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Dr John E. Hallsworth

School of Biological Sciences
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Dr John E. Hallsworth

School of Biological Sciences

JEH works on the biophysics of microbial systems at the level of the cell, community, ecosystem and biosphere in relation to stress parameters. These include water activity, temperature, hydrophobicity and chaotropicity (especially related to solute- and water-induced stresses).

All microbial systems are to some degree stressed all of the time, so this focus applies to all types of biological and biotechnological systems. This is evidenced by the wide range of topics that feature in the research and published papers of his group: from agricultural biotechnology to biofuels, from fungal ecology to halophiles, and from astrobiology to bioremediation.

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  • j.hallsworth@qub.ac.uk
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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the fields of

  • Agricultural biotechnology (biological control)
  • Astrobiology (including limits for life)
  • Pathogen biology (including human microbiome)
  • Tropical forest systems (including tree physiology, trophic interactions, microbial saprotrophs)

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Public outreach & key achievements

JEH has been a member of expert panels for European Space Agency, COSPAR and NASA in recent years; has Guest Edited a number of journal special issues; been on the Organising Committees and an Invited Speaker of international conferences on in the fields of fungal stress, halophiles, environmental sustainability, geomicrobiology, and astrobiology; works with the European Research Agency as reviewer and evaluator; and has lived and worked in England, Scotland, India, Japan and South Africa. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles.


Research students

Some of his research students are highly published, with 8-13 papers from their PhD work: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=DHYqxyMAAAAJ&hl=en  

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=1MakwN4AAAAJ&hl=en 


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