Advanced Waste Water Management Centre
The University of Queensland
Gehrmann Building (60)
Brisbane Qld 4072

damienb@awmc.uq.edu.au

phone +61 7 3346 9051

Damien has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland (2000). He is an internationally recognised researcher in the fields of biosolids management, anaerobic wastewater treatment, and process modelling. Key vocational interests include application of research in industrial projects, and Damien is an active consultant. Damien is the Project Leader for EBCRC's Small and Medium Scale Biosolids Project.

Director, Biotechnology Research Institute, Emeritus Professor of Biology, Macquarie University;

Emeritus Professor of Molecular Genetics, Auckland University

Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW 2109

Peter is an advisor for three EBCRC projects: Rapid pathogen detection strategies for the environment; Novel coatings for biofilm control and bioremediation; and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is also a member of the EBCRC Research Management Committee.

Building E8C, Room 250
Dept of Biological Sciences
Division of Environmental and Life Sciences MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY NSW 2109
Phone: +61 2 9850 9252
bferrari@rna.bio.mq.edu.au

Belinda is currently project leader in the Environmental Biotechnology CRC’s pathogen programme. Belinda has major interests in the detection and characterisation of microorganisms from the environment using fluorescence-based technologies.

Her PhD, awarded in 2001, described the development of a novel two-colour flow cytometric detection method for Cryptosporidium and Giardia in water. Since that time she carried out a postdoctoral fellowship in Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. Belinda returned to Macquarie University in Sydney in 2003, where she recently developed a novel cultivation strategy for previously ‘uncultured’ bacteria. The pathogen detection group she now leads concentrates on a suite of projects which range from the application of proteomics to environmental pathogens with the aim of diagnostic development to the use of fluorescence assays for multiplexed detection of pathogens.

Belinda's research incorporates the use a combination of tools largely relying on fluorescence, DNA probes, antibodies, flow cytometry and confocal microscopy.

Professor in Environmental Engineering
Chair of ETC Board
G.Ho@murdoch.edu.au
Office: Environmental Science Building ES 2.49
Phone: +61 8 9360 2167

Goen is a project advisor on EBCRC's project on Commercial scale integrated biosystem for organic waste and wastewater treatment for the livestock and food processing industries.

Professor & Director, Advanced Wastewater Management Centre
Gehrmann Building (60)
St. Lucia The University of Queensland QLD 4072
Phone +61 7 3365 4727
Fax +61 7 3365 4726
j.keller@awmc.uq.edu.au

Jürg is an advisor for EBCRC's projects on Biological Nutrient Removal from high-strength wastewater and Commercial scale integrated biosystem for organic waste and wastewater treatment for the livestock and food processing industries. Jürg is also a member of the EBCRC Research Management Committee.

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS)
University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052
Phone +61 2 9385 2102
s.kjelleberg@unsw.edu.au www.babs.unsw.edu.au/about/cmbb_centre_staff.asp

Staffan received his PhD from the University of Gotenburg, Sweden in 1981, and joined the staff of the then School of Microbiology and Immunology in 1993 as Professor of Microbiology. He has a long-standing interest in various aspect of environmental microbiology.

Staffan is the Project Leader for EBCRC's project on Biofilm control, and is also project advisor for the projects on Novel coatings for biofilm control and bioremediation and Bioremediation of contaminated sites. Staffan is a member of EBCRC's Research Management Committee.

Principal Scientist and Program Leader Centre South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI)
West Beach, South Australia, 5024
Phone +61 8 8207 5446
Fax +61 8 820 7481 Kumar.martin@saugov.sa.gov.au

Martin received his PhD in 1982 and worked as Assistant Professor in Faculty of Fisheries, Konkan Agricultural University, Ratanagiri, India before migrating to Australia in 1990. He is a Graduate member of Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). Martin managed to create a unique blend of expertise in scientific and technical aspects, demonstrated in wide range of research projects, combined with the experience in fisheries resource management.

Martin is the Project Leader for EBCRC’s project – Commercial scale integrated biosystem for organic waste and wastewater treatment for the livestock and food processing industries.

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS)
University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052
Phone +61 2 9385 3919 manefield@unsw.edu.au

Mike received his PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2000. Since then he has carried out postdoctoral research in laboratories in the United Kingdom, Denmark and Japan. He has recently returned to UNSW to pursue his research interests in microbial ecology. Mike is the Project Leader for EBCRC's the Bioremediation of contaminated sites project.

Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-Innovation
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS)
University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052

Phone +61 2 9385 2090
D.McDougald@unsw.edu.au

Diane received her PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2000. She is now a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-Innovation at UNSW working on adaptive responses of marine bacteria and the role that surface-attached bacterial communities called biofilms play in these processes. In addition, Diane investigates the role of quorum sensing in adaptation to stress and biofilm formation in these bacteria, as well as its role in virulence and resistance to grazing by protozoans.

Diane is the Project Leader for the EBCRC project 14, Molecular Toolbox for the Monitoring and Control of Industrial Biofilms as well as being Co-Project Leader for project 3, Novel Biofilm Control Strategies.

Advanced Wastewater Management Centre
Gehrmann Building (60)
St. Lucia The University of Queensland QLD 4072
Phone +61 7 3346 9021
Fax +61 7 3365 4726

maite@awmc.uq.edu.au

Maite received her PhD on Environmental Engineering in 2004 at the University Autonoma of Barcelona.

In 2005, she moved to the University of Queensland to start her postdoctoral research in the EBCRC P5 project about nutrient removal from high strength wastewater. Her research interests are the development and optimization of biological nutrient removal systems working with aerobic granules. Maite is the project leader for the EBCRC’s Advanced Aerobic Granulation project.

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Room VB 3.11
Murdoch University
South Street
Murdoch, WA, 6150
Tel:  + 61 8 9360 7423, Fax:  + 61 8 9310 4144
S.Reid@murdoch.edu.au

Simon is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences.  He is a veterinary epidemiologist with a special interest in the development of diagnostic tests and their application for disease surveillance.  Simon is involved in a number of research projects in Australia and SE Asia related to the surveillance for diseases in livestock and wildlife as well as of pathogens in the environment.  

Simon is project leader (Murdoch University) of the Rapid Pathogen and Control project for the EB CRC.  He is also involved in the Rapid Detection Ltd., the spin-off company owned by the EBCRC.

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS)
University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052
Phone +61 2 9385 3919 manefield@unsw.edu.au

Lachlan is a project leader on EBCRC's project on Biofilm Applications.