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Overview

Dietmar H. Pieper is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on molecular biology, epidemiology, ecology, infectious diseases, and surgery.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
  • Preterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Diet and metabolism studies

Pieper has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Potential TMA-Producing Bacteria Are Ubiquitously Found in Mammalia, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Toward Biorecycling: Isolation of a Soil Bacterium That Grows on a Polyurethane Oligomer and Monomer, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Vaginal and neonatal microbiota in pregnant women with preterm premature rupture of membranes and consecutive early onset neonatal sepsis, 2023, BMC Medicine
  • Higher Trimethylamine-N-Oxide Plasma Levels with Increasing Age Are Mediated by Diet and Trimethylamine-Forming Bacteria, 2021, mSystems
  • The emerging potential of microbiome transplantation on human health interventions, 2022, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Collaborations have been an important part of Pieper's scientific activities. They have frequently co-authored with researchers such as Howard Junca, Silke Kahl, Marius Vital, Iris Plumeier, and Luiz Gustavo dos Anjos Borges, contributing to a range of interdisciplinary studies.

Best Publications

  • Engineering bacteria for bioremediation.

    Dietmar H Pieper;Walter Reineke

  • Uncovering the trimethylamine-producing bacteria of the human gut microbiota

    Silke Rath;Benjamin Heidrich;Dietmar H. Pieper;Marius Vital

  • Colonic Butyrate-Producing Communities in Humans: an Overview Using Omics Data.

    Marius Vital;André Karch;Dietmar H. Pieper

  • Aerobic degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls

    Dietmar H. Pieper

  • Polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading microbial communities in soils and sediments.

    Wolf Rainer Abraham;Balbina Nogales;Peter N Golyshin;Dietmar H Pieper

  • Genomic analysis of the potential for aromatic compounds biodegradation in Burkholderiales.

    Danilo Pérez-Pantoja;Raúl Donoso;Raúl Donoso;Loreine Agulló;Macarena Córdova

  • Tackling Threats and Future Problems of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria.

    Eva Medina;Dietmar Helmut Pieper

  • Characterisation of the human uterine microbiome in non-pregnant women through deep sequencing of the V1-2 region of the 16S rRNA gene.

    Hans Verstraelen;Ramiro Vilchez-Vargas;Fabian Desimpel;Ruy Jauregui

  • Assemblage of ortho cleavage route for simultaneous degradation of chloro- and methylaromatics

    Fernando Rojo;Dietmar H. Pieper;Karl-Heinrich Engesser;Hans-Joachim Knackmuss

  • Bacterial metabolism of polychlorinated biphenyls.

    Dietmar H. Pieper;Michael Seeger

  • Metabolic reconstruction of aromatic compounds degradation from the genome of the amazing pollutant-degrading bacterium Cupriavidus necator JMP134

    Danilo Pérez-Pantoja;Rodrigo De la Iglesia;Dietmar H. Pieper;Bernardo González

  • Comparing the anterior nare bacterial community of two discrete human populations using Illumina amplicon sequencing

    Amélia Camarinha-Silva;Ruy Jáuregui;Diego Chaves-Moreno;Andrew P.A. Oxley

  • The active bacterial assemblages of the upper GI tract in individuals with and without Helicobacter infection

    Christian Schulz;Kerstin Schütte;Nadine Koch;Ramiro Vilchez-Vargas

  • Metabolism of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, 4-chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic acid and 2-methylphenoxyacetic acid by Alcaligenes eutrophus JMP 134

    Dietmar Helmut Pieper;Walter Reineke;Karl-Heinrich Engesser;Hans-Joachim Knackmuss

  • The urinary microbiota of men and women and its changes in women during bacterial vaginosis and antibiotic treatment

    Cornelia Gottschick;Zhi-Luo Deng;Marius Vital;Clarissa Masur

  • The culturome of the human nose habitats reveals individual bacterial fingerprint patterns

    Ursula Kaspar;André Kriegeskorte;Tanja Schubert;Georg Peters

  • Alternative primer sets for PCR detection of genotypes involved in bacterial aerobic BTEX degradation: distribution of the genes in BTEX degrading isolates and in subsurface soils of a BTEX contaminated industrial site

    Barbara Hendrickx;Howard Junca;Jolana Vosahlova;Antje Lindner

  • Analysis of Transcriptionally Active Bacteria Throughout the Gastrointestinal Tract of Healthy Individuals

    Riccardo Vasapolli;Kerstin Schütte;Christian Schulz;Christian Schulz;Marius Vital

  • Comparative evaluation of establishing a human gut microbial community within rodent models

    Melissa L. Wos-Oxley;André Bleich;Andrew P.A. Oxley;Silke Kahl

  • Analysis of the microbial gene landscape and transcriptome for aromatic pollutants and alkane degradation using a novel internally calibrated microarray system

    Ramiro Vilchez-Vargas;Robert Geffers;María Suárez-Diez;Ianina Conte

  • A poke into the diversity and associations within human anterior nare microbial communities

    Melissa L Wos-Oxley;Iris Plumeier;Christof von Eiff;Stefan Taudien

Frequent Co-Authors

Marius Vital
Marius Vital Hannover Medical School
Kenneth N. Timmis
Kenneth N. Timmis Technische Universität Braunschweig
Nico Boon
Nico Boon Ghent University
Tom Van de Wiele
Tom Van de Wiele Ghent University
Victor Wray
Victor Wray Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Eva Medina
Eva Medina Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Siegfried E. Vlaeminck
Siegfried E. Vlaeminck University of Antwerp
Irene Wagner-Döbler
Irene Wagner-Döbler Technische Universität Braunschweig
Robert Geffers
Robert Geffers Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Hans-Joachim Knackmuss
Hans-Joachim Knackmuss University of Stuttgart

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