Hobart

Seminar Abstract

Friday 15 May 2009, 11.30am (Tas time)
CSIRO Auditorium, Hobart

Steve Wakelin
CSIRO Land & Water
Urrbrae, South Australia

‘Rock-rock who’s there?’ and other environmental microbiology research at CLW Adelaide

The molecular microbiology research group at CSIRO Land and Water, Adelaide, undertakes a wide range of applied and environmental research. Most effort is focused on (1) understanding the links between community assemblage and their habitats, in both terrestrial and aquatic systems, (2) characterising community structure (diversity) - at phylogenetic and functional levels – in response to ecosystem change or contamination, and (3) ecology of ‘biogeochemically significant’ groups of microbes, such as those involved in S-oxidation or N2O emissions. The presentation will give an overview of the range of recent and current projects and then give more detail on the biogeochemistry of a mine tailing hill slope, including an introduction to the ‘PhyloChip’ 16S rRNA microarray.

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Location:
CSIRO = Marine Laboratories Auditorium, Castray Esplanade, Hobart

For further information, or to schedule a seminar, contact:
To schedule a seminar, contact:
Clothilde Langlais, (Oceanographic seminars) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (03) 6232 5399
Natalie Kelly, (Biology/Modelling seminars) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research 0438 452 483
Jillian Enraght-Moony, (seminar administrator) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (03) 6232 5320
Communications Manager, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC (03) 6226 2265
Margaret Hazelwood, Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies (IASOS) University of Tasmania (03) 6226 2971

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