Our research

Credit - jdblack

Understanding the impacts of farming practices on the soil microbiome as a sustainable approach to crop production.

Credit - Naja Bertolt Jensen

The microbiome of plastic contaminated aquatic environments – bioprospecting for a solution to the plastic problem.

Publication alert: Ranking environmental and edaphic attributes driving soil microbial community structure and activity with special attention to spatial and temporal scale

Credit - Mark Stebnicki

Fresh produce microbiomes to address food safety and spoilage while enhancing consumer health benefits.

Fruit and vegetables. Credit - Devon Breen

Interactions between food microstructure, the gut microbiome, and health outcomes of infants during weaning

Credit - Dana Sredojevic

Investigating the impact of anti-microbials on responses of key pathogens and microbial communities in processed meat for enhanced microbial safety and shelf-life.

Wheat field. Credit - Meric Tuna

Publication alert – Diversity, community structure, and potential functions of root-associated bacterial communities of different wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars under field conditions

Locust swarm. Credit - Bishnu Sarangi

Investigating the microbial basis of population suppression in Australian plague locusts

Crop stubble. Credit - Donna Senza Fiato

Crop residue microbiome

3-D computer simulations of the wave-like movement of the intestinal walls

Computer simulations of the physical properties of the human gut to predict their influence on the microbiome