The School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at UNSW

The University of New South Wales

A leading research and teaching school with expertise in biotechnology, molecular biology, genetics, environmental microbiology, medical microbiology, immunology, biochemistry, protein chemistry and other areas of biological science.

Dr. Tilmann Harder

  • Position: -
  • Room: 501, Biological Sciences
  • Phone: (+61 2) 9385 3690
  • Fax: (+61 2) 9385 1483
  • email: t.harder@unsw.edu.au

Professional Experience

  • Junior Professor, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Oldenburg, Germany
  • Research Associate, RandD Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, SAR Hong Kong.
  • Research Associate, Research & Development Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, SAR Hong Kong, China.
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of Biology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Research Contribution

Active Research Projects

Publications

Harder, T., and Yee, L.H. (2009)
Bacterial adhesion and marine fouling
edited by C. Hellio and D. Yebra, 113-131. Oxford: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Lam, C., Stang, A. and Harder, T. (2008)
Planktonic bacteria and fungi are selectively eliminated by exposure to marine macroalgae in close proximity
FEMS Microbiol Ecol.  63: 283-291
Dubber, D. and Harder, T. (2008)
Extracts of Ceramium rubrum, Mastocarpus stellatus and Laminaria digitata inhibit growth of marine and fish pathogenic bacteria at ecologically realistic concentrations
Aquaculture.  274: 196-200
Esser, F., Winterberg, M., Sebesvari, Z., and Harder, T. (2008)
Effect of halogenated metabolites from infaunal polychaetes on larval settlement of the spionid polychaete Streblospio benedicti.
Mar Ecol Prog Ser.  355: 161-172
Lam, C., Grage, A., Schulz, D., Schulte, A., Harder, T. (2008)
Extracts of North Sea macroalgae reveal specific activity patterns against attachment and proliferation of benthic diatoms: a laboratory study.
Biofouling.  24: 59-66
Harder, T. (2008)
Marine Epibiosis:  Concepts, Ecological Consequences and Host Defence
Marine and Industrial Biofouling, Heidelberg, Springer, 219-231
Lam, C. and Harder, T. (2007)
Waterborne metabolites of marine macroalgae affect quantity and quality of bacterioplankton in close proximity
J Phycol.  43:874-881
Dahms, H.U., Harder, T. & Qian, P.Y. (2007)
Selective attraction and reproductive performance of a harpacticoid copepod in a response to biofilms
Journal of Expiermental Marine Biology and Ecology, 341:  228-238
Qian, P.Y., Lau, S.C.K., Dahms, H.U., Dobretsov, S. & Harder, T. (2007)
Marine biofilms as mediators of colonization by marine macroorganisms:  Implications for antifouling and aquaculture.
Marine Biotechnology, 9: 399-410
Dobretsov S, Dahms HU, Harder T, Qian PY (2006)
Allelochemical defense of the macroalga Caulerpa racemosa against epibiosis: evidence of field and laboratory assays.
Mar Ecol Prog Ser 318: 165-175
Rittschof, D., Schmidt, G. & Harder, T. (2006)
Evidence that 3-decanol in hermit crab blood signals shell availability to conspecifics.
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 46: E241-E241
Harder, T., Lau, S.C.K., Tam, W.Y. and Qian, P.Y. (2004)
A bacterial culture-independent method to investigate chemically-mediated control of bacterial epibiosis in marine invertebrates by using TRFLP analysis and natural bacterial populations.
FEMS Microb. Ecol.  47: 93-99
Dahms, H.U., Harder, T. & Qian, P.Y. (2004)
Effect of meiofauna on macrofauna recruitment:  settlement inhibition of the polychaete Hydroides elegans by the harpacticoil copepod Tisbe japonica.
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 311: 47-61
Harder, T., Dobretsov, S. & Qian, P.Y. (2004)
Waterborne polar macromolecules act as algal antifoulants in the seaweed Ulva reticulata.
Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 274: 133-141
Harder T, Lau S C K, Dobretsov S, Fang T K, Qian P Y (2003)
A distinctive epibiotic bacterial community on the soft coral Dendronephthya sp. and antibacterial activity of coral tissue extracts suggest a chemical mechanism against bacterial epibiosis
FEMS Microb Ecol 43: 337-347
Lau, S.C.K., Harder, T. and Qian, P.Y. (2003)
Induction of larval settlement in the serpulid polychaete Hydroides elegans (Haswell): Role of bacterial extracellular polymers.
Biofouling.  19: 197-204
Lam, C., Harder, T. & Qian, P.Y. (2003)
Induction of larval settlement in the polychaete Hydroides elegans by surface-associated settlement cues of marine benthic diatoms.
Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 263: 83-92
Thiyagarajan, V., Harder, T., & Qian, P.Y. (2003)
Combined effects of temperature and salinity on larval development and attachment of the subtidal barnacle Balanus trigonus Darwin.
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 287: 223-236
Thiyagarajan, V., Harder, T. & Qian, P.Y. (2003)
Effects of TAG/DNA ratio and age of cyprids on post-metamophic growth and survival of the barnacle Balanus amphitrite.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 83: 83-88
Thiyagarajan, V., Harder, T., Qiu, J.W. & Qian, P.Y. (2003)
Energy content at metamorphosis and growth rate of the early juvenile barnacle Balanus amphitrite.
Marine Biology, 143: 543-554