Dr. L.A. (Lesley) Robertson CBiol FIBiol

Room .150
Julianalaan 67
2628 BC Delft
The Netherlands

Biography

1990-present
Curator of the Delft School of Microbiology Archives, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
1997- present
Biological Safety Officer, Faculty of Applies Sciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
1988
PhD Chemical Technology, Delft University of Technology, 'Aerobic denitrification and heterotrophic nitrification in Thiosphaera pantotropha and other bacteria'
1987
MSc University of Wales (Cardiff), 'Microbiology of sulphide oxidation in a denitrifying wastewater system'
1981- 1997
Microbiology of nitrogen and sulphur cycling in wastewater treatment, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
1979-1981
Bacterial enrichments in methanol oxidizing continuous cultures, Department Microbiology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
1974 -1979
Defective phages of the genus Bacillus and the Custers Effect in Brettanomyces and Kluyveromyces species, Department Microbiology, Delft University of Technology, The netherlands.
1972
M.I.Biol. Polytechnic of the South Bank, London.
1967-1974
Product research, semisynthetic penicillins, Beecham Research Laboratories, Worthing, Sussex, England

History of the work of Professors Beijerinck, van Iterson and Kluyver and the Delft School of Microbiology
Teaching methods for microbiology practicals in Universities and Schools

Robertson, L.A. (2008) Handbook for Biosafety at Delft University of Technology. Department of Biotechnology, TU Delft.
Robertson, L.A. (2003) The Delft School of Microbiology, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Advances in Applied Microbiology, 52, pp. 357-388.
Kuenen, J.G., Robertson, L.A. (1994) Combined nitrification-denitrification processes. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 15 (2-3), pp. 109-117.
Kuenen, J.G. and L.A. Robertson (1993) The colorless sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. In: Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th edition (J.J.G. Holt, N.R. Krieg, P.H.A. Sneath, J.T. Staley and S.T. Williams, eds.). Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore pp. 427-438.
Robertson, L.A., Kuenen, J.G. (1984) Aerobic denitrification - Old wine in new bottles? Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology, 50 (5-6), pp. 525-544.