Dr Ros Gilbert
Adjunct Fellow
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Book Chapters
Gilbert, Rosalind Ann and Ouwerkerk, Diane (2020). Ruminal viruses and extrachromosomal genetic elements. Improving rumen function. (pp. 281-320) edited by Chris McSweeney and R. I. Mackie. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. doi: 10.19103/as.2020.0067.10
Gilbert, Rosalind A. and Klieve, Athol V. (2015). Ruminal viruses (Bacteriophages, Archaeaphages). Rumen microbiology: from evolution to revolution. (pp. 121-141) edited by Anil Kumar Puniya, Rameshwar Singh and Devki Nandan Kamra. New Delhi, India: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-81-322-2401-3_9
Gilbert, Rosalind A., Ouwerkerk, Diane and Klieve, Athol V. (2015). Phage therapy in livestock methane amelioration. Livestock Production and Climate Change. (pp. 318-335) edited by P. K. Malik, R. Bhatta, J. Takahashi, R. Kohn and C. S. Prasad. Wallingford UK: CABI. doi: 10.1079/9781780644325.0318
Klieve, Athol V. and Gilbert, Rosalind A. (2005). Bacteriophage populations. Methods in gut microbial ecology for ruminants. (pp. 129-137) Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/1-4020-3791-0_10
Klieve, Athol V. and Gilbert, Rosalind A. (2005). Bacteriophages populations. Methods in gut microbial ecology for ruminants. (pp. 129-137) edited by Harinder P.S. Makkar and Christopher S. McSweeney. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Academic Press.
Journal Articles
Hungerford, Natasha L., Ouwerkerk, Diane, Gilbert, Rosalind A., Loh, Zhi Hung, Gordon, Russell J., Silva, Luis F.P. and Fletcher, Mary T. (2024). A feeding trial to investigate strategies to mitigate the impacts of Pimelea poisoning in Australian cattle. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 72 (28), 15572-15585. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.4c02082
Zhou, Yuchen, Roseli, Ras Baizureen, Hungerford, Natasha L., Fletcher, Mary T., Ouwerkerk, Diane, Gilbert, Rosalind A. and Krenske, Elizabeth H. (2024). Binding of the plant-derived toxin simplexin to bovine protein kinase C: insights from molecular dynamics. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 22 (14), 2863-2876. doi: 10.1039/d4ob00065j
Gilbert, Rosalind, Davis, Carl, Gravel, Jenny and Ouwerkerk, Diane (2024). Genome sequence and annotation of Pyramidobacter sp. strain YE332, isolated from a cattle rumen fermentation of Leucaena leaf. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 13 (4) e0101223, 1-3. doi: 10.1128/mra.01012-23
Naseem, Muhammad Noman, Turni, Conny, Gilbert, Rosalind, Raza, Ali, Allavena, Rachel, McGowan, Michael, Constantinoiu, Constantin, Ong, Chian Teng, Tabor, Ala E. and James, Peter (2022). Role of Staphylococcus agnetis and Staphylococcus hyicus in the pathogenesis of buffalo fly skin lesions in cattle. Microbiology Spectrum, 10 (4) e0087322, 1-18. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00873-22
Gilbert, Rosalind A., Netzel, Gabriele, Chandra, Kerri, Ouwerkerk, Diane and Fletcher, Mary T. (2021). Degradation of the indospicine toxin from Indigofera spicata by a mixed population of rumen bacteria. Toxins, 13 (6) 389, 389. doi: 10.3390/toxins13060389
Gilbert, Rosalind A., Dagar, Sumit S., Kittelmann, Sandra and Edwards, Joan E. (2021). Editorial: Advances in the Understanding of the Commensal Eukaryota and Viruses of the Herbivore Gut. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12 619287, 619287. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.619287
Gilbert, Rosalind A., Townsend, Eleanor M., Crew, Kathleen S., Hitch, Thomas C. A., Friedersdorff, Jessica C. A., Creevey, Christopher J., Pope, Phillip B., Ouwerkerk, Diane and Jameson, Eleanor (2020). Rumen virus populations: technological advances enhancing current understanding. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11 450, 450. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00450
Hitch, Thomas C. A., Edwards, Joan E. and Gilbert, Rosalind A. (2019). Metatranscriptomics reveals mycoviral populations in the ovine rumen. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 366 (13) fnz161. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnz161
