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Torsten Thomas
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
670 Points

Contributions by role

Author 640
Reviewer 30

Contributions by subject area

Ecology
Marine Biology
Microbiology
Mycology
Bioinformatics
Evolutionary Studies
Genomics
Molecular Biology
Virology

Torsten Thomas

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Torsten holds a MSc (1996) from the University of Bonn (Germany) and a PhD (2001) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He has been a Fellow of the American-Australian Association (2005), an ARC PostDoctoral Fellowship (2006-2009), a Senior Lecturer (2009-2012), an Associate Professor (2013-) and an ARC Future Fellow (2015-) at the School of Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences (BABS) and the Centre of Marine Bio-Innovation (CMB) at UNSW. In 2016 he became the Director of the CMB and was appointed Full Professor in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) at UNSW in 2017. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers in the broad area of environmental microbiology and microbial ecology. His current research interest cover the interactions (symbiosis/disease) between bacteria and marine invertebrates and macroalgae, the evolution of microbial populations and communities and the impact of biochar on microbial process in soil.

Microbiology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of New South Wales

Work details

Professor

University of New South Wales
Centre of Marine Bio-Innovation

Websites

  • Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation
  • Google Scholar

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 5
February 2, 2021
Taxonomic, functional and expression analysis of viral communities associated with marine sponges
Mary Nguyen, Bernd Wemheuer, Patrick W. Laffy, Nicole S. Webster, Torsten Thomas
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10715 PubMed 33604175
June 4, 2018
Diversity, host-specificity and stability of sponge-associated fungal communities of co-occurring sponges
Mary T.H.D. Nguyen, Torsten Thomas
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4965 PubMed 29888140
November 8, 2017
HgtSIM: a simulator for horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in microbial communities
Weizhi Song, Kerrin Steensen, Torsten Thomas
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4015 PubMed 29134153
May 17, 2017
Microbiome patterns across the gastrointestinal tract of the rabbitfish Siganus fuscescens
Shaun Nielsen, Jackson Wilkes Walburn, Adriana Vergés, Torsten Thomas, Suhelen Egan
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3317 PubMed 28533966
December 17, 2015
Biogeographic variation in the microbiome of the ecologically important sponge, Carteriospongia foliascens
Heidi M. Luter, Stefanie Widder, Emmanuelle S. Botté, Muhammad Abdul Wahab, Stephen Whalan, Lucas Moitinho-Silva, Torsten Thomas, Nicole S. Webster
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1435 PubMed 26713229