Dr Oleksandra Rudenko
Research Fellow
School of the Environment
Journal Articles
Rudenko, O., Angelucci, C., Kumanan, K., Delisle, L., Carson, J., Morrison, R. N., Hutson, K. S. and Barnes, A. C. (2025). Genomics and serotyping of Tenacibaculum maritimum outbreak isolates from Australia and New Zealand for guided vaccine development and stewardship. Aquaculture, 603 742418, 742418-603. doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2025.742418
Das, Suvra, Delamare‐Deboutteville, JérÔme, Barnes, Andrew C. and Rudenko, Oleksandra (2024). Extraction of high‐molecular‐weight DNA from Streptococcus spp. for nanopore sequencing in resource‐limited settings. MicrobiologyOpen, 13 (4) e1432, 1-19. doi: 10.1002/mbo3.1432
Kumanan, Karthiga, Delisle, Lizenn, Angelucci, Connie, Hunter, Ryan B.J., Rudenko, Oleksandra, Carson, Jeremy, Morrison, Richard N., Barnes, Andrew C. and Hutson, Kate S. (2024). Serological and molecular typing of Tenacibaculum maritimum from New Zealand farmed salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. Aquaculture, 578 740055, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2023.740055
Rudenko, Oleksandra, Baseggio, Laura, McGuigan, Fynn and Barnes, Andrew C. (2023). Transforming the untransformable with knockout minicircles: high‐efficiency transformation and vector‐free allelic exchange knockout in the fish pathogen Photobacterium damselae. MicrobiologyOpen, 12 (4) e1374, e1374. doi: 10.1002/mbo3.1374
Baseggio, Laura, Rudenko, Oleksandra, Engelstädter, Jan and Barnes, Andrew C. (2022). The evolution of a specialized, highly virulent fish pathogen through gene loss and acquisition of host-specific survival mechanisms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88 (14) e0022222, 1-19. doi: 10.1128/aem.00222-22
Alsheikh-Hussain, Areej S., Ben Zakour, Nouri L., Forde, Brian M., Rudenko, Oleksandra, Barnes, Andrew C. and Beatson, Scott A. (2022). A high-quality reference genome for the fish pathogen Streptococcus iniae. Microbial Genomics, 8 (3) 000777. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000777
Barnes, Andrew C., Rudenko, Oleksandra, Landos, Matt, Dong, Ha Thanh, Lusiastuti, Angela, Phuoc, Le Hong and Delamare‐Deboutteville, Jerome (2021). Autogenous vaccination in aquaculture: a locally enabled solution towards reduction of the global antimicrobial resistance problem. Reviews in Aquaculture, 14 (2), 907-918. doi: 10.1111/raq.12633
Irion, Solène, Silayeva, Oleksandra, Sweet, Michael, Chabanet, Pascale, Barnes, Andrew C., Tortosa, Pablo and Séré, Mathieu G. (2021). Molecular investigation of recurrent Streptococcus iniae epizootics affecting coral reef fish on an oceanic island suggests at least two distinct emergence events. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12 749734, 749734. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.749734
Baseggio, Laura, Rudenko, Oleksandra, Buller, Nicky, Landos, Matt, Englestädter, Jan and Barnes, Andrew C. (2021). Complete, closed and curated genome sequences of Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida isolates from Australia indicate mobilome-driven localized evolution and novel pathogenicity determinants. Microbial Genomics, 7 (4) 000562, 1-14. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000562
Rudenko, Oleksandra, Engelstädter, Jan and Barnes, Andrew C. (2020). Evolutionary epidemiology of Streptococcus iniae: linking mutation rate dynamics with adaptation to novel immunological landscapes. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 85 104435, 104435. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104435
Rudenko, Oleksandra and Barnes, Andrew C. (2017). Gibson Assembly facilitates bacterial allelic exchange mutagenesis. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 144, 157-163. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2017.11.023
Barnes, Andrew C. and Rudenko, Oleksandra (2016). Vaccination against streptococcal infections in farmed fish. Microbiology Australia, 37 (3), 118-121. doi: 10.1071/MA16040
Thesis
Silayeva, Oleksandra (2019). The role of heritable mutators in evolution and epidemiology of bacterial pathogens. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.201