Dr. Torsten Thomas
- Position: Senior Research Fellow
- Room: CMB, Biological Sciences
- Phone: (+61 2) 9385 3467
- Fax: (+61 2) 9385 1483
- email: t.thomas@unsw.edu.au
Active Research Projects
Publications
- Allen, M., Lauro, F.M., Williams, T.J., Burg, D., Siddiqui, K.S., De Francisci, D., Chong, K.W.Y., Pilak, O., Chew, H.H., De Maere, M.Z., Ting, L., Katrib, M., Ng, C., Sowers, K.R., Galperin, M.Y., Anderson, I.J., Ivanova, N., Dalin, E., Martinez, M., Lapidus, A., Hauser, L., Land, M., Thomas, T. & Cavicchioli, R. (2009)
- The genome sequence of the psychrophilic archaeon, Methanococcoides burtonii: the role of genome evolution in cold-adaptation.
- International Society of Microbial Ecology Journal 3: 1012-1035. (Feature article)
- Lauro, F.M., McDougald, D., Thomas, T., Williams, T.J., Egan, S., Rice, S., DeMaere, M.Z., Ting, L., Ertan, H., Johnson, J., Ferriera, S., Lapidus, A., Anderson, I., Kyrpides, N., Munk, A.C., Detter, C., Brown, M.V., Robb, F.T., Kjelleberg, S. and Cavicchioli, R. (2009)
- The genomic basis of trophic strategy in marine bacteria.
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 15527–15533. (Cover story and Commentary: Church, M.J. The trophic tapestry of the sea. 15519-15520.)
- Egan, S., Thomas, T. and Kjelleberg, S. (2008)
- Unlocking the diversity and biotechnological potential of marine surface associated microbial communities.
- Current Opinion in Microbiology, (in press May 2008)
- Mai-Prochnow A, Lucas-Elio P, Egan S, Thomas T, Webb JS, Sanchez-Amat A, Kjelleberg S (2008)
- Hydrogen peroxide linked to lysine oxidase activity facilitates biofilm differentiation and dispersal in several Gram negative bacteria
- Journal of Bacteriology. 2008 May 23.
- Siddiqui, KS and Thomas T. (2008)
- Protein adaptation to High Pressure Environments
- Editor. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY, USA
- Kato, C., Sato, T., Abe, R., Ohmae, E., Tamegai, H., Nagason, K., Siddiqui, K.S. and Thomas, T. (2008)
- Protein adaption in extremophiles.
- In: Protein Adaption to High Pressure Environments. Siddiqui KS and Thomas T (Eds). Nova Sciences, New York, pp 167-192.
- Burke, C., Thomas, T., Egan, S. and Kjelleberg, S (2007)
- The use of functional genomics for the identification of an antifungal gene cluster in the epiphytic marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas tunicata
- Environmental Microbiology, 9:814-818
- Thomas, T., Egan, S., Burg, D., Ng, C., Ting, L. and Cavicchioli, R (2007)
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Integration of genomic and proteomics into microbial ecology
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Marine Ecology Progress Series, 332:291-299
- Siddiqui KS, Francisci D, Thomas T (2007)
- Analysis of unfolding-refolding patterns and stabilities of proteins by transverse urea gradient gel electrophoresis (TUG-GE). In: Protein Structures
- Methods in Protein Structure and Stability Analysis. (eds. Uversky VN & Permyakov AE) Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY, USA
- Cavicchioli R, Demaere MZ, Thomas T (2007)
- Metagenomic studies reveal the critical and wide-ranging ecological importance of uncultivated archaea: the role of ammonia oxidizers.
- Bioessays. 29(1): 11-14