Extremophiles - Links

Collaborators:

• UNSW, Bioanalytical Mass Spectometery Facility (BMSF):
  http://www.bmsf.unsw.edu.au/
• Paul Curmi: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~pmgc/research.html
• DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), CA, USA:http://www.jgi.doe.gov/ http://genome.jgi-psf.org/draft_microbes/metbu/metbu.home.html http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/sphal/sphal.home.html
• J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), MD, USA: http://www.venterinstitute.org/
• Centre of Marine Biotechnology (COMB), Baltimore, Maryland: http://www.umbi.umd.edu/~comb/
• Fabien Joux, Observatoire d'Océanologie de Banyuls, France:  http://www.obs-banyuls.fr/Index.htm
• UltraViolet radiation in marine ECOsystems (UVECO): http://www.com.univ-mrs.fr/LMM/uveco/Uvecoanglais/entree.htm

Commercial Activities:

• Aeris Technologies:  http://www.aeris.com.au/investor_information_company.html

Environmental Genomics in Australia:

• The Australian Genome Alliance (http://www.genomealliance.org.au/) is lobbying the Federal Government to establish a new genomics research fund to ensure that Australia's unique genetic heritage is harvested by Australia and not by other nations. The national web-site describes the importance of Australian environmental microbiology (http://www.genomealliance.org.au/projects/EnvironmentalMicrobiology/EnvironmentalMicrobiology.html), and is highlighted as one of the few national success stories (http://www.genomealliance.org.au/successes/Microbes/Microbes.htm ).

Extremophiles:

• Extremophiles, the International Journal by Springer:
  http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00792/
• The International Society for Extremophiles:
  http://extremophiles.org/
• Extremophile Research: Integrating genomics, biology, biotechnology and proteomics
  http://www.bmsf.unsw.edu.au/extras/NewsNov04.html

Antarctic Research and Important Issues:

• Australian Antarctic Division: http://www.aad.gov.au/
• The Antarctic Bibliography:  http://www.coldregions.org/
• The Antarctic Treaty Committee for Environmental Protection: http://www.cep.aq/
• XXVI Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting including document on “Water Sampling of the Subglacial Lake Vostok”: http://www.aeci.es/26atcmadrid/en/Default.htm  http://www.aeci.es/26atcmadrid/docs/26WP001E%20(RU%20CEP%204b).doc
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Scientific Research Program Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments (SALE) and Subglacial Antarctic Glacial Lake Exploration Group of Specialists (SALEGOS): http://www.scar.org/ http://salepo.tamu.edu/overview/index_html http://salepo.tamu.edu/ http://salepo.tamu.edu/scar_sale
• SCAR events (http://www.scar.org/events/) which notes the Innsbruck meeting and highlights other relevant forums such as, the International workshop: "Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments (SALE) in the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008: Advanced Science and Technology Planning", Grenoble, France,24-26 April 2006:  http://salepo.tamu.edu/saleworkshop2006).
• IPY proposal for Deep ice drilling in the northern part of subglacial Lake Vostok: http://www.ipy.org/development/eoi/details.php?id=434
• USANational Academyof Sciences, Principles of Environmental Stewardship for the Exploration and Study of Subglacial Environments: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/projectview.aspx?key=213
• Lohan & Johnston 2003 The international regime for bioprospecting: Existing policies and emerging issues for Antarctica. United Nations University and Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS): http://www.ias.unu.edu/binaries/UNUIAS_AntarcticaReport.pdf
  

Popular Media:

• BioTechniques Webwatch, 2004, Tiny extremists, 36(2), 21. Report on ArchaeaWeb and our ColdBase collection of enzymes (http://www.archaea.unsw.edu.au/)
• Science Netwatch, 2003. Some like it hot, or cold, or acidic. 300 [April 4]: 27. Report on Neil Saunders’ “archaea-web” Science Netwatch
• UK Guardian, Sample, I. 2003 (August 21). Biology’s big brainteaser
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1025851,00.html
• Genome Network News, Dalke, K. 2003 (July 25). Extremophiles, Antarctica and extraterrestrial life:
  http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/07_03/extremo.shtml
• UNSW Uniken July, McGuire, R. 2003. The Xtremo files:
  http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/uniken/uniken0306/index.html
• Todays Life Science, 2001. Kuczek, E. and Slade, R. A spectrum of gene sequence analysis in Australia. 13: 30-38: “Methanogenium frigidum genome sequencing”.
• Astrobiology at Space.com., Paine, M. 2001. Viking data still cause stir about Mars life.
  http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/viking_labeledrelease_010905-2.html
• Smith, D. 2004. Extreme microbes giving up some of their tough-guy secrets. Sydney Morning Herald. March 1.
  http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2004/02/29/1077989434490.html
• Senior, K. 2004. Bioprospecting in Antarctica. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, March issue, page 60. The journal of the Ecological Society of America
  http://www.frontiersinecology.org/current_issue/DispatchesMarch2004.pdf