Faculty of Science School of Botany

Associate Professor Rick Wetherbee

Location
Botany Building 122 Rm 102-104
Phone

+61 3 8344 5057 (w)
+61 3 9375-2818 (h)

Fax +61 3 9347 5460
Email richardw@unimelb.edu.au
URL www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/RW/home.html

University Research Themes

Research Interests

Research Group

Key Publications

Dugdale, T.M.; Dagastine, R.; Chiovitti, A.; Mulvaney, P.; Wetherbee, R. “Single adhesive nanofibers from a live diatom have the signature fingerprint of modular proteins.” Biophysical J. 2005, 89, 4252-4260.

Dugdale, T.M.; Dagastine, R.; Chiovitti, A.; Wetherbee, R. “Diatom adhesive mucilage contains distinct supramolecular assemblies of a single modular protein.” Biophysical J. 2006, 90, 2987-2993

Molino, P.J. and Wetherbee, R. “The biology of biofouling diatoms and their role in the developent of microbial slimes”. Biofouling 2008  24, 365-379.

Chiovitti, A.; Heraud, P; Dugdale, T.M.; Hodson, O.M.; Curtain, R.C.A; Dagastine, R.R., Wood, R. W and Wetherbee, R. “Divalent cations stabilize the aggregation of sulfated glycoproteins in the adhesive nanofibers of the biofouling diatom Toxarium undulatum”. Soft Matter 2008  4, 811-820.

Molino, P.J.; Hodson, O.M.; Quinn, J.F. and Wetherbee, R. “The quartz crystal microbalance: a new tool for the investigation of the bioadhesion of diatoms to surfaces of differing surface energies”.  Langmuir 2008  24, 6730-6737.

 

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