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.

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Dr. Federico Lauro

  • Position: Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Room: 323, Biological Sciences
  • Phone: (+61 2) 9385 2092
  • Fax: (+61 2) 9385 1483
  • email: flauro@unsw.edu.au

Publications

Cavicchioli, R. and Lauro, F. (2009)
Effects of climate change on polar microbes.
Microbiology Australia.  30: 72-74.
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)
Brown, M.V., Philip, G.K., Bunge, J., Smith, M.C., Bissett, A., Lauro, F., Fuhrman, J.A., and Donachie, S.P. (2009)
Microbial community structure in the North Pacific Ocean.
ISMEJ (doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.86)
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.)
Eloe, E.A., Lauro, F.M., Vogel, R.F. and Bartlett, D.H. (2008)
The deep-sea bacterium Photobacterium profundum SS9 is capable of swimming and swarming at high pressure.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology.  74: 6298-6305.
Lauro, F.M. and Bartlett, D.H. (2008)
Prokaryotic lifestyles in deep sea habitats.
Extremophiles. 12: 15-25.
Lauro, F.M., Tran, K., Vezzi, A., Vitulo, N., Valle, G. and Bartlett, D.H. (2008)
Large-scale transposon mutagenesis of Photobacterium profundum SS9 reveals new genetic loci important for growth at low temperature and high pressure.
Journal of Bacteriology. 190: 1699-1709.
Jensen, P.R .and Lauro, F.M. (2008)
An assessment of actinobacterial diversity in the marine environment.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology. 94: 51-62.