A pH-neutral electrolyzed oxidizing water significantly reduces microbial contamination of fresh spinach leaves', Food Microbiology, vol. 93, article no. 103614, pp. 1-9. Open access 19 15
2021	Pacheco, T, Gomes, AÉI, Siqueira, NMG, Assoni, L, Darrieux, M, Venter, H & Ferraz, LFC 2021, 'Sdia, a quorum-sensing regulator, suppresses fimbriae expression, biofilm formation, and quorum-sensing signaling molecules production in Klebsiella pneumoniae', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 12, article no. 597735, pp. 1-15. Open access 51 42 2
2021	Pi, H, Ogunniyi, AD, Savaliya, B, Nguyen, HT, Page, SW, Lacey, E, Venter, H & Trott, DJ 2021, 'Repurposing of the fasciolicide triclabendazole to treat infections caused by staphylococcus spp. and vancomycin-resistant enterococci', Microorganisms, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 1-20. Open access 6 5 1
2021	Sapula, SA, Whittall, JJ, Pandopulos, AJ, Gerber, C & Venter, H 2021, 'An optimized and robust PEG precipitation method for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 785, pp. 1-9. Open access 60 54 7
2021	Wang, Y, Alenazy, R, Gu, X, Polyak, SW, Zhang, P, Sykes, MJ, Zhang, N, Venter, H & Ma, S 2021, 'Design and structural optimization of novel 2H-benzo[h]chromene derivatives that target AcrB and reverse bacterial multidrug resistance', European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 213, article no. 113049, pp. 1-20. 26 25
2020	Amsalu, A, Sapula, SA, De Barros Lopes, M, Hart, BJ, Nguyen, AH, Drigo, B, Turnidge, J, Leong, LE & Venter, H 2020, 'Efflux pump-driven antibiotic and biocide cross-resistance in pseudomonas Aeruginosa isolated from different ecological Niches: a case study in the development of multidrug resistance in environmental hotspots', Microorganisms, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 1-18. Open access 77 70 3
2020	Chai, WC, Whittall, JJ, Song, D, Polyak, SW, Ogunniyi, AD, Wang, Y, Bi, F, Ma, S, Semple, SJ & Venter, H 2020, 'Antimicrobial action and reversal of resistance in mrsa by difluorobenzamide derivatives targeted at ftsz', Antibiotics, vol. 9, no. 12, article no. 873, pp. 1-22. Open access 13 13 2
2020	Dandie, CE, Ogunniyi, AD, Ferro, S, Hall, B, Drigo, B, Chow, CW, Venter, H, Myers, B, Deo, P, Donner, E & Lombi, E 2020, 'Disinfection options for irrigation water: reducing the risk of fresh produce contamination with human pathogens', Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 50, no. 20, pp. 2144-2174. Open access 36 30 3
2020	Gu, X, Pisoni, LA, Wang, Y, Song, D, Sykes, MJ, Qin, Y, Semple, SJ, Polyak, SW, Venter, H & Ma, S 2020, 'Design and synthesis of novel 4-substituted quinazoline-2-carboxamide derivatives targeting AcrB to reverse the bacterial multidrug resistance', Bioorganic Chemistry, vol. 105, article no. 104394, pp. 1-16. 9 10
2020	Liu, Z, Zhang, P, Qin, Y, Zhang, N, Teng, Y, Venter, H & Ma, S 2020, 'Design and synthesis of aryl-substituted pyrrolidone derivatives as quorum sensing inhibitors', Bioorganic Chemistry, vol. 105, article no. 104376, pp. 1-9. 17 17 6
2020	Pi, H, Nguyen, HT, Venter, H, Boileau, AR, Woolford, L, Garg, S, Page, SW, Russell, CC, Baker, JR, McCluskey, A, O'Donovan, LA, Trott, DJ & Ogunniyi, AD 2020, 'In vitro activity of robenidine analog NCL195 in combination with outer membrane permeabilizers against gram-negative bacterial pathogens and impact on systemic gram-positive bacterial infection in mice', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 11, article no. 1556, pp. 1-17. Open access 16 16 4
2020	Wang, Y, Alenzy, R, Song, D, Liu, X, Teng, Y, Mowla, R, Ma, Y, Polyak, SW, Venter, H & Ma, S 2020, 'Structural optimization of natural product nordihydroguaretic acid to discover novel analogues as AcrB inhibitors', European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol 186, article no. 111910, pp. 1-18. 16 13 1
