Richard Weld

Research Scientist

PhD BSc (Hons)
 

Email: weldr@lvl.co.nz
Phone: +64 3 325-3700
Fax: +64 3 325-3725
   
Postal: PO Box 133
  Lincoln
Christchurch 7640
New Zealand
Richard joined Lincoln Ventures in July 2006, where he is researching microbial fuel cells and the processes of waste remediation and energy extraction. Richard’s current research focus is on using molecular techniques to examine microbial population dynamics in anaerobic digesters and using genetic modification to understand and improve the biological component of microbial fuel cells.

Richard graduated from University of Canterbury in 2000 with a PhD in cellular and molecular biology. He subsequently completed a two year post-doctoral project at the University of Canterbury before spending six months in Norway on an OECD-funded Fellowship studying the efficacy of bacteriophage as antimicrobials in animal health and on the inadvertent selection of transgenic organisms with intrinsically high mutation rates. In 2003 Richard moved to the BioProtection CORE at Lincoln University where he undertook research examining the genetic basis of pathogenicity of the fungal plant pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Richard currently lectures in Biochemistry and Plant Biotechnology at Lincoln University.

Current Projects & Activities
MICREDOX BOD - A novel rapid method for measuring biochemical oxygen demand
Microbial fuel cells and direct electron transfer

 

Recent Publications
NO DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE Weld RJ, Eady CC, and Ridgway HJ. 2006. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Journal of Microbiological Methods 65: 202-207.
NO DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE Weld RJ, Plummer K, Carpenter MA, and Ridgway HJ. 2006. Approaches to functional genomics in filamentous fungi. Cell Research 16: 31-44.
NO DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE Weld RJ, and Ridgway HJ. 2005. Extending AFLP sequences by long Template PCR amplification of a fungal genomic library. Biotechniques 38 (3): 372-374.
NO DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE Weld RJ, Butts C, Heinemann JA. 2004. Models of phage growth and their applicability to phage therapy. Journal of Theoretical Biology 227: 1-11.
NO DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE Weld RJ, Heinemann JA, Bicknell RA, Eady CC. 2002. Ds transposition mediated by transient transposase expression in Hieracium aurantiacum. Plant Tissue and Organ Culture 69(1): 45-54.
NO DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE Weld RJ, Heinemann JA, Eady CC. 2001. Transient GFP expression in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia suspension cells following co-cultivation with Agrobacterium tumefaciens: the role of gene silencing, cell death and T-DNA loss. Plant Molecular Biology 45: 377-385.
NO DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE Eady CC, Weld RJ, Lister CE. 2000. Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation and transgenic-plant regeneration of onion (Allium cepa L.). Plant Cell Reports 19(4): 376-381.

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