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Some of Australia's leading biotechnology researchers are participating in EBCRC projects. They include: |
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Dr Nicolas Barraud, UNSW |
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Dr Damien Batstone, University of Queensland |
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Prof. Peter Bergquist, Macquarie University |
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Dr Phil Bond, University of Queensland |
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Dr Anwar Sunna, Macquarie University |
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Dr Belinda Ferrari, Macquarie University |
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Prof. Goen Ho, Murdoch University |
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Prof. Jurg Keller, University of Queensland |
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Prof. Staffan Kjelleberg, University of NSW |
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Dr Scott Rice, University of New South Wales |
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Dr Lachlan Yee, Southern Cross University |
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Dr Nicolas Barraud |
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Centre for Marine Bioinnovation (CMB)
Biological Sciences Building (D26)
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
nbarraud@unsw.edu.au
phone +61 2 9385 1594
Nic received his PhD in microbiology from the University of New South Wales in 2007. His main research interest is in the biofilm life cycle and particularly in the regulation of differentiation and biofilm dispersal processes. Strategies to induce biofilm dispersal may find broad applications in industrial and clinical settings, for their potential to prevent biofilms and biofilm-related infections. Nic is the first inventor of an international patent describing a low cost and eco-friendly solution to biofilm control based on the use of nitric oxide signaling. He currently is the co-project leader on EBCRC's Biofilm Applications project. |
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Dr Damien Batstone |
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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.
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Prof. Peter Bergquist |
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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.
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Dr Phil Bond |
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Advanced Waste Water Management Centre
The University of Queensland
Gehrmann Building (60)
Brisbane Qld 4072
phil.bond@awmc.uq.edu.au
phone +61 7 3346 7841
Phil obtained his PhD at the University of Queensland (1998) on activated sludge microbial ecology. He is interested to unravel the complexities of microbial communities, by combining molecular and other approaches to elucidate microbial metabolic processes and determine molecular details of microbial functions directly in their environments. Phil is the project leader of EBCRC's Aerobic granulation technologies for domestic wastewater project.
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Dr Anwar Sunna |
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Dept. of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences
Macquarie University
NSW 2109
Ph: 61 2 9850 4220
anwar.sunna@mq.edu.au
Anwar obtained his PhD in Germany (Technical Microbiology) in 1995. He has substantial experience in the field of gene prospecting and recombinant expression. His expertises are in the isolation and cultivation of organisms, gene cloning and protein expression in bacteria, protein-carbohydrate and protein-protein interactions and characterization of microbial genes and enzymes. In the last 5 years his work has focused on developing new molecular capture and rapid detection techniques for environmental pathogens. He has develop new techniques for the removal of odorous compounds using solid matrix immobilized enzymes and/or organisms. Anwar was the project leader of the EBCRC Rapid Detection" and "Odour Control" projects (2008-2010). Currently, he is the manager and project leader of the EBCRC "Rapid Pathogen Detection" program. Anwar has worked in several industrial and academic multi-disciplinary research projects in Australia and Europe.
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Dr Belinda Ferrari |
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School of Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences
Room 132
Samuels Building (F25)
UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052
Phone: +61 2 9385 2032
b.ferrari@unsw.edu.au
Belinda is currently project leader in the Environmental Biotechnology CRC’s microbial detection 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.
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Prof. Goen Ho |
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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 leader for EBCRC's odour control project as well as advisor on the commercial scale integrated biosystem for organic waste project.
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Prof. Jürg Keller |
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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 advanced aeorobic granulation and commercial scale integrated biosystem for organic waste and wastewater treatment for the livestock and food processing industries.
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Prof. Staffan Kjelleberg |
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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 biofilm applications and bioremediation projects.
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Dr Scott Rice |
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Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS)
University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052
Phone +61 2 9385 1786
Scott.Rice@unsw.edu.au
Scott received his PhD in Microbiology in 1996 from the University of Tennessee and joined the CMB in 1997. His research interests lie in how bacteria communicate with each other as well as how they establish sessile communities, biofilms, which afford bacteria a selective advantage in the environment. Much of Scott’s research focuses on identifying the genetic and physiological drivers of biofilm formation with the aim of manipulating those to control biofilm development. Scott is a Project leader for Biofilm Applications projects within the EBCRC.
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Dr Lachlan Yee |
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School of Environmental Science & Management
Southern Cross University
Lismore NSW 2480 Australia
Lachlan.Yee@scu.edu.au
Ph: +61-2-6620-3624
Fx: +61-2-6621-2669
The focus of my research is to develop environmentally benign and sustainable solutions to the industrial problems of pollution, biofouling and the need for active surfaces to combat exposure of materials to natural elements. This is achieved by using polymer synthesis and grafting in combination with naturally derived molecules to develop bioactive surfaces.
- Marine coatings capable of anti-fouling through use of living bacterial payloads in polymeric capsules using either organic or inorganic materials (In collaboration with the Univeristy of NSW and the Environmental Biotechnology CRC).
- Design, manufacturing (pilot scale), characterisation and materials testing of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) surfaces with catalytically generated nitric oxide resulting in bacterial removal (In collaboration with Chemson Pacific and University of Michigan, USA).
- Development, pilot and field testing of polymer additives in bacterial biostimulation solutions for the in situ bioremediation of organic pollutants in soil (In collaboration with University of NSW and Dulux, Orica).
Lachlan is a project leader on EBCRC's project on Biofilm Applications.
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