Ms Miranda Pitt
Higher degree by research (PhD) student
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
+61 7 334 62178
Journal Articles
Prasetyoputri, Anggia, Pitt, Miranda E., Cao, Minh Duc, Ramu, Soumya, Kavanagh, Angela, Elliott, Alysha G., Ganesamoorthy, Devika, Monk, Ian R., Stinear, Timothy P., Cooper, Matthew A., Coin, Lachlan J. M. and Blaskovich, Mark A. T. (2025). Characterisation of in vitro resistance selection against second-/last-line antibiotics in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 43300 strain. JAC - Antimicrobial Resistance, 7 (3) dlaf108. doi: 10.1093/jacamr/dlaf108
Chang, Jessie J.-Y., Grimley, Samantha, Tran, Bang M., Deliyannis, Georgia, Tumpach, Carolin, Nguyen, An N.T., Steinig, Eike, Zhang, JianShu, Schröder, Jan, Caly, Leon, McAuley, Julie, Wong, Sharon L., Waters, Shafagh A., Stinear, Timothy P., Pitt, Miranda E., Purcell, Damian, Vincan, Elizabeth and Coin, Lachlan J.M. (2024). Uncovering strain- and age-dependent innate immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in air-liquid-interface cultured nasal epithelia. iScience, 27 (6) 110009, 1-21. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110009
He, Zhijie, Wang, Cong, Guo, Xudong, Sun, Heyun, Bi, Yue, Pitt, Miranda E., Li, Chen, Song, Jiangning, Coin, Lachlan J. M. and Li, Fuyi (2024). MERITS: a web-based integrated mycobacterial PE/PPE protein database. Bioinformatics Advances, 4 (1) vbae035, vbae035. doi: 10.1093/bioadv/vbae035
Li, Fuyi, Guo, Xudong, Bi, Yue, Jia, Runchang, Pitt, Miranda E., Pan, Shirui, Li, Shuqin, Gasser, Robin B., Coin, Lachlan J. M. and Song, Jiangning (2023). Digerati – a multipath parallel hybrid deep learning framework for the identification of mycobacterial PE/PPE proteins. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 163 107155, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107155
Bader, Stefanie M., Cooney, James P., Sheerin, Dylan, Taiaroa, George, Harty, Leigh, Davidson, Kathryn C., Mackiewicz, Liana, Dayton, Merle, Wilcox, Stephen, Whitehead, Lachlan, Rogers, Kelly L., Georgy, Smitha Rose, Coussens, Anna K., Grimley, Samantha L., Corbin, Vincent, Pitt, Miranda, Coin, Lachlan, Pickering, Raelene, Thomas, Merlin, Allison, Cody C., McAuley, Julie, Purcell, Damian F. J., Doerflinger, Marcel and Pellegrini, Marc (2023). SARS-CoV-2 mouse adaptation selects virulence mutations that cause TNF-driven age-dependent severe disease with human correlates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (32) e2301689120, e2301689120-32. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2301689120
Davies, Mark R., Keller, Nadia, Brouwer, Stephan, Jespersen, Magnus G., Cork, Amanda J., Hayes, Andrew J., Pitt, Miranda E., De Oliveira, David M. P., Harbison-Price, Nichaela, Bertolla, Olivia M., Mediati, Daniel G., Curren, Bodie F., Taiaroa, George, Lacey, Jake A., Smith, Helen V., Fang, Ning-Xia, Coin, Lachlan J. M., Stevens, Kerrie, Tong, Steven Y. C., Sanderson-Smith, Martina, Tree, Jai J., Irwin, Adam D., Grimwood, Keith, Howden, Benjamin P., Jennison, Amy V. and Walker, Mark J. (2023). Detection of Streptococcus pyogenes M1UK in Australia and characterization of the mutation driving enhanced expression of superantigen SpeA. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 1051, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36717-4
Blaskovich, Mark A.T., Hansford, Karl A., Butler, Mark S., Ramu, Soumya, Kavanagh, Angela M., Jarrad, Angie M., Prasetyoputri, Anggia, Pitt, Miranda E., Huang, Johnny X., Lindahl, Fredrik, Ziora, Zyta M., Bradford, Tanya, Muldoon, Craig, Rajaratnam, Premraj, Pelingon, Ruby, Edwards, David J., Zhang, Bing, Amado, Maite, Elliott, Alysha G., Zuegg, Johannes, Coin, Lachlan, Woischnig, Anne-Kathrin, Khanna, Nina, Breidenstein, Elena, Stincone, Anna, Mason, Clive, Khan, Nawaz, Cho, Hye-Kyung, Karau, Melissa J. ... Cooper, Matthew A. (2022). A lipoglycopeptide antibiotic for Gram-positive biofilm-related infections. Science Translational Medicine, 14 (662) abj2381. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abj238
Blaskovich, Mark A.T., Hansford, Karl A., Butler, Mark S., Ramu, Soumya, Kavanagh, Angela M., Jarrad, Angie M., Prasetyoputri, Anggia, Pitt, Miranda E., Huang, Johnny X., Lindahl, Fredrik, Ziora, Zyta M., Bradford, Tanya, Muldoon, Craig, Rajaratnam, Premraj, Pelingon, Ruby, Edwards, David J., Zhang, Bing, Amado, Maite, Elliott, Alysha G., Zuegg, Johannes, Coin, Lachlan, Woischnig, Anne-Kathrin, Khanna, Nina, Breidenstein, Elena, Stincone, Anna, Mason, Clive, Khan, Nawaz, Cho, Hye-Kyung, Karau, Melissa J. ... Cooper, Matthew A. (2022). A lipoglycopeptide antibiotic for Gram-positive biofilm-related infections. Science Translational Medicine, 14 (662) abj2381, 1-16. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abj2381
