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Andreas Schlüter

Andreas Schlüter

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
12236
World Ranking
12006
National Ranking
855

Overview

Andreas Schlüter is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Engineering; and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work notably intersects subfields such as Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Building and Construction, Biomedical Engineering, and Ecology.

The main research topics addressed by Schlüter focus on areas including Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production, Biofuel production and bioconversion, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Gut microbiota and health, Gene expression and cancer classification, and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity.

Frequent publication venues for Schlüter's work include Microorganisms, Environmental Microbiome, Biotechnology for Biofuels, Water Research, and FEMS Microbiology Ecology.

Recent significant publications include:

  • New insights from the biogas microbiome by comprehensive genome-resolved metagenomics of nearly 1600 species originating from multiple anaerobic digesters, 2020, Biotechnology for Biofuels
  • Identification of Beneficial Microbial Consortia and Bioactive Compounds with Potential as Plant Biostimulants for a Sustainable Agriculture, 2021, Microorganisms
  • The Role of Petrimonas mucosa ING2-E5AT in Mesophilic Biogas Reactor Systems as Deduced from Multiomics Analyses, 2020, Microorganisms
  • Impact of process temperature and organic loading rate on cellulolytic / hydrolytic biofilm microbiomes during biomethanation of ryegrass silage revealed by genome-centered metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, 2020, Environmental Microbiome
  • Breakdown of hardly degradable carbohydrates (lignocellulose) in a two-stage anaerobic digestion plant is favored in the main fermenter, 2023, Water Research

Throughout their career, Schlüter has collaborated frequently with researchers such as Alfred Pühler, Irena Maus, Alexander Sczyrba, Daniel Wibberg, and Liren Huang.

Best Publications

  • Microalgae as substrates for fermentative biogas production in a combined biorefinery concept.

    Jan H. Mussgnug;Viktor Klassen;Andreas Schlüter;Olaf Kruse

  • Detection of 140 clinically relevant antibiotic-resistance genes in the plasmid metagenome of wastewater treatment plant bacteria showing reduced susceptibility to selected antibiotics

    Rafael Szczepanowski;Burkhard Linke;Irene Krahn;Karl-Heinz Gartemann

  • Genomics of IncP-1 antibiotic resistance plasmids isolated from wastewater treatment plants provides evidence for a widely accessible drug resistance gene pool

    Andreas Schlüter;Rafael Szczepanowski;Alfred Pühler;Eva M. Top

  • The metagenome of a biogas-producing microbial community of a production-scale biogas plant fermenter analysed by the 454-pyrosequencing technology

    Andreas Schlüter;Thomas Bekel;Naryttza N. Diaz;Michael Dondrup

  • Phylogenetic characterization of a biogas plant microbial community integrating clone library 16S-rDNA sequences and metagenome sequence data obtained by 454-pyrosequencing.

    Magdalena Kröber;Thomas Bekel;Naryttza N. Diaz;Alexander Goesmann

  • Comparative and Joint Analysis of Two Metagenomic Datasets from a Biogas Fermenter Obtained by 454-Pyrosequencing

    Sebastian Jaenicke;Christina Ander;Thomas Bekel;Regina Bisdorf

  • Taxonomic composition and gene content of a methane-producing microbial community isolated from a biogas reactor

    Lutz Krause;Naryttza N. Diaz;Robert A. Edwards;Robert A. Edwards;Karl Heinz Gartemann

  • The 64 508 bp IncP-1β antibiotic multiresistance plasmid pB10 isolated from a waste-water treatment plant provides evidence for recombination between members of different branches of the IncP-1β group

    Andreas Schlüter;H. Heuer;Rafael Szczepanowski;L.J. Forney

  • Occurrence of integron-associated resistance gene cassettes located on antibiotic resistance plasmids isolated from a wastewater treatment plant.

    Thomas Tennstedt;Rafael Szczepanowski;Sebastian Braun;Alfred Pühler

  • Profiling of the metabolically active community from a production-scale biogas plant by means of high-throughput metatranscriptome sequencing

    Martha Zakrzewski;Alexander Goesmann;Sebastian Jaenicke;Sebastian Jünemann

  • Metagenome and metaproteome analyses of microbial communities in mesophilic biogas-producing anaerobic batch fermentations indicate concerted plant carbohydrate degradation.

    Angelika Hanreich;Ulrike Schimpf;Martha Zakrzewski;Andreas Schlüter

  • New insights from the biogas microbiome by comprehensive genome-resolved metagenomics of nearly 1600 species originating from multiple anaerobic digesters.

    Stefano Campanaro;Laura Treu;Laura Treu;Luis M. Rodriguez-R;Adam Kovalovszki

  • Antibiotic multiresistance plasmid pRSB101 isolated from a wastewater treatment plant is related to plasmids residing in phytopathogenic bacteria and carries eight different resistance determinants including a multidrug transport system.

    Rafael Szczepanowski;Irene Krahn;Burkhard Linke;Alexander Goesmann

  • Comparative metagenomics of biogas-producing microbial communities from production-scale biogas plants operating under wet or dry fermentation conditions

    Yvonne Stolze;Martha Zakrzewski;Irena Maus;Felix Gregor Eikmeyer

  • The 120 592 bp IncF plasmid pRSB107 isolated from a sewage-treatment plant encodes nine different antibiotic-resistance determinants, two iron-acquisition systems and other putative virulence-associated functions.

    R. Szczepanowski;S. Braun;V. Riedel;S. Schneiker

  • Bioinformatic analysis reveals high diversity of bacterial genes for laccase-like enzymes.

    Luka Ausec;Martha Zakrzewski;Alexander Goesmann;Andreas Schlüter

  • Effect of the strain Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42 on the microbial community in the rhizosphere of lettuce under field conditions analyzed by whole metagenome sequencing

    Magdalena Kröber;Daniel Wibberg;Rita Grosch;Felix Gregor Eikmeyer

  • Unraveling the microbiome of a thermophilic biogas plant by metagenome and metatranscriptome analysis complemented by characterization of bacterial and archaeal isolates

    Irena Maus;Daniela E. Koeck;Katharina G. Cibis;Sarah Hahnke

  • Complete genome sequencing of Agrobacterium sp. H13-3, the former Rhizobium lupini H13-3, reveals a tripartite genome consisting of a circular and a linear chromosome and an accessory plasmid but lacking a tumor-inducing Ti-plasmid

    Daniel Wibberg;Jochen Blom;Sebastian Jaenicke;Florian Kollin

  • Characterization of microbial biofilms in a thermophilic biogas system by high-throughput metagenome sequencing

    Antje Rademacher;Antje Rademacher;Martha Zakrzewski;Andreas Schlüter;Mandy Schönberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfred Pühler
Alfred Pühler Bielefeld University
Alexander Goesmann
Alexander Goesmann University of Giessen
Jochen Blom
Jochen Blom University of Giessen
Udo Reichl
Udo Reichl Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Vladimir V. Zverlov
Vladimir V. Zverlov Technical University of Munich
Wolfgang Liebl
Wolfgang Liebl Technical University of Munich
Rita Grosch
Rita Grosch Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops
Karsten Niehaus
Karsten Niehaus Bielefeld University
Laurent Poirel
Laurent Poirel University of Fribourg
Helmut König
Helmut König Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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