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DR RICHARD WETHERBEE



Contact Details

Organization: Botany
Position: READER
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Homepage: www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/RW/home.html
Work: 8344 5057
Fax: 9347 5460
Room: 104
Level: 01
Building: Botany
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Biofouling, Protistan Cell Surfaces Biofouling, diatom, adhesives, EPS Australia, United States of America, United Kingdom

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
France Universite Paris Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United Kingdom The University of Birmingham Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Norwich City College
Master of Surgery University of Michigan
Doctor of Philosophy University of Michigan

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Characterization of bioadhesives from marine diatom slimes & their interactions with different substrata; developing environmentally friendly..... Chief Investigator AKZO NOBEL,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SENSING AND IMAGING FACILITY Chief Investigator MONASH UNIVERSITY Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Divalent cations stabilize the aggregation of sulfated glycoproteins in the adhesive nanofibers of the biofouling diatom Toxarium undulatum
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Soft Matter
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 811-820
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  • The biology of biofouling diatoms and their role in the development of microbial slimes
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Biofouling
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 365-379
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  • The quartz crystal microbalance: a new tool for the investigation of the bioadhesion of diatoms to surfaces of differing surface energies
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 6730-6737
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Characterisation of the adhesion of fouling diatoms onto test surfaces
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Diatom Research
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 457-471
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • 1, 3-ß-D-glucans from Haramonas dimorpha (Raphidophyceae)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Botanica Marina
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 360-362
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  • Diatom adhesive mucilage contains distinct supramolecular assemblies of a single modular protein


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Biophysical Journal
    Volume: 90
    Page numbers: 2987-2993
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  • Adhesive modular proteins occur in the extracellular mucilage of the motile, pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Biophysical Journal
    Volume: Biophysical Letters
    Page numbers: 58-60
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  • Utilizing QCM-D to characterize the adhesive mucilage secreted by two marine diatom species in-situ and in real-time
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Biomacromolecules
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 3276-3282
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Single adhesive nanofibres from a live diatom have the signature fingerprint of modular proteins
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Biophysical Journal
    Volume: 89
    Page numbers: 4252-4260
    Publisher: Biophysical Society(Maryland)
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  • Variations in the substituted 3-linked mannans closely associated with the silicified walls of diatoms
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1154-1161
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Adhesion and Motility of Fouling Diatoms on a Silicone Elastomer
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Biofouling
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 323-329
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  • The glucans extracted with warm water from diatoms are mainly derived from intracellular chrysolaminaran and not extracellular polysaccharides
    Year: 2004
    Journal: European Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 117-128
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Heterogeneous xylose-rich glycans are associated with extracellular glycoproteins from the biofouling diatom Craspedostauros australis (Bacillariophyceae)
    Year: 2003
    Journal: European Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 351-360
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • Probing the surface of living diatoms with atomic force microscopy: The nanostructure and nanomechanical properties of the mucilage layer1
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 722-734
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • The complex polysaccharides of the raphid diatom Pinnularia viridis (Bacillariophyceae)
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 543-554
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  • The structure and nanomechanical properties of the adhesive mucilage that mediates diatom-substratum adhesion and motility1
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 1181-1193
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Characterization of the adhesive mucilages secreted by live diatom cells using atomic force microscopy
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Protist
    Volume: 153
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 25-38
    Publisher: Urban & Fischer Verlag(Jena)
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  • In vivo characterization of diatom multipartite plastid targeting signals
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Cell Science
    Volume: 115
    Issue: 21
    Page numbers: 4061-4069
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Brefeldin A affects adhesion of zoospores of the green alga Enteromorpha
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Experimental Botany
    Volume: 52
    Issue: 360
    Page numbers: 1409-1415
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Identification of a 41 kDa protein embedded in the Biosilica of scales and bristles isolated from Mallomonas splendens (Synurophyceaea, Ochrophyta)
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Protist
    Volume: 152
    Page numbers: 315-327
    Publisher: Urban & Fischer Verlag(Jena)
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  • Nanostructure of the diatom frustule as revealed by atomic force and scanning electron microscopy
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 543-554
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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