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Bert Engelen is affiliated with the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular attention to subfields such as ecology, environmental chemistry, oceanography, molecular biology, and geochemistry and petrology.

The scientist's research interests cover a range of main topics including methane hydrates and related phenomena, microbial community ecology and physiology, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, genomics and phylogenetic studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and groundwater and isotope geochemistry.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Bert Engelen demonstrate engagement with diverse subject areas and include:

  • Mechanical properties of diamond lattice Ti-6Al-4V structures produced by laser powder bed fusion: On the effect of the load direction, 2020, Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
  • Auxiliary Metabolic Gene Functions in Pelagic and Benthic Viruses of the Baltic Sea, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Seasonal Dynamics of Microbial Diversity at a Sandy High Energy Beach Reveal a Resilient Core Community, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Impact of Viral Lysis on the Composition of Bacterial Communities and Dissolved Organic Matter in Deep-Sea Sediments, 2020, Viruses
  • The Spiekeroog Coastal Observatory: A Scientific Infrastructure at the Land-Sea Transition Zone (Southern North Sea), 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science

Bert Engelen frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Microorganisms
  • Viruses
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The scientist has collaborated regularly with the following co-authors:

  • Jutta Niggemann
  • Hannelore Waska
  • Julius Degenhardt
  • Benedikt Heyerhoff
  • Gudrun Massmann

Best Publications

  • Distributions of Microbial Activities in Deep Subseafloor Sediments

    Steven D'Hondt;Bo Barker Jørgensen;D. Jay Miller;Anja Batzke

  • Direct ribosome isolation from soil to extract bacterial rRNA for community analysis.

    A Felske;B Engelen;U Nübel;H Backhaus

  • Monitoring Impact of a Pesticide Treatment on Bacterial Soil Communities by Metabolic and Genetic Fingerprinting in Addition to Conventional Testing Procedures

    Bert Engelen;Kristin Meinken;Friedrich von Wintzingerode;Holger Heuer

  • Microbial Diversity in Coastal Subsurface Sediments: a Cultivation Approach Using Various Electron Acceptors and Substrate Gradients

    Beate Köpke;Reinhard Wilms;Bert Engelen;Heribert Cypionka

  • Specific bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic communities in tidal-flat sediments along a vertical profile of several meters.

    Reinhard Wilms;Henrik Sass;Beate Köpke;Jürgen Köster

  • Methane and sulfate profiles within the subsurface of a tidal flat are reflected by the distribution of sulfate-reducing bacteria and methanogenic archaea

    Reinhard Wilms;Henrik Sass;Beate Köpke;Heribert Cypionka

  • Trends in Basalt and Sediment Core Contamination During IODP Expedition 301

    Mark Alexander Lever;Marc Alperin;Bert Engelen;Fumio Inagaki

  • Acetogens and Acetoclastic Methanosarcinales Govern Methane Formation in Abandoned Coal Mines

    Sabrina Beckmann;Tillmann Lueders;Martin Krüger;Frederick von Netzer

  • Deep biosphere-related bacteria within the subsurface of tidal flat sediments.

    Reinhard Wilms;Beate Köpke;Henrik Sass;Tae Soo Chang

  • The drivers of biogeochemistry in beach ecosystems: A cross-shore transect from the dunes to the low-water line

    Melanie Beck;Anja Reckhardt;Julia Amelsberg;Alexander Bartholomä

  • High virus-to-cell ratios indicate ongoing production of viruses in deep subsurface sediments.

    Tim Engelhardt;Jens Kallmeyer;Heribert Cypionka;Bert Engelen

  • Quantitative analysis of bacterial communities from Mediterranean sapropels based on cultivation‐dependent methods

    Jacqueline Süß;Bert Engelen;Heribert Cypionka;Henrik Sass

  • Fluids from the Oceanic Crust Support Microbial Activities within the Deep Biosphere

    B. Engelen;K. Ziegelmueller;L. Wolf;B. Kopke

  • A laboratory experiment of intact polar lipid degradation in sandy sediments

    J. Logemann;J. Graue;J. Köster;B. Engelen

  • Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Cultured Deep-Biosphere Bacteria from Equatorial Pacific Ocean and Peru Margin Sediments

    Anja Batzke;Bert Engelen;Henrik Sass;Heribert Cypionka

  • Microbial Community in Black Rust Exposed to Hot Ridge Flank Crustal Fluids

    Satoshi Nakagawa;Fumio Inagaki;Yohey Suzuki;Bjørn Olav Steinsbu

  • Microbial Methane Formation from Hard Coal and Timber in an Abandoned Coal Mine

    Martin Krüger;Sabrina Beckmann;Bert Engelen;Thomas Thielemann

  • The Majority of Active Rhodobacteraceae in Marine Sediments Belong to Uncultured Genera: A Molecular Approach to Link Their Distribution to Environmental Conditions.

    Marion Pohlner;Leon Dlugosch;Bernd Wemheuer;Heath Mills

  • Effect of petrochemical sludge concentrations on microbial communities during soil bioremediation

    María T. Del Panno;Irma S. Morelli;Bert Engelen;Luise Berthe-Corti

  • Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Pore Water Chemistry in the Inter-Tidal Zone of a High Energy Beach

    Hannelore Waska;J. Greskowiak;J. Ahrens;M. Beck

  • Degradation of cyanobacterial biomass in anoxic tidal-flat sediments: a microcosm study of metabolic processes and community changes.

    Jutta Graue;Bert Engelen;Heribert Cypionka

  • Archaeoglobus sulfaticallidus sp. nov., a thermophilic and facultatively lithoautotrophic sulfate-reducer isolated from black rust exposed to hot ridge flank crustal fluids.

    Bjørn O. Steinsbu;Ingunn H. Thorseth;Satoshi Nakagawa;Fumio Inagaki

  • Biogeography of Rhizobium radiobacter and distribution of associated temperate phages in deep subseafloor sediments

    Tim Engelhardt;Monika Sahlberg;Heribert Cypionka;Bert Engelen

  • Role of Bacteria, Archaea and fungi involved in methane release

    Sabrina Beckmann;Martin Krüger;Bert Engelen;Heribert Cypionka

Frequent Co-Authors

Heribert Cypionka
Heribert Cypionka Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Jürgen Rullkötter
Jürgen Rullkötter Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Fumio Inagaki
Fumio Inagaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Mark A. Lever
Mark A. Lever ETH Zurich
Helge Niemann
Helge Niemann Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Gunter Wegener
Gunter Wegener Max Planck Society
Andreas P Teske
Andreas P Teske University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Holger Heuer
Holger Heuer Julius Kühn-Institut
Hans-Jürgen Brumsack
Hans-Jürgen Brumsack Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute

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