Nirmal Robinson

Nirmal Robinson

Adelaide Medical School

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2025 Hos, N. J., Fischer, J., Murthy, A. M. V., Hejazi, Z., Krönke, M., Hos, D., & Robinson, N. (2025). P62 inhibits IL-1β release during Salmonella Typhimurium infection of macrophages. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 15, 1495567.
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    2025 Panda, S. K., Sanchez-Pajares, I. R., Rehman, A., Del Vecchio, V., Mele, L., Chipurupalli, S., . . . Desiderio, V. (2025). ER stress and/or ER-phagy in drug resistance? Three coincidences are proof.. Cell Commun Signal, 23(1), 223.
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    2025 Davies, L. T., Ganesen, R., Toubia, J., Hong, S. -H., Kumar, K. C. S., Oehler, M. K., . . . Pitman, M. R. (2025). Plasma-activated media selectively induces apoptotic death via an orchestrated oxidative stress pathway in high-grade serous ovarian cancer cells. Molecular Oncology, 19(4), 1170-1187.
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    2025 Robinson, N., Polara, R., & Thomas, D. (2025). IRE1α: a gatekeeper of chemotherapy-induced immunogenicity in triple-negative breast cancer. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 10(1), 52-1-52-3.
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    2024 Hong, L. E., Wechalekar, M. D., Kutyna, M. M., Small, A., Lim, K., Thompson-Peach, C. A., . . . Hiwase, D. K. (2024). IDH-Mutant Myeloid Neoplasms are Associated with Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis and Innate Immune Activation. Blood, 143(18), 1873-1877.
    DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC2
    2024 Wu, P., Wang, J., Ling, H., Zhou, Z., Santosh, M., Tang, Z., . . . Duan, X. (2024). Safety assessment in the disposal of high-level radioactive wastes (HLWs): a geochemical study of uranium complexes in deep groundwater in granites from Beishan, China. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 333(4), 1779-1791.
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    2024 Del Vecchio, V., Rehman, A., Panda, S. K., Torsiello, M., Marigliano, M., Nicoletti, M. M., . . . Papaccio, F. (2024). Mitochondrial transfer from Adipose stem cells to breast cancer cells drives multi-drug resistance. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research, 43(1), 166.
    DOI Scopus20 Europe PMC14
    2024 Moore, E., Robson, A. J., Crisp, A. R., Cockshell, M. P., Burzava, A. L. S., Ganesan, R., . . . Bonder, C. S. (2024). Study of the Structure of Hyperbranched Polyglycerol Coatings and their Anti-Biofouling and Anti-Thrombotic Applications. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 13(26), 2401545-1-2401545-23.
    DOI Scopus2 Europe PMC1
    2024 Polara, R., Ganesan, R., Pitson, S. M., & Robinson, N. (2024). Cell autonomous functions of CD47 in regulating cellular plasticity and metabolic plasticity. Cell Death Differ, 31(10), 1255-1266.
    DOI Scopus5 Europe PMC5
    2024 Panda, S. K., Robinson, N., & Desiderio, V. (2024). Decoding secret role of mesenchymal stem cells in regulating cancer stem cells and drug resistance. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer, 1879(6), 17 pages.
    DOI Scopus2 Europe PMC2
    2024 Youssef, S. H., Ganesan, R., Amirmostofian, M., Kim, S., Polara, R., Afinjuomo, F., . . . Garg, S. (2024). Printing a Cure: A Tailored Solution for Localized Drug Delivery in Liver Cancer Treatment.. International journal of pharmaceutics, 651, 123790.
    DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC2
    2024 Calabrese, C., Nolte, H., Pitman, M. R., Ganesan, R., Lampe, P., Laboy, R., . . . Robinson, N. (2024). Mitochondrial translocation of TFEB regulates complex I and inflammation. EMBO Reports, 25(2), 704-724.
    DOI Scopus5 Europe PMC3
    2023 Thomas, D., Wu, M., Nakauchi, Y., Zheng, M., Thompson-Peach, C. A., Lim, K., . . . Majeti, R. (2023). Dysregulated lipid synthesis by oncogenic IDH1 mutation is a targetable synthetic lethal vulnerability. Cancer Discovery, 13(2), 496-515.
    DOI Scopus33 WoS7 Europe PMC26
    2023 Vitale, I., Pietrocola, F., Guilbaud, E., Aaronson, S. A., Abrams, J. M., Adam, D., . . . Galluzzi, L. (2023). Apoptotic cell death in disease-Current understanding of the NCCD 2023. Cell Death and Differentiation, 30(5), 1097-1154.
