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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jörg Hacker is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a substantial focus on Ecology, Endocrinology, Earth-Surface Processes, Pollution, and Infectious Diseases as subfields.

The primary research topics covered by Hacker include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Immune responses and vaccinations, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, and Marine and coastal plant biology.

Recent publication venues where Hacker's work has appeared include microLife, Geomorphology, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e. V., and SSRN Electronic Journal.

  • Defining multi-scale surface roughness of a coral reef using a high-resolution LiDAR digital elevation model, 2023, Geomorphology
  • Development of vaccines at the time of COVID-19, 2020, microLife
  • Zeit in Natur und Kultur: Vorträge anlässlich der Jahresversammlung am 20. und 21. September 2019 in Halle (Saale), 2020, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e. V.
  • Defining Ecosystem Scale Surface Complexity of Coral Reefs Using a High-Resolution Lidar Digital Elevation Model, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Meeting report 'Microbiology 2023: from single cell to microbiome and host', an international interacademy conference in Würzburg, 2024, microLife

Hacker collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Daniel Harris, Jody M. Webster, Ana Vila-Concejo, Stephanie Duce, and Javier X. Leon.

In 2009, Hacker was inducted as a Member of Academia Europaea, recognizing their standing within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Pathogenicity Islands and the Evolution of Microbes

    Jörg Hacker;James B. Kaper

  • Pathogenicity islands of virulent bacteria: structure, function and impact on microbial evolution

    J. Hacker;G. Blum-Oehler;I. Mühldorfer;H. Tschäpe

  • Genomic islands in pathogenic and environmental microorganisms

    Ulrich Dobrindt;Bianca Hochhut;Ute Hentschel;Jörg Hacker

  • Escherichia coli Induces DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Eukaryotic Cells

    Jean-Philippe Nougayrède;Stefan Homburg;Frédéric Taieb;Michèle Boury

  • Molecular Evidence for a Uniform Microbial Community in Sponges from Different Oceans

    Ute Hentschel;Jörn Hopke;Matthias Horn;Anja B. Friedrich

  • Ecological fitness, genomic islands and bacterial pathogenicity. A Darwinian view of the evolution of microbes.

    Jörg Hacker;Elisabeth Carniel

  • A novel mechanism of phase variation of virulence in Staphylococcus epidermidis: evidence for control of the polysaccharide intercellular adhesin synthesis by alternating insertion and excision of the insertion sequence element IS256.

    Wilma Ziebuhr;Vanessa Krimmer;Shwan Rachid;Isabel Lossner

  • Excision of large DNA regions termed pathogenicity islands from tRNA-specific loci in the chromosome of an Escherichia coli wild-type pathogen.

    G Blum;M Ott;A Lischewski;A Ritter

  • Resuscitation of viable but nonculturable Legionella pneumophila Philadelphia JR32 by Acanthamoeba castellanii.

    Michael Steinert;Levente Emödy;Rudolf Amann;Jörg Hacker

  • Analysis of the Genome Structure of the Nonpathogenic Probiotic Escherichia coli Strain Nissle 1917

    Lubomir Grozdanov;Carsten Raasch;Jürgen Schulze;Ulrich Sonnenborn

  • Effect of Subinhibitory Antibiotic Concentrations on Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin Expression in Biofilm-Forming Staphylococcus epidermidis

    Shwan Rachid;Knut Ohlsen;Wolfgang Witte;Jörg Hacker

  • Detection of the intercellular adhesion gene cluster (ica) and phase variation in Staphylococcus epidermidis blood culture strains and mucosal isolates.

    Wilma Ziebuhr;Christine Heilmann;Friedrich Götz;Peter Meyer

  • How to become a uropathogen: Comparative genomic analysis of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli strains

    Elzbieta Brzuszkiewicz;Holger Brüggemann;Heiko Liesegang;Melanie Emmerth

  • Deletions of chromosomal regions coding for fimbriae and hemolysins occur in vitro and in vivo in various extraintestinal Escherichia coli isolates.

    Jörg Hacker;Larisa Bender;Manfred Ott;Jochen Wingender

  • E. coli as an all-rounder: the thin line between commensalism and pathogenicity.

    Andreas Leimbach;Jörg Hacker;Ulrich Dobrindt

  • Legionella pneumophila: an aquatic microbe goes astray.

    Michael Steinert;Ute Hentschel;Jörg Hacker

  • Microbial diversity of marine sponges.

    Ute Hentschel;L. Fieseler;M. Wehrl;C. Gernert

  • Genetic Structure and Distribution of the Colibactin Genomic Island among Members of the Family Enterobacteriaceae

    Johannes Putze;Claire Hennequin;Jean-Philippe Nougayrède;Wenlan Zhang

  • Analysis of Genome Plasticity in Pathogenic and Commensal Escherichia coli Isolates by Use of DNA Arrays

    Ulrich Dobrindt;Franziska Agerer;Kai Michaelis;Andreas Janka

  • Alternative transcription factor sigma(B) is involved in regulation of biofilm expression in a Staphylococcus aureus mucosal isolate.

    Shwan Rachid;Knut Ohlsen;Ursula Wallner;Jörg Hacker

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Dobrindt
Ulrich Dobrindt University of Münster
Michael Steinert
Michael Steinert Technische Universität Braunschweig
Joachim Morschhäuser
Joachim Morschhäuser University of Würzburg
Knut Ohlsen
Knut Ohlsen University of Würzburg
Ute Hentschel
Ute Hentschel GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Werner Goebel
Werner Goebel University of Würzburg
Gunter Fischer
Gunter Fischer Max Planck Society
Gerhard Gottschalk
Gerhard Gottschalk University of Göttingen
Michael Hecker
Michael Hecker University of Greifswald
Bernt Eric Uhlin
Bernt Eric Uhlin Umeå University

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