Denis Roy Cullimore received his PhD in Agric Microbiology in 1962. Dr.
Cullimore served as a Professor first at the
University of Surrey in the UK and then at the University of Regina,
Canada and retired from the university in
2001. He founded Droycon Bioconcepts Inc.
in 1987 and became an entrepreneurial microbiologist. He
currently holds eight patents, two of which are
commercially developed.
Dr. Cullimore's ongoing research interests revolve around the
role of microorganisms in the functioning of planet Earth. Specificly,
Dr. Cullimore is interested in rusticles, plugging
water wells, microbial mining
and the refining of metals, natural
proteolytic functions as art forms, the development
of the BART test systems (three now have Canadian Environmental
Technology Verification) and conceptual
philosophy.
As an applied microbial ecologist that has been
involved in the biological deterioration of deep ocean wrecks such as
the Titanic (since 1991), Bismarck and Britannic
(since 2002) and now the cluster of sunken ships off the Gulf of Mexico,
Dr. Cullimore's role would be to determine the
rates at which the various wrecks are gradually structurally collapsing.
These collapsing events are primarily caused by the loss of strength in
the steels as the iron is removed through, primarily, biological
activity. It is planned to use a newly developed program to determine
semi-quantitatively the size of the biomass infesting each of these
ships.
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