    DOI Scopus185 WoS38 Europe PMC142
    2023 Liu, K., Chen, J., Sun, S., Chen, X., Zhao, X., Hu, Y., . . . Gong, Z. (2023). Histone deacetylase OsHDA706 increases salt tolerance via H4K5/K8 deacetylation of <i>OsPP2C49</i> in rice. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY, 65(6), 1394-1407.
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    2023 Logesh, R., Prasad, S. R., Chipurupalli, S., Robinson, N., & Mohankumar, S. K. (2023). Natural tyrosinase enzyme inhibitors: A path from melanin to melanoma and its reported pharmacological activities. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer, 1878(6), 1-27.
    DOI Scopus44 Europe PMC14
    2023 Saddam Hussain, M., Khetan, R., Clulow, A. J., Ganesan, R., MacMillan, A., Robinson, N., . . . Blencowe, A. (2023). Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: A Global Approach to Enhancing the Cytotoxicity of Drug-Loaded, Non-responsive Micelles Using Oligoelectrolytes. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16(8), 9736-9748.
    DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC2
    2022 Chipurupalli, S., Ganesan, R., Martini, G., Mele, L., Reggio, A., Esposito, M., . . . Robinson, N. (2022). Cancer cells adapt FAM134B/BiP mediated ER-phagy to survive hypoxic stress. Cell Death and Disease, 13(4), 13 pages.
    DOI Scopus31 WoS12 Europe PMC24
    2022 Chipurupalli, S., Desiderio, V., & Robinson, N. (2022). Analysis of ER-Phagy in Cancer Drug Resistance. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2535, 211-220.
    DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC2
    2022 Xu, H., Wu, Z., Xu, B., Sun, D., Hassan, M. A., Cai, H., . . . Chen, X. (2022). Optimized Phosphorus Application Alleviated Adverse Effects of Short-Term Low-Temperature Stress in Winter Wheat by Enhancing Photosynthesis and Improved Accumulation and Partitioning of Dry Matter. AGRONOMY-BASEL, 12(7), 17 pages.
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    2022 Lewis, A. C., Pope, V. S., Tea, M. N., Li, M., Nwosu, G. O., Nguyen, T. M., . . . Pitson, S. M. (2022). Ceramide-induced integrated stress response overcomes Bcl-2 inhibitor resistance in acute myeloid leukemia.. Blood, 139(26), 3737-3751.
    DOI Scopus29 WoS9 Europe PMC26
    2022 Bassal, M. A., Samaraweera, S. E., Lim, K., Bernard, B. A., Bailey, S., Kaur, S., . . . D'Andrea, R. J. (2022). Germline mutations in mitochondrial complex I reveal genetic and targetable vulnerability in IDH1-mutant acute myeloid leukaemia. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1-12.
    DOI Scopus13 WoS8 Europe PMC12
    2022 Bassal, M. A., Samaraweera, S. E., Lim, K., Benard, B. A., Bailey, S., Kaur, S., . . . D'Andrea, R. J. (2022). Author Correction: Germline mutations in mitochondrial complex I reveal genetic and targetable vulnerability in IDH1-mutant acute myeloid leukaemia.. Nat Commun, 13(1), 4131.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC1
    2021 Chipurupalli, S., Samavedam, U., & Robinson, N. (2021). Crosstalk Between ER Stress, Autophagy and Inflammation. Frontiers in Medicine, 8, 9 pages.
    DOI Scopus119 WoS44 Europe PMC84
    2021 Gutierrez, S., Fischer, J., Ganesan, R., Judith, N. H., Cildir, G., Wolke, M., . . . Robinson, N. (2021). Salmonella Typhimurium impairs glycolysismediated acidification of phagosomes to evade macrophage defense. PLoS Pathogens, 17(9), 26 pages.
    DOI Scopus20 WoS3 Europe PMC19
    2020 Barbieri, A., Robinson, N., Palma, G., Maurea, N., Desiderio, V., & Botti, G. (2020). Can Beta-2-Adrenergic Pathway Be a New Target to Combat SARS-CoV-2 Hyperinflammatory Syndrome?—Lessons Learned From Cancer. Frontiers in Immunology, 11, 6 pages.
    DOI Scopus38 WoS29 Europe PMC24
    2020 Kew, C., Huang, W., Fischer, J., Ganesan, R., Robinson, N., & Antebi, A. (2020). Evolutionarily conserved regulation of immunity by the splicing factor RNP-6/PUF60. eLife, 9, 1-23.
    DOI Scopus13 WoS8 Europe PMC11
    2020 Mele, L., del Vecchio, V., Liccardo, D., Prisco, C., Schwerdtfeger, M., Robinson, N., . . . La Noce, M. (2020). The role of autophagy in resistance to targeted therapies. Cancer Treatment Reviews, 88, 14 pages.
