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Dimitry Y. Sorokin is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology and Ecology within these fields. The scholar's work also intersects Environmental Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Plant Science.

Key research topics include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Metal Extraction and Bioleaching
  • Studies on Chitinases and Chitosanases
  • Enzyme Production and Characterization
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal

Dimitry Y. Sorokin has contributed to various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria
  • Systematic and Applied Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • The ISME Journal
  • Environmental Microbiology

The recent publications with the scientist as a contributing author include:

  • "Symbiosis between nanohaloarchaeon and haloarchaeon is based on utilization of different polysaccharides," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Dissimilatory sulfate reduction in the archaeon 'Candidatus Vulcanisaeta moutnovskia' sheds light on the evolution of sulfur metabolism," 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • "Trinuclear copper biocatalytic center forms an active site of thiocyanate dehydrogenase," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Wenzhouxiangella Strain AB-CW3, a Proteolytic Bacterium From Hypersaline Soda Lakes That Preys on Cells of Gram-Positive Bacteria," 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Tackling the chemical diversity of microbial nonulosonic acids - a universal large-scale survey approach," 2020, Chemical Science

Frequent collaborators of this researcher include:

  • Alexander Y. Merkel
  • Ilya V. Kublanov
  • Alexander G. Elcheninov
  • Nicole J. Bale
  • Michail M. Yakimov

Best Publications

  • Nitrification expanded: discovery, physiology and genomics of a nitrite-oxidizing bacterium from the phylum Chloroflexi.

    D.Y. Sorokin;S. Lücker;D. Vejmelkova;N.A. Kostrikina

  • Microbial diversity and biogeochemical cycling in soda lakes

    Dimitry Y. Sorokin;Tom Berben;Emily Denise Melton;Lex Overmars

  • Diversity, activity, and abundance of sulfate-reducing bacteria in saline and hypersaline soda lakes.

    M. Foti;D.Y. Sorokin;D.Y. Sorokin;B.P. Lomans;M. Mussman

  • Thioalkalimicrobium aerophilum gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thioalkalimicrobium sibericum sp. nov., and Thioalkalivibrio versutus gen. nov., sp. nov., Thioalkalivibrio nitratis sp. nov. and Thioalkalivibrio denitrificans sp. nov., novel obligately alkaliphilic and obligately chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from soda lakes

    Dimitry Yu. Sorokin;Anatoly M. Lysenko;Lubov' L. Mityushina;Tatyana P. Tourova

  • Discovery of extremely halophilic, methyl-reducing euryarchaea provides insights into the evolutionary origin of methanogenesis.

    Dimitry Y. Sorokin;Dimitry Y. Sorokin;Kira S. Makarova;Ben Abbas;Manuel Ferrer

  • The Microbial Sulfur Cycle at Extremely Haloalkaline Conditions of Soda Lakes

    D.Y. Sorokin;J.G. Kuenen;G. Muyzer

  • Haloalkaliphilic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria in soda lakes.

    Dimitry Yu. Sorokin;Dimitry Yu. Sorokin;Johannes Gijs Kuenen

  • Dethiobacter alkaliphilus gen. nov. sp. nov., and Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus gen. nov. sp. nov.: two novel representatives of reductive sulfur cycle from soda lakes

    D.Y. Sorokin;D.Y. Sorokin;T.P. Tourova;M. Mussmann;G. Muyzer

  • Metagenomic Insights into the Uncultured Diversity and Physiology of Microbes in Four Hypersaline Soda Lake Brines

    Charlotte D. Vavourakis;Rohit Ghai;Francisco Rodriguez-Valera;Dimitry Y. Sorokin

  • Unravelling the reasons for disproportion in the ratio of AOB and NOB in aerobic granular sludge

    Mari K. H. Winkler;João P. Bassin;João P. Bassin;Robbert Kleerebezem;Dimitry Y. Sorokin

  • A metagenomics roadmap to the uncultured genome diversity in hypersaline soda lake sediments.

    Charlotte D. Vavourakis;Adrian Stefan Andrei;Maliheh Mehrshad;Rohit Ghai

  • Chemolithotrophic haloalkaliphiles from soda lakes

    Dimitry Yu. Sorokin;Dimitry Yu. Sorokin;Johannes Gijs Kuenen

  • Classification of halo(alkali)philic and halo(alkali)tolerant methanotrophs provisionally assigned to the genera Methylomicrobium and Methylobacter and emended description of the genus Methylomicrobium.

    Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Valentina Khmelenina;Bulat Eshinimaev;Dimitry Sorokin

  • Microbial thiocyanate utilization under highly alkaline conditions

    Dimitry Y. Sorokin;Tatyana P. Tourova;Anatoly M. Lysenko;J. Gijs Kuenen

  • Functional microbiology of soda lakes

    Dimitry Y Sorokin;Dimitry Y Sorokin;Horia L Banciu;Gerard Muyzer

  • Thioalkalivibrio thiocyanoxidans sp. nov. and Thioalkalivibrio paradoxus sp. nov., novel alkaliphilic, obligately autotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria capable of growth on thiocyanate, from soda lakes.

    D.Y. Sorokin;T.P. Tourova;A.M. Lysenko;L.L. Mityushina

  • Physiological and genomic features of highly alkaliphilic hydrogen-utilizing Betaproteobacteria from a continental serpentinizing site

    Shino Suzuki;J. Gijs Kuenen;J. Gijs Kuenen;Kira Schipper;Kira Schipper;Suzanne van der Velde;Suzanne van der Velde

  • Isolation and characterization of a novel facultatively alkaliphilic Nitrobacter species, N. alkalicus sp. nov.

    D.Y. Sorokin;Gerad Muyzer;Thorsten Brinkhoff;J.G. Kuenen

  • Bacterial diversity and activity along a salinity gradient in soda lakes of the Kulunda Steppe (Altai, Russia)

    Mirjam J. Foti;Dimitry Yu. Sorokin;Dimitry Yu. Sorokin;Elena E. Zacharova;Nicolai V. Pimenov

  • Nitriliruptor alkaliphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a deep-lineage haloalkaliphilic actinobacterium from soda lakes capable of growth on aliphatic nitriles, and proposal of Nitriliruptoraceae fam. nov. and Nitriliruptorales ord. nov.

    Dimitry Yu. Sorokin;Dimitry Yu. Sorokin;Sander van Pelt;Tatjana P. Tourova;Lyudmila I. Evtushenko

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard Muyzer
Gerard Muyzer University of Amsterdam
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Ben Abbas
Ben Abbas Delft University of Technology
Erwin A. Galinski
Erwin A. Galinski University of Bonn
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute
Peter N. Golyshin
Peter N. Golyshin Bangor University
Manuel Ferrer
Manuel Ferrer Spanish National Research Council
Robbert Kleerebezem
Robbert Kleerebezem Delft University of Technology
Tanja Woyke
Tanja Woyke Joint Genome Institute
Tatyana P. Tourova
Tatyana P. Tourova Russian Academy of Sciences

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