Mr Max Harding
Global Challenges Scholar & Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Publications
Journal Articles
Harding, Maxim D., Jackson, Mark A., Gilding, Edward K., Craik, David J., Sainsbury, Frank and Lawrence, Nicole (2026). Bacteriophage
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Virus‐Like Particles as Nanoscale Protein Scaffolds for Plant Synthetic Biology. Plant Biotechnology Journal pbi.70735. doi: 10.1111/pbi.70735
Harding, Maxim D. and Sainsbury, Frank (2025). Protein engineering strategies to optimise recombinant product synthesis and accumulation in Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 24 (1), 31-43. doi: 10.1111/pbi.70232
Harding, Maxim D., Jackson, Mark A., Gilding, Edward K., Yap, Kuok, Craik, David J., Sainsbury, Frank and Lawrence, Nicole (2025). Exploring use of a protein cage system for producing bioactive peptides in Escherichia coli. Microbial Biotechnology, 18 (6) e70158, 1-14. doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.70158
Lawrence, Nicole, Handley, Thomas N. G., de Veer, Simon J., Harding, Maxim D., Andraszek, Alicja, Hall, Lachlan, Raven, Karoline D., Duffy, Sandra, Avery, Vicky M., Craik, David J., Malins, Lara R. and McMorran, Brendan J. (2024). Enhancing the intrinsic antiplasmodial activity and improving the stability and selectivity of a tunable peptide scaffold derived from human platelet factor 4. ACS Infectious Diseases, 10 (8), 2899-2912. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.4c00276