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Barbara Nicolaus is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Nursing. Within these broader fields, Nicolaus focuses on subfields such as Nutrition and Dietetics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Soil Science, and Food Science.

The main topics of their work include Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology, Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques, Polyamine Metabolism and Applications, Probiotics and Fermented Foods, Agriculture and Crop Management, Magnetic and Electromagnetic Effects, and Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls.

Barbara Nicolaus has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Annarita Poli, Ilaria Finore, Ida Romano, Paola Di Donato, and Maria Papale. Their work has been published in various scientific venues, notably:

  • Microorganisms
  • Agriculture
  • 3 Biotech
  • International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
  • Resources

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Nicolaus are:

  • Prokaryotic Diversity of the Composting Thermophilic Phase: The Case of Ground Coffee Compost (2021), published in Microorganisms
  • Productivity and Nutritional Trait Improvements of Different Tomatoes Cultivated with Effective Microorganisms Technology (2021), published in Agriculture
  • Hetero-exopolysaccharide from the extremely halophilic Halomonas smyrnensis K2: production, characterization and functional properties in vitro (2020), published in 3 Biotech
  • Extraction of Cu2+ and Co2+ by using Tricholoma populinum loaded onto Amberlite XAD-4 (2020), published in International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
  • Effect of Carbon Sources in Carotenoid Production from Haloarcula sp. M1, Halolamina sp. M3 and Halorubrum sp. M5, Halophilic Archaea Isolated from Sonora Saltern, Mexico (2021), published in Microorganisms

Best Publications

  • Bacterial Exopolysaccharides from Extreme Marine Habitats: Production, Characterization and Biological Activities

    Annarita Poli;Gianluca Anzelmo;Barbara Nicolaus

  • Chemical composition and production of exopolysaccharides from representative members of heterocystous and non-heterocystous cyanobacteria

    Barbara Nicolaus;Adriana Panico;Licia Lama;Ida Romano

  • Synthesis, Production, and Biotechnological Applications of Exopolysaccharides and Polyhydroxyalkanoates by Archaea

    Annarita Poli;Paola Di Donato;Paola Di Donato;Gennaro Roberto Abbamondi;Barbara Nicolaus

  • Exopolysaccharides from extremophiles: from fundamentals to biotechnology

    Barbara Nicolaus;Margarita Kambourova;Ebru Toksoy Oner

  • Biosorption of Cd, Cu, Ni, Mn and Zn from aqueous solutions by thermophilic bacteria, Geobacillus toebii sub.sp decanicus and Geobacillus thermoleovorans sub.sp stromboliensis: Equilibrium, kinetic and thermodynamic studies

    Sadin Özdemir;Ersin Kilinc;Annarita Poli;Barbara Nicolaus

  • Archaeoglobus profundus sp. nov., Represents a New Species within the Sulfate-reducing Archaebacteria

    Siegfried Burggraf;Holger W. Jannasch;Barbara Nicolaus;Karl O. Stetter

  • Effects of temperature on ether lipid composition of Caldariella acidophila

    Mario De Rosa;Enrico Esposito;Agata Gambacorta;Barbara Nicolaus

  • High level synthesis of levan by a novel Halomonas species growing on defined media

    Annarita Poli;Hande Kazak;Bahar Gürleyendağ;Giuseppina Tommonaro

  • Glucose metabolism in the extreme thermoacidophilic archaebacterium Sulfolobus solfataricus

    M De Rosa;A Gambacorta;B Nicolaus;P Giardina

  • Microbial Diversity in Extreme Marine Habitats and Their Biomolecules

    Annarita Poli;Ilaria Finore;Ida Romano;Alessia Gioiello

  • Isoprenoid ethers; backbone of complex lipids of the archaebacterium Sulfolobus solfataricus

    Mario De Rosa;Agata Gambacorta;Barbara Nicolaus;Bertrand Chappe

  • Molasses as fermentation substrate for levan production by Halomonas sp.

    Faruk Küçükaşik;Hande Kazak;Dilvin Güney;Ilaria Finore

  • Purification and characterization of thermostable xylanase and β-xylosidase by the thermophilic bacterium Bacillus thermantarcticus

    Licia Lama;Valeria Calandrelli;Agata Gambacorta;Barbara Nicolaus

  • A halophilic thermotolerant Bacillus isolated from a marine hot spring able to produce a new exopolysaccharide

    Teresa L. Maugeri;Concetta Gugliandolo;Daniela Caccamo;Adriana Panico

  • Chemical Composition of Two Exopolysaccharides from Bacillus thermoantarcticus.

    M C Manca;L Lama;R Improta;E Esposito

  • Fermentation Technologies for the Optimization of Marine Microbial Exopolysaccharide Production

    Ilaria Finore;Paola Di Donato;Vincenza Mastascusa;Barbara Nicolaus

  • Halomonas alkaliantarctica sp. nov., isolated from saline lake Cape Russell in Antarctica, an alkalophilic moderately halophilic, exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium

    Annarita Poli;Enrico Esposito;Pierangelo Orlando;Licia Lama

  • Production and characterization of a microbial glucan, synthesized by Geobacillus tepidamans V264 isolated from Bulgarian hot spring

    Margarita Kambourova;Rossica Mandeva;Damyana Dimova;Annarita Poli

  • Anoxybacillus amylolyticus sp. nov., a thermophilic amylase producing bacterium isolated from Mount Rittmann (Antarctica)

    Annarita Poli;Enrico Esposito;Licia Lama;Pierangelo Orlando

  • Plant growth-promoting effects of rhizospheric and endophytic bacteria associated with different tomato cultivars and new tomato hybrids

    Gennaro Roberto Abbamondi;Gennaro Roberto Abbamondi;Giuseppina Tommonaro;Nele Weyens;Sofie Thijs

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario De Rosa
Mario De Rosa University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
William D. Grant
William D. Grant University of Leicester
Enrico Drioli
Enrico Drioli National Research Council (CNR)
Buko Lindner
Buko Lindner Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Antonio Molinaro
Antonio Molinaro University of Naples Federico II
Karl O. Stetter
Karl O. Stetter University of Regensburg
Otto Holst
Otto Holst Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Robert Huber
Robert Huber University of Duisburg-Essen
Kok-Gan Chan
Kok-Gan Chan University of Malaya

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