Biochemical pathways
Establishing the biochemical pathways and biogeochemical cycling of the elements carbon, hydrogen, sulfur and nitrogen using compound specific isotopes and molecular fossils/ lipids toresolve metabolic relationships between organic compounds in living (eukaryotes, bacteria and archae) organisms and microbialites (e.g. stromatolites, thrombolites and microbial mats).
Examples of publications
Dutta, S. Mallick, M., Bertram, N., Greenwood, P.F and Mathew, R.P. 2009. Terpenoid composition and class of Tertiary resins from India. International Coal Geology 80 44-50.
Fromont, J., Huggett, M.J., Lengger, S.L., Grice, K., Schönber G, C.H. 2015. Characterisation of Leucetta prolifera, a calcarean cyanosponge from south-western Australia, and its symbionts. in press.
Gessler, A., Keitel, C., Kodama, N., Weston, C., Winters, T., Keith, H., Grice, K., Leuning, R., Farquhar, G. D. 2007. ?13C of organic matter transported from the leaves to the roots in Eucalyptus delegatensis – short-term variations and relation to respired CO2. Functional Plant Biology 34, 692-706.
Grice, K., Lu, H., Atahan, P., Hallmann, C., Asif, M., Greenwood, P.F., Tulipani, S., Maslen, E., Williford, K.H., and Dodson, J. 2009. New insights into the origin of perlyene in geological samples Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73, 6531-6543.
Grice K., Lu H., Zhou Y., Stuart Williams, H., Farquhar, G. 2008. Biosynthetic and environmental effects on the stable carbon isotopic compositions of the anteiso- (3-methyl) and iso- (2-methyl) alkanes in tobacco leaves. Phytochemistry 69, 2807-2814.
Grice, K., Klein Breteler, W.C., Schouten, S., Grossi, V., De Leeuw, J.W., Sinninghe-Damsté J.S. 1998. The effects of zooplankton herbivory on biomarker proxy records. Paleoceanography 13, 686-693.
Hallmann C., Schwark L., and Grice K. 2008. Community dynamics of anaerobic bacteria in deep petroleum reservoirs. Nature Geoscience 1, 588-501.
Klein Breteler, W.C., Grice, K., Kloosterhuis, R., Schouten, S., Sinninghe- Damsté, J.S. 2002. Unravelling sources of stable carbon isotope signals in pelagic copepods, their faecal pellets and POC. Marine Ecology Progress Series 40, 195-204.
Krull, E.S., Skjemstad, J.O., Graetz, D., Grice, K., Dunning, W.J., Cook, G., Parr, J.F. 2003. 13C-depleted charcoal from C4 grasses and the role of occluded carbon in phytoliths. Organic Geochemistry 34, 1337-1352.
Lengger, S.K., Grice, K., Fromont, J., 2015. Analysis of sterols from museum sponges preserved in ethanol by comprehensive two dimensional gas chromatography – time of flight mass spectrometry. Lipids in review.
Pagès, A., Grice, K., Vacher, M., Bennett, W.W., Greenwood P.F. 2014. Characterizing microbial communities and processes in a modern stromatolite (Shark Bay) using lipid biomarkers and two-dimensional distributions of porewater solutes. Environmental Microbiology, 16, 2458-2474.
Pagès, A., Grice, K., Jahnert, R., Ertefai, T., Skrzypek, G., and Greenwood, P.F., 2014. Organic geochemical studies of modern microbial mats from Shark Bay – Part I. Influence of depth and salinity on lipid biomarkers and their isotopic signatures. Geobiology 12, 469-487.
Pagès, A., Welsh, D.T. Teasdale, P.R. Grice, K., Vacher, M., Bennett, W.W. and Visscher, P.T. 2014. Diel fluctuations in solute distributions and biogeochemical cycles in hypersaline microbial mats from Shark Bay, Western Australia. Marine Chemistry 167, 102-112.
Schouten, S., Klein Breteler, W.C., Blokker, P., Schogt, N., Rijpstra, W.I., Grice, K., Baas, M., Sinninghe-Damsté, J.S. 1998. Biosynthetic effects on the stable carbon isotopic compositions of algal lipids: Implications for deciphering the carbon isotopic biomarker record.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62, 1397-1406.
Zhou, Y.P., Stuart-Williams, H., Grice, K., Kayler, Z.E., Zavadlav, S., Gessler, A., Farquhar, G.D., 2015. Allocate carbon for a reason: priorities are reflected in the 13C/12C ratios of plant lipids synthesized via three independent biosynthetic pathways. Phytochemistry 111, 14-20.
Zhou, Y., Grice, K., Stuart-Williams, H., and Farquhar, G.D., 2011. Temperature effect on leaf deuterium enrichment and isotopic fractionation during leaf lipid biosynthesis: results from controlled growth of C3 and C4 land plants, Phytochemistry 72, 207-213.