Seshadri, Rekha, Leahy, Sinead C., Attwood, Graeme T., Teh, Koon Hoong, Lambie, Suzanne C., Cookson, Adrian L., Eloe-Fadrosh, Emiley A., Pavlopoulos, Georgios A., Hadjithomas, Michalis, Varghese, Neha J., Paez-Espino, David, Perry, Rechelle, Henderson, Gemma, Creevey, Christopher J., Terrapon, Nicolas, Lapebie, Pascal, Drula, Elodie, Lombard, Vincent, Rubin, Edward, Kyrpides, Nikos C., Henrissat, Bernard, Woyke, Tanja, Ivanova, Natalia N., Kelly, William J., Palevich, Nikola, Janssen, Peter H., Ronimus, Ron S., Noel, Samantha, Soni, Priya ... Ceron Cucchi, Maria (2018). Cultivation and sequencing of rumen microbiome members from the Hungate1000 Collection. Nature Biotechnology, 36 (4), 359-367. doi: 10.1038/nbt.4110
Gilbert, Rosalind A., Kelly, William J., Altermann, Eric, Leahy, Sinead C., Minchin, Catherine, Ouwerkerk, Diane and Klieve, Athol V. (2017). Toward understanding phage: Host interactions in the rumen; complete genome sequences of lytic phages infecting rumen bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8 (DEC) 2340, 2340. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02340
De Barbieri, I., Hegarty, R. S., Silveira, C., Gulino, L. M., Oddy, V. H., Gilbert, R. A., Klieve, A. V. and Ouwerkerk, D. (2015). Programming rumen bacterial communities in newborn Merino lambs. Small Ruminant Research, 129, 48-59. doi: 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2015.05.015
Gilbert, Rosalind, Ouwerkerk, Diane and Klieve, Athol (2015). Modulation of the rumen microbiome. Australian Microbiologist, 36 (1), 18-21. doi: 10.1071/MA15017
Gilbert, Rosalind A., Ouwerkerk, Diane, Zhang, Li Hua and Klieve, Athol V. (2010). In vitro detection and primary cultivation of bacteria producing materials inhibitory to ruminal methanogens. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 80 (2), 217-218. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2009.12.004
Gilbert, Rosalind Ann, Denman, Stuart Edward, Padmanabha, Jagadish, Fegan, Narelle, Al Ajmi, Dawood and McSweeney, Christopher S. (2008). Effect of diet on the concentration of complex Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli and EHEC virulence genes in bovine faeces, hide and carcass. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 121 (2), 208-216. doi: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2007.11.019
Al-Ajmi, D., Padmanabha, J., Denman, S. E., Gilbert, R. A., Al Jassim, R. A. M. and McSweeney, C. S. (2006). Evaluation of a PCR detection method for Escherichia coli O157 : H7/H- bovine faecal samples. Letters In Applied Microbiology, 42 (4), 386-391. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2005.01850.x
Gilbert, R. A., Tomkins, N., Padmanabha, J., Gough, J. M., Krause, D. O. and McSweeney, C. S. (2005). Effect of finishing diets on Escherichia coli populations and prevalence of enterohaemorrhagic E. coli virulence genes in cattle faeces. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 99 (4), 885-894. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2005.02670.x
Bettelheim, K. A., Kuzevski, A., Gilbert, R. A., Krause, D. O. and McSweeney, C. S. (2005). The diversity of Escherichia coli serotypes and biotypes in cattle faeces. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 98 (3), 699-709. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2004.02501.x
Swain, R. A., Nolan, J. V. and Klieve, A. V. (1996). Natural variability and diurnal fluctuations within the bacteriophage population of the rumen. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 62 (3), 994-997. doi: 10.1128/aem.62.3.994-997.1996
Klieve, A. V. and Swain, R. A. (1993). Estimation of ruminal bacteriophage numbers by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and laser densitometry. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 59 (7), 2299-2303. doi: 10.1128/aem.59.7.2299-2303.1993
Conference Papers
Hungerford, Natasha L., Chaleat, Celine, Santiago, Viviene S., Ouwerkerk, Diane, Gilbert, Rosalind A., Meale, Sarah J., Parra, Mariano, Pratt, Steven, Lant, Paul, Fletcher, Mary T. and Laycock, Bronwyn (2024). Towards mitigation of methane emissions from extensively grazing cattle with 3-nitrooxypropanol. 2nd Australian Conference on Green & Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 8-12 December 2024.
