Staff Profile:Professor Liz Shaw

Name:

Professor Liz Shaw

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

• School Radiation Protection Supervisor (SAGES)
• Leader of the Environmental Science Research Division

Areas of Interest:

• Microbial ecology and function of the rhizosphere and below-ground plant-microbe interactions
• Impacts of organic pollutants on soil microorganisms
• Microbial ecology of xenobiotic biodegradation

Research groups / Centres:

• Centre for Food Security home page
• Environmental Science Research Division
• Soil Research Centre
• Walker Institute

Key Facts

Liz Shaw joined the department in 2006. Previous to this she gained her PhD at the University of Kent and then worked as a post-doctoral scientist on the following projects:

• Bioluminescence-based bacterial sensing of the bioavailability of chlorophenols in soil - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Monks Wood)
• Mechanisms of enhanced biodegradation of xenobiotics in the rhizosphere - University of Kent
• Contribution of nitrifier denitrification to nitrous oxide emissions from soil - Imperial College
• Microbial interactions in the mycorrhizosphere - Manchester Metropolitan University

Liz is currently Subject Editor for the journal Soil Biology and Biochemistry and a member of the NERC peer review college.

Publications:

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Number of items: 34.

2020

• Duddigan, S., Alexander, P. D., Shaw, L. J., Sanden, T. and Collins, C. D. (2020) The Tea Bag Index—UK: using citizen/community science to investigate organic matter decomposition rates in domestic gardens. Sustainability, 12 (17). 6895. ISSN 2071-1050 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176895
• Adekanmbi, A. A., Shaw, L. J. and Sizmur, T. (2020) Effect of sieving on ex-situ soil respiration of soils from three land use types. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2020. pp. 912-916. ISSN 0718-9516 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-020-00177-2
• Duddigan, S., Shaw, L. J., Alexander, P. D. and Collins, C. D. (2020) Chemical underpinning of the tea bag index: An examination of the decomposition of tea leaves. Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2020. 6085180. ISSN 1687-7675 doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6085180
• Pschenyckyj, C. M., Clark, J. M., Shaw, L. J., Griffiths, R. I. and Evans, C. D. (2020) Effects of acidity on dissolved organic carbon in organic soil extracts, pore water and surface litters. Science of the Total Environment, 703. 135585. ISSN 0048-9697 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135585

2019

• Duddigan, S., Shaw, L. J., Alexander, P. D. and Collins, C. D. (2019) A comparison of physical soil organic matter fractionation methods for amended soils. Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2019. 3831241. ISSN 1687-7675 doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/3831241

2018

• Lu, F., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Van Damme, I., Westwood, N. J., Shaw, L., Robinson, J. S., Warren, G., Chatzifragkou, A., McQueen Mason, S., Gomez, L., Faas, L., Balcombe, K., Srinivasan, C., Picchioni, F., Hadley, P. and Charalampopoulos, D. (2018) Valorisation strategies for cocoa pod husk and its fractions. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 14. pp. 80-88. ISSN 2452-2236 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsc.2018.07.007
• Hughes, D. L., Afsar, A., Laventine, D. M., Shaw, E. J., Harwood, L. M. and Hodson, M. E. (2018) Metal removal from soil leachates using DTPA-functionalised maghemite nanoparticles, a potential soil washing technology. Chemosphere, 209. pp. 480-488. ISSN 1879-1298 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.06.121
• Gougoulias, C., Meade, A. and Shaw, L. (2018) Apportioning bacterial carbon source utilization in soil using 14C isotope analysis of FISH-targeted bacterial populations sorted by Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS): 14C-FISH-FACS. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 10 (3). pp. 245-254. ISSN 1758-2229 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12631
• Dorati, F., Barrett, G. A., Sanchez-Contreras, M., Arseneault, T., San Jose, M., Studholme, D., Murillo, J., Caballero, P., Waterfield, N., Arnold, D., Shaw, L. J. and Jackson, R. W. (2018) Coping with environmental eukaryotes; identification of pseudomonas syringae genes during the interaction with alternative hosts or predators. Microorganisms, 6 (32). pp. 1-23. ISSN 2076-2607 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms6020032

2017

• Fukumasu, J. and Shaw, L. (2017) The role of macro-aggregation in regulating enzymatic depolymerization of soil organic nitrogen. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 115. pp. 100-108. ISSN 0038-0717 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.08.008
• Roberts, R. L., Jackson, R. W., Mauchline, T. H., Hirsch, P. R., Shaw, L. J., Doring, T. J. and Jones, H. E. (2017) Is there sufficient Ensifer and Rhizobium species diversity in UK farmland soils to support red clover (Trifolium pratense), white clover (T. repens), lucerne (Medicago sativa) and black medic (M. lupulina)? Applied Soil Ecology, 120. pp. 35-43. ISSN 0929-1393 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.06.030
• Hughes, D. L., Asfar, A., Harwood, L. M., Jiang, T., Laventine, D. M., Shaw, L. J. and Hodson, M. E. (2017) Adsorption of Pb and Zn from binary metal solutions and in the presence of dissolved organic carbon by DTPA-functionalised, silica-coated magnetic nanoparticles. Chemosphere, 183. pp. 519-527. ISSN 0045-6535 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.05.146
• Rabiey, M., Ullah, I., Shaw, L. J. and Shaw, M. W. (2017) Potential ecological effects of Piriformospora indica, a possible biocontrol agent, in UK agricultural systems. Biological Control, 104. pp. 1-9. ISSN 1049-9644 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2016.10.005

