Associate Professor
Simon McIlroy
Faculty of Health,
School of Biomedical Sciences
Biography
Dr McIlroy is a microbial ecologist specialising in the development and application of methods for the visualisation and characterisation of microorganisms within their natural environment. He spent the early part of his research career working on the microbiology of wastewater and anaerobic digesters for biogas production, earning his PhD from La Trobe University and working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Microbial Communities at Aalborg University, Denmark. He now works on anaerobic methanotrophic archaea in freshwater sediments, initially as a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) at the University of Queensland, and now as an ARC Future Fellow at the Centre for Microbiome Research at QUT. Dr McIlroy’s research at QUT applies meta-omics and single cell visualisation techniques to identify novel respiratory strategies employed by archaeal lineages utilising methane in anaerobic sediments. Expanding the known metabolic potential for these lineages will provide important insight into their ecology and potentially demonstrate their role in linking methane oxidation to several global biogeochemical cycles.Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Biomedical Sciences
Keywords
Microbiology, Microscopy, Methanotrophy, Wastewater treatment
Research field
Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology, Medical Microbiology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (La Trobe University)
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Simon, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Supervision topics
- Improving human health through the microbiome
- Application of fluorescence-activated cell sorting and confocal microscopy for the study of the microbial communities responsible for nutrient removal from domestic wastewater
- Strain-level characterisation and visualisation of microbial communities associated with inflammatory bowel disease
- Adaptive evolution of anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) archaea mediating methane oxidation in freshwater environments (PhD)
- Illuminating the microbial world using genome-based fluorescence microscopy