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Michael L. Dyall-Smith

Michael L. Dyall-Smith

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
7789
World Ranking
15849
National Ranking
440

Overview

Michael L. Dyall-Smith is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans several fields within the life sciences, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of specialized subfields, including molecular biology, pollution, immunology, molecular medicine, and infectious diseases. Their research topics reflect a comprehensive interest in microbial and environmental health, covering pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, gut microbiota and health, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, bacterial identification and susceptibility testing, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Michael L. Dyall-Smith has contributed to journals across a variety of publication venues. These include:

  • Antibiotics
  • Equine Veterinary Journal
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements

Recent publications illustrate the breadth of their research:

  • "Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Antibiotic-Free Chicken Farms," 2020, Antibiotics
  • "Faecal microbiota and antimicrobial resistance gene profiles of healthy foals," 2020, Equine Veterinary Journal
  • "Complete genome sequence of Australian soil bacterium Rouxiella badensis DAR84756 resolved with Oxford Nanopore long-read and Illumina sequences," 2023, Microbiology Resource Announcements

Their research collaborations often include consistent co-authors such as Yuhong Liu, Marc S. Marenda, Glenn F. Browning, Helen Billman-Jacobe, and Hang-Wei Hu, indicating a network of frequent professional partnerships primarily focused on microbial genetics and antibiotic resistance.

Overall, their academic output demonstrates a focus on both applied and fundamental aspects of microbial ecology and resistance mechanisms, with an emphasis on environmental and animal health contexts. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates microbiological, molecular, and genomic methods to address issues pertinent to disease management and environmental impacts of antibiotics.

Best Publications

  • Location of the major antigenic sites involved in rotavirus serotype-specific neutralization.

    Michael L. Dyall-Smith;Ieva Lazdins;Geoffrey W. Tregear;Ian H. Holmes

  • Combined use of cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent methods indicates that members of most haloarchaeal groups in an Australian crystallizer pond are cultivable.

    D. G. Burns;H. M. Camakaris;P. H. Janssen;M. L. Dyall-Smith

  • Haloquadratum walsbyi gen. nov., sp. nov., the square haloarchaeon of Walsby, isolated from saltern crystallizers in Australia and Spain

    David G. Burns;Peter H. Janssen;Takashi Itoh;Masahiro Kamekura

  • Diversity of alkaliphilic halobacteria: proposals for transfer of Natronobacterium vacuolatum, Natronobacterium magadii, and Natronobacterium pharaonis to Halorubrum, Natrialba, and Natronomonas gen. nov., respectively, as Halorubrum vacuolatum comb. nov., Natrialba magadii comb. nov., and Natronomonas pharaonis comb. nov., respectively.

    Masahiro Kamekura;Michael L. Dyall-Smith;Vivek Upasani;Antonio Ventosa

  • An Archaeal Immune System Can Detect Multiple Protospacer Adjacent Motifs (PAMs) to Target Invader DNA

    Susan Fischer;Lisa-Katharina Maier;Britta Stoll;Jutta Brendel

  • His1 and His2 are distantly related, spindle-shaped haloviruses belonging to the novel virus group, Salterprovirus.

    Carolyn Bath;Tania Cukalac;Kate Porter;Michael L. Dyall-Smith

  • Mutations in DNA gyrase result in novobiocin resistance in halophilic archaebacteria.

    M L Holmes;M L Dyall-Smith

  • Taxonomy of the family Halobacteriaceae and the description of two newgenera Halorubrobacterium and Natrialba.

    Masahiro Kamekura;Michael L. Dyall-Smith

  • Cultivation of Walsby's square haloarchaeon.

    David G. Burns;Helen M. Camakaris;Peter H. Janssen;Mike L. Dyall-Smith

  • Construction and use of halobacterial shuttle vectors and further studies on Haloferax DNA gyrase.

    M L Holmes;S D Nuttall;M L Dyall-Smith

  • HF1 and HF2: novel bacteriophages of halophilic archaea.

    Stewart D. Nuttall;Michael L. Dyall-Smith

  • Purification and analysis of an extremely halophilic β-galactosidase from Haloferax alicantei

    Melissa L Holmes;Robert K Scopes;Robert L Moritz;Richard J Simpson

  • SH1 : A novel, spherical halovirus isolated from an Australian hypersaline lake

    Kate Porter;Petra Kukkaro;Jaana K.H. Bamford;Carolyn Bath

  • His1, an archaeal virus of the Fuselloviridae family that infects Haloarcula hispanica.

    Carolyn Bath;Michael L. Dyall-Smith

  • Haloquadratum walsbyi : Limited Diversity in a Global Pond

    Michael Dyall-Smith;Friedhelm Pfeiffer;Kathrin Klee;Peter Palm

  • Sequence homology between human and animal rotavirus serotype-specific glycoproteins

    Michael L. Dyall-Smith;Ian H. Holmes

  • High level of intergenera gene exchange shapes the evolution of haloarchaea in an isolated Antarctic lake

    Matthew Z. DeMaere;Timothy J. Williams;Michelle A. Allen;Mark V. Brown

  • A plasmid vector with a selectable marker for halophilic archaebacteria.

    M L Holmes;M L Dyall-Smith

  • Sequence and expression of a halobacterial beta-galactosidase gene.

    Melissa L. Holmes;Michael L. Dyall-Smith

  • Haloarchaeal viruses: how diverse are they?

    Mike Dyall-Smith;Sen-Lin Tang;Carolyn Bath

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian H. Holmes
Ian H. Holmes University of Melbourne
Dieter Oesterhelt
Dieter Oesterhelt Max Planck Society
Michael J. Danson
Michael J. Danson University of Bath
Bianca Habermann
Bianca Habermann Aix-Marseille University
Leslie A. Weston
Leslie A. Weston Charles Sturt University
Peter R. Reeves
Peter R. Reeves University of Sydney
Antonio Ventosa
Antonio Ventosa University of Seville
Aharon Oren
Aharon Oren Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Glenn F. Browning
Glenn F. Browning University of Melbourne

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