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  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Bernard Henrissat is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark. Their research spans a broad range of topics primarily within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as agricultural and biological sciences. They have contributed extensively to fields such as plant science, molecular biology, nutrition and dietetics, cell biology, and biotechnology.

Their work includes significant focus on specific subjects like mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, enzyme production and characterization, biofuel production and bioconversion, gut microbiota and health, glycosylation and glycoproteins research, and fungal biology and applications.

Bernard Henrissat has coauthored numerous works with frequent collaborators including Matthias Hess, Vincent Lombard, Igor V. Grigoriev, Douglas Baxter, and Élodie Drula. These collaborations have contributed to a substantial body of research spanning multiple scientific domains.

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues. Prominent publication venues include OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, New Phytologist, and Nature. These platforms have hosted the dissemination of their research findings over the years.

Some of their recent papers include the following:

  • The carbohydrate-active enzyme database: functions and literature, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi provides insights into the early evolution of symbiotic traits, 2020, Nature Communications
  • 101 Dothideomycetes genomes: A test case for predicting lifestyles and emergence of pathogens, 2020, Studies in Mycology
  • Secreted pectin monooxygenases drive plant infection by pathogenic oomycetes, 2021, Science
  • A comparative genomics study of 23 Aspergillus species from section Flavi, 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

    Peter J. Turnbaugh;Micah Hamady;Tanya Yatsunenko;Brandi L. Cantarel

  • The Carbohydrate-Active EnZymes database (CAZy): an expert resource for Glycogenomics

    Brandi L. Cantarel;Pedro M. Coutinho;Corinne Rancurel;Thomas Bernard

  • The carbohydrate-active enzymes database (CAZy) in 2013

    Vincent Lombard;Hemalatha Golaconda Ramulu;Elodie Drula;Pedro M. Coutinho

  • The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray)

    G. A. Tuskan;G. A. Tuskan;S. DiFazio;S. DiFazio;S. Jansson;J. Bohlmann

  • Gut Microbiota from Twins Discordant for Obesity Modulate Metabolism in Mice

    Vanessa K. Ridaura;Jeremiah J. Faith;Federico E. Rey;Jiye Cheng

  • A classification of glycosyl hydrolases based on amino acid sequence similarities.

    B Henrissat

  • A Dietary Fiber-Deprived Gut Microbiota Degrades the Colonic Mucus Barrier and Enhances Pathogen Susceptibility

    Mahesh S. Desai;Mahesh S. Desai;Anna M. Seekatz;Nicole M. Koropatkin;Nobuhiko Kamada

  • New families in the classification of glycosyl hydrolases based on amino acid sequence similarities.

    Bernard Henrissat;Amos Marc Bairoch

  • Structures and mechanisms of glycosyl hydrolases

    Gideon Davies;Bernard Henrissat

  • Glycosyltransferases: structures, functions, and mechanisms.

    Lairson Ll;Henrissat B;Davies Gj;Withers Sg

  • Structural and sequence-based classification of glycoside hydrolases.

    Bernard Henrissat;Gideon Davies

  • Diet drives convergence in gut microbiome functions across mammalian phylogeny and within humans

    Brian D. Muegge;Justin Kuczynski;Dan Knights;Jose C. Clemente

  • The paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes

    Dimitrios Floudas;Manfred Binder;Robert Riley;Kerrie Barry

  • Updating the sequence-based classification of glycosyl hydrolases.

    Bernard Henrissat;Amos Marc Bairoch

  • Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

    Li Jun Ma;H. Charlotte Van Der Does;Katherine A. Borkovich;Jeffrey J. Coleman

  • The abundance and variety of carbohydrate-active enzymes in the human gut microbiota.

    Abdessamad El Kaoutari;Abdessamad El Kaoutari;Fabrice Armougom;Jeffrey I. Gordon;Didier Raoult

  • An evolving hierarchical family classification for glycosyltransferases.

    Pedro M. Coutinho;Emeline Deleury;Gideon J. Davies;Bernard Henrissat

  • Genome sequence of the metazoan plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita

    Pierre Abad;Pierre Abad;Jérôme Gouzy;Jean-Marc Aury;Jean-Marc Aury;Philippe Castagnone-Sereno;Philippe Castagnone-Sereno

  • The carbohydrate-active enzyme database: functions and literature.

    Elodie Drula;Marie-Line Garron;Suzan Dogan;Vincent Lombard

  • The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray) - eScholarship

    G.A. Tuskan;S. DiFazio;S. Jansson;J. Bohlmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pedro M. Coutinho
Pedro M. Coutinho Aix-Marseille University
Vincent Lombard
Vincent Lombard Aix-Marseille University
Ronald P. de Vries
Ronald P. de Vries Utrecht University
Asaf Salamov
Asaf Salamov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kerrie Barry
Kerrie Barry United States Department of Energy
Erika Lindquist
Erika Lindquist United States Department of Energy
Alan Kuo
Alan Kuo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kurt LaButti
Kurt LaButti United States Department of Energy
Francis Martin
Francis Martin University of Lorraine

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