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71
Citations
13623
World Ranking
1890
National Ranking
800

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Juergen Wiegel is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with a significant focus on Ocean Engineering. Subfields of study also include Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Biomedical Engineering, and Ecology.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of specialized topics, including:

  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Offshore Engineering and Technologies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Juergen Wiegel's frequent co-authors include:

  • Bo Barker Jørgensen
  • Steven D'Hondt
  • D.J. Miller
  • Juana Luz Solis Acosta
  • Ivano W. Aiello

Publications by Wiegel have appeared regularly in several peer-reviewed venues, notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wiegel include:

  • O47 | Robenacoxib pharmacokinetics in goats (Capra hircus) following single oral, subcutaneous and intravenous administration, 2023, Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • O46 | Determination of pharmacokinetics of doxycycline in broilers with Escherichia coli infection and kept under field conditions, 2023, Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • Reclassification of the genus Natronolimnobius: proposal of two new genera, Natronolimnohabitans gen. nov. to accommodate Natronolimnobius innermongolicus and Natrarchaeobaculum gen. nov. to accommodate Natronolimnobius aegyptiacus and Natronolimnobius sulfurireducens, 2020, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • The polyextremophile Natranaerobius thermophilus adopts a dual adaptive strategy to long-term salinity stress, simultaneously accumulating compatible solutes and K +, 2024, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • A novel bifunctional aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase mediating ethanol formation from acetyl-CoA in hyperthermophiles, 2020, Research Square (Research Square)

In 2006, Wiegel was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Distributions of Microbial Activities in Deep Subseafloor Sediments

    Steven D'Hondt;Bo Barker Jørgensen;D. Jay Miller;Anja Batzke

  • Microbial reductive dehalogenation of polychlorinated biphenyls

    Juergen Wiegel;Qingzhong Wu

  • Isolation and characterization of Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium which reductively dechlorinates chlorophenolic compounds.

    Ilya Utkin;Carl Woese;Juergen Wiegel

  • An Introduction to the Family Clostridiaceae

    Juergen Wiegel;Ralph Tanner;Fred A. Rainey

  • Characterization of Clostridium thermocellum JW20

    Doris Freier;Cheryle P. Mothershed;Juergen Wiegel

  • Sequential anaerobic degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenol in freshwater sediments.

    X. M. Zhang;J. Wiegel

  • Novel and Unexpected Prokaryotic Diversity in Water and Sediments of the Alkaline, Hypersaline Lakes of the Wadi An Natrun, Egypt

    Noha M. Mesbah;Soad H. Abou-El-Ela;Juergen Wiegel

  • Isolation from soil and properties of the extreme thermophile Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum.

    J Wiegel;L G Ljungdahl;J R Rawson

  • Global occurrence of archaeal amoA genes in terrestrial hot springs.

    Chuanlun L. Zhang;Qi Ye;Zhiyong Huang;WenJun Li

  • The Importance of Thermophilic Bacteria in Biotechnology

    Juergen Wiegel;Lars G. Ljungdahl;Arnold L. Demain

  • Nonmarine crenarchaeol in Nevada hot springs.

    A. Pearson;Z. Huang;A. E. Ingalls;C. S. Romanek

  • Sporulation genes in members of the low G+C Gram-type-positive phylogenetic branch ( Firmicutes).

    Rob U. Onyenwoke;Julia A. Brill;Kamyar Farahi;Juergen Wiegel

  • Thermoterrabacterium ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic anaerobic dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterium from a continental hot spring.

    Alexander Slobodkin;Anna-Louise Reysenbach;Nathalie Strutz;Michael Dreier

  • Reclassification of Clostridium hydroxybenzoicum as Sedimentibacter hydroxybenzoicus gen. nov., comb. nov., and description of Sedimentibacter saalensis sp. nov..

    Antje Breitenstein;Juergen Wiegel;Claus Haertig;Norbert Weiss

  • Purification and Characterization of an Oxygen‐Sensitive Reversible 4‐Hydroxybenzoate Decarboxylase from Clostridium hydroxybenzoicum

    Zhongqi He;Juergen Wiegel

  • Formation of ethanol by bacteria. A pledge for the use of extreme thermophilic anaerobic bacteria in industrial ethanol fermentation processes

    J. Wiegel

  • Kineococcus radiotolerans sp. nov., a radiation-resistant, gram-positive bacterium.

    Robert W Phillips;Juergen Wiegel;Christopher J Berry;Carl Fliermans

  • Extremophiles: from abyssal to terrestrial ecosystems and possibly beyond

    Francesco Canganella;Juergen Wiegel

  • Biodiversity of poly-extremophilic Bacteria: Does combining the extremes of high salt, alkaline pH and elevated temperature approach a physico-chemical boundary for life?

    Karen J Bowers;Noha M Mesbah;Juergen Wiegel

  • Thermosyntropha lipolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a lipolytic, anaerobic, alkalitolerant, thermophilic bacterium utilizing short- and long-chain fatty acids in syntrophic coculture with a methanogenic archaeum

    Vitalii Svetlitshnyi;Fred Rainey;Juergen Wiegel

  • Purification and characterization of two thermostable acetyl xylan esterases from Thermoanaerobacterium sp. strain JW/SL-YS485.

    Weilan Shao;J. Wiegel

Frequent Co-Authors

Chuanlun L. Zhang
Chuanlun L. Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology
Lars G. Ljungdahl
Lars G. Ljungdahl University of Georgia
Fred A. Rainey
Fred A. Rainey University of Florida
Frank Mayer
Frank Mayer University of Göttingen
Michael W. W. Adams
Michael W. W. Adams University of Georgia
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Anna-Louise Reysenbach Portland State University
Zhongqi He
Zhongqi He Agricultural Research Service
William B. Whitman
William B. Whitman University of Georgia
Hugh W. Morgan
Hugh W. Morgan University of Waikato

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