Anthony Edward Walsby, BSc(Birm), PhD(Lond), FRS, is the Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol

University of Bristol

The University of Bristol is a public research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876.The University is...

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He is a researcher in the fields of Algae

Algae

Algae are a large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length. They are photosynthetic like plants, and "simple" because their tissues are not organized into the many...

, Cyanobacteria, lake ecology, gas vesicles/vacuoles and genetics, covering the European lakes and Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...

. He is noted for his discovery of Haloquadratum walsbyi in brine ponds on the Sinai Peninsula

Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is a triangular peninsula in Egypt about in area. It is situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the Red Sea to the south, and is the only part of Egyptian territory located in Asia as opposed to Africa, effectively serving as a land bridge between two...

 in 1980. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 11 March 1993.

Specifically his research includes:

• Gas vesicles of cyanobacteria: physiology; structure; molecular biology; ecology
• The natural selection of gas vesicles in relation to depth of lakes and oceans
• Population genetics of cyanobacteria using PCR
  Polymerase chain reaction
  The polymerase chain reaction is a scientific technique in molecular biology to amplify a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence....
  
   on single filaments from lakes
• The cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens in stratified lakes
• Calculating the daily integrals of growth and photosynthesis in lakes

Selected publications

• PubMed
• Walsby, A.E. 1991. The mechanical properties of the Microcystis gas vesicle. Journal of General Microbiology 137, 2401-2408.
• Walsby, A.E., Revsbech, N.P. & Griffel, D.H. 1992. The gas permeability coefficient of the cyanobacterial gas vesicle wall. Journal of General Microbiology 138, 837-845.
• Buchholz, B.E.E., Hayes, P.K. & Walsby, A.E. 1993. The distribution of the outer gas vesicle protein, GvpC, on the Anabaena gas vesicle, and its ratio to GvpA. Journal of General Microbiology, 139, 2353-2363.
• Walsby, A.E. 1994. Gas vesicles. Microbiological Reviews, 58, 94-144.
• Kinsman, R., Walsby, A.E. & Hayes, P.K. 1995. GvpCs with reduced numbers of repeating sequence elements bind to and strengthen cyanobacterial gas vesicles. Molecular Microbiology, 17, 147-154.
• McMaster, T.J., Miles, M.J. & Walsby, A.E. 1996. Direct observation of protein secondary structure in gas vesicles by atomic force microscopy. Biophysics Journal, 70, 2432-2436.
• Walsby, A.E. & A. Avery. 1996. Measurement of filamentous cyanobacteria by image analysis. Journal of Microbiological Methods 26, 11-20.
• Walsby, A.E. 1997. Numerical integration of phytoplankton through depth and time in a water column. New Phytologist, 136, 189-209.
• Walsby, A.E., Hayes, P.K., Boje, R. & Stal, L.J. 1997. The selective advantage of buoyancy provided by gas vesicles for planktonic cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea. New Phytologist, 136, 407-417.
• Walsby, A.E., Avery, A. & Schanz, F. 1998. The critical pressures of gas vesicles in Planktothrix rubescens in relation to the depth of winter mixing in Lake Zurich, Switzerland. Journal of Plankton Research 20: 1357-1375.
• Walsby, AE & Holland, DP. (2006) Sinking velocities of phytoplankton measured on a stable density gradient by laser scanning. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, The Royal Society, 3 (8), 429 - 439.
• Dunton, PG, Mawby, WJ, Shaw, VA & Walsby, AE. (2006) Analysis of tryptic digests indicates regions of GvpC that bind to gas vesicles of Anabaena flos-aquae. Microbiology, Society for General Microbiology, 152 (6), 1661 - 1669.
• Walsby, AE & Dunton, PG. (2006) Gas vesicles in actinomycetes? Trends in Microbiology, Elsevier, 14 (3), 99 - 100.
• Walsby, AE. (2006) Gordon Elliott Fogg
  Gordon Elliott Fogg
  -Early life:He was born in Langar, Nottinghamshire and educated at Dulwich College and Queen Mary College, London.-Career:During WW2 he assisted in a national survey of seaweed resources and researched algaes used to make water soluble silk for parachutes to drop mines at sea...
  
  CBE, 26 April 1919 - 30 January 2005. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Royal Society, 52, 97 - 116.
• Walsby, AE, Schanz, F & Schmidt, M. (2006) The Burgundy-blood phenomenon: a model of buoyancy change explains autumnal waterblooms of Planktothrix rubescens in Lake Zurich. New Phytologist, Blackwell, 169 (1), 109 - 122.
• Walsby, AE & Juttner, F. (2006) The uptake of amino acids by the cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens is stimulated by light at low irradiances. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Blackwell, 58 (1), 14 - 22.
• Walsby, AE. (2005) Archaea with square cells. Trends in Microbiology, 13, 193 - 195.
• Dunton, PG & Walsby, AE. (2005) The diameter and critical collapse pressure of gas vesicles in Microcystis are correlated with GvpCs of different length. FEMS Letters, 247, 37 - 43.
• Walsby, AE. (2005) Stratification by cyanobacteria in lakes: a dynamic buoyancy model indicates size limitations met by Planktothrix rubescens filaments. New Phytologist, Blackwell, 168 (2), 365 - 376.
• Walsby, AE, Ng, G, Dunn, C & Davis, PA. (2004) Comparison of the depth where Planktothrix rubescens stratifies and the depth where the daily insolation supports its neutral buoyancy. New Phytologist, 162, 133 - 145.

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