Dr Kate Montgomery

Affiliation with Antarctic Science Foundation

ASF Ambassador for Antarctica Flights season 2022/23

“Traversing The Covid Gap” Grant Recipient 2020

PhD Thesis

Ca. Dormibacterota, a phylum of trace-gas oxidising bacteria in Antarctic soils.

Biography

Selected Publications

Nicole Benaud, Richard J Edwards, Timothy G Amos, Paul M D'Agostino, Carolina Gutiérrez‐Chávez, Kate Montgomery, Iskra Nicetic, Belinda C Ferrari, Antarctic desert soil bacteria exhibit high novel natural product potential, evaluated through long‐read genome sequencing and comparative genomics, Environmental microbiology 23 (7), 3646-3664.

Angelique E Ray, Julian Zaugg, Nicole Benaud, Devan S Chelliah, Sean Bay, Hon Lun Wong, Pok Man Leung, Mukan Ji, Aleks Terauds, Kate Montgomery, Chris Greening, Don A Cowan, Weidong Kong, Timothy J Williams, Philip Hugenholtz, Belinda C Ferrari, Atmospheric chemosynthesis is phylogenetically and geographically widespread and contributes significantly to carbon fixation throughout cold deserts. ISME J 16, 2547–2560 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01298-5.