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Gerrit Voordouw

Gerrit Voordouw

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
14468
World Ranking
5399
National Ranking
135

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
76
Citations
16805
World Ranking
5142
National Ranking
186

Overview

Gerrit Voordouw is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada, focusing research efforts on the intersection of engineering and environmental science. Their scholarly contributions primarily address themes such as corrosion behavior and inhibition, microbial community ecology and physiology, and genomics and phylogenetic studies. Additional topics of investigation include methane hydrates and related phenomena, water treatment and disinfection, odor and emission control technologies, as well as hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Voordouw's recent research outputs are published in a range of peer-reviewed scientific journals. These publications include:

  • A global perspective on bacterial diversity in the terrestrial deep subsurface, 2023, Microbiology
  • Microbial sulfite oxidation coupled to nitrate reduction in makeup water for oil production, 2021, Chemosphere
  • Anaerobic microbial communities and their potential for bioenergy production in heavily biodegraded petroleum reservoirs, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • Corrosion of Carbon Steel by a Thermophilic Sulfate-Reducing Consortium Enriched from Oilfield-Produced Waters, 2024, CORROSION

The venues where Voordouw has published include Microbiology, Chemosphere, Environmental Microbiology, and CORROSION. These journals reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their work spanning microbiology, environmental chemistry, and materials science related to engineering challenges.

Frequent collaborators in Voordouw's research encompass a diverse group of scholars. These include André Soares, Arwyn Edwards, De-Feng An, Alexandre Bagnoud, and James A. Bradley. Collaboration with these researchers appears across different studies involving microbial and environmental investigations, indicating a network engaged in microbial ecology and related applied sciences.

The subfields that Voordouw's work engages with are materials chemistry, ecology, molecular biology, environmental chemistry, and health, toxicology and mutagenesis. This range indicates a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating chemical, biological, and environmental aspects to address problems related to microbial activity in engineered and natural contexts.

Best Publications

  • The genome sequence of the anaerobic, sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough

    John F Heidelberg;Rekha Seshadri;Shelley A Haveman;Christopher L Hemme

  • Modification of porous media permeability, using calcium carbonate produced enzymatically in situ

    M. Nemati;G. Voordouw

  • Oil field souring control by nitrate-reducing Sulfurospirillum spp. that outcompete sulfate-reducing bacteria for organic electron donors.

    Casey Hubert;Gerrit Voordouw

  • A Post-Genomic View of the Ecophysiology, Catabolism and Biotechnological Relevance of Sulphate-Reducing Prokaryotes

    Ralf Rabus;Sofia S. Venceslau;Lars Wöhlbrand;Gerrit Voordouw

  • Characterization of 16S rRNA Genes from Oil Field Microbial Communities Indicates the Presence of a Variety of Sulfate- Reducing, Fermentative, and Sulfide-Oxidizing Bacteria

    G Voordouw;S M Armstrong;M F Reimer;B Fouts

  • Isolation and Characterization of Strains CVO and FWKO B, Two Novel Nitrate-Reducing, Sulfide-Oxidizing Bacteria Isolated from Oil Field Brine

    Diane Gevertz;Anita J. Telang;Gerrit Voordouw;Gary E. Jenneman

  • Nitrite reductase activity of sulphate-reducing bacteria prevents their inhibition by nitrate-reducing, sulphide-oxidizing bacteria

    E. A. Greene;C. Hubert;M. Nemati;G. E. Jenneman

  • Mechanistic study of microbial control of hydrogen sulfide production in oil reservoirs.

    M. Nemati;G. E. Jenneman;G. Voordouw

  • Permeability profile modification using bacterially formed calcium carbonate: comparison with enzymic option

    M. Nemati;E.A. Greene;G. Voordouw

  • Rubrerythrin and rubredoxin oxidoreductase in Desulfovibrio vulgaris: a novel oxidative stress protection system.

    Heather L. Lumppio;Neeta V. Shenvi;Anne O. Summers;Gerrit Voordouw

  • Freeze-thaw tolerance and clues to the winter survival of a soil community.

    Virginia K. Walker;Gerald R. Palmer;Gerrit Voordouw

  • Carbon and Sulfur Cycling by Microbial Communities in a Gypsum-Treated Oil Sands Tailings Pond

    Esther Ramos-Padrón;Sylvain Bordenave;Shiping Lin;Iyswarya Mani Bhaskar

  • Metagenomics of Hydrocarbon Resource Environments Indicates Aerobic Taxa and Genes to be Unexpectedly Common

    Dongshan An;Sean Caffrey;Jung Soh;Akhil Agrawal

  • Nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding the hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Hildenborough).

    Gerrit Voordouw;Sydney Brenner

  • Effect of Nitrate Injection on the Microbial Community in an Oil Field as Monitored by Reverse Sample Genome Probing

    A. J. Telang;S. Ebert;J. M. Foght;D. W. S. Westlake

  • Physiological and Gene Expression Analysis of Inhibition of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough by Nitrite

    Shelley A. Haveman;E. Anne Greene;Claire P. Stilwell;Johanna K. Voordouw

  • The hmc operon of Desulfovibrio vulgaris subsp. vulgaris Hildenborough encodes a potential transmembrane redox protein complex.

    M Rossi;W B Pollock;M W Reij;R G Keon

  • Control of biogenic H(2)S production with nitrite and molybdate.

    M Nemati;T J Mazutinec;G E Jenneman;G Voordouw

  • Corrosion risk associated with microbial souring control using nitrate or nitrite.

    Casey Hubert;Mehdi Nemati;Gary Jenneman;Gerrit Voordouw

  • Role of bound calcium ions in thermostable, proteolytic enzymes. Separation of intrinsic and calcium ion contributions to the kinetic thermal stability.

    Gerrit Voordouw;Carol Milo;Rodney S. Roche

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Wilhelm Sensen
Christoph Wilhelm Sensen Graz University of Technology
Julia M. Foght
Julia M. Foght University of Alberta
Judy D. Wall
Judy D. Wall University of Missouri
Cees Veeger
Cees Veeger Wageningen University & Research
Ian M. Head
Ian M. Head Newcastle University
Mireille Bruschi
Mireille Bruschi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Donald M. Kurtz
Donald M. Kurtz The University of Texas at San Antonio
Phillip M. Fedorak
Phillip M. Fedorak University of Alberta
Inês A. C. Pereira
Inês A. C. Pereira Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner Agency for Science, Technology and Research

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