Education
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Ph.D. (Microbiology) 2008. Thesis title: Isolation and characterization of soil Acidobacteria.
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Bachelor of Science, Honours Class I in Microbiology, 2000. Thesis title: Detection of Acidobacteria in an Australian pasture soil.
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Bachelor of Science, 1997-1999. Major in Environmental Microbiology and Medical Microbiology.
Publications
Sait, M., Davis, K.E and Janssen, P.H. (2006). Effect of pH on the isolation and distribution of members of subdivision 1 of the phylum Acidobacteria occurring in soil. Appl. Environ. Microbiol 72(3):1852-1857.
Sangwan, P., Kovac, S., Davis, K.E.R., Sait, M. and Janssen, P.H. (2005). Detection and cultivation of soil Verrucomicrobia. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71(12):8402-8410.
Sait, M., Hugenholtz, P., and Janssen, P.H. (2002). Cultivation of globally distributed soil bacteria from phylogenetic lineages previously only detected in cultivation-independent surveys. Environ. Microbiol. 4(11):654-666.
Janssen, P.H., Yates, P.S. Grinton, S. Taylor, P.M., and Sait M. (2001). Improved culturability of soil bacteria and isolation in pure culture of novel members of the divisions Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria,Proteobacteria and Verrucomicrobia. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68(5):2391-2396.
