Dr Frank Reith researches the microbiology of gold.
Sarah Martin from Radio Adelaide spoke with Dr Frank Reith, Australian Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide’s School of Biological Sciences, about the exciting discoveries he has made in Australia and around the world.
In his interview he expands on how gold microbes have the potential to change the way industry operates.
Dr Frank Reith
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Research from the EI has a huge international impact, as shown in a special episode of a German TV show featuring our very own Dr Frank Reith. Dr Frank Reith, aka the Man with the Gold Bug, has been featured in a TV special for German station ZDF. Reith was featured on Leschs Kosmos, a science […]
The Man with the gold bug, aka Dr Frank Reith has been making some fascinating discoveries about the bugs that live on gold and platinum. His research, recently published in Nature Geoscience could provide a host of applications in the mineral exploration and bioremediation fields. The biomineralisation of metals is not a new phenomenon, however it was previously […]
The Environment Institute congratulates Dr Frank Reith on being awarded a Future Fellowship by the Australian Research Council. Dr Reith intends to use the fellowship to research new tools for gold exploration and processing.
Dr Diego Garcia-Bellido recently presented at the April 2015 Sprigg Lecture Series, held at the South Australian Museum. In his lecture entitled ‘From the Cambrian of Kangaroo Island to the Ordovician of Morocco,’ Dr Garcia-Bellido explored the Cambrian (541–485 million years ago or ‘Ma’) and the Ordovician (485–458 Ma) periods, which saw the sudden appearance […]
Professor Katherine Freeman recently visited the Sprigg Geobiology Centre at the Environment Institute to talk about her research in a seminar entitled, “A haystack from a needle: using biomarkers to understand ancient forest structure”. In this interview with Ewart Shaw of Radio Adelaide, she discusses isotope biogeochemistry. Olduvai is a magic word for palaeontologists, the […]
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