上海交通大学海洋生物技术实验室

2010年10月14日――16日美国马里兰大学的Russell Hill教授受邀访问海洋生物技术实验室。15日上午做了一场精彩的“Diversity and roles of symbiotic bacteria in marine sponges”的学术报告，并针对海绵共生微生物进行了深入讨论；同时，访问期间达成了学术合作与学生交流等意向。

HILL教授任Professor, Associate Director, Center of Marine Biotechnology (COMB), University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI)；Professor and Interim Associate Director,Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science。他是国际著名的海洋微生物科学家，尤其是在海绵共生微生物方面开展了许多开创性的工作，发表在国际著名期刊ISME J、EM、AEM、Mar Biotechnol、FEMS Microbiol Ecol等上。共计发表研究论文与专著章节近90篇。简介如下：

http://www.umbi.umd.edu/comb/faculty-directory/hill/index.php

http://www.umces.edu/imet/people/rhill

Areas of Expertise:

Marine actinomycete ecology and molecular biology, microbiology of marine natural products, bacterial and cyanobacterial symbionts of marine sponges, marine bacteriophages, metal resistance in actinomycetes and application in bioremediation.

Selected Publications:

Radwan, M., A. Hanora, J. Zan, N. M. Mohamed, D. M. Abo-Elmatty, S. H. Abou-El-Ela and R. T. Hill. 2010. Bacterial community analyses of two Red Sea sponges. Mar. Biotechnol. 12:350-360.

Mohamed, N., K. Saito, Y. Tal and R. T. Hill. 2009. Diversity of aerobic and anaerobic ammonia oxidizing bacteria in marine sponges. ISME J. 4:38-48.

To Isaacs, L., J. Kan, L. Nguyen, P. Videau, M. A. Anderson, T. L. Wright and R. T. Hill. 2009. Comparison of the bacterial communities of wild and captive sponge Clathria prolifera from the Chesapeake Bay. Mar. Biotechnol. 11:758-770.

Mohamed, N. M., A. S. Colman, Y. Tal, and R. T. Hill. 2008. Diversity and expression of nitrogen fixation genes in bacterial symbionts of marine sponges. Environ. Microbiol.10:2910-2921.

Na, M., D. A. F. Meujo, D. Kevin, M. T. Hamann, M. Anderson, and R. T. Hill. 2008. A new antimalarial polyether from a marine Streptomyces sp. H668. Tetrahedron Lett. 49:6282-6285.

Mohamed, N. M., V. Rao, M. T. Hamann, M. Kelly and R. T. Hill. 2008. Monitoring bacterial diversity and metabolite production of the marine sponge Ircinia strobilina on transfer into aquaculture. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74:4133-41