User:David Tribe

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

EXPERTISE

Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek's drawings of bacteria in the human mouth. Published 1684.

Microbiology, genetics, biochemistry, biotechnology, technological innovation, general science in society.

EXPERIENCE

1989-2007 University of Melbourne, Microbiology & Immunology

Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Biotechnology

• B.Sc Teaching in Microbial Biotechnology and Cell Biology.
• Research on insect viruses and human infectious disease.
• Public service in Agricultural Biotechnology

1982–1989 Dupont CR&D Laboratories Wilmington, DE

Senior Scientist/Team Leader, Applied molecular virology, Group Leader, Sustainable routes to chemicals

• HIV protease inhibitors.
• HIV gag protein antigens.
• HTLV I diagnostic tests
• Microbial synthesis of textile monomers
• Chiral synthesis using enzyme catalysts

1976-1982 Biotechnology, University of NSW Kensington, NSW

Lecturer, Metabolic engineering

• Microbial synthesis of amino acids
• New ethanol technology with Zymomonas bacteria.

1968-1968 Commonwealth Serum Labs Parkville, Vic.

Biochemist, Vaccine production

• BCG, tuberculoproteins, Brucella, Neisseria antigens

EDUCATION

1965-1975 University of Melbourne Parkville, Vic.

• Ph.D. Microbial Genetics.
• B. Sc. Biochemistry and Chemistry.

PUBLICATIONS

Over 60 papers, patents, book chapters and articles, largely listed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed

CITIZENDIUM

I am a member of the Citizendium Editorial council and an editor in Biology and in Agriculture

Authorship contributions

My Citizendium writing contributions include:

• Horizontal gene transfer
• Horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes
• Horizontal gene transfer in plants
• Wheat
• RNA interference
• Mobile DNA
• Transgenic plant
• Crop origins and evolution
• Microorganism

Plus quite a few others

I'm also a constable here on Citizendium. Please let me know on my talk page if you need a hand with something.

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A few words about workgroups

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3. Help us spread the word about workgroups within the CZ community

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• Start by checking the various workgroups we have at CZ: List of Workgroups. This link can also be found in the left navigation-bar in the 2nd box (Project Pages), 3rd link in that box (Workgroups). The Workgroup Home(s) can be found in the 2nd column in the List of Workgroups.

• For the purposes of this tour, please take a look at the Biology Workgroup Home: CZ:Biology_Workgroup.
• Now let's take a look at the first table on the Biology Workgroup Home (below).

Workgroups are no longer used for group communications, but they still are used to group articles into fields of interest. Each article is assigned to 1-3 Workgroups via the article's Metadata.

Biology article	All articles (1,640)	To Approve (0)	Editors: active (1) / inactive (46) and Authors: active (441) / inactive (0)	Workgroup Discussion
	Recent changes	Citable Articles (25)
		Subgroups (12.5)

Checklist-generated categories: Underlinked (796) Cat Check (531) Cleanup (0) Subpage categories: Definitions (1,580) Related Articles (1,455 to check 727) Bibliography (390) External Links (428) Gallery (30) Video (33)

Missing subpage categories: Definitions (34) Related Articles (15) Bibliography (32) External Links (33) Article statuses: 104 Developed (status=1) 614 Developing (status=2) 705 Stub (status=3) 175 External (status=4) 129 Advanced (status 0-1) 743 Nonstub (status 0-2) 1,448 Internal (status 0-3)

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