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Harald Huber is affiliated with the University of Regensburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, engineering, and environmental science. Their research spans a range of subfields including molecular biology, biomedical engineering, building and construction, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and environmental chemistry.

Their work covers several main topics such as anaerobic digestion and biogas production, genomics and phylogenetic studies, photodynamic therapy research studies, nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, methane hydrates and related phenomena, enzyme structure and function, as well as microbial community ecology and physiology.

Huber has published research in various scientific venues with frequent appearances in:

  • Archives of Microbiology
  • Communications Biology
  • Bioresource Technology
  • Photochemistry and Photobiology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Underground gas storage as a promising natural methane bioreactor and reservoir?, 2021, Journal of Energy Storage
  • The Rnf complex is a Na+ coupled respiratory enzyme in a fermenting bacterium, Thermotoga maritima, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Optimized biological CO2-methanation with a pure culture of thermophilic methanogenic archaea in a trickle-bed reactor, 2021, Bioresource Technology
  • A promiscuous ancestral enzyme´s structure unveils protein variable regions of the highly diverse metallo-β-lactamase family, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Functional compartmentalization and metabolic separation in a prokaryotic cell, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in Huber's research include Magdalena Fürnkranz, Daniel Bernhard Eckl, Wolfgang Bäumler, Annett Bellack, and Ivan A. Berg. The collaboration counts range from five to twelve joint works, showing a consistent teamwork pattern in related research areas.

Best Publications

  • A new phylum of Archaea represented by a nanosized hyperthermophilic symbiont

    Harald Huber;Michael J. Hohn;Reinhard Rachel;Tanja Fuchs;Tanja Fuchs

  • Microbial syntrophy: interaction for the common good

    Brandon E.L. Morris;Ruth Henneberger;Harald Huber;Christine Moissl-Eichinger

  • Crystal structure of the thermosome, the archaeal chaperonin and homolog of CCT.

    Lars Ditzel;Jan Löwe;Daniela Stock;Karl-Otto Stetter

  • Identification of 86 candidates for small non-messenger RNAs from the archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus

    Thean-Hock Tang;Jean-Pierre Bachellerie;Timofey Rozhdestvensky;Marie-Line Bortolin

  • A dicarboxylate/4-hydroxybutyrate autotrophic carbon assimilation cycle in the hyperthermophilic Archaeum Ignicoccus hospitalis

    Harald Huber;Martin Gallenberger;Ulrike Jahn;Eva Eylert

  • Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus, a novel thermophilic lithotrophic methanogen

    Harald Huber;Michael Thomm;Helmut König;Gesa Thies

  • Pyrite formation linked with hydrogen evolution under anaerobic conditions

    E. Drobner;Harald Huber;G. Wächtershäuser;D. Rose

  • Ferroglobus placidus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic archaeum that oxidizes Fe2+ at neutral pH under anoxic conditions

    D. Hafenbradl;M. Keller;R. Dirmeier;Reinhard Rachel

  • Respiration of Arsenate and Selenate by Hyperthermophilic Archaea

    Robert Huber;Meik Sacher;Arabel Vollmann;Harald Huber

  • Identification of novel non-coding RNAs as potential antisense regulators in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

    Thean-Hock Tang;Norbert Polacek;Marek Zywicki;Marek Zywicki;Harald Huber

  • Methanothermus fervidus, sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic methanogen isolated from an Icelandic hot spring

    Karl O. Stetter;Michael Thomm;Josef Winter;Gertrud Wildgruber

  • Thermocrinis ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a Pink-Filament-Forming Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Isolated from Yellowstone National Park

    Robert Huber;Wolfgang Eder;Stefan Heldwein;Gerhard Wanner

  • In Situ Accessibility of Small-Subunit rRNA of Members of the Domains Bacteria, Archaea, and Eucarya to Cy3-Labeled Oligonucleotide Probes

    Sebastian Behrens;Caroline Rühland;João Inácio;Harald Huber

  • Autotrophic CO2 fixation pathways in archaea (Crenarchaeota)

    Michael Hügler;Harald Huber;Karl Otto Stetter;Georg Fuchs

  • Reclassification of the crenarchaeal orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data

    S. Burggraf;H. Huber;K. O. Stetter

  • Towards the ecology of hyperthermophiles: biotopes, new isolation strategies and novel metabolic properties

    R. Huber;H. Huber;K.O. Stetter

  • Organic solutes in hyperthermophilic archaea.

    L O Martins;R Huber;H Huber;K O Stetter

  • Thiobacillus prosperus sp. nov., represents a new group of halotolerant metal-mobilizing bacteria isolated from a marine geothermal field

    Harald Huber;Karl Otto Stetter

  • Presence of Acetyl Coenzyme A (CoA) Carboxylase and Propionyl-CoA Carboxylase in Autotrophic Crenarchaeota and Indication for Operation of a 3-Hydroxypropionate Cycle in Autotrophic Carbon Fixation

    Castor Menendez;Zsuzsa Bauer;Harald Huber;Nasser Gad’on

  • RNomics in Archaea reveals a further link between splicing of archaeal introns and rRNA processing

    Thean Hock Tang;Timofey S. Rozhdestvensky;Béatrice Clouet d’Orval;Marie-Line Bortolin

  • Autotrophic CO2 fixation via the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle in different lineages within the phylum Aquificae: evidence for two ways of citrate cleavage.

    Michael Hügler;Harald Huber;Stephen J. Molyneaux;Costantino Vetriani

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl O. Stetter
Karl O. Stetter University of Regensburg
Reinhard Rachel
Reinhard Rachel University of Regensburg
Michael Thomm
Michael Thomm University of Regensburg
Miguel Teixeira
Miguel Teixeira Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Volker Müller
Volker Müller Goethe University Frankfurt
Miriam Land
Miriam Land Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mircea Podar
Mircea Podar Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Alla Lapidus
Alla Lapidus Saint Petersburg State University
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute

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