2019	Imani Rad, H, Peeri, H, Amani, M, Mohammadnia, A, Ogunniyi, AD, Khazandi, M, Venter, H & Arzanlou, M 2019, 'Allicin prevents the formation of Proteus-induced urinary crystals and the blockage of catheter in a bladder model in vitro', Microbial Pathogenesis, vol. 132, pp. 293-301. 5 3
2019	Jin, C, Alenazy, R, Wang, Y, Mowla, R, Qin, Y, Tan, JQE, Modi, ND, Gu, X, Polyak, SW, Venter, H & Ma, S 2019, 'Design, synthesis and evaluation of a series of 5-methoxy-2,3-naphthalimide derivatives as AcrB inhibitors for the reversal of bacterial resistance', Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 882-889. Open access 15 13
2019	Khazandi, M, Pi, H, Chan, WY, Ogunniyi, AD, Sim, JXF, Venter, H, Garg, S, Page, SW, Hill, PB, McCluskey, A & Trott, DJ 2019, 'In vitro antimicrobial activity of robenidine, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and polymyxin B nonapeptide against important human and veterinary pathogens', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 10, article no. 837, pp. 1-15. Open access 22 20 4
2019	Ogunniyi, AD, Dandie, CE, Ferro, S, Hall, B, Drigo, B, Brunetti, G, Venter, H, Myers, B, Deo, P, Donner, E & Lombi, E 2019, 'Comparative antibacterial activities of neutral electrolyzed oxidizing water and other chlorine-based sanitizers', Scientific Reports, vol. 9, article no. 19955. Open access 24 22 2
2019	Sim, J, Khazandi, M, Pi, H, Venter, H, Trott, D & Deo, P 2019, 'Antimicrobial effects of cinnamon essential oil and cinnamaldehyde combined with EDTA against canine otitis externa pathogens', Journal of Applied Microbiology, vol. 127, no. 1, pp. 99-108. Open access 34 31 1
2019	Venter, H 2019, 'Reversing resistance to counter antimicrobial resistance in the World Health Organisation's critical priority of most dangerous pathogens', Bioscience Reports: Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Cell Surface, vol. 29, no. 4, article no. BSR20180474, pp. 1-12. Open access 68 68 3
2018	Bi, F, Ji, S, Venter, H, Liu, J, Semple, SJ & Ma, S 2018, 'Substitution of terminal amide with 1H-1,2,3-triazole: Identification of unexpected class of potent antibacterial agents', Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 884-891. 30 28 1
2018	Bi, F, Song, D, Zhang, N, Liu, Z, Gu, X, Hu, C, Cai, X, Venter, H & Ma, S 2018, 'Design, synthesis and structure-based optimization of novel isoxazole-containing benzamide derivatives as FtsZ modulators', European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 159, pp. 90-103. 30 29 1
2018	Khazandi, M, Al-Farha, AAB, Coombs, GW, O'Dea, M, Pang, S, Trott, DJ, Aviles, RR, Hemmatzadeh, F, Venter, H, Ogunniyi, AD, Hoare, A, Abraham, S & Petrovski, KR 2018, 'Genomic characterization of coagulase-negative staphylococci including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus sciuri causing bovine mastitis', Veterinary Microbiology, vol. 219, pp. 17-22. Open access 37 31 1
2018	Liu, J, Ma, R, Bi, F, Zhang, F, Hu, C, Venter, H, Semple, SJ & Ma, S 2018, 'Novel 5-methyl-2-phenylphenanthridium derivatives as FtsZ-targeting antibacterial agents from structural simplification of natural product sanguinarine', Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 1825-1831. 22 22
2018	Mowla, R, Wang, Y, Ma, S & Venter, H 2018, 'Kinetic analysis of the inhibition of the drug efflux protein AcrB using surface plasmon resonance', BBA: Biomembranes, vol. 1860, no. 4, pp. 878-886. Open access 24 21 1
2018	Ogunniyi, AD, Kopecki, Z, Hickey, EE, Khazandi, M, Peel, E, Belov, K, Boileau, A, Garg, S, Venter, H, Chan, WY, Hill, PB, Page, SW, Cowin, AJ & Trott, DJ 2018, 'Bioluminescent murine models of bacterial sepsis and scald wound infections for antimicrobial efficacy testing', PLoS One, vol. 13, no. 7, article no. e0200195, pp. 1-13. Open access 25 25 4
