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Dr Bob Moore

Bob Moore, 2011
Position/s:Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics - Agriculture/Aquaculture - Microbiology
School of Biological Sciences
Phone: +61 8 82017961
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Location: Biological Sciences (303)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

After graduating from Australian National University in medical microbiology, Dr Moore worked there in the field of plant cell biology, before doing PhD work in molecular evolution at the University of Sydney. He undertook postdoctoral training on bioinformatics and microbial evolution in the USA. Upon return to Australia he has pursued molecular biology and bioinformatics as applied and commercial disciplines.

Dr Moore has taught genetics, microbiology, and chemistry since 2002. His key area of commercial practise from 2008-2012 was biofuels, under the microbial molecular ecology and bioremediation group at Flinders University. He has also consulted directly to industry on modern practices of water quality control in hydroponics, farm irrigation and aquaculture/aquaponics. Dr Moore has published or has submitted papers in the areas of molecular evolution, molecular biology, microbial diversity, and bioremediation.

Scientific specialities:
Molecular biology
Eukaryotic genomics and bioinformatics
Genomic datamining
Evolutionary analyses
Biotechnology
Biodiversity and systematics

Commercial specialities:
Bioinformatics/genomics
Biofuels
Patenting in the physical sciences
Microbial ecology (soil/water)
Aquaculture

Qualifications

BSc Hons (ANU 1994) Cloning of genes in the aromatic amino acid biosynthesis pathway of Shigella dysenteriae
PhD (University of Sydney 2006) Molecular ecology and phylogeny of protistan algal symbionts from corals

Honours, awards and grants

  • ARC assessor 2010 onwards
  • Grant from Australian Biological Resources Study, see Further Information

Key responsibilities

  • Servicing commercial contracts: bioinformatics, biofuels, water quality. Supervision of staff and students.
  • Microbiology teaching, including: genetics and genomics, bioinformatics and molecular biology, evolution, metabolic chemistry, biochemistry. Supervision of staff and students.

Teaching

Teaching interests

Genetics, Molecular Evolution, Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Phycology, Aquaculture, Agriculture, Global Nutrient Cycles

Research and consultancy

Research interests

Patents: WO2009103128  WO2011032213

Publications (citations 225):

2012 - Kadali KK, Simons KL, Skuza PP, Moore RB, Ball AS. A complementary approach to identifying and assessing the remediation potential of hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria. Journal of Microbiological Methods 88, 348-55.

2011 - Li Y, Moore RB, Qin JG, Ball AS (submitted). Comparison of oil content, biofuel energy content and hydrocarbon production across 16 strains of Botryococcus braunii

2011 - Thangarajan R, Adetutu EM, Moore RB, Ogunbanwo ST, Ball AS. Comparison between different biotreatments of a complex hydrocarbon contaminated soil from a landfill site, African Journal of Biotechnology, 10, 15151-15162.

2009 - Murray S, Ip CL-C., Moore RB, Nagahama Y, Fukuyo Y. Are prorocentroid dinoflagellates monophyletic? A study of 25 species based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Protist 160, 245-264

2009 - Li Y, Qin JG, Moore RB, Ball AS. Perspectives on marine phytoplankton as a source of nutrition and bioenergy. In: Marine Phytoplankton, (Kersey WT and Munger SP editors), Nova Science Publishers, New York pp. 187-202.

2008 - Moore RB*, Obornik M*, Janouskovec J, Chrudimsky T, Vancova M, Green DH, Wright SW, Davies NW, Bolch CJS, Heimann K, Slapeta J, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Logsdon Jr JM, Carter DA. A photosynthetic alveolate closely related to apicomplexan parasites. Nature 451, 959-963 (*equal)

2003 - Moore RB, Ferguson KM, Loh WK, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Carter DA. Highly organized structure in the non-coding region of the psbA minicircle from clade C Symbiodinium. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53, 1725-1734.

2001 - John PC, Mews M, Moore RB. Cyclin/Cdk complexes: their involvement in cell cycle progression and mitotic division. Protoplasma 216,119-142.

1997 - Mews M, Sek FJ, Moore RB, Volkmann D, Gunning BES, and John PCL. Mitotic cyclin distribution during maize cell division: implications for the sequence diversity and function of cyclins in plants. Protoplasma 200, 128-145.

Postgraduate research supervision

Masters students formally co-supervised at Flinders University (distinction average):

2010-2011   Komal Ashtekar
2011-2012   Aminah AlHijab
2011-2012   Layla AlHijab  

Professional and community engagement

  • Australia Research Council (assessor)
  • The Smith Family: tertiary and secondary mentoring
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (member)

Subject/s

  • Biotechnology
  • DNA studies
  • Ecology
  • Education - Science
  • Genetics/Genetic engineering
  • Infection/Infectious diseases
  • Information technology
  • Intellectual property
  • Marine science
  • Medical research
  • Microbiology
  • Microscopy
  • Molecular biology
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Science

Further information

Federal government grant from the Australian Biological Resources Study 2011-2013 "Identifying and describing new lineages of benthic marine alveolates (Alveolata) from the Indian Ocean, Western Australia" Investigators: Shauna Murray (University of New South Wales, Sydney Institute of Marine Science), Mona Hoppenrath (German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research), Mark Brown (University of New South Wales), Bob Moore (Flinders University).

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