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Jochen Blom is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans numerous subfields including molecular biology, plant science, ecology, microbiology, and immunology.

The scientist's work centers around topics such as genomics and phylogenetic studies, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, plant pathogenic bacteria studies, microbial infections and disease research, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, and legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Alexander Goesmann, Tobias Eisenberg, Daniel Wibberg, Peter Kämpfer, and Jörn Kalinowski.

Jochen Blom has published extensively in scientific journals, with a notable presence in the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, Frontiers in Microbiology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Microorganisms, and the bioRxiv preprint server. These venues have hosted a significant portion of their work.

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Jochen Blom include:

  • Bakta: rapid and standardized annotation of bacterial genomes via alignment-free sequence identification, 2021, Microbial Genomics
  • EDGAR3.0: comparative genomics and phylogenomics on a scalable infrastructure, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • All ANIs are not created equal: implications for prokaryotic species boundaries and integration of ANIs into polyphasic taxonomy, 2020, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Identification of Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants in Aeromonas veronii Strain MS-17-88 Recovered From Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), 2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Complete genome sequence and comparative genomic analysis of Enterococcus faecalis EF-2001, a probiotic bacterium, 2021, Genomics

Best Publications

  • Bakta: rapid and standardized annotation of bacterial genomes via alignment-free sequence identification.

    Oliver Schwengers;Lukas Jelonek;Marius Alfred Dieckmann;Sebastian Beyvers

  • Whole Genome Sequencing versus Traditional Genotyping for Investigation of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Outbreak: A Longitudinal Molecular Epidemiological Study

    Andreas Roetzer;Roland Diel;Thomas A. Kohl;Christian Rückert

  • EDGAR: a software framework for the comparative analysis of prokaryotic genomes.

    Jochen Blom;Stefan P Albaum;Daniel Doppmeier;Alfred Pühler

  • Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Bacillus velezensis, and Bacillus siamensis Form an "Operational Group B. amyloliquefaciens" within the B. subtilis Species Complex.

    Ben Fan;Jochen Blom;Hans Peter Klenk;Rainer Borriss

  • EDGAR 2.0: an enhanced software platform for comparative gene content analyses.

    Jochen Blom;Julian Kreis;Sebastian Spänig;Tobias Juhre

  • Relationship of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens clades associated with strains DSM 7T and FZB42T: a proposal for Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subsp. amyloliquefaciens subsp. nov. and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subsp. plantarum subsp. nov. based on complete genome sequence comparisons.

    Rainer Borriss;Xiao-Hua Chen;Christian Rueckert;Jochen Blom

  • Evaluation of qPCR curve analysis methods for reliable biomarker discovery: bias, resolution, precision, and implications.

    Jan M. Ruijter;Michael W. Pfaffl;Sheng Zhao;Andrej N. Spiess

  • Brucella vulpis sp. nov., isolated from mandibular lymph nodes of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)

    Holger C. Scholz;Sandra Revilla-Fernández;Sascha Al Dahouk;Jens A. Hammerl

  • Whole-genome comparison of disease and carriage strains provides insights into virulence evolution in Neisseria meningitidis

    Christoph Schoen;Jochen Blom;Heike Claus;Anja Schramm-Glück

  • Complete genome sequence of the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora CFBP 1430 and comparison to other Erwinia spp.

    Theo H. M. Smits;Fabio Rezzonico;Tim Kamber;Jochen Blom

  • The genomics of Acinetobacter baumannii: insights into genome plasticity, antimicrobial resistance and pathogenicity.

    Francesco Imperi;Luísa C.S. Antunes;Jochen Blom;Laura Villa

  • Comparative genomics of Lactobacillus

    Ravi Kant;Jochen Blom;Airi Palva;Roland J. Siezen

  • Genome sequence of B. amyloliquefaciens type strain DSM7(T) reveals differences to plant-associated B. amyloliquefaciens FZB42.

    Christian Ruckert;Jochen Blom;XiaoHau Chen;Oleg N. Reva

  • Insect pathogenicity in plant-beneficial pseudomonads: phylogenetic distribution and comparative genomics

    Pascale Flury;Nora Aellen;Beat Ruffner;Maria Péchy-Tarr

  • Complete genome sequencing of Agrobacterium sp. H13-3, the former Rhizobium lupini H13-3, reveals a tripartite genome consisting of a circular and a linear chromosome and an accessory plasmid but lacking a tumor-inducing Ti-plasmid

    Daniel Wibberg;Jochen Blom;Sebastian Jaenicke;Florian Kollin

  • Pangenomic study of Corynebacterium diphtheriae that provides insights into the genomic diversity of pathogenic isolates from cases of classical diphtheria, endocarditis, and pneumonia

    Eva Trost;Jochen Blom;Siomar de Castro Soares;Siomar de Castro Soares;I-Hsiu Huang

  • The Pan-Genome of the Animal Pathogen Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis Reveals Differences in Genome Plasticity between the Biovar ovis and equi Strains

    Siomar C Soares;Siomar C Soares;Artur Silva;Eva Trost;Jochen Blom

  • Phylogenomic re-assessment of the thermophilic genus Geobacillus

    Habibu Aliyu;Pedro H. Lebre;Jochen Blom;Don A. Cowan

  • EDGAR3.0: comparative genomics and phylogenomics on a scalable infrastructure.

    Marius Alfred Dieckmann;Sebastian Beyvers;Rudel Christian Nkouamedjo-Fankep;Patrick Harald Georg Hanel

  • Next-generation sequencing of the Chinese hamster ovary microRNA transcriptome: Identification, annotation and profiling of microRNAs as targets for cellular engineering

    Matthias Hackl;Tobias Jakobi;Jochen Blom;Daniel Doppmeier

  • Genome sequence of an Erwinia amylovora strain with pathogenicity restricted to Rubus plants.

    Rachel Powney;Theo H. M. Smits;Tim Sawbridge;Beatrice Frey

  • Exact and complete short-read alignment to microbial genomes using Graphics Processing Unit programming

    Jochen Blom;Tobias Jakobi;Daniel Doppmeier;Sebastian Jaenicke

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Goesmann
Alexander Goesmann University of Giessen
Theo H. M. Smits
Theo H. M. Smits Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Alfred Pühler
Alfred Pühler Bielefeld University
Jörn Kalinowski
Jörn Kalinowski Bielefeld University
Andreas Schlüter
Andreas Schlüter Bielefeld University
Brion Duffy
Brion Duffy Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Rainer Borriss
Rainer Borriss Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Peter Kämpfer
Peter Kämpfer University of Giessen
Andreas Tauch
Andreas Tauch Bielefeld University
Anke Becker
Anke Becker Philipp University of Marburg

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