Staff Directory

Dr Graham O'Hara

Position: Dean of Graduate Studies

Email: G.Ohara@murdoch.edu.au

Phone: 9360 2551

Room: BioSc/3.033

Qualifications:

BSc W.Aust., PhD Nott.

Teaching:

N263 Microbiology I; N364 Microbiology II

Research Interests:

Research in biological nitrogen fixation, especially the biology of the root nodule bacteria (Rhizobium, Bradyrhizobium, Sinorhizobium.). Specific projects currently funded by external research grants (Australian Research Council, Grains Research and Development Corporation) include:

a) iron nutrition and siderophore production in Rhizobium leguminosarum by viciae

b) molecular biology of acid tolerance genes in Sinorhizobium medicae

c) physiology of acid tolerance in Rhizobium and Sinorhizobium

d) selection of improved rhizobial inoculants for crop and pasture legumes