Ian R McDonald

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

BSc (Hons) University of Ulster, PhD Liverpool University. Postdoc and NERC Advanced Research Fellow at Warwick University. I have been at the University of Waikato since 2004 and was promoted to Professor in 2018. My research has focused on the microbial ecology of methane oxidation, Antarctica and geothermal environments in New Zealand. In Antarctica we are studying the drivers of microbial diversity in Dry Valley soils, geothermal environments (Mts Erebus, Melbourne and Rittmann), and terrestrial meltwater ponds. Currently ‘The 1000 Spring project’ is determining drivers of microbial diversity in NZ geothermal environments. I have organized several NZ and international conferences, I am currently the Chief Officer of SCAR Life Sciences.

Ecology Environmental Sciences Genomics Microbiology Taxonomy

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Waikato

Work details

Professor

University of Waikato

January 2004

School of Science

Microbiology

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PeerJ Contributions

July 2, 2024

Investigating the lignocellulolytic gut microbiome of huhu grubs (Prionoplus reticularis) using defined diets and dietary switch

Jay Viswam, Mafalda Baptista, Charles K. Lee, Hugh Morgan, Ian R. McDonald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17597 PubMed 38974417

Academic Editor on

December 18, 2023

The influence of diet on gut microbiome and body mass dynamics in a capital-breeding migratory bird

Isabelle Jones, Kirsty Marsh, Tess M. Handby, Kevin Hopkins, Julia Slezacek, Stuart Bearhop, Xavier A. Harrison

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16682 PubMed 38130921

January 23, 2023

Individuality and stability of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faecal microbiota through time

Raphael Eisenhofer, Kylie L. Brice, Michaela DJ Blyton, Scott E. Bevins, Kellie Leigh, Brajesh K. Singh, Kristofer M. Helgen, Ian Hough, Christopher B. Daniels, Natasha Speight, Ben D. Moore

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14598 PubMed 36710873

July 4, 2022

The influence of penguin activity on soil diatom assemblages on King George Island, Antarctica with the description of a new Luticola species

Natalia Kochman-Kędziora, Teresa Noga, Maria Olech, Bart Van de Vijver

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13624 PubMed 35811820

December 14, 2018

Detection of bacterial endosymbionts in freshwater crustaceans: the applicability of non-degenerate primers to amplify the bacterial 16S rRNA gene

Monika Mioduchowska, Michał Jan Czyż, Bartłomiej Gołdyn, Adrianna Kilikowska, Tadeusz Namiotko, Tom Pinceel, Małgorzata Łaciak, Jerzy Sell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6039 PubMed 30581663

November 2, 2018

imGLAD: accurate detection and quantification of target organisms in metagenomes

Juan C. Castro, Luis M. Rodriguez-R, William T. Harvey, Michael R. Weigand, Janet K. Hatt, Michelle Q. Carter, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5882 PubMed 30405973

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

October 20, 2017

Oxygen-limited metabolism in the methanotroph Methylomicrobium buryatense 5GB1C

Alexey Gilman, Yanfen Fu, Melissa Hendershott, Frances Chu, Aaron W. Puri, Amanda Lee Smith, Mitchell Pesesky, Rose Lieberman, David A.C. Beck, Mary E. Lidstrom

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3945 PubMed 29062611