Dr Thomas Lines
Grant-Funded Researcher (B)
School of Agriculture, Food and Wine
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Dr Thomas Lines is an agricultural researcher with qualifications in biotechnology, chemical engineering, and plant/ algal physiology. He has a passion for conducting high quality, applied research that can be of immediate benefit to agricultural industries, such as developing sustainable practices and improving soil health and crop resilience. His research interests and expertise include horticulture, viticulture, soil ecology, AgTech, carbon farming/economics, molecular biology, technology, biochemical engineering, evolution, climate change, ecology, and microbiology.
Through his current position as Research Fellow in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, his research focuses on the complex interactions between under-vine cover crops, soil health and perennial horticulture crops. This work has been extended by the funding body, Wine Australia, and has also led to a number of other cover crop related projects, including a recently awarded Hort Innovation funded project (five years) on semi-arid region cover cropping in Almond Orchards.
Dr Lines has a passion for problem solving and science communication, which has aided in developing technical and soft skills that include bioinformatics (Qiime2: NextGen Sequencing analysis), data analysis (R), grant writing, conducting presentations and workshops, outreach, collaborating with industry, and stakeholder engagement.
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Education
Date Institution name Country Title Monash University Australia PhD Adelaide University Australia Bachelor of Chemical Engineering Adelaide University Australia Bachelor of Biotechnology -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Bicharanloo, B., Salomon, M. J., Cavagnaro, T. R., Keitel, C., Brien, C., Jewell, N., . . . Dijkstra, F. A. (2023). Arbuscular mycorrhizae are important for phosphorus uptake and root biomass, and exudation for nitrogen uptake in tomato plants grown under variable water conditions. Plant and Soil.
2022 Marks, J. N. J., Lines, T. E. P., Penfold, C., & Cavagnaro, T. R. (2022). Cover crops and carbon stocks: How under-vine management influences SOC inputs and turnover in two vineyards.. The Science of the total environment, 831, 11 pages.
Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC12022 Marshall, D. J., Malerba, M., Lines, T., Sezmis, A. L., Hasan, C. M., Lenski, R. E., & McDonald, M. J. (2022). Long-term experimental evolution decouples size and production costs in Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 119(21), 1-8.
Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC12020 Posselt, M., McIntyre, H., Ngcanga, M., Lines, T., & Procter, N. (2020). The mental health status of asylum seekers in middle- to high-income countries: a synthesis of current global evidence.. British medical bulletin, 134(1), 4-20.
Scopus15 WoS15 Europe PMC62020 Lines, T., Orr, P., & Beardall, J. (2020). Elevated co₂ has differential effects on five species of microalgae from a sub‐tropical freshwater lake: possible implications for phytoplankton species composition. Journal of Phycology, 57(1), 324-334.
Scopus2 WoS22018 Lines, T., & Beardall, J. (2018). Carbon acquisition characteristics of six microalgal species isolated from a subtropical reservoir: potential implications for species succession. Journal of Phycology, 54(5), 599-607.
Scopus12 WoS10 Europe PMC32017 Ji, M., Greening, C., Vanwonterghem, I., Carere, C. R., Bay, S. K., Steen, J. A., . . . Ferrari, B. C. (2017). Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil. Nature, 552(7685), 400-403.
Scopus164 WoS147 Europe PMC97
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Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2020 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Cover Crops, Carbon Dynamics and the Ecological Intensification of Vineyards – A View From Under the Vine Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Joseph Nicholas John Marks -
Other Supervision Activities
Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name 2022 - 2022 Principal Supervisor ‘Under-vine ground cover does not significantly affect canopy arthropod diversity in small field trial’ The University of Adelaide - Honours Full Time Jonathan Ward 2021 - ongoing Principal Supervisor Viticulture and soil ecology The University of Adelaide - Honours Full Time Benjamin Hayward -
Mentoring
Date Topic Location Name 2021 - 2021 Temperature effects of cover crops in vineyards The University of Adelaide FIPS 2021 students 2020 - 2021 Foundations in Plant Science The University of Adelaide Hien Minh Vu, Zachary Rogers, Jonathan Ward, Michael Lyons, Elka Parsons
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Consulting/Advisories
Date Institution Department Organisation Type Country 2020 - ongoing Limestone Coast Grape and Wine Council Research Scientific research Australia
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