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Mr Michael Leitner

m.leitner@uq.edu.au

Publications

Journal Articles (7)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Leitner, Michael, Murigneux, Valentine, Etebari, Kayvan and Asgari, Sassan (2025). Wolbachia elevates host methyltransferase expression and alters the m6A methylation landscape in Aedes aegypti mosquito cells. BMC Microbiology, 25 (1) 164. doi: 10.1186/s12866-025-03898-5
Hussain, Mazhar, Zhang, Guangmei, Leitner, Michael, Hedges, Lauren M. and Asgari, Sassan (2022). Wolbachia RNase HI contributes to virus blocking in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. iScience, 26 (1) 105836, 105836. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105836
Leitner, Michael, Etebari, Kayvan and Asgari, Sassan (2022). Transcriptional response of Wolbachia-transinfected Aedes aegypti mosquito cells to dengue virus at early stages of infection. Journal of General Virology, 103 (1) 001694. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001694
Leitner, Michael, Bishop, Cameron and Asgari, Sassan (2021). Transcriptional Response of Wolbachia to Dengue Virus Infection in Cells of the Mosquito Aedes aegypti. mSphere, 6 (3) e00433-21, 1-16. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00433-21
Owen, H., Buckle, K., Olm, J., Leitner, M., Pandey, S., Gaughan, J. B., Sullivan, M. L., Lees, A. M. and Gibson, J. S. (2015). Isolation of Nocardia mexicana from focal proliferative tenosynovitis and arthritis in a steer. Australian Veterinary Journal, 93 (5), 170-173. doi: 10.1111/avj.12308
Johnston, S. D., Lever, J., McLeod, R., Oishi, M., Qualischefski, E., Omanga, C., Leitner, M., Price, R., Barker, L., Kamau, K., Gaughan, J. and D'Occhio, M. (2014). Semen collection and seminal characteristics of the Australian saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). Aquaculture, 422-423, 25-35. doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2013.11.002
Platell, Joanne L., Trott, Darren J., Wetzstein, Heinz-Georg, Leitner, Michael and Cobbold, Rowland N. (2011). Phylogenetic grouping, antibiotic resistance profile, fluoroquinolone susceptibility and ST131 status of canine extraintestinal Escherichia coli isolated from submissions to a veterinary diagnostic laboratory 2005-08. Journal of Veterinary Science and Technology, S:6, 001:1-001:8. doi: 10.4172/2157-7579.S6-001

Thesis

Leitner, Michael (2025). Investigating molecular interactions of mosquito-Wolbachia-virus interactions. PhD Thesis, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/2a1209e
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