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Monica Gerth
Microbiology and Biochemistry School of Biological Sciences
monica.gerth@vuw.ac.nz
Room 316, Te Toki a Rata Building, Kelburn Parade
Teaching in 2020
BIOL 234 Special Topic: Microbes and their Environments
as Course Coordinator and Lecturer
BIOL 427 Special Topic: Research Skills in the Life Sciences
as Course Lecturer
BIOL 580 Research Preparation
BTEC 101 Introduction to Biotechnology
MBIO 434 Microbiology
PhD Emory University (USA) | BSc The Evergreen State College (USA)
My research group tackles diverse problems in health, agriculture and the environment. Some of our current projects include studies on microbial chemotaxis (how microbes navigate their environment), microbe-plant interactions, and biodiscovery of new antimicrobials.
A major focus of our current research is kauri dieback disease and the integration of Mātauranga Māori in our efforts to save these taonga (treasured) trees.
Ehrhardt, M.K.G., Warring, S.L., and Gerth, M.L. (2018) Screening Chemoreceptor–Ligand Interactions by High-Throughput Thermal-Shift Assays. Methods in Molecular Biology: Bacterial Chemosensing, 281-290
Clifton, B.E., Kacmarski, J.A., Carr, P.D., Gerth, M.L., Nobuhiko, T. and Jackson, C.J. (2018) Evolution of cyclohexadienyl dehydratase from an ancestral solute-binding protein. Nature Chemical Biology, in press.
Lawrence, S.A., Armstrong, C.B., Patrick, W.M. and Gerth, M.L. (2017) High-throughput chemical screening identifies compounds that inhibit different stages of the Phytophthora agathidicida and Phytophthora cinnamomi life cycles.
Frontiers in Microbiology, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01340.
Brewster, J.L., McKellar, J.L.O., Finn, T.J., Newman, J., Peat, T.S. and Gerth, M.L. (2016) Structural basis for ligand recognition by a Cache chemosensory domain that mediates carboxylate sensing in Pseudomonas syringae. Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/srep35198
McKellar, J.L.O., Minnell, J.J. and Gerth, M.L. (2015) A high-throughput screen for ligand binding reveals the specificities of three amino acid chemoreceptors from Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae. Molecular Microbiology, 96: 694-707. doi: 10.1111/mmi.12964
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