Dr Tony Romeo

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Uni of Melb

Position

Scanning Microscopist

Research interests 

Tony is a graduate from the University of Melbourne, with a Science degree majoring in Marine Botany. His Honours thesis, a study of nutrient uptake in marine phytoplankton, involved the use of light and electron microscopy.

He moved to Sydney and began work in the University of Sydney’s EMU in 1983 as a research assistant using freeze fracture techniques, TEM, SEM, and light microscopy. His role expanded to providing support to users of the EMU Facility, covering all aspects of specimen preparation, coating and machine operation, particularly high resolution SEM.He was also involved in teaching on many courses covering specimen preparation, Electron Microscope operation, light microscopy, Monitoring and Maintenance of the Electron microscope and X-ray microanalysis.

From 1995, Tony convened the Unit’s SEM course and was involved in teaching and demonstrating SEM operation both in-house and externally.

In recent years Tony added SPM operation to his list, running courses and training students on the Unit’s AFM and NSOM instruments.

In his role as coordinator for Microscopes on the Move – a travelling microscope laboratory for schools - Tony also visited schools in Sydney, Melbourne, country NSW and Victoria and the Northern Territory to bring the microscopy experience to school children from kindergarten to Year 12. He joined IPRI in June 2009 to support projects utilising SEM, TEM and AFM.

 5 key publications:

  •  “Phylum Verrucomicrobia representatives share a compartmentalized cell plan with members of bacterial phylum Planctomycetes” Kuo-Chang Lee, Richard I Webb, Peter H Janssen, Parveen Sangwan, Tony Romeo, James T Staley, John A Fuerst BMC Microbiology 2009, 9:5 (2009)
  • “A simple cold block procedure for the SEM” T. Romeo.  Australian Electron Microscopy Newsletter, Vol 52, pp 16 – 18, (1996) 
  • “Specimen coating for medium to high resolution SEM” T. Romeo & C.E.Nockolds.  Jnl of Computer-assisted Microscopy September 1992
  • “Freeze fracture microscopy of structures involved in fusion of chloroplast liposomes by melittin” D.G. Bishop, G.Cox & T. Romeo.  Micron and Microscopica Acta, vol 19, pp 33 - 40 (1988)
  • “Cellular resistance to Vinblastine is associated with altered respiratory function” L.C. Wright, M. Dyne, K.T. Holmes T. Romeo & C.E. Mountford.  Biochem Int Vol 13, pp 295 – 305 (1986)
  • “Intraspecific comparisons of nitrate uptake in three marine diatoms” A.J. Romeo & N.S. Fisher.  J. Phycol. Vol 18, pp 220 – 225 (1982)

.email address
tromeo@uow.edu.au

phone number
+61 (02) 4221 3258

Location
AIIM 228

Last reviewed: 18 November, 2009