2016

• Roche, L., Forrestal, P. J., Lanigan, G. J., Richards, K. G., Shaw, L. J. and Wall, D. P. (2016) Impact of fertiliser nitrogen formulation, and N stabilisers on nitrous oxide emissions in spring barley. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 233. pp. 229-237. ISSN 0167-8809 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2016.08.031
• Jones, F. P., Clark, I. M., King, R., Shaw, L. J., Woodward, M. J. and Hirsch, P. R. (2016) Novel European free-living, non-diazotrophic Bradyrhizobium isolates from contrasting soils that lack nodulation and nitrogen fixation genes - a genome comparison. Scientific Reports, 6. 25858. ISSN 2045-2322 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep25858
• Villada, A., Vanguelova, E. I., Verhoef, A. and Shaw, L. (2016) Effect of air-drying pre-treatment on the characterization of forest soil carbon pools. Geoderma, 265. pp. 53-61. ISSN 0016-7061 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.11.003

2015

• Kowalczyk, A., Eyice, Ö., Schäfer, H., Price, O. R., Finnegan, C. J., van Egmond, R. A., Shaw, L. J., Barrett, G. and Bending, G. D. (2015) Characterization of para-Nitrophenol-degrading bacterial communities in river water by using functional markers and stable isotope probing. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81 (19). pp. 6890-6900. ISSN 0099-2240 doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01794-15
• Olimah, J. A., Shaw, L. J. and Hodson, M. E. (2015) Does ochre have the potential to be a remedial treatment for As-contaminated soils? Environmental Pollution, 206. pp. 150-158. ISSN 0269-7491 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2015.06.011

2014

• Afsar, A., Harwood, L. M., Hudson, M. J., Hodson, M. E. and Shaw, E. J. (2014) Neocuproine-functionalized silica-coated magnetic nanoparticles for extraction of copper(II) from aqueous solution. Chemical Communications, 50 (56). pp. 7477-7480. ISSN 1359-7345 doi: https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cc01250j
• Gougoulias, C., Clark, J. M. and Shaw, L. J. (2014) The role of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle: tracking the below-ground microbial processing of plant-derived carbon for manipulating carbon dynamics in agricultural systems. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 94 (12). pp. 2362-2371. ISSN 0022-5142 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.6577

2013

• Swaine, M., Obrike, R., Clark, J. and Shaw, L. (2013) Biochar alteration of the sorption of substrates and products in Soil Enzyme Assays. Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2013. 968682. ISSN 1687-7667 doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/968682
• Tiltson, E.M., Collins, C., Mitchell, G., Princivalle, J. and Shaw, L. (2013) Nanoscale zerovalent iron alters soil bacterial community structure and inhibits chloroaromatic biodegradation potential in Aroclor 1242-contaminated soil. Environmental Pollution, 173. pp. 38-46. ISSN 0269-7491 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2012.09.018

2012

• Gougoulias, C. and Shaw, L. J. (2012) Evaluation of the environmental specificity of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) of probe (PSE1284)-positive cells extracted from rhizosphere soil. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 35 (8). pp. 533-540. ISSN 0723-2020 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2011.11.009 (Special Issue: Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH))
• Veresoglou, S. D., Shaw, L. J., Hooker, J. E. and Sen, R. (2012) Arbuscular mycorrhizal modulation of diazotrophic and denitrifying microbial communities in the (mycor)rhizosphere of Plantago lanceolata. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 53. pp. 78-81. ISSN 0038-0717 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.05.007

2011

• Veresoglou, S. D., Shaw, E. J. and Sen, R. (2011) Glomus intraradices and Gigaspora margarita arbuscular mycorrhizal associations differentially affect nitrogen and potassium nutrition of Plantago lanceolata in a low fertility dune soil. Plant and Soil, 340 (1-2). pp. 481-490. ISSN 0032-079X doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-010-0619-4

2010

• Cullen, L. G., Tilston, E. L., Mitchell, G. R., Collins, C. D. and Shaw, L. J. (2010) Assessing the impact of nano- and micro-scale zerovalent iron particles on soil microbial activities: Particle reactivity interferes with assay conditions and interpretation of genuine microbial effects. Chemosphere, 82 (11). pp. 1675-1682. ISSN 0045-6535 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.11.009
• Rodríguez-Cruz, S., Bælum, J., Shaw, L. J., Sørensen, S. R., Shi, S., Aspray, T., Jacobsen, C. and Bending, G. D. (2010) Biodegradation of the herbicide mecoprop-p with soil depth and its relationship with class III tfdA genes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 42 (1). pp. 32-39. ISSN 0038-0717 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.09.018

