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Jakob Zopfi is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and has a research focus rooted primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their body of work spans multiple subfields such as Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Molecular Biology.

Their research explores diverse topics with notable emphasis on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Zopfi's recent publications reflect a range of environmental and microbial topics. Selected papers include:

  • Comprehensive dataset of shotgun metagenomes from oxygen stratified freshwater lakes and ponds, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Distributions and sources of isoprenoidal GDGTs in Lake Lugano and other central European (peri-)alpine lakes: Lessons for their use as paleotemperature proxies, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Controls of H2S, Fe2+, and Mn2+ on Microbial NO3--Reducing Processes in Sediments of an Eutrophic Lake, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Amino acid and amino sugar compositional changes during in vitro degradation of algal organic matter indicate rapid bacterial re-synthesis, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Targeted non-invasive bioindicator species detection in eDNA water samples to assess and monitor the integrity of vulnerable alpine freshwater environments, 2021, Ecological Indicators

Zopfi regularly publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Microbiology, Biogeosciences, Limnology and Oceanography, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

The scientist frequently collaborates with others in their field. Notable coauthors include Moritz F. Lehmann, Guangyi Su, Helge Niemann, Jana Tischer, and Yuki Weber.

Best Publications

  • Molecular detection of anammox bacteria in terrestrial ecosystems: distribution and diversity

    Sylvia Humbert;Sonia Tarnawski;Nathalie Fromin;Marc-Philippe Mallet

  • Sulfate reduction and anaerobic methane oxidation in Black Sea sediments

    Bo Barker Jørgensen;Andreas Weber;Jakob Zopfi

  • Nitrogen, carbon, and sulfur metabolism in natural thioploca samples

    Sandra Otte;J. Gijs Kuenen;Lars P. Nielsen;Hans W. Paerl

  • Volatiles produced by soil-borne endophytic bacteria increase plant pathogen resistance and affect tritrophic interactions.

    Marco D'alessandro;Matthias Erb;Jurriaan Ton;Anna Brandenburg

  • Composition of bacterial and archaeal communities in freshwater sediments with different contamination levels (Lake Geneva, Switzerland)

    Laurence Haller;Mauro Tonolla;Jakob Zopfi;Raffaele Peduzzi

  • Distribution and fate of sulfur intermediates—sulfite, tetrathionate, thiosulfate, and elemental sulfur—in marine sediments

    J. Zopfi;T.G. Ferdelman;H. Fossing

  • Dynamics and interaction of organic carbon, turbidity and bacteria in a karst aquifer system

    Michiel Pronk;Nicola Goldscheider;Jakob Zopfi

  • Distribution of sulfate-reducing and methanogenic bacteria in anaerobic aggregates determined by microsensor and molecular analyses

    Cecilia M. Santegoeds;Lars Riis Damgaard;Gijs Hesselink;Jakob Zopfi

  • Particle-Size Distribution As Indicator for Fecal Bacteria Contamination of Drinking Water from Karst Springs

    Michiel Pronk;Nico Goldscheider;Jakob Zopfi

  • Percolation and particle transport in the unsaturated zone of a karst aquifer.

    Michiel Pronk;Nicola Goldscheider;Jakob Zopfi;François Zwahlen

  • Influence of water column dynamics on sulfide oxidation and other major biogeochemical processes in the chemocline of Mariager Fjord (Denmark)

    Jakob Zopfi;Timothy G Ferdelman;Bo Barker Jørgensen;Andreas Teske

  • Carbon and chlorine isotope fractionation during aerobic oxidation and reductive dechlorination of vinyl chloride and cis-1,2-dichloroethene

    Yumiko Abe;Ramon Aravena;Jakob Zopfi;O Shouakar-Stash

  • Redox-dependent niche differentiation provides evidence for multiple bacterial sources of glycerol tetraether lipids in lakes

    Yuki Weber;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Jakob Zopfi;Cindy De Jonge

  • Micro-aerobic bacterial methane oxidation in the chemocline and anoxic water column of deep south-Alpine Lake Lugano (Switzerland)

    Jan Blees;Helge Niemann;Christine B. Wenk;Jakob Zopfi

  • Microbial communities in karst groundwater and their potential use for biomonitoring

    Michiel Pronk;Nicola Goldscheider;Jakob Zopfi

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria and sulfide-dependent denitrifiers coexist in the water column of a meromictic south-alpine lake

    Christine B. Wenk;Jan Blees;Jakob Zopfi;Mauro Veronesi

  • Fungi, bacteria and soil pH : the oxalate-carbonate pathway as a model for metabolic interaction

    Gaëtan Martin;Matteo Guggiari;Daniel Bravo;Jakob Zopfi;Jakob Zopfi

  • Ecology of Thioploca spp.: nitrate and sulfur storage in relation to chemical microgradients and influence of Thioploca spp. on the sedimentary nitrogen cycle.

    Jakob Zopfi;Thomas Kjær;Lars P. Nielsen;Bo Barker Jørgensen

  • Geobacteraceae are important members of mercury-methylating microbial communities of sediments impacted by waste water releases.

    Andrea Garcia Bravo;Jakob Zopfi;Moritz Buck;Jingying Xu

  • Extremely elevated methyl mercury levels in water, sediment and organisms in a Romanian reservoir affected by release of mercury from a chlor-alkali plant

    Andrea Garcia Bravo;Claudia Cosio;David Amouroux;Jakob Zopfi

  • Abundance of anammox bacteria in different wetland soils

    Sylvia Humbert;Jakob Zopfi;Sonia-Estelle Tarnawski

Frequent Co-Authors

Moritz F. Lehmann
Moritz F. Lehmann University of Basel
Helge Niemann
Helge Niemann Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Carsten J. Schubert
Carsten J. Schubert Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Tina Treude
Tina Treude University of California, Los Angeles
David A. B. Dance
David A. B. Dance University of Oxford
Bo Barker Jørgensen
Bo Barker Jørgensen Aarhus University
David Amouroux
David Amouroux University of Pau and the Adour Region
John Poté
John Poté University of Geneva
Paul N. Newton
Paul N. Newton University of Oxford
Daniel Hunkeler
Daniel Hunkeler University of Neuchâtel

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