    DOI Scopus126 WoS76 Europe PMC98
    2020 Chipurupalli, S., Ganesan, R., Dhanabal, S. P., Kumar, M. S., & Robinson, N. (2020). Pharmacological STING Activation Is a Potential Alternative to Overcome Drug-Resistance in Melanoma. Frontiers in Oncology, 10, 9 pages.
    DOI Scopus25 WoS15 Europe PMC22
    2020 Dorstyn, L., Tvorogov, D., Malek, S., & Robinson, N. (2020). The 9th Barossa Meeting: Cell Signalling in Cancer Medicine. Cell Death and Disease, 11(3), 3 pages.
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    2020 Murthy, A. M. V., Robinson, N., & Kumar, S. (2020). Crosstalk between cGAS-STING signaling and cell death. Cell Death and Differentiation, 27(11), 2989-3003.
    DOI Scopus107 WoS58 Europe PMC89
    2020 Hos, N. J., Fischer, J., Hos, D., Hejazi, Z., Calabrese, C., Ganesan, R., . . . Robinson, N. (2020). TRIM21 Is targeted for chaperone-mediated autophagy during salmonella typhimurium infection. Journal of Immunology, 205(9), 2456-2467.
    DOI Scopus24 WoS10 Europe PMC17
    2019 Chipurupalli, S., Kannan, E., Tergaonkar, V., D’andrea, R., & Robinson, N. (2019). Hypoxia induced ER stress response as an adaptive mechanism in cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20(3), 17 pages.
    DOI Scopus98 WoS63 Europe PMC76
    2019 Robinson, N., Ganesan, R., Hegedűs, C., Kovács, K., Kufer, T. A., & Virág, L. (2019). Programmed necrotic cell death of macrophages: Focus on pyroptosis, necroptosis, and parthanatos. Redox Biology, 26, 8 pages.
    DOI Scopus278 WoS180 Europe PMC198
    2019 Fischer, J., Gutièrrez, S., Ganesan, R., Calabrese, C., Ranjan, R., Cildir, G., . . . Robinson, N. (2019). Leptin signaling impairs macrophage defenses against Salmonella Typhimurium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(33), 16551-16560.
    DOI Scopus18 WoS14 Europe PMC17
    2019 Cildir, G., Toubia, J., Yip, K. H., Zhou, M., Pant, H., Hissaria, P., . . . Tergaonkar, V. (2019). Genome-wide analyses of chromatin state in human mast cells reveal molecular drivers and mediators of allergic and inflammatory diseases. Immunity, 51(5), 949-965.
    DOI Scopus44 WoS34 Europe PMC37
    2018 Robinson, N. (2018). Salmonella typhimurium infection: Type I interferons integrate cellular networks to disintegrate macrophages. Cell Stress, 2(2), 37-39.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS3 Europe PMC2
    2018 Tiku, V., Kew, C., Mehrotra, P., Ganesan, R., Robinson, N., & Antebi, A. (2018). Nucleolar fibrillarin is an evolutionarily conserved regulator of bacterial pathogen resistance. Nature Communications, 9(1), 10 pages.
    DOI Scopus44 WoS32 Europe PMC46
    2017 Robinson, N. (2017). Typhi colonization factor (Tcf) genetically conserved yet functionally diverse. Virulence, 8(8), 1511-1512.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC2
    2017 Hos, N. J., Ganesan, R., Gutiérrez, S., Hos, D., Klimek, J., Abdullah, Z., . . . Robinson, N. (2017). Type I interferon enhances necroptosis of Salmonella Typhimurium-infected macrophages by impairing antioxidative stress responses. Journal of Cell Biology, 216(12), 4107-4121.
    DOI Scopus49 WoS40 Europe PMC41
    2017 Gutiérrez, S., Wolke, M., Plum, G., & Robinson, N. (2017). Isolation of Salmonella typhimurium-containing phagosomes from macrophages. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2017(128), 11 pages.
    DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC2
    2017 Ganesan, R., Hos, N. J., Gutierrez, S., Fischer, J., Stepek, J. M., Daglidu, E., . . . Robinson, N. (2017). Salmonella Typhimurium disrupts Sirt1/AMPK checkpoint control of mTOR to impair autophagy. PLoS Pathogens, 13(2), 22 pages.
    DOI Scopus112 WoS79 Europe PMC83
    2015 Fischer, J., Jung, N., Robinson, N., & Lehmann, C. (2015). Sex differences in immune responses to infectious diseases. Infection, 43(4), 399-403.
    DOI Scopus130 WoS104 Europe PMC108
    2014 Persa, O. D., Jazmati, N., Robinson, N., Wolke, M., Kremer, K., Schweer, K., . . . Schlaak, M. (2014). A pregnant woman with chronic meningococcaemia from Neisseria meningitidis with lpxl1-mutations. The Lancet, 384(9957), 1900.
