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2025
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Australia
2023

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  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
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  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Michael J. Gidley is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research spans several interconnected fields, notably Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Nursing, with a significant emphasis on Nutrition and Dietetics.

The scientist's work explores multiple subfields, including:

  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Plant Science
  • Food Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The main topics covered in their research are:

  • Food composition and properties
  • Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
  • Phytase and its Applications
  • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
  • Proteins in Food Systems
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Polysaccharides Composition and Applications

Michael J. Gidley has published extensively, with numerous articles appearing in key journals such as:

  • Food Hydrocolloids
  • Food & Function
  • Carbohydrate Polymers
  • International Journal of Food Science & Technology
  • Foods

Their recent papers include:

  • "Wood hemicelluloses exert distinct biomechanical contributions to cellulose fibrillar networks" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "High-amylose wheat starch: Structural basis for water absorption and pasting properties" (2020, Carbohydrate Polymers)
  • "High-amylose wheat bread with reduced in vitro digestion rate and enhanced resistant starch content" (2021, Food Hydrocolloids)
  • "The contribution of β-glucan and starch fine structure to texture of oat-fortified wheat noodles" (2020, Food Chemistry)
  • "High amylose wheat starch structures display unique fermentability characteristics, microbial community shifts and enzyme degradation profiles" (2020, Food & Function)

Collaboration is a feature of their research approach, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Bernadine M. Flanagan
  • Barbara A. Williams
  • Deirdre Mikkelsen
  • Daniel Cozzolino
  • Sushil Dhital

Best Publications

  • Loss of crystalline and molecular order during starch gelatinisation: origin of the enthalpic transition

    David Cooke;Michael J. Gidley

  • Infrared spectroscopy as a tool to characterise starch ordered structure--a joint FTIR-ATR, NMR, XRD and DSC study.

    Frederick J. Warren;Michael J. Gidley;Bernadine M. Flanagan

  • Heterogeneity in the chemistry, structure and function of plant cell walls

    Rachel A Burton;Michael J Gidley;Geoffrey B Fincher

  • A novel approach for calculating starch crystallinity and its correlation with double helix content: a combined XRD and NMR study

    Amparo Lopez-Rubio;Bernadine M. Flanagan;Elliot P. Gilbert;Michael J. Gidley

  • Mechanisms underlying the cholesterol-lowering properties of soluble dietary fibre polysaccharides

    Purnima Gunness;Michael John Gidley

  • Crystallisation of malto-oligosaccharides as models of the crystalline forms of starch: minimum chain-length requirement for the formation of double helices

    Michael J. Gidley;Paul V. Bulpin

  • 13C CP/MAS NMR studies of amylose inclusion complexes, cyclodextrins, and the amorphous phase of starch granules: Relationships between glycosidic linkage conformation and solid-state 13C chemical shifts

    Michael J. Gidley;Stephen M. Bociek

  • Molecular organization in starches: a carbon 13 CP/MAS NMR study

    Michael J. Gidley;Stephen M. Bociek

  • Mechanisms of starch digestion by α-amylase-Structural basis for kinetic properties.

    Sushil Dhital;Frederick J. Warren;Peter J. Butterworth;Peter R. Ellis

  • Conformations and interactions of pectins. I. Polymorphism between gel and solid states of calcium polygalacturonate

    E.R. Morris;D.A. Powell;M.J. Gidley;D.A. Rees

  • Conformations and interactions of pectins. II. Influences of residue sequence on chain association in calcium pectate gels

    D A Powell;E R Morris;M J Gidley;D A Rees

  • A method for estimating the nature and relative proportions of amorphous, single, and double-helical components in starch granules by 13C CP/MAS NMR

    Ihwa Tan;Bernadine M. Flanagan;Peter J. Halley;Andrew K. Whittaker

  • Hydrocolloid Gel Particles: Formation, Characterization, and Application

    P Burey;B R Bhandari;T Howes;M J Gidley

  • Production of very-high-amylose potato starch by inhibition of SBE A and B.

    Gerhard P. Schwall;Richard Safford;Roger J. Westcott;Roger Jeffcoat

  • Three classes of starch granule swelling: Influence of surface proteins and lipids

    Martine R. Debet;Michael J. Gidley

  • Relationship between granule size and in vitro digestibility of maize and potato starches

    Sushil Dhital;Ashok K. Shrestha;Michael J. Gidley

  • The phase transformations in starch during gelatinisation: a liquid crystalline approach.

    Thomas A. Waigh;Michael J. Gidley;Bernard U. Komanshek;Athene M. Donald

  • Characterization of starch by size-exclusion chromatography: The limitations imposed by shear scission

    Richard A Cave;Shane A Seabrook;Michael J Gidley;Robert G Gilbert

  • Re-evaluation of the mechanisms of dietary fibre and implications for macronutrient bioaccessibility, digestion and postprandial metabolism

    Myriam M.-L. Grundy;Cathrina H. Edwards;Alan R. Mackie;Michael J. Gidley

  • Swelling and gelatinization of cereal starches. IV. Some effects of lipid-complexed amylose and free amylose in waxy and normal barley starches

    W.R. Morrison;R.F. Tester;C.E. Snape;R. Law

  • Influence of different carbon sources on bacterial cellulose production by Gluconacetobacter xylinus strain ATCC 53524

    D. Mikkelsen;B.M. Flanagan;G.A. Dykes;M.J. Gidley

Frequent Co-Authors

Sushil Dhital
Sushil Dhital Monash University
Robert G. Gilbert
Robert G. Gilbert University of Queensland
Elliot P. Gilbert
Elliot P. Gilbert Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Gregory R. Monteith
Gregory R. Monteith University of Queensland
Ralf G. Dietzgen
Ralf G. Dietzgen University of Queensland
Jason R. Stokes
Jason R. Stokes University of Queensland
Wayne L. Bryden
Wayne L. Bryden University of Queensland
Edwin R. Morris
Edwin R. Morris University College Cork
Andrew K. Whittaker
Andrew K. Whittaker University of Queensland
Anthony R. Bird
Anthony R. Bird Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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