University of Sydney                         PhD              2006

University of Sydney   Science Journalism          2001

Australian National University          BSc             1995

Topics:

Eukaryotic microbiology

· Alveolate evolution

· Evolutionary ecology of protists

· Symbiosis

Phylogeny

· Protist tree of life

· Dinoflagellate taxonomy

· Evolutionary history of organelles

Cell biology

· Recombination in dinoflagellates

· Flagellar apparatus in dinoflagellates

· Meiosis and mitosis

Applied microbiology

· Commercial uses of algae

· Genetic modification of algae for industry

· Chromera velia as a model for antiparasitic pharmaceutical development

PhD thesis

· Molecular ecology and phylogeny of protistan algal symbionts from corals, University of Sydney, 2006

Professional workshop participation

· ApiDB, ToxoDB, CryptoDB,  Apicomplexan genomic database mining workshop, University of Georgia USA (2006)

· Woods Hole Protistology workshop, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA (2005)

Publications

· Moore R.B., Oborník M., Janouškovec J., Chrudimský T., Vancová M., Green D.H., Wright S.W., Davies N.W., Bolch C.J.S., Heimann K., Slapeta J., Hoegh-Guldberg O., Logsdon Jr J.M., Carter D.A (2008). A photosynthetic alveolate closely related to apicomplexan parasites. Nature 451, 959-963 [link to paper] [link to corrigendum] [link to supplementary material] [link to commentary]

· Moore R.B., Ferguson K.M , Loh W.K., Hoegh-Guldberg O, Carter D.A. (2003). Highly organized structure in the non-coding region of the psbA minicircle from clade C Symbiodinium. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53, 1725-1734.

· John, P.C., Mews, M., Moore, R. (2001). Cyclin/Cdk complexes: their involvement in cell cycle progression and mitotic division. Protoplasma 216,119-142. Review.

· Mews, M., Sek, F.J., Moore, R., Volkmann, D., Gunning, B.E.S., and John, P.C.L. (1997). Mitotic cyclin distribution during maize cell division: implications for the sequence diversity and function of cyclins in plants. Protoplasma 200, 128-145.

Email:

bob.moore.phd@gmail.com