Mark C. Hart

Telephone: (44)(1631) 559 354
E-mail: mhart@sams.ac.uk

Current Interests

• Algal-Bacterial Interactions.
• Marine bacterial diversity and function.
• Microbial sulphur biogeochemical cycling.
• Hydrocarbon degrading bacteria.
• Calcium carbonate formation.
 

Current projects

• Unravelling the ocean methane paradox.
• The Role of Algal-Bacterial Interactions in Determining Dimethylsulphide Fluxes to the Atmosphere – ALBA.
• The Role of Symbiotic Bacterial Siderophores in the Development of Toxic Phytoplankton Blooms.
• Genome Sequencing of Marinobacter algicola DG893, Alcanivorax sp. DG881 and Verrucomicrobium DG1235.

Publications

Hart, M C, D H Green, E Bresnan, and C J Bolch. (2007). Large subunit ribosomal RNA gene variation and sequence heterogeneity of Dinophysis (Dinophyceae) species from Scottish coastal waters. Harmful Algae, 6(2): 271–287
Mark C. Hart, Geoff N. Elliott, A. Mark Osborn, Donald A. Ritchie and Peter Strike. Diversity amongst Bacillus merA genes amplified from mercury resistant isolates and directly from mercury polluted soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 27 (1998), 73-84.
Jenny Gabrielson, Mark Hart, Anna Jarelov, Inger Kühn, Douglas McKenzie and Roland Möllby. Evaluation of redox indicators and the use of digital scanner and spectrophotometer for quantification of microbial growth in microplates. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 50 (2002).
Jenny Gabrielson,, Inger Kühn, Patricia Colque-Navarro, Mark Hart, Anna Iversen, Douglas McKenzie and Roland Möllby. Microplate based microbial assay for risk assessment and (eco)toxic fingerprinting of chemicals. Analytica Chimia Acta 485 (2003).
Daniela Müller, Anja Krick, Stefan Kehraus, Mark Hart, Frithjof Küpper and Gabriele König (2006). Brunsvicamide AC, cyclic peptides related to sponge metabolites isolated from a terrestrial cyanobacterium, J Med. Chem.; 49, 4871 – 4878.