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Overview

Frank Reith was affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research primarily focused on Environmental Science, with contributions to several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Molecular Biology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Pollution, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in their work involved:

  • Chromium effects and bioremediation
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Metal Extraction and Bioleaching
  • Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis

They published research in several venues, with notable frequency in the following journals and conferences:

  • Drug Testing and Analysis
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Earth-Science Reviews

Some of their recent papers included:

  • "Biogeography and emerging significance of Actinobacteria in Australia and Northern Antarctica soils" (2020) in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Love is in the Earth: A review of tellurium (bio)geochemistry in surface environments" (2020) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Alluvial gold in the Bétaré Oya drainage system, east Cameroon" (2021) in Journal of Sedimentary Environments
  • "A genomic perspective of metal-resistant bacteria from gold particles: Possible survival mechanisms during gold biogeochemical cycling" (2020) in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • "Metal resistant bacteria on gold particles: Implications of how anthropogenic contaminants could affect natural gold biogeochemical cycling" (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment

Frank Reith frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Jeremiah Shuster
  • Barbara Etschmann
  • Joël Brugger
  • Santonu Kumar Sanyal
  • Jared W. Castle

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of gold biomineralization in the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans

    Frank Reith;Barbara E Etschmann;Cornelia Grosse;Hugo Moors

  • The geomicrobiology of gold

    Frank Reith;Maggy F Lengke;Donna Falconer;David Craw

  • Biomineralization of Gold: Biofilms on Bacterioform Gold

    Frank Reith;Stephen L. Rogers;Stephen L. Rogers;D. C. McPhail;D. C. McPhail;Daryl Webb

  • Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

    Andrew Bissett;Anna Fitzgerald;Thys Meintjes;Pauline M. Mele

  • Ecological drivers of soil microbial diversity and soil biological networks in the Southern Hemisphere.

    Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo;Frank Reith;Paul G. Dennis;Kelly Hamonts

  • Nanoparticle factories: Biofilms hold the key to gold dispersion and nugget formation

    Frank Reith;Frank Reith;Lintern Fairbrother;Lintern Fairbrother;Gert Nolze;Oliver Wilhelmi

  • Circular linkages between soil biodiversity, fertility and plant productivity are limited to topsoil at the continental scale

    Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo;Jeff R. Powell;Kelly Hamonts;Frank Reith

  • The Biogeochemistry of Gold

    Gordon Southam;Maggy F. Lengke;Lintern Fairbrother;Frank Reith

  • Enrichment of germanium and associated arsenic and tungsten in coal and roll-front uranium deposits

    Barbara Etschmann;Weihua Liu;Kan Li;Shifeng Dai

  • Platinum in Earth surface environments

    F. Reith;F. Reith;S.G. Campbell;A.S. Ball;A. Pring

  • Biogeography and emerging significance of Actinobacteria in Australia and Northern Antarctica soils

    Ricardo Araujo;Ricardo Araujo;Vadakattu V.S.R. Gupta;Vadakattu V.S.R. Gupta;Frank Reith;Frank Reith;Andrew Bissett

  • Supergene gold transformation: Biogenic secondary and nano-particulate gold from arid Australia

    L. Fairbrother;L. Fairbrother;J. Brugger;J. Brugger;J Shapter;Jamie Stuart Laird

  • Supergene gold transformation: Secondary and nano-particulate gold from southern New Zealand

    Frank Reith;Frank Reith;Lachlan Stewart;Steven A. Wakelin

  • Effect of resident microbiota on the solubilization of gold in soil from the Tomakin Park Gold Mine, New South Wales, Australia

    Frank Reith;Derry McPhail

  • Influence of Copper Resistance Determinants on Gold Transformation by Cupriavidus metallidurans Strain CH34

    Nicole Wiesemann;Juliane Mohr;Cornelia Grosse;Martin Herzberg

  • Influence of geogenic factors on microbial communities in metallogenic Australian soils.

    Frank Reith;Frank Reith;Joel Brugger;Joel Brugger;Carla M Zammit;Carla M Zammit;Adrienne L Gregg

  • Biomineralization of Gold in Biofilms of Cupriavidus metallidurans

    L Fairbrother;Barbara Etschmann;Joel Brugger;Joel Brugger;J Shapter

  • Bacillus cereus, gold and associated elements in soil and other regolith samples from Tomakin Park Gold Mine in southeastern New South Wales, Australia

    Frank Reith;Derry McPhail;Andrew Christy

  • Love is in the Earth: A review of tellurium (bio)geochemistry in surface environments

    O.P. Missen;R. Ram;S.J. Mills;B. Etschmann

  • Anaerobic activities of bacteria and fungi in moderately acidic conifer and deciduous leaf litter

    Frank Reith;Harold L. Drake;Kirsten Küsel

  • Bacterial biofilms on gold grains-implications for geomicrobial transformations of gold.

    Maria Angelica Rea;Carla M. Zammit;Frank Reith;Frank Reith

Frequent Co-Authors

Joël Brugger
Joël Brugger Monash University
Barbara Etschmann
Barbara Etschmann Monash University
Gordon Southam
Gordon Southam University of Queensland
Allan Pring
Allan Pring Flinders University
Dietrich H. Nies
Dietrich H. Nies Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Andrew S. Ball
Andrew S. Ball RMIT University
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo Spanish National Research Council
Vadakattu V. S. R. Gupta
Vadakattu V. S. R. Gupta Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Joseph G. Shapter
Joseph G. Shapter University of Queensland

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