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Dirk Springael

Dirk Springael

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
66
Citations
12393
World Ranking
8860
National Ranking
159

Overview

Dirk Springael is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a significant body of research focused on environmental science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including pollution, molecular biology, ecology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and environmental chemistry. Springael's research primarily addresses key topics such as pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, microbial community ecology and physiology, pesticide and herbicide environmental studies, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants, biofuel production and bioconversion, and microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction.

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Springael include Benjamin Horemans, Rob Lavigne, Ilse Smets, Karoline Faust, and Başak Öztürk.

The scientist has published regularly in several venues, with the most frequent being Environmental Science & Technology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Water Research, Frontiers in Microbiology, and The ISME Journal.

Among recent papers authored by Springael or within their network are:

  • Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic insights into the complex nitrogen metabolic pathways in a single-stage bioreactor coupling partial denitrification with anammox, 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Nonylphenol ethoxylates biodegradation increases estrogenicity of textile wastewater in biological treatment systems, 2020, Water Research
  • Methane paradox in tropical lakes? Sedimentary fluxes rather than pelagic production in oxic conditions sustain methanotrophy and emissions to the atmosphere, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Culture-Independent Analysis of Linuron-Mineralizing Microbiota and Functions in on-Farm Biopurification Systems via DNA-Stable Isotope Probing: Comparison with Enrichment Culture, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Comparative Genomics Suggests Mechanisms of Genetic Adaptation toward the Catabolism of the Phenylurea Herbicide Linuron in Variovorax, 2020, Genome Biology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Isolation of Adherent Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH)-Degrading Bacteria Using PAH-Sorbing Carriers

    Leen Bastiaens;Dirk Springael;Pierre Wattiau;Hauke Harms

  • The role of mobile genetic elements in bacterial adaptation to xenobiotic organic compounds.

    Eva M Top;Dirk Springael

  • Is biological treatment a viable alternative for micropollutant removal in drinking water treatment processes

    Jessica Benner;Damian E. Helbling;Hans-Peter E. Kohler;Janneke Wittebol

  • DsrB gene-based DGGE for community and diversity surveys of sulfate-reducing bacteria

    Joke Geets;Brigitte Borremans;Ludo Diels;Dirk Springael

  • Occurrence and Phylogenetic Diversity of Sphingomonas Strains in Soils Contaminated with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

    Natalie M. E. J. Leys;Natalie M. E. J. Leys;Annemie Ryngaert;Leen Bastiaens;Willy Verstraete

  • Biodegradation: Updating the Concepts of Control for Microbial Cleanup in Contaminated Aquifers

    Rainer U. Meckenstock;Martin Elsner;Christian Griebler;Tillmann Lueders

  • Catabolic mobile genetic elements and their potential use in bioaugmentation of polluted soils and waters.

    Eva M. Top;Eva M. Top;Dirk Springael;Dirk Springael;Nico Boon

  • Influence of the carbon/nitrogen/phosphorus ratio on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation by Mycobacterium and Sphingomonas in soil

    Natalie M. Leys;Leen Bastiaens;Willy Verstraete;Dirk Springael

  • Responses of Mycobacterium sp. LB501T to the low bioavailability of solid anthracene.

    L.Y. Wick;A.R de Munain;Dirk Springael;H. Harms

  • Horizontal gene transfer and microbial adaptation to xenobiotics: new types of mobile genetic elements and lessons from ecological studies

    Dirk Springael;Eva M Top

  • 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

  • Identification of a gene cluster, czr, involved in cadmium and zinc resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    M.T Hassan;D van der Lelie;Dirk Springael;U Romling

  • Chromosomal Integration, Tandem Amplification, and Deamplification in Pseudomonas putida F1 of a 105-Kilobase Genetic Element Containing the Chlorocatechol Degradative Genes from Pseudomonas sp. Strain B13

    Roald Ravatn;Sonja Studer;Dirk Springael;Alexander J. B. Zehnder

  • Bacteria, not archaea, restore nitrification in a zinc-contaminated soil.

    Jelle Mertens;Kris Broos;Kris Broos;Steven A Wakelin;George A Kowalchuk

  • Microbial community structure of a heavy fuel oil-degrading marine consortium: linking microbial dynamics with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon utilization

    Joaquim Vila;José María Nieto;Jelle Mertens;Dirk Springael

  • Gene escape model: transfer of heavy metal resistance genes from Escherichia coli to Alcaligenes eutrophus on agar plates and in soil samples.

    E Top;M Mergeay;D Springael;W Verstraete

  • Identification of a catabolic transposon, Tn4371, carrying biphenyl and 4-chlorobiphenyl degradation genes in Alcaligenes eutrophus A5.

    D Springael;S Kreps;M Mergeay

  • Effect of humic acids on heavy metal removal by zero-valent iron in batch and continuous flow column systems

    Jan Dries;Leen Bastiaens;Dirk Springael;Stefaan Kuypers

  • Elucidation of the metabolic pathway of fluorene and cometabolic pathways of phenanthrene, fluoranthene, anthracene and dibenzothiophene by Sphingomonas sp. LB126

    René van Herwijnen;Pierre Wattiau;Leen Bastiaens;Ludwin Daal

  • Overview of on-farm bioremediation systems to reduce the occurrence of point source contamination.

    Tineke De Wilde;Pieter Spanoghe;Christof Debaer;Jaak Ryckeboer

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Smolders
Erik Smolders KU Leuven
Ludo Diels
Ludo Diels Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Max Mergeay
Max Mergeay Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Johan Hofkens
Johan Hofkens KU Leuven
Eva M. Top
Eva M. Top University of Idaho
Spiros N. Agathos
Spiros N. Agathos Université Catholique de Louvain
Hauke Smidt
Hauke Smidt Wageningen University & Research
Ruddy Wattiez
Ruddy Wattiez University of Mons
Rob Lavigne
Rob Lavigne KU Leuven
Lars Hestbjerg Hansen
Lars Hestbjerg Hansen University of Copenhagen

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