Gilbert, Rosalind and Ouwerkerk, Diane (2020). The genetics of rumen phage populations. The Third International Tropical Agriculture Conference (TROPAG 2019), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11-13 November 2019. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI . doi: 10.3390/proceedings2019036165
Ouwerkerk, Diane, Maguire, Anita, Gravel, Jenny, Minchin, Cathy, Gravel, Michael, Klieve, Athol and Gilbert, Ros (2020). Effect of feeding different cultivars of Leucaena leucocephala on rumen-based in vitro anaerobic fermentations. The Third International Tropical Agriculture Conference (TROPAG 2019), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11-13 November 2019. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI . doi: 10.3390/proceedings2019036096
Gilbert, Rosalind, Ouwerkerk, Diane, Negara, Windu, Schatz, Tim, Kleive, Athol and McCosker, Kieren (2019). Shifting cattle from grazing extensive pastures to floodplain pastures in the Northern Territory: effect on rumen microbial communities. Northern Beef Research Update Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 19-22 August 2019. Brisbane, QLD Australia: North Australian Beef Research Council.
Loh, Zhi Hung, Hungerford, Natasha L., Ouwerkerk, Diane, Gilbert, Rosalind A., Gravel, Jennifer, Minchin, Catherine M., Maguire, Anita J., Yong, Ken, Klieve, Athol and Fletcher, Mary (2019). Mitigating the effects of the toxin simplexin in pimelea poisoning of cattle by development of a microbial probiotic. TropAg2019, International Tropical Agriculture Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11 - 13 November 2019.
Ouwerkerk, D., Fletcher, M., Laycock, B., Gilbert, R., Hungerford, N., Gauthier, E., Dixon, R., Silva, L. and Klieve, A. (2018). Improving beef production through management of plant toxins – strategies for the Pimelea problem. Beef Australia 2018, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia, 7-10 May 2018.
Loh, Zhi Hung, Hungerford, Natasha L., Ouwerkerk, Diane, Gilbert, Rosalind A., Klieve, Athol V. and Fletcher, Mary T. (2018). Towards a Microbial Probiotic: LC-MS/MS Analysis of Simulated Rumen Degradation of the Pimelea Toxin Simplexin. QMSS 2018 – 3rd Queensland Mass Spectrometry Symposium, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 6-7 December 2018.
Maguire, A. J., Ouwerkerk, D., Klieve, A. V., Gilbert, R. A. and Schofield, B. . (2012). Isolation and characterisation of bioactive compounds produced by bacteria to reduce methanogen populations. Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM2012), Brisbane, Australia, 1-4 July 2012.
Gilbert, R. A., Ogg, C., Vo, J., Gulino, L. M., Ouwerkerk, D. and Klieve, A. V. (2012). Phages of rumen bacteria, whole genome sequencing and annotation. Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM2012), Brisbane, Australia, 1-4 July 2012.
Gilbert, R. A., Ogg, C., Vo, J., Gulino, L. M., Ouwerkerk D. and Klieve, A. V. (2012). A genomic strategy to identify archaeal viruses in the rumen. 8th INRA-Rowett Symposium on Gut Microbiology, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 17 - 20 June 2012.
Gilbert, R. A., Ouwerkerk, D. and Klieve, A. V. (2010). Isolation of viruses for bio-control of methanogenic archaea from the rumen. 28th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, 11-15 July 2010. Toowong, Qld, Australia: Australian Society of Animal Production.
Gilbert, R. A., Sheperd, J., Klieve, A. V., Nolan, J. V., Newbold, C. J. and Wallace, R. J. (2004). Effect of dietary changes on the bacteriophage population in the rumen of sheep. Fourth Joint INRA-RRI Symposium. Gut Microbiology: Concerns and Responses to Food Safety, Health and Environmental Issues, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 21-23 June 2004. Paris, France: EDP Sciences. doi: 10.1051/rnd:20044400
Klieve, A.V., Swain, R.A. and Nolan, J. V. (1996). Bacterial viruses in the Rumen; types present, population size and implications for feed conversion efficiency. Australian Society of Animal Production Bbiennial Conference, Armidale. NSW, Australia, 1996. Armidale. NSW, Australia: Australian Society of Animal Production.
Swain, R.A., Klieve, A. V. and Nolan, J. V. (1996). Factors affecting the rumen bacteriophage population. Australian Society of Animal Production Bbiennial Conference, Armidale. NSW, Australia, 1996. Armidale. NSW, Australia: Australian Society of Animal Production.
Research Reports
Fletcher, Mary, Ouwerkerk, Diane , Hungerford, Natasha and Gilbert, Rosalind (2022). Improving beef production through management of plant toxins (2018-2022) . North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Meat and Livestock Australia.
Klieve, A.V., Gilbert, R. A. and Ouwerkerk, D. (2009). Reducing methane emissions from livestock and optimising productivity: new approaches in microbiology. Canberra ACT, Australia: Department of Climate Change.