Dr. Dilantha Gunawardana – Department of Botany

Senior Lecturer
B.Sc.(Hon), Ph.D. (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Research interest: Nitrogen .fixation, Phytoremediation, C4 photosynthesis, Biofertilizer, Transgenic plants. Bioethics & RNA Biology

PUBLICATIONS

Gunawardana, D., Domashevskey, A.V., Gayler, K.R., Goss, D.J. (2015) Efficient preparation and properties of mRNAs containing a fluorescent cap analog Anthraniloyl-m7-GpppG. Translation 3:1 e988538

Gunawardana, D., Likic, V.A., Gayler, K.R. (2009) Comprehensive bioinformatics analysis of the Nudix superfamily in Arabidopsis thaliana. Comparative and Functional Genomics 820381 (Impact factor (IF) of journal – 1.75); [citations – 13]

Gunawardana, D., Cheng, H.C., Gayler, K.R. (2008) Functional domains of the Arabidopsis thaliana mRNA decapping enzyme Nucleic Acids Research 36(1) 203-216 [IF – 9.11]; [citations – 21]

Sheehy, J., Gunawardana, D., Danila, F., Tan, K..G., Ferrer, A.B., Mitchell, P.L. (2008) Systems biology or the biology of systems: routes to reducing hunger. New Phytologist 179(3) 579-582 (IF – 6.516); [citations – 6]

Swarbrick, J. D., Buyya, S., Gunawardana, D., Gayler, K. R., McLennan, A. G., Gooley, P. R. (2005) Structure and substrate-binding mechanism of human Ap₄A hydrolase. J Biol Chem 280(9): 8471-81 (IF – 4.38); [citations – 25]

Swarbrick, J. D., Buyya, S., Gunawardana, D., Fletcher, J. I., Branson, K., Smith, B., Pepe, S., McLennan, A. G., Gayler, K. R., Gooley, P. R. (2005) H, 13C, and 15N resonance assignments of the 17 kDa Ap₄A hydrolase from Homo sapiens in the presence and absence of ATP. J Biomol NMR 31(2): 181-182. (IF – 3.047)