Welcome!
This is the personal home page of David Burns, a 3rd year PhD student
in Melbourne, Australia. Feel free to browse around the site - I hope
you find it interesting... if not, come back later, hopefully I've
added more to read by then!
However, I recommend you look at the Square Haloarchaea of Walsby
pics - this is a really unusual organism! This square organism
(sometimes referred to as "square bacteria") remained
uncultured for over twenty years before being cultivated.
Not only is it square, but it is also unusual in that it only grows in
hypersaline (extremely
salty) water.
News
17-May-05 - My paper on the cultivation of the "square bacteria" was
the second most downloaded paper
from FEMS Microbiological Letters for the last quarter of 2004!
Further, it's the only non-review paper (ie, original scientific
research) in the top 4 papers listed!
Go to the Elsevier ScienceDirect website here.
Square
Haloarchaea of Walsby
My laboratory has recently cultured a square organism, similar to bacteria. Click the picture to read about this weird and interesting organism!
Research
Although not everyone believes me, I do quite a bit
of research when I'm at my lab at Melbourne Uni. Read about my and my
lab's research here.
Photos
Recent photos of various events I have taken part in - and some that
I haven't. If you're looking for photos, this is the category.
Other
Some of my interests here. These include the linux distribution
Ubuntu, which I use in my lab, and a few other IT related things.
