B.Sc., Ph.D (UWBangor)
Bethan joined the University of Gloucestershire in June 2005 as a lecturer in Microbial Ecology. Bethan's early research interest was in extremophiles. She completed her Ph.D. at Bangor, in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, on oil-degrading psychrophiles. Bethan continued in this line of research when she worked with the Australian Antarctic Division in both Antarctica and Tasmania. Her final postdoctoral position, before she took up a role in industry, was working on an industrial application of acidophiles.
Since working at the University of Gloucestershire, Bethan's research interests have remained in Environmental Microbiology, and has worked with Anne Goodenough studying the microbiology of nest boxes. She has also worked where the worlds of Medical Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology collide, and has worked on projects in collaboration with Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust.
Teaching
BIO111 Introduction to Biological Methods and Fieldweek
BIO123 Cells to Organisms
BIO203 Biology of Disease
BIO222 Microbial Systems
Publications
Anne E Goodenough and Bethan Stallwood (2010) Intraspecific Variation and Interspecific Differences in the Bacterial and Fungal Assemblages of Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) and Great Tit (Parus major) Nests Microb Ecol 59(2):221-32
Keri Stevenson, Bethan Stallwood and Adam G Hart (2008) Tire Rubber Recycling and Bioremediation: A Review Bioremediat J 12(1):1 – 11
D Barrie Johnson, Bethan Stallwood, Sakurako Kimura and Kevin B Hallberg (2006). Isolation and characterization of Acidicaldus organivorus, gen. nov., sp. nov.: a novel sulfur-oxidizing, ferric iron-reducing thermo-acidophilic heterotrophic Proteobacterium.
Arch Microbiol 185(3):212-21
Kevin A. Hughes and Bethan Stallwood (2006) Oil Pollution in the Antarctic Terrestrial Environment Polarforschung 75 (2–3), 141 – 144
B. Stallwood, J. Shears, and P.A. Williams (2005) Low temperature bioremediation of oil-contaminated soil using biostimulation and bioaugmentation with a Pseudomonas sp. from maritime Antarctica Journal of Applied Micro 99 (4) pages 794–802