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Overview

Kenneth Kustin is affiliated with Brandeis University in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, focusing primarily on areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, engineering, immunology, and microbiology.

The main fields of study associated with Kenneth Kustin's work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Engineering
  • Immunology and Microbiology

More specifically, their research delves into several subfields, notably:

  • Biotechnology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Microbiology
  • Infectious Diseases

Kustin's main topics of work reflect a combination of applied and fundamental investigations, covering:

  • Microbial Inactivation Methods
  • Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Medical Device Sterilization and Disinfection
  • Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research

The combination of these areas indicates a multidisciplinary approach combining microbiology, bioengineering, and fluid mechanics to address issues related to food safety, sterilization, and pathogen control.

Kustin has collaborated with several researchers, frequently co-authoring publications with:

  • Christopher J. Doona
  • Florence E. Feeherry
  • Peter Setlow
  • Christine Charette
  • Emily R. Forster

Best Publications

  • The Kinetics of Halogen Hydrolysis

    Manfred. Eigen;Kenneth. Kustin

  • Glutathione reduces cytoplasmic vanadate. Mechanism and physiological implications

    Ian G. Macara;Kenneth Kustin;Lewis C. Cantley

  • OSCILLATING CHEMICAL REACTIONS.

    Irving R. Epstein;Kenneth Kustin;Patrick de Kepper;Miklós Orbán

  • Systematic design of chemical oscillators. Part 8. Batch oscillations and spatial wave patterns in chlorite oscillating systems

    Patrick De Kepper;Irving R. Epstein;Kenneth Kustin;Miklos Orban

  • The tunichromes. A class of reducing blood pigments from sea squirts: isolation, structures, and vanadium chemistry.

    Eugene M. Oltz;Reimar C. Bruening;Mitchell J. Smith;Kenneth. Kustin

  • Vanadium : a biologically relevant element

    Ron Wever;Kenneth Kustin

  • A systematically designed homogeneous oscillating reaction: the arsenite-iodate-chlorite system

    Patrick De Kepper;Irving R. Epstein;Kenneth Kustin

  • Isolation and structure of tunichrome B-1, a reducing blood pigment from the tunicate Ascidia nigra (Linnaeus)

    Reimar C. Bruening;Eugene M. Oltz;Jun Furukawa;Koji Nakanishi

  • Kinetics of iodine hydrolysis

    Istvan Lengyel;Irving R. Epstein;Kenneth Kustin

  • Norepinephrine complexes and reduced vanadium(V) to reverse vanadate inhibition of the (sodium, potassium ion)-dependent ATPase

    Lewis C. Cantley;John H. Ferguson;Kenneth Kustin

  • Kinetics and Mechanism of the Oscillatory Bromate-Sulfite-Ferrocyanide Reaction'

    Elizabeth C. Edblom;Yin Luo;Miklos Orban;Kenneth Kustin

  • Bistability in the oxidation of arsenite by iodate in a stirred flow reactor

    Patrick De Kepper;Irving R. Epstein;Kenneth Kustin

  • Unraveling the chemistry of tunichrome

    M.J. Smith;D. Kim;B. Horenstein;K. Nakanishi

  • Reduction of vanadium(V) by L-ascorbic acid

    Kenneth Kustin;David L. Toppen

  • Isolation of tunichrome B-1, a reducing blood pigment of the sea squirt, Ascidia nigra.

    Reimar C. Bruening;Eugene M. Oltz;Jun Furukawa;Koji Nakanishi

  • Accumulation of vanadium by tunicate blood cells occurs via a specific anion transport system

    Amy L Dingley;Kenneth Kustin;Ian G Macara;Guy C McLeod

  • Isolation, properties and structural studies on a compound from tunicate blood cells that may be involved in vanadium accumulation.

    I G Macara;G C McLeod;K Kustin

  • A systematically designed pH oscillator: the hydrogen peroxide-sulfite-ferrocyanide reaction in a continuous-flow stirred tank reactor

    Gyula Rabai;Kenneth Kustin;Irving R. Epstein

  • Mechanistic study of oscillations and bistability in the Cu(II)-catalyzed reaction between H2O2 and KSCN

    Yin Luo;Miklos Orban;Kenneth Kustin;Irving R. Epstein

  • Kinetics and stoichiometry of the reaction between manganese(III) and hydrogen peroxide in acid perchlorate solution

    Geoffrey Davies;Louis J. Kirschenbaum;Kenneth Kustin

  • Temperature-jump study of the rate and mechanism of the boric acid-tartaric acid complexation

    Kenneth Kustin;Richard Pizer

  • Fast Reactions in Solution

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Frequent Co-Authors

Irving R. Epstein
Irving R. Epstein Brandeis University
Koji Nakanishi
Koji Nakanishi Columbia University
Peter Setlow
Peter Setlow University of Connecticut Health Center
Ian G. Macara
Ian G. Macara Vanderbilt University
Keith O. Hodgson
Keith O. Hodgson Stanford University
Richard B. Frankel
Richard B. Frankel California Polytechnic State University
Lewis C. Cantley
Lewis C. Cantley Harvard University
Gordon G. Hammes
Gordon G. Hammes Duke University
Makoto Ojika
Makoto Ojika Nagoya University
Gene G. Olinger
Gene G. Olinger Boston University

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