Chang, Jessie J.-Y., Gleeson, Josie, Rawlinson, Daniel, De Paoli-Iseppi, Ricardo, Zhou, Chenxi, Mordant, Francesca L., Londrigan, Sarah L., Clark, Michael B., Subbarao, Kanta, Stinear, Timothy P., Coin, Lachlan J. M. and Pitt, Miranda E. (2022). Long-read RNA sequencing identifies polyadenylation elongation and differential transcript usage of host transcripts during SARS-CoV-2 in vitro infection. Frontiers in Immunology, 13 832223, 832223. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.832223
Li, Fuyi, Guo, Xudong, Xiang, Dongxu, Pitt, Miranda E., Bainomugisa, Arnold and Coin, Lachlan J.M. (2022). Computational analysis and prediction of PE_PGRS proteins using machine learning. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 20, 662-674. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.01.019
Chang, Jessie J.-Y., Rawlinson, Daniel, Pitt, Miranda E., Taiaroa, George, Gleeson, Josie, Zhou, Chenxi, Mordant, Francesca L., De Paoli-Iseppi, Ricardo, Caly, Leon, Purcell, Damian F.J., Stinear, Timothy P., Londrigan, Sarah L., Clark, Michael B., Williamson, Deborah A., Subbarao, Kanta and Coin, Lachlan J.M. (2021). Transcriptional and epi-transcriptional dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 during cellular infection. Cell Reports, 35 (6) 109108, 1-18. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109108
Pitt, Miranda E., Nguyen, Son H., Duarte, Tânia P. S., Roddam, Louise F., Blaskovich, Mark A. T., Cooper, Matthew A. and Coin, Lachlan J. M. (2020). Complete genome sequences of clinical Pandoraea fibrosis isolates. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 9 (13) e00060-20. doi: 10.1128/mra.00060-20
Pitt, Miranda E., Nguyen, Son H., Duarte, Tânia P. S., Teng, Haotian, Blaskovich, Mark A. T., Cooper, Matthew A. and Coin, Lachlan J. M. (2020). Evaluating the genome and resistome of extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae using native DNA and RNA Nanopore sequencing. GigaScience, 9 (2) giaa002, 1-14. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giaa002
Bialasiewicz, Seweryn, Duarte, Tania P. S., Nguyen, Son H., Sukumaran, Vichitra, Stewart, Alexandra, Appleton, Sally, Pitt, Miranda E., Bainomugisa, Arnold, Jennison, Amy V., Graham, Rikki, Coin, Lachlan J. M. and Hajkowicz, Krispin (2019). Rapid diagnosis of Capnocytophaga canimorsus septic shock in an immunocompetent individual using real-time Nanopore sequencing: a case report. BMC Infectious Diseases, 19 (1) 660, 1-5. doi: 10.1186/s12879-019-4173-2
Pitt, Miranda E., Cao, Minh Duc, Butler, Mark S., Ramu, Soumya, Ganesamoorthy, Devika, Blaskovich, Mark A. T., Coin, Lachlan J. M. and Cooper, Matthew A. (2018). Octapeptin C4 and polymyxin resistance occur via distinct pathways in an epidemic XDR Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 isolate. The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 74 (3), 582-593. doi: 10.1093/jac/dky458
Blaskovich, Mark A. T., Pitt, Miranda E., Elliott, Alysha G. and Cooper, Matthew A. (2018). Can octapeptin antibiotics combat extensively drug-resistant (XDR) bacteria?. Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, 16 (6), 485-499. doi: 10.1080/14787210.2018.1483240
Pitt, Miranda E., Elliott, Alysha G., Cao, Minh Duc, Ganesamoorthy, Devika, Karaiskos, Ilias, Giamarellou, Helen, Abboud, Cely S., Blaskovich, Mark A. T., Cooper, Matthew A. and Coin, Lachlan J. M. (2018). Multifactorial chromosomal variants regulate polymyxin resistance in extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Microbial Genomics, 4 (3) 000158. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000158
Tseng, Hsu-Wen, Pitt, Miranda E., Glant, Tibor T., McRae, Allan F., Kenna, Tony J., Brown, Matthew A., Pettit, Allison R. and Thomas, Gethin P. (2016). Inflammation-driven bone formation in a mouse model of ankylosing spondylitis: sequential not parallel processes. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 18 (1) 35, 35. doi: 10.1186/s13075-015-0805-0
Phetsang, Wanida, Pelingon, Ruby, Butler, Mark S., KC, Sanjaya, Pitt, Miranda, Kaeslin, Geraldine, Cooper, Matthew A. and Blaskovich, Mark A. T. (2016). Fluorescent trimethoprim conjugate probes to assess drug accumulation in wild type and mutant Escherichia coli. ACS Infectious Diseases, 2 (10), 688-701. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.6b00080
Thesis
Pitt, Miranda Elise (2018). Evaluating genotypic and phenotypic variability against polymyxins and a novel lipopeptide, octapeptin C4, in antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2018.817