Lone Høj
Research Scientist
Natural Resources
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
Australia
Biography
Dr. Lone Høj is a Research Scientist in the Sustainable Coastal Ecosystems and Industries in Tropical Australia program. He training and background is in microbial ecology and the use of molecular methods for microbial community analysis. My PhD investigated archaeal communities with emphasis on methanogenic archaea in Arctic wetlands and their response to soil water gradients and temperature. At AIMS he has worked with aquaculture-related microbiology projects primarily focused on microbial communities associated with wild and cultured larvae of the tropical rock lobster (Panulirus ornatus), their natural prey items, and their aquaculture environment. This work included the development of molecular tools for pathogen identification and monitoring, the biology and ecology of the newly described pathogen species Vibrio owensii, the elucidation of pathogenicity mechanisms of lobster larvae pathogens, and the development of alternative microbial management protocols including the use of seawater ozononation, probiotics, bacteriophage and quorum sensing inhibitors.
Research Interest
Microbiology of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish
Publications
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Espinoza-Valles I, Vora GJ, Lin B, Leekitcharoenphon P, Gonzalez-Castillo A, Ussery DW, Høj L, Gómez-Gil B (2015) Unique and conserved genome regions in Vibrio harveyi and related species in comparison with the shrimp pathogen Vibrio harveyi CAIM 1792. Microbiology, doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000141
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Andreakis N, Høj L, Kearns P, Hall MR, Evans-Illidge E (2015) Hidden novel fungal diversity exposed through quantitative analysis of ITS barcodes from cultured marine isolates: the algorithm matters. PLOS ONE 10(8): e0136130
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Malara D, Hoj L, Heimann K, Citarrella G, Oelgemoller M (2017) Capacity of cationic and anionic porphyrins to inactivate the potential aquaculture pathogen Vibrio campbellii. Aquaculture 473:228-236