    DOI Scopus7 WoS3 Europe PMC4
    2013 Nguyen, T., Robinson, N., Allison, S. E., Coombes, B. K., Sad, S., & Krishnan, L. (2013). IL-10 produced by trophoblast cells inhibits phagosome maturation leading to profound intracellular proliferation of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium. Placenta, 34(9), 765-774.
    DOI Scopus22 WoS18 Europe PMC16
    2012 Robinson, N., McComb, S., Mulligan, R., Dudani, R., Krishnan, L., & Sad, S. (2012). Type i interferon induces necroptosis in macrophages during infection with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Nature Immunology, 13(10), 954-962.
    DOI Scopus355 WoS319 Europe PMC308
    2010 Rybniker, J., Nowag, A., Van Gumpel, E., Nissen, N., Robinson, N., Plum, G., & Hartmann, P. (2010). Insights into the function of the WhiB-like protein of mycobacteriophage TM4 - A transcriptional inhibitor of WhiB2. Molecular Microbiology, 77(3), 642-657.
    DOI Scopus79 WoS65 Europe PMC71
    2010 Chattopadhyay, A., Robinson, N., Sandhu, J. K., Brett Finlay, B., Sad, S., & Krishnan, L. (2010). Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium-induced placental inflammation and not bacterial burden correlates with pathology and fatal maternal disease. Infection and Immunity, 78(5), 2292-2301.
    DOI Scopus35 WoS31 Europe PMC24
    2009 Albaghdadi, H., Robinson, N., Finlay, B., Krishnan, L., & Sad, S. (2009). Selectively reduced intracellular proliferation of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium within APCs limits antigen presentation and development of a rapid CD8 T cell response. Journal of Immunology, 183(6), 3778-3787.
    DOI Scopus36 WoS33 Europe PMC27
    2008 Robinson, N., Kolter, T., Wolke, M., Rybniker, J., Hartmann, P., & Plum, G. (2008). Mycobacterial phenolic glycolipid inhibits phagosome maturation and subverts the pro-inflammatory cytokine response. Traffic, 9(11), 1936-1947.
    DOI Scopus39 WoS35 Europe PMC30
    2008 Rybniker, J., Plum, G., Robinson, N., Small, P. L., & Hartmann, P. (2008). Identification of three cytotoxic early proteins of mycobacteriophage L5 leading to growth inhibition in Mycobacterium smegmatis. Microbiology, 154(8), 2304-2314.
    DOI Scopus27 WoS21 Europe PMC24
    2007 Robinson, N., Wolke, M., Ernestus, K., & Plum, G. (2007). A mycobacterial gene involved in synthesis of an outer cell envelope lipid is a key factor in prevention of phagosome maturation. Infection and Immunity, 75(2), 581-591.
    DOI Scopus26 WoS24 Europe PMC22
    2007 Stephen, T. L., Fabri, M., Groneck, L., Röhn, T. A., Hafke, H., Robinson, N., . . . Kalka-Moll, W. M. (2007). Transport of Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular polysaccharide in MHC class II tubules. PLoS Pathogens, 3(3), 11 pages.
    DOI Scopus22 WoS22 Europe PMC18

  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2023 Polara, R., van Rinsum, D., & Robinson, N. (2023). Autophagy in Cancer Metastasis. In K. Turksen (Ed.), Autophagy in Stem Cell Maintenance and Differentiation (pp. 259-285). Springer International Publishing.
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    2022 Chipurupalli, S., Kumari, S., Desiderio, V., & Robinson, N. (2022). Hypoxia-Induced Stress Responses in Cancer and Cancer Stem Cells. In Handbook of Oxidative Stress in Cancer: Mechanistic Aspects (Vol. 3, pp. 1829-1843). Springer Nature Singapore.
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  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2024 Kamel, M. M., Robinson, N., Kutyna, M., Lim, K., Thompson-Peach, C., Lane, S. W., . . . Thomas, D. (2024). High Dose Ascorbate Reduces Interleukin-1 Beta Secretion in TET2 Mutant Monocytes and Demonstrates Excellent and in CMML Patients in Combination with Azacitidine. In BLOOD Vol. 144 (pp. 1817-1818). ELSEVIER.
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  • Preprint
    Year Citation
    2023 Calabrese, C., Nolte, H., Pitman, M., Ganesan, R., Lampe, P., Laboy, R., . . . Robinson, N. (2023). Mitochondrial translocation of TFEB regulates complex I and inflammation.
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  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Co-Supervisor A humanized monocyte model of TET2 mutated clonal hematopoiesis for noel target discovery Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Maha Kamel
    2023 Co-Supervisor Peroxisome Biology in IDH1 Mutated Cancer Cells and Its potential for Target Therapy Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Mahta Moraghebi
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