Thanks to the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Sydney Harbour Research Programme for a new seed grant ($12,500), led by UTS along with researchers from UNSW and Macquarie Univsersity

Our camp at Organic Lake, Antarctica during the summer of 2008-9

Congratulations to erstwhile virus hunter Sheree Yau for a new manuscript in ISMEJ detailing the goings on in Organic Lake, Antarctica using a combination of metagenomics and biogeochemistry. This paper uses samples we collected during the 2008/9 expedition.

Yau S, Lauro FL, Williams TJ, DeMaere MZ, Brown MV, Rich J, Gibson JAE, Cavicchioli R (accepted) Strategies of carbon conservation and unusual sulphur biogeochemistry in a hypersaline Antarctic Lake. ISMEJ

Just thought id share an interview Tiffanie did last year about her PhD project examining gut bacteria in wild and captive seal Antarctic seals.

TIff’s Interview here

The paper is here

Lauren Messer (UTS) presented the very first results of our collaboration with Dr Claire Mahaffey from the University of Liverpool, concerning rates of n2 Fixation in northern Australian waters, at the annual JAMS event at the Australian Museum and Art Gallery in Sydney.

Sites from which DNA samples were collected during the Southern Surveyor cruise from Darwin to Cairns

Congratulations to Jason Woodhouse et al for a new paper accepted in ISMEJ (impact factor = 7.375!)

Woodhouse JN, Fan L, Brown MV, Thomas T, Neilan BA (2013) Deep sequencing of non-ribosomal peptide synthetases and polyketide synthases from the microbiomes of Australian marine sponges.

Very excited that Jaime Bibiloni Isaksson, PhD student in the Seymour Lab at UTS and co-supervised here, has been accepted into the 2013 Summer Course on Microbial Oceanography at the Center for Microbial Oceanography, Research and Education, University of Hawaii!. Congrats Jaime

A new manuscript has been accepted into the prestigious ecology journal Ecology Letters (Impact Factor= 17.557!), titled
“Microbial community responses to anthropogenically induced environmental change: towards a systems approach”
Andrew Bissett(1), Mark V Brown(2), Steve Sicilliano(3), Peter Thrall(1)

outlining a way for microbial ecology to move towards more holistic systems biology approach’s in order to progress in many areas.

1 CSIRO, Plant Industry
2 BABS/ E&ERC UNSW
3 Dept of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan

Watch this space for a link to the published paper!