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Research Interests

• Selection and evolution in continuous culture.
• Microbial communities of the deep ocean and hydrothermal vents.
• Aquatic pollutants and microbial communities.
• Phytoplankton ecology.

Selected Publications

• Recovery and phylogenelic analysis ol novel archaeal rRNA sequences from a deepsea deposit feeder. (1995). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 61: 1646-1648.


• Mooney, H.M. and LW Patching. (1995). Triphenyltin inhibits photosynthesis and respiration in marine microalgae. Journal of Industrial Microbiology. 14: 265-270.


• O'Kennedy, R., C.J. Houghton, and LW Patching. (1995). Effects of growth environment on recombinant plasmid stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown in continuous culture. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 44: 126-132.


• Patching, LW and D. Eardly. (1997). Bacterial biomass and activity in the deep waters of the  Atlantic evidence for a barophilic community. Deep Sea Research pt. 1. 44: 1655-1670.


• - O'Kennedy, R. and LW Patching. (1999). The isolation of strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae showing altered plasmid stability characteristics by means of selective continuous culture. Journal of Biotechnology. 69: 203-214.