Marine sponges acquire nutrients by filtering and eating bacteria from the seawater, but they also at the same time harbour a remarkable diversity of bacterial symbionts that don’t get digested. ...
Professor Staffan Kjelleberg
PhD
Role:
Executive Team Member, Director of SCELSE
Field of Research:
Microbial Ecology, Microbiology
Contact details:
Phone:
+61 (2) 9385 2102
Email:
Office:
Room 317, D26 Building
UNSW, Kensington 2052
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Research Interests
At UNSW Prof. Kjelleberg established the internationally recognised Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation (CMB), in collaboration with Prof. Peter Steinberg, which conducts basic and applied science in the areas of bacterial biofilms, cell-cell signalling, chemically mediated interactions between marine bacteria and sessile eukaryotes, novel marine bioactives, microbial environmental genomics, functional metagenomics, and bioremediation. Further, the Environmental Microbiology Initiative (EMI) – jointly established with Professors Ric Cavicchioli and Brett Neilan – has built excellence in environmental genomics as applied to environmental health and sustainability.
Prof. Kjelleberg’s readiness for collaborative, interdisciplinary research has led to entry in the Asian arena with the establishment of the Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) using biofilm knowledge and technology to ensure the supply of clean water, a sustainable environment, and human health.
Current Projects
Antibiotics from natural sources are an essential part of modern medicine, however their function in the environment is poorly understood. In this project we perform manipulation experiments both...
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Room 263
Biological Science Building, BioLink wing
The University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
+61 (2) 9385 2102