Faculty of Science School of Botany

Dr Rick Wetherbee

Location
 Botany Bld Rm 102-104
Phone +61 3 8344 5057
Fax +61 3 9347 5460
Email richardw@unimelb.edu.au

Research Interests

Research Group

Some Recent Publications

  1. Wetherbee, R., Lind, J.L., Burke, J. & Quatrano, R.S., (1998)  The first kiss: establishment and control of initial adhesion by raphid diatoms. Review.  J. Phycol. 34:9-15
  2. Callow, M.E., Callow, J.A., Pickett-Heaps, J.D. & Wetherbee, R.  1998  Primary adhesion of Enteromorpha (Chlorophyta, Ulvales) propagules: Quantitative settlement studies and video- enhanced microscopy.  J. Phycol. 33: 938-947
  3. McConville, M.J., Wetherbee, R., & Bacic, A. (1999)  Subcellular location and composition of the wall and secreted extracellular sulphated polysaccharides/proteoglycans of the diatom Stauoneis amphioxys Gregory. Protoplasma 206:188-200
  4. Poulsen, N.C., Spurck, T.P., Schultz, T.F., Spector, I., and Wetherbee, R. (1999) Diatom gliding is the result of an actin-myosin motility system. Cell Mot. and the Cytoskel. 44:23-33
  5. Callow, J.A., Stanley, M.S., Wetherbee, R. and Callow, M.E.  (2000) Cellular and molecular approaches to understanding primary adhesion in Enteromorpha. Biofouling16:141-150
  6. Callow, J.A., Crawford, S.A., Higgins, M.J., Mulvaney, P. and Wetherbee, R. (2000) The application of atomic force microscopy to topographical studies and force measurements on the secreted adhesive of the green alga Enteromorpha. Planta 21: 641-6.
  7. Kroger, N., and Wetherbee, R. (2000) Pleuralins are involved in theca differentiation in the diatom Cylindrotheca fusiformis. Protist 151:263-273
  8. Callow, M.E., Crawford, S.A., Wetherbee, R., Taylor, K., Finlay, J.A. and Callow, J.A.  (2001) Brefeldin A affects adhesion of zoospores of the green alga Enteromorpha. J. Exp. Bot. 52:1409-1415.
  9. Crawford, S.A., Higgins, M.J., Mulvaney, P., and Wetherbee, R. (2001) The nanostructure of the diatom frustule as revealed by atomic force and scanning electron microscopy. J. Phycol. 34: 555-573.
  10. Schultz, T.F., Egerton-Warburton, L, Crawford, S.A. and Wetherbee, R. (2001) Identification of a 41 kDa protein embedded in the biosilica of scales and bristles isolated from Mallomonas splendens (Synurophyceae, Ochrophyta). Protist 152: 315-327.
  11. Higgins, M.J., Crawford, S.A., Mulvaney, P. and Wetherbee, R. (2002) Characterization of the adhesive mucilages secreted by live diatom cells using atomic force microscopy. Protist 153:25-38.
  12. Apt, K.E., Zaslavkaia, L., Lippmeier, J. C., Lang, M., Kilian, O.,Wetherbee, R., Grossman, A.R. and Kroth, P.G. (2002) In vivo characterization of diatom multipartite plastid targeting signals.  J. Cell Science 115:5061-4069.
  13. Wetherbee, R. (2002) “The Diatom Glasshouse”, Science Perspectives.  Science 298:547.
  14. Higgins, M.J., Sader, J.E., Mulvaney,P. and Wetherbee,R. (2003) Probing the surface of living diatoms with atomic force microscopy: the nanostructure and micromechanical properties of the mucilage layer. J. Phycol. 39:722-734
  15. Chiovitti A., Higgins M.J., Harper R.E., Wetherbee R., and Bacic A. (2003).  The complex polysaccharides of the raphid diatom Pinnularia viridis (Bacillariophyceae).  J. Phycol. 39:543-554.
  16. Higgins, M.J., Molino, P., Mulvaney, P. and Wetherbee, R. (2003)  Characterizing the structure and nanomechanical properties of the adhesive mucilage that mediates diatom-substratum adhesion and motility.  J. Phycol.39:1181-1193.
  17. Chiovitti A., Bacic A., Burke J., and Wetherbee R. (2003).  Heterogeneous xylose-rich glycans are associated with extracellular glycoproteins from the biofouling diatom Craspedostaurosaustralis (Bacillariophyceae).  Eur. J. Phycol. 38: 351-360.
  18. Chiovitti, A., Molino, P., Crawford, S.A., Teng, R., Spurck, T., and Wetherbee, R. (2004) Water-extractable glucans from diatoms are predominantly derived from intracellular  chrysolaminaran and not extracellular polysaccharides.  Eur. J. Phycol. 39:115-126.
  19. Wetherbee, R., Crawford, S.A. and Mulvaney, P.,  (2004)  The nanostructure and development of diatom biosilica.  In “Biomineralization”  (Ed. E. Baeuerlein), Robert Wiley Press.

 

 

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