2018	Wang, Y, Mowla, R, Ji, S, Guo, L, De Barros Lopes, MA, Jin, C, Song, D, Ma, S & Venter, H 2018, 'Design, synthesis and biological activity evaluation of novel 4-subtituted 2-naphthamide derivatives as AcrB inhibitors', European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 143, pp. 699-709. 34 34 3
2017	Arzanlou, M, Chai, WC & Venter, H 2017, 'Intrinsic, adaptive and acquired antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacteria', Essays in Biochemistry, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 49-59. 157 142 38
2017	Bi, F, Guo, L, Wang, Y, Venter, H, Semple, SJ, Liu, F & Ma, S 2017, 'Design, synthesis and biological activity evaluation of novel 2,6-difluorobenzamide derivatives through FtsZ inhibition', Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 958-962. 30 28
2017	Khazandi, M, Deo, P, Ferro, S, Venter, H, Pi, H, Crabb, S, Amorico, T, Ogunniyi, AD & Trott, DJ 2017, 'Efficacy evaluation of a new water sanitizer for increasing the shelf life of Southern Australian King George whiting and Tasmanian atlantic salmon fillets', Food Microbiology, vol. 68, pp. 51-60. Open access 34 29 2
2017	Liu, F, Venter, H, Bi, F, Semple, SJ, Liu, J, Jin, C & Ma, S 2017, 'Synthesis and antibacterial activity of 5-methylphenanthridium derivatives as FtsZ inhibitors', Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 27, no. 15, pp. 3399-3402. 25 26 3
2017	Mahbub, KR, Krishnan, K, Andrews, S, Venter, H, Naidu, R & Megharaj, M 2017, 'Bio-augmentation and nutrient amendment decrease concentration of mercury in contaminated soil', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 576, pp. 303-309. 42 38
2017	Ogunniyi, AD, Khazandi, M, Stevens, AJ, Sims, SK, Page, SW, Garg, S, Venter, H, Powell, A, White, K, Petrovski, KR, Laven-Law, G, Tótoli, EG, Salgado, HR, Pi, H, Coombs, GW, Shinabarger, DL, Turnidge, JD, Paton, JC, McCluskey, A & Trott, DJ 2017, 'Evaluation of robenidine analog NCL195 as a novel broad-spectrum antibacterial agent', PLoS One, vol. 12, no. 9, article no. e0183457, pp. 1-23. Open access 35 34 1
2017	Venter, H, Henningsen, ML & Begg, SL 2017, 'Antimicrobial resistance in healthcare, agriculture and the environment: The biochemistry behind the headlines', Essays in Biochemistry, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 1-10. Open access 98 78
2017	Wang, Y, Mowla, R, Guo, L, Ogunniyi, AD, Rahman, T, De Barros Lopes, MA, Ma, S & Venter, H 2017, 'Evaluation of a series of 2-napthamide derivatives as inhibitors of the drug efflux pump AcrB for the reversal of antimicrobial resistance', Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 733-739. Open access 34 31 3
2017	Yan, M, Ma, R, Jia, L, Venter, H & Ma, S 2017, 'Synthesis and antibacterial activity of novel 3-O-descladinosylazithromycin derivatives', European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 127, pp. 874-884. 9 10 3
2016	Qiang, S, Wang, C, Venter, H, Li, X, Wang, Y, Guo, L, Ma, R & Ma, S 2016, 'Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel FtsZ-targeted 3-arylalkoxy-2,6-difluorobenzamides as potential antimicrobial agents', Chemical Biology and Drug Design, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 257-264. Open access 11 10 3
2016	Seyedmohammad, S, Fuentealba, NA, Marriott, RA, Goetze, TA, Edwardson, JM, Barrera, NP & Venter, H 2016, 'Structural model of FeoB, the iron transporter from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, predicts a cysteine lined, GTP-gated pore', Bioscience Reports: Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Cell Surface, vol. 36, article no. 00322, pp. 1-13. Open access 27 27 3
2016	Wang, Y, Venter, H & Ma, S 2016, 'Efflux pump inhibitors: a novel approach to combat efflux-mediated drug resistance in bacteria', Current Drug Targets, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 702-719. 98 90 1
2015	Venter, H, Mowla, R, Ohene-Agyei, T & Ma, S 2015, 'RND-type drug efflux pumps from Gram-negative bacteria: molecular mechanism and inhibition', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 6, no. 377, pp. 1-11. Open access 232 216 2
2014	Du, D, Wang, Z, James, NR, Voss, JE, Klimont, E, Ohene-Agyei, T, Venter, H, Chiu, W & Luisi, BF 2014, 'Structure of the AcrAB-TolC multidrug efflux pump', Nature, vol. 509, no. 7501, pp. 512-515. Open access 488 473
2014	Ohene-Agyei, T, Mowla, R, Rahman, T & Venter, R 2014, 'Phytochemicals increase the antibacterial activity of antibiotics by acting on a drug efflux pump0', MicrobiologyOpen, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 885-896. Open access 92 87
2014	Seyedmohammad, S, Born, D & Venter, H 2014, 'Expression, purification and functional reconstitution of FeoB, the ferrous iron transporter from Pseudomonas aeruginosa', Protein Expression and Purification, vol. 101, pp. 138-145. 20 20
2012	Ohene-Agyei, T, Lea, JD & Venter, H 2012, 'Mutations in MexB that affect the efflux of antibiotics with cytoplasmic targets', FEMS Microbiology Letters, vol. 333, no. 1, pp. 20-27. Open access 29 29
2010	Welch, A, Awah, C, Jing, S, Van, VH & Venter, R 2010, 'Promiscuous partnering and independent activity of MexB, the multidrug transporter protein from Pseudomonas aeruginosa', Biochemical Journal, vol. 430, no. 2, pp. 355-364. Open access 44 40
2009	Barrera, NP, Isaacson, SC, Zhou, M, Bavro, VN, Welch, A, Schaedler, TA, Seeger, MA, Miguel, RN, Korkhov, VM, van Veen, HW, Venter, H, Walmsley, AR, Tate, CG & Robinson, C V 2009, 'Mass spectrometry of membrane transporters reveals subunit stoichiometry and interactions', Nature Methods, vol. 6 no. 8, pp. 585-587. Open access 152 150
2009	Velamakanni, S, Lau, CH, Gutmann, DA, Venter, H, Barrera, NP, Seeger, MA, Woebking, B, Matak-Vinkovic, D, Balakrishnan, L, Yao, Y, U, EC, Shilling, RA, Robinson, C V, Thorn, P & van, HHW 2009, 'A multidrug ABC transporter with a taste for salt', PLoS One, vol. 4 no. 7, article no. e6137, pp. 1-9. Open access 35
2008	Balakrishnan, L, Velamakanni, S, Van Veen, H & Venter, H 2008, 'On the energy-dependence of Hoechst 33342 transport by the ABC transporter LmrA', Biochemical Pharmacology, vol. 75, no. 4, pp. 866-874. 41 39

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Guest Editor for a special issue on 'Antimicrobial Resistance' for Essays in Biochemistry
Member of the Editorial board of the 'Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy', section of Frontiers in Microbiology

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Organisation	Country
Advanced Veterinary Therapeutics	AUSTRALIA
Ardabil University of Medical Sciences	IRAN
Baylor College of Medicine	UNITED STATES
Burnet Institute	AUSTRALIA
CRC Care	AUSTRALIA
Deakin University	AUSTRALIA
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries	AUSTRALIA
Ecas4 Australia	AUSTRALIA
Ecas4 Australia Pty Ltd	AUSTRALIA
Ecas4 Pty Ltd	AUSTRALIA
Ehime University	JAPAN
Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute	AUSTRALIA
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Ghent University	BELGIUM
Goethe University Frankfurt	GERMANY
Harvard University	UNITED STATES
Ithree Institute	AUSTRALIA
Kanazawa University	JAPAN
Liaocheng University	CHINA
Luoda Pharma	AUSTRALIA
Luoda Pharma Pty Ltd	AUSTRALIA
Macquarie University	AUSTRALIA
Microbial Screening Technologies Pty Ltd	AUSTRALIA
Micromyx	UNITED STATES
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Murdoch University	AUSTRALIA
Neoculi Pty. Ltd.	AUSTRALIA
Northern Technical University	IRAQ
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile	CHILE
Qingdao University	CHINA
Qpex Biopharma	UNITED STATES
Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries	AUSTRALIA
ReaLi Tide Biological Technology	CHINA
ReaLi Tide Biological Technology (Weihai) Co. Ltd	CHINA
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	UNITED STATES
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine	PHILIPPINES
Ritsumeikan University	JAPAN
Sao Paulo State University	BRAZIL
Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention	CHINA
Shandong University	CHINA
South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI)	AUSTRALIA
South East Vets	AUSTRALIA
Technical University of Denmark	DENMARK
Tecnológico de Monterrey	MEXICO
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	AUSTRALIA
Universidade Sao Francisco	BRAZIL
Universite Paris Cite	FRANCE
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Cagliari	ITALY
University of Cambridge	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Copenhagen	DENMARK
University of Durham	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Newcastle	AUSTRALIA
University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of San Francisco	UNITED STATES
University of Santo Tomas	PHILIPPINES
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Sydney	AUSTRALIA
University of Technology Sydney	AUSTRALIA
University of Virginia	UNITED STATES
Vietnam National University of Agriculture	VIET NAM
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research	AUSTRALIA
Zaozhuang University	CHINA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Editorial Board Member ('Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy') Frontiers in Microbiology	2017
Guest Editor for a special issue Essays in Biochemistry	2017
Member The Australian Society for Microbiology	2017
Member Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)	2017
Member Adelaide Protein Group, Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)	2017
Member Australian Society for Antimicrobials	2017
Member American Society for Microbiology	2017

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

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Thesis title	Student status
109420 - Limiting the risk for bacterial antimicrobial resistance: providing insight into the potential role of polypharmacy in antimicrobial resistance development	Current
Characterization of antimicrobial resistance gram-positive bacteria in residential aged care facilities and healthcare wastewater	Current
Combatting antimicrobial resistance through the development of responsible antimicrobial formulations with a reduced risk of causing resistance to clinically useful antibiotics	Current
Gut-microbiome impacting the disease progression and medicine effectiveness in Alzheimer¿s disease	Current
Microbial amyloids of gut-microbiome and aging paradigms of protein aggregation	Current
Preventing chronic infection in Cystic Fibrosis patients with a repurposed drug that inhibits antibiotic efflux pumps	Current
Risk factors in the development and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in residential age care facilities	Current
Understanding resistance in critically important pathogens as a basis for antimicrobial drug discovery	Current
A combined in silico and microbiological approach for the identification of novel efflux pump inhibitors against AcrAB-TolC	Completed
Characterisation of antimicrobial resistance in hospital wastewater populations with in-depth analysis of Klebsiella oxytoca	Completed
Characterisation of antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli from clinical and environmental settings	Completed
Inhibitors of efflux to reverse resistance in Escherichia coli	Completed
Investigation of the activity of a caspofungin-grafted surface coating on attaching pathogenic fungi	Completed
Reversing antimicrobial resistance with inhibitors of drug efflux pumps	Completed
Reversing multi-drug resistance with efflux pump inhibitors	Completed
Surveillance and genomic characterisation of antimicrobial-resistant klebsiella spp. from healthcare environments in Adelaide, Australia	Completed
Targeting bacterial cellular division via FtsZ as an approach in the development of new antimicrobial agents	Completed

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