Dr Narelle Manzie
Senior Research Fellow/Science Manager - ARC Hub for Sustainable Crop Protection
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Affiliate of ARC Research Hub for Sustainable Crop Protection
ARC Research Hub for Sustainable Crop Protection
+61 7 344 36327
Publications
Journal Articles
Fletcher, Stephen J., Lawrence, Jai, Sawyer, Anne, Manzie, Narelle, Gardiner, Donald M., Mitter, Neena and Brosnan, Christopher A. (2025). dsRNAmax: a multi-target chimeric dsRNA designer for safe and effective crop protection. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 7 (2) lqaf064, lqaf064. doi: 10.1093/nargab/lqaf064
Tardin-Coelho, Raquel, Fletcher, Stephen, Manzie, Narelle, Gunasekara, Sandya Nishanthi, Fidelman, Pedro, Mitter, Neena and Ashworth, Peta (2025). A systematic review on public perceptions of RNAi-based biopesticides: developing social licence to operate. npj Sustainable Agriculture, 3 (1) 15. doi: 10.1038/s44264-025-00057-1
Gunasekara, Sandya, Fidelman, Pedro, Fletcher, Stephen, Gardiner, Donald, Manzie, Narelle, Ashworth, Peta, Tardin-Coelho, Raquel and Mitter, Neena (2025). The future of dsRNA-based biopesticides will require global regulatory cohesion. Nature Plants, 11 (4), 664-667. doi: 10.1038/s41477-025-01953-7
Burnham, Katie L., Milind, Nikhil, Lee, Wanseon, Kwok, Andrew J., Cano-Gamez, Kiki, Mi, Yuxin, Geoghegan, Cyndi G., Zhang, Ping, Addison, Jenni, Galley, Helen, Hall, Sally, Roughton, Sian, Taylor, Jane, Tennant, Heather, Webster, Nigel, Guleri, Achyut, Waddington, Natalia, Arawwawala, Dilshan, Durcan, John, Mitchell-Inwang, Christine, Short, Alasdair, Smolen, Susan, Swan, Karen, Williams, Sarah, Errington, Emily, Gordon, Tony, Templeton, Maie, McCauley, Marie, Venatesh, Pyda ... Davenport, Emma E. (2024). eQTLs identify regulatory networks and drivers of variation in the individual response to sepsis. Cell Genomics, 4 (7) 100587, 1-22. doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100587
Mi, Yuxin, Burnham, Katie L., Charles, Philip D., Heilig, Raphael, Vendrell, Iolanda, Whalley, Justin, Torrance, Hew D., Antcliffe, David B., May, Shaun M., Neville, Matt J., Berridge, Georgina, Hutton, Paula, Geoghegan, Cyndi G., Radhakrishnan, Jayachandran, Nesvizhskii, Alexey I., Yu, Fengchao, Davenport, Emma E., McKechnie, Stuart, Davies, Roger, O’Callaghan, David J. P., Patel, Parind, del Arroyo, Ana G., Karpe, Fredrik, Gordon, Anthony C., Ackland, Gareth L., Hinds, Charles J., Fischer, Roman, Knight, Julian C., Webster, Nigel ... GAinS Investigators (2024). High-throughput mass spectrometry maps the sepsis plasma proteome and differences in patient response. Science Translational Medicine, 16 (750) eadh0185. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adh0185
Cano-Gamez, Eddie, Burnham, Katie L, Goh, Cyndi, Allcock, Alice, Malick, Zunaira H, Overend, Lauren, Kwok, Andrew, Smith, David A, Peters-Sengers, Hessel, Antcliffe, David, GAinS Investigators, McKechnie, Stuart, Scicluna, Brendon P, van der Poll, Tom, Gordon, Anthony C, Hinds, Charles J, Davenport, Emma E, Knight, Julian C, Webster, Nigel, Galley, Helen, Taylor, Jane, Hall, Sally, Addison, Jenni, Roughton, Sian, Tennant, Heather, Guleri, Achyut, Waddington, Natalia, Arawwawala, Dilshan, Durcan, John ... Goh, Cyndi (2022). An immune dysfunction score for stratification of patients with acute infection based on whole-blood gene expression. Science Translational Medicine, 14 (669) eabq4433. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abq4433
Niño-Sánchez, Jonatan, Sambasivam, Prabhakaran Thanjavur, Sawyer, Anne, Hamby, Rachael, Chen, Angela, Czislowski, Elizabeth, Li, Peng, Manzie, Narelle, Gardiner, Donald M., Ford, Rebecca, Xu, Zhi Ping, Mitter, Neena and Jin, Hailing (2022). BioClay prolongs RNA interference-mediated crop protection against Botrytis cinerea. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 64 (11), 2187-2198. doi: 10.1111/jipb.13353
Hoang, Bao Tram L., Fletcher, Stephen J., Brosnan, Christopher A., Ghodke, Amol B., Manzie, Narelle and Mitter, Neena (2022). RNAi as a foliar spray: efficiency and challenges to field applications. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23 (12) 6639, 6639. doi: 10.3390/ijms23126639
Jain, Ritesh G, Fletcher, Stephen J, Manzie, Narelle, Robinson, Karl E, Li, Peng, Lu, Elvin, Brosnan, Christopher A, Xu, Zhi Ping and Mitter, Neena (2022). Foliar application of clay-delivered RNA interference for whitefly control. Nature Plants, 8 (5), 535-548. doi: 10.1038/s41477-022-01152-8
Li, Peng, Huang, Yun, Fu, Changkui, Jiang, Shang Xu, Peng, Wei, Jia, Yi, Peng, Hong, Zhang, Ping, Manzie, Narelle, Mitter, Neena and Xu, Zhi Ping (2021). Eco‐friendly biomolecule‐nanomaterial hybrids as next‐generation agrochemicals for topical delivery. EcoMat, 3 (5) eom2.12132, 1-19. doi: 10.1002/eom2.12132
Maugeri, Narelle, Radhakrishnan, Jayachandran and Knight, Julian C. (2010). Genetic determinants of HSP70 gene expression following heat shock. Human Molecular Genetics, 19 (24) ddq418, 4939-4947. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddq418
Ramagopalan, Sreeram V., Heger, Andreas, Berlanga, Antonio J., Maugeri, Narelle J., Lincoln, Matthew R., Burrell, Amy, Handunnetthi, Lahiru, Handel, Adam E., Disanto, Giulio, Orton, Sarah-Michelle, Watson, Corey T., Morahan, Julia M., Giovannoni, Gavin, Ponting, Chris P., Ebers, George C. and Knight, Julian C. (2010). A ChIP-seq defined genome-wide map of vitamin D receptor binding: associations with disease and evolution. Genome Research, 20 (10), 1352-1360. doi: 10.1101/gr.107920.110
Ramagopalan, Sreeram V., Maugeri, Narelle J., Handunnetthi, Lahiru, Lincoln, Matthew R., Orton, Sarah-Michelle, Dyment, David A., DeLuca, Gabriele C., Herrera, Blanca M., Chao, Michael J., Sadovnick, A. Dessa, Ebers, George C. and Knight, Julian C. (2009). Expression of the multiple sclerosis-associated MHC class II allele HLA-DRB1*1501 is regulated by vitamin D. PLoS Genetics, 5 (2) e1000369, e1000369. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000369
Rice, Robert R., Muirhead, Andrew N., Harrison, Bruce T., Kassianos, Andrew J., Sedlak, Petra L., Maugeri, Narelle J., Goss, Peter J., Davey, Jonathan R., James, David E. and Graham, Michael W. (2005). Simple, robust strategies for generating DNA-directed RNA interference constructs. Methods in Enzymology, 392 (18), 405-419. doi: 10.1016/S0076-6879(04)92024-1