Associate Professor Ian McDonald
Associate Professor
Qualifications: BSc (Hons) Uni of Ulster, PhD Liverpool
Contact Details
| Name | Extn. | Username | Room | Department | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McDonald, AProf Ian | 5165 | irmcdon | TRU.G.24 | Biological Sciences |
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Research Interests
My interests include: Microbiology, Molecular biology and Biochemistry of atmospheric trace gas degrading bacteria. Microbial ecology of methane, methyl halide and carbon monoxide utilising bacteria.
Students Supervised
PhD
- Lee, Chien-Yu Kevin (in progress). The genomic physiological and ecological characterisation of candidate division OP10.
MPhil
- Dixon, Lorraine (2006). Bacterial quality of traditional & contemporary Maori foods from stream environments.
MSc
- Jahan, Rowshan (in progress). Diversity of Methylobacterium species associated with New Zealand native plants
- Vickers, Chelsea (in progress). Culturing the unknown: hot soils of Mt Erebus, Antarctica
- McCauley, Doug (in progress). Fungal diversity associated with mummified seals in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.
- O'Callahan, Diahanna (in progress). Isolation & characterisation of bacterial secondary metabolites as potential wood preservatives.
- Lee, Chien-Yu Kevin (2010). The physiological and ecological characterisation of the first cultivated species of the candidate division OP10.
- Addison, Sarah (2008). 15N Stable isotope probing of pulp and paper waste waters
Expertise
Microbiology; molecular biology and biochemistry of atmospheric trace gas-degrading bacteria; microbial ecology of methane; methyl halide and carbon monoxide-utilising bacteria; microbial ecology in extreme environments, including the Antarctic and New Zealand geothermal environments.
Recent Publications
- Tiao, G., Lee, C., McDonald, I., Cowan, D., Cary, S. (2012) Rapid microbial response to the presence of an ancient relic in the Antarctic Dry Valleys
Refereed Journal Articles - Nature Communications - O’Callahan, D., Singh, T., McDonald, I. (2011) Evaluation of lactic acid bacterium from chilli waste as a potential antifungal agent for wood products
Refereed Journal Articles - Journal of Applied Microbiology - Lee, C., Barbier, B., Bottos, E., McDonald, I., Cary, S. (2011) The Inter-Valley Soil Comparative Survey: The ecology of Dry Valley edaphic microbial communities
Refereed Journal Articles - The ISME Journal - Lee, K., Dunfield, P., Morgan, X., Crowe, M., Houghton, K., Vyssotski, M., Ryan, J., Lagutin, K., McDonald, I., Stott, M. (2011) Chthonomonas calidirosea gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic, pigmented, thermophilic micro-organism of a novel bacterial class, Chthonomonadetes classis nov., of the newly described phylum Armatimonadetes originally designated candidate
Refereed Journal Articles - International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