2009

• Watkins, A. J., Nicol, G. W. and Shaw, L. J. (2009) Use of an artificial root to examine the influence of 8-hydroxyquinoline on soil microbial activity and bacterial community structure. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 41 (3). pp. 580-585. ISSN 0038-0717 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.12.019

2008

• Givens, G.I., Baxter, S., Minihane, A.M. and Shaw, E., eds. (2008) Health Benefits of Organic Food: effects of the environment. CABI, Wallingford, pp336. ISBN 9781845934590
• Shaw, L.J. and Hooker, J. E. (2008) The fate and toxicity of the flavonoids naringenin and formononetin in soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 40 (2). pp. 528-536. ISSN 0038-0717 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.09.021

2007

• Shaw, L.J. and Burns, R.G. (2007) Influence of the rhizosphere on the biodegradation of organic xenobiotics - a case study with 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. In: Heipieper, H. (ed.) Bioremediation of Soils Contaminated with Aromatic Compounds: effects of rhizosphere, bioavailability, gene regulation and stress adaptation. Springer, Berlin, pp. 5-30. ISBN 9781402056918 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5693-2_1

2006

• Shaw, L. J. and Burns, R.G. (2006) Enzyme activity profiles and soil quality. In: Bloem, J., Hopkins, D. and Benedetti, A. (eds.) Microbiological Methods for Assessing Soil Quality. CABI, Wallingford, pp. 158-172.
• Shaw, L.J., Nicol, G.W., Smith, Z., Fear, J., Prosser, J.I. and Baggs, E.M. (2006) Nitrosospira spp. can produce nitrous oxide via a nitrifier denitrification pathway. Environmental Microbiology, 8 (2). pp. 214-222. ISSN 1462-2912 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00882.x
• Shaw, L. J., Morris, P. and Hooker, J. E. (2006) Perception and modification of plant flavonoid signals by rhizosphere microorganisms. Environmental Microbiology, 8 (11). pp. 1867-1880. ISSN 1462-2912 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01141.x

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Earlier Publications:

Shaw, L.J., and Burns, R.G. (2005) Rhizodeposition and the enhanced mineralization of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid in soil from the Trifolium pratense rhizosphere. Environmental Microbiology 7: 191-202.

Shaw, L.J., and Burns, R.G. (2005) Rhizodeposits of Trifolium pratense and Lolium perenne: their comparative effects on 2,4-D mineralization in two contrasting soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 37: 995-1002

Shaw, L.J., and Burns, R.G. (2004) Enhanced mineralization of [U-C-14]2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid in soil from the rhizosphere of Trifolium pratense. Applied and Environmental Microbiology70: 4766-4774.

Silva, E., Fialho, A.M., Sa-Correia, I., Burns, R.G., and Shaw, L.J. (2004) Combined bioaugmentation and biostimulation to cleanup soil contaminated with high concentrations of atrazine. Environmental Science & Technology 38: 632-637

Garcia-Gonzalez, V., Govantes, F., Shaw, L.J., Burns, R.G., and Santero, E. (2003) Nitrogen control of atrazine utilization in Pseudomonas sp strain ADP. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69: 6987-6993.

Shaw, L.J., and Burns, R.G. (2003) Biodegradation of organic pollutants in the rhizosphere. Advances in Applied Microbiology 53:  1-60.

Shaw, L.J., Beaton, Y., Sousa, S., Glover, L.A., Killham, K., and Meharg, A.A. (2002) Mineralisation of 2,4-dichlorophenol and glucose placed into the same or different hydrological domains as a bacterial inoculant.Soil Biology & Biochemistry 34: 531-539.

Shaw, L.J., Beaton, Y., Glover, L.A., Killham, K., and Meharg, A.A. (2000) Interactions between soil, toxicant, and a lux-marked bacterium during solid phase-contact toxicity testing. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 19: 1247-1252.

Shaw, L.J., Beaton, Y., Glover, L.A., Killham, K., Osborn, D., and Meharg, A.A. (2000) Bioavailability of 2,4-dichlorophenol associated with soil water-soluble humic material. Environmental Science & Technology34: 4721-4726.

Beaton, Y., Shaw, L.J., Glover, L.A., Meharg, A.A., and Killham, K. (1999) Biosensing 2,4-dichlorophenol toxicity during biodegradation by Burkholderia sp RASC c2 in soil. Environmental Science & Technology 33: 4086-4091.

Shaw, L.J., Beaton, Y., Glover, L.A., Killham, K., and Meharg, A.A. (1999) Development and characterization of a lux-modified 2,4-dichlorophenol-degrading Burkholderia sp RASC. Environmental Microbiology1: 393-399.

Shaw, L.J., Beaton, Y., Glover, L.A., Killham, K., and Meharg, A.A. (1999) Re-inoculation of autoclaved soil as a non-sterile treatment for xenobiotic sorption and biodegradation studies. Applied Soil Ecology11: 217-226.