Select Publications
Book Chapters
2017, 'New insights into the microbial diversity of polar desert soils: A biotechnological perspective', in Microbial Ecology of Extreme Environments, Springer, pp. 169 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51686-8_7
,2011, 'Flow Cytometry in Environmental Microbiology: A rapid approach for the isolation of single-cells for advanced molecular biology analysis', in Navid A (ed.), Microbial Systems Biology: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology Series, Humana Press, Inc.
,Journal articles
2024, 'Urea amendment decouples nitrification in hydrocarbon contaminated Antarctic soil', Chemosphere, 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.141665
,2024, '343 ARE AIRWAY MICROBIOTA AND INFLAMMATION IN CHILDREN WITH ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA RELATED TO REFLUX ASPIRATION?', Gastroenterology, 166, pp. S - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0016-5085(24)00681-4
,2023, 'Diet and the gut-lung axis in cystic fibrosis–direct & indirect links', Gut Microbes, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2022.2156254
,2023, 'P281 Children with cystic fibrosis demonstrate high rates of asymptomatic carriage of Clostridioides difficile', Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 22, pp. S151 - S151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1569-1993(23)00653-7
,2023, 'P294 Colorectal cancer screening in cystic fibrosis, what can iFOBT tell us?', Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 22, pp. s155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1569-1993(23)00665-3
,2023, 'WS08.06 Pilot study evaluating the potential of Akkermansia muciniphila and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii as cystic fibrosis-specific probiotics utilising patient-derived organoid models', Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 22, pp. S17 - S18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1569-1993(23)00234-5
,2022, 'Intestinal dysbiosis and inflammation in cystic fibrosis impacts gut and multi-organ axes', Medicine in Microecology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medmic.2022.100057
,2022, 'Intestinal Inflammation and Alterations in the Gut Microbiota in Cystic Fibrosis: A Review of the Current Evidence, Pathophysiology and Future Directions', Journal of Clinical Medicine, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11030649
,2022, 'What Do We Know about the Microbiome in Cystic Fibrosis? Is There a Role for Probiotics and Prebiotics?', Nutrients, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14030480
,2021, 'Microbial community analysis of biopiles in Antarctica provides evidence of successful hydrocarbon biodegradation and initial soil ecosystem recovery', Environmental Pollution, 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117977
,2020, 'A novel real-world ecotoxicological dataset of pelagic microbial community responses to wastewater', Scientific Data, 7, pp. 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0496-5
,2020, 'Applying microbial indicators of hydrocarbon toxicity to contaminated sites undergoing bioremediation on subantarctic Macquarie Island', Environmental Pollution, 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113780
,2020, 'Lifting the veil on arid-to-hyperarid Antarctic soil microbiomes: A tale of two oases', Microbiome, 8, pp. 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00809-w
,2019, 'Harnessing long-read amplicon sequencing to uncover NRPS and Type i PKS gene sequence diversity in polar desert soils', FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz031
,2019, 'Extreme niche partitioning promotes a remarkably high diversity of soil microbiomes across eastern Antarctica', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/559666
,2018, 'Microfluidic qPCR Enables high throughput quantification of microbial functional genes but requires strict curation of primers', Frontiers in Environmental Science, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00145
,2017, 'Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil', Nature, 552, pp. 400 - 403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature25014
,2017, 'Microbial diversity of browning Peninsula, Eastern Antarctica revealed using molecular and cultivation methods', Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, pp. 591, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00591
,2016, 'Novel Culturing Techniques Select for Heterotrophs and Hydrocarbon Degraders in a Subantarctic Soil', Scientific Reports, 6, pp. 36724, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep36724
,2016, 'Geological connectivity drives microbial community structure and connectivity in polar, terrestrial ecosystems', Environmental microbiology, 18, pp. 1834 - 1849, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13034
,2016, 'Microbial diversity at Mitchell Peninsula, Eastern Antarctica: a potential biodiversity “hotspot”', Polar Biology, 39, pp. 237 - 249, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-015-1776-y
,2014, 'Bacterial targets as potential indicators of diesel fuel toxicity in subantarctic soils', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 80, pp. 4021 - 4033, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03939-13
,2014, 'Community fingerprinting in a sequencing world', FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 89, pp. 316 - 330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12308
,2014, 'Soil fertility is associated with fungal and bacterial richness, whereas pH is associated with community composition in polar soil microbial communities', Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 78, pp. 10 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.07.005
,2014, 'The ecological controls on the prevalence of candidate division TM7 in polar regions', Frontiers in Microbiology, 5, pp. 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00345
,2012, 'Capturing greater 16S rRNA gene sequence diversity within the domain bacteria', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78, pp. 5938 - 5941, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01299-12
,2012, 'Flow cytometry in environmental microbiology: a rapid approach for the isolation of single cells for advanced molecular biology analysis.', Methods in Molecular Biology, 881, pp. 3 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-827-6_1
,2011, 'Recovering greater fungal diversity from pristine and diesel fuel contaminated sub-antarctic soil through cultivation using both a high and a low nutrient media approach', Frontiers in Microbiology, 2, pp. 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2011.00217
,Conference Presentations
2021, 'WS02.4 Evaluating the role of short chain fatty acids in cystic fibrosis', http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1569-1993(21)00924-3
,2020, 'WS03.6 Does the cystic fibrosis diet contribute to intestinal dysbiosis?', http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1569-1993(20)30182-x
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