Professor Hugh Morgan

Qualifications: MSc Strath PhD Geulph

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Research Interests

Ecology and physiology of extremely thermophilic bacteria, and fermentations by glycolytic anaerobes. polymer hydrolysis in thermophilic environments. Phylogeny of thermophilic bacteria and their enzymes.

Students Supervised

PhD

• Payyakkal Viswam, Jayadev (in progress). The role of the gut microbiome of the huhu grub in lignocellulose breakdown
• Xavier, Ron (in progress). Viable but non-culturable states in bacteria
• Khalid, Ariff (in progress). Detection, isolation and characterization of novel hyperthermophilic nanoarchaea belonging to the putative archael phylum, "nanoarchaeota" from New Zealand hot springs.
• Hetzer, Adrian (2007). Metal sequestration by thermophilic bacteria.
• Rueckert, Andreas (2006). Discrimination and detection of thermophilic Bacilli.
• Niederberger, Thomas (2006). Application of molecular methods to the microbial ecology to thermal habitats.
• Wakeling, Robin (2003). Fungal attack on treated timber.

MPhil

• Nayan, Neeraj (2002). Characterisation of thermophilic  Bacilli from natural environments.

MSc

• Tan, Lin (in progress). A microbial community description of a heavy metal contaminated soil site
• Williams, Tom (2011). The microbial composition of the huhu grub intestinal tract.
• Mills, John (2007). Processing interactions of bacteria on meat - sources and remediation of Enterobacteriaceae on chilled vacuum-packed lamb.
• McCutcheon, Tracey (2004). Pulp and paper wastewater microbiology.
• Rawlinson, Lee-Anne (2003). Cloning and expression of a themostable B-glucosidase.
• Zhang, Y (2001). Identification of thermophilic Bacilli in compost.
• Foote, Sonia (2001). Microbial community analysis of polyhydroxyalkanoate genes in pulp and paper wastewater treatment systems.
• Niederberger, Thomas (2001). Evaluation of culture-independent techniques for the detection of thermophilic Bacillus sp. in milk powder.

Expertise

Ecology and physiology of extremely thermophilic bacteria, and fermentations of glycolytic anaerobes; phylogeny of thermophilic bacteria and their enzymes; lignocellulose conversion by thermophilic and non-thermphilic microorganisms.

Recent Publications

• Knappy, C., Nunn, C., Morgan, H., Keely, B. (2011) The major lipid cores of the archaeon Ignisphaera aggregans: implications for the phylogeny and biosynthesis of glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraether isoprenoid lipids
  Refereed Journal Articles - Extremophiles
• Kalamorz, F., Keis, S., McMillan, D., Olsson, K., Stanton, J., Stockwell, P., Black, M., Klingeman, D., Land, M., Han, C., Martin, S., Becher, S., Peddie, C., Morgan, H., Matthies, D., Preib, L., Meier, T., Brown, S., Cook, G. (2011) Draft Genome Sequence of the Thermoalkaliphilic Caldalkalibacillus thermarum Strain TA2.A1∇
  Refereed Journal Articles - Journal of Bacteriology
• Xavier, R., Morgan, H., McDonald, I., Withers, H. (2011) Meaningful conversations hold the key to longevity... or do they
  Conference - Oral Presentation - Department of Biological Sciences 3rd Annual PhD Conference
• Keeley, B., Knappy, C., Morgan, H. (2010) H-shaped lipids in the crenarchaeote, Ignisphaera aggregans, correlate with growth temperature
  Conference - Poster Presentation - 8th International Congress on Extremophiles

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