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Cindy Smith
PeerJ Editor
500 Points

Contributions by role

Editor 500

Contributions by subject area

Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Freshwater Biology
Natural Resource Management
Computational Biology
Microbiology
Molecular Biology
Ecohydrology
Bioinformatics
Food Science and Technology
Biodiversity
Biogeochemistry
Environmental Impacts

Cindy J Smith

PeerJ Editor

Summary

Professor of Environmental Microbiology, Infrastructure and Environment, University of Glasgow. Royal Academy of Engineering-Scottish Water Research Chair Fellow on Biofiltration by Biological Design 2018-2023. 2012-2017 Science Foundation Ireland Starting Investigator and Lecturer National University of Ireland, Galway. 2010-2011 University Fellow, National University of Ireland, Galway. 2003-2010 postdoctoral researcher and research co-investigator at the University of Essex and then the University of Sheffield (Molecular ecology of the nitrogen cycle in temperate and tropical estuaries). PhD in Environmental Microbiology and a BSc Environmental Biology, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Aquaculture, Fisheries & Fish Science Biogeochemistry Biological Oceanography Ecohydrology Ecology Food, Water & Energy Nexus Microbiology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Glasgow

Work details

Professor Environmental Microbiology

University of Glasgow
September 2016
Infrastructure and Environment

Websites

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  • Smith, Glasgow

PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 4

Academic Editor on

February 18, 2020
SpeciesPrimer: a bioinformatics pipeline dedicated to the design of qPCR primers for the quantification of bacterial species
Matthias Dreier, Hélène Berthoud, Noam Shani, Daniel Wechsler, Pilar Junier
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8544 PubMed 32110486
June 26, 2019
Recruitment of cyanobacteria by reverse transcription quantitative real-time PCR based on expression of Microcystis gene
Long Yu, Xiaofei Wu, Yang Yu, Limei Shi, Min Zhang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7188 PubMed 31289701
April 24, 2018
Expression and characterization of a potential exopolysaccharide from a newly isolated halophilic thermotolerant bacteria Halomonas nitroreducens strain WB1
Arpitha Chikkanna, Devanita Ghosh, Abhinoy Kishore
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4684 PubMed 29707437
March 7, 2018
Effects of landscape features on population genetic variation of a tropical stream fish, Stone lapping minnow, Garra cambodgiensis, in the upper Nan River drainage basin, northern Thailand
Chaowalee Jaisuk, Wansuk Senanan
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4487 PubMed 29568710