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2026

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Microbiology

D-Index
119
Citations
56026
World Ranking
153
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Microbiology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology Microbial Ecology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Kenneth N. Timmis is affiliated with Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany. Their research has contributed to multiple fields including ecology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, microbiology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's work covers various topics, prominently including microbial community ecology and physiology, Alexander von Humboldt studies, zoonotic diseases and public health, COVID-19 clinical research studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, climate change communication and perception, and the long-term effects of COVID-19.

Timmis has published extensively in several key scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Microbial Biotechnology (21 publications)
  • Environmental Microbiology (13 publications)
  • microLife (4 publications)
  • Environmental Microbiology Reports (2 publications)
  • Cell (1 publication)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kenneth N. Timmis include:

  • The soil crisis: the need to treat as a global health problem and the pivotal role of microbes in prophylaxis and therapy, 2021, Microbial Biotechnology
  • The COVID -19 pandemic: some lessons learned about crisis preparedness and management, and the need for international benchmarking to reduce deficits, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
Other notable recent papers from 2024 and 2020 with different lead authors but relevant to the field cover microbial and planetary health as well as biosystems engineering.

Frequent co-authors associated with Timmis are:

  • James Kenneth Timmis
  • Juan L. Ramos
  • John E. Hallsworth
  • Antoine Danchin
  • Willy Verstraete

Recognition for Timmis's scientific contributions includes election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2008), Fellowship of the American Academy of Microbiology (1993), noted specifically in microbial ecology, and membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Transposon vectors containing non-antibiotic resistance selection markers for cloning and stable chromosomal insertion of foreign genes in gram-negative bacteria.

    M Herrero;V de Lorenzo;K N Timmis

  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Microorganisms and Climate Change

    Ricardo Cavicchioli;William J. Ripple;Kenneth N. Timmis;Farooq Azam

  • Mini-Tn5 transposon derivatives for insertion mutagenesis, promoter probing, and chromosomal insertion of cloned DNA in gram-negative eubacteria.

    V de Lorenzo;M Herrero;U Jakubzik;K N Timmis

  • Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of the metabolically versatile Pseudomonas putida KT2440

    K. E. Nelson;C. Weinel;I. T. Paulsen;R. J. Dodson

  • Reduction in diversity of the colonic mucosa associated bacterial microflora in patients with active inflammatory bowel disease

    S J Ott;M Musfeldt;D F Wenderoth;J Hampe

  • Specific-purpose plasmid cloning vectors. II. Broad host range, high copy number, RSF1010-derived vectors, and a host-vector system for gene cloning in Pseudomonas.

    M. Bagdasarian;R. Lurz;B. Rückert;F.C.H. Franklin

  • Analysis and construction of stable phenotypes in gram-negative bacteria with Tn5- and Tn10-derived minitransposons.

    V de Lorenzo;K N Timmis

  • An evaluation of terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis for the study of microbial community structure and dynamics

    A. Mark Osborn;Edward R. B. Moore;Kenneth N. Timmis

  • Handbook of hydrocarbon and lipid microbiology

    Kenneth N. Timmis

  • Obligate oil-degrading marine bacteria.

    Michail M Yakimov;Kenneth N Timmis;Peter N Golyshin

  • Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium

    Michail M. Yakimov;Peter N. Golyshin;Siegmund Lang;Edward R. B. Moore

  • Characterization of a new lipopeptide surfactant produced by thermotolerant and halotolerant subsurface Bacillus licheniformis BAS50.

    M M Yakimov;K N Timmis;V Wray;H L Fredrickson

  • NZB mouse system for production of monoclonal antibodies to weak bacterial antigens: isolation of an IgG antibody to the polysaccharide capsules of Escherichia coli K1 and group B meningococci.

    Matthias Frosch;Ingrid Gorgen;Graham J. Boulnois;Kenneth N. Timmis

  • Oral Somatic Transgene Vaccination Using Attenuated S. typhimurium

    Ayub Darji;Carlos A Guzmán;Birgit Gerstel;Petra Wachholz

  • Analysis of Pseudomonas gene products using lacIq/Ptrp-lac plasmids and transposons that confer conditional phenotypes

    V de Lorenzo;L Eltis;B Kessler;K N Timmis

  • Genome sequence of the ubiquitous hydrocarbon-degrading marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis

    Susanne Schneiker;Vítor A.P. Martins Dos Santos;Daniela Bartels;Thomas Bekel

  • Fungi and inflammatory bowel diseases: Alterations of composition and diversity

    Stephan J Ott;Tanja Kühbacher;Meike Musfeldt;Philip Rosenstiel

  • TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL OF THE PSEUDOMONAS TOL PLASMID CATABOLIC OPERONS IS ACHIEVED THROUGH AN INTERPLAY OF HOST FACTORS AND PLASMID-ENCODED REGULATORS

    Juan L. Ramos;Silvia Marqués;Kenneth N. Timmis

  • Thermal Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Analysis of Bioprotection from Pollutant Shocks in the Activated Sludge Microbial Community

    Christine A. Eichner;Rainer W. