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. Michelle Allen

  • Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Room: 357A, Biological Sciences
  • Phone: (+61 2) 9385 3382
  • Fax: (+61 2) 9385 1483
  • email: m.allen@unsw.edu.au

Publications

Jungblut ADJ, Allen, MA, Burns BP, Neilan BA. (2009)
Lipid biomarker analysis of cyanobacterial dominated microbial mats in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Organic Geochem 40, 258-269
Allen, M.A., Goh, F., Burns, B.P. & Neilan, B.A. (2009)
Bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic diversity of microbial mat communities in the hypersaline lagoon of Shark Bay.
Geobiology 7, 82-96.
Goh, F., Allen, M.A., Kawaguchi, T., Decho, A.W., Neilan, B.A. and Burns, B.P. (2009)
Determining the specific microbial populations and their spatial distribution within the stromatolite ecosystem of Shark Bay.
ISME J.  3: 383-96.
Burns, B.P., Anitori, R., Butterworth, P., Henneberger, R., Goh, F., Allen, M.A., Ibanez-Peral, R., Bergquist, P.L., Walter, M.R., Neilan, B.A. (2009)
Modern analogues and the early history of microbial life.
Precambrian Res (in press)
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)
Allen, M.A., Goh, F., Leuko, S., Igo, A.E., Mizuki, T., Usami, R., Karnekura, M., Neilan, B.A. & Burns B.P. (2008)
Haloferax elongans sp nov and Haloterax mucosum sp nov., isolated from microbial mats from Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Australia
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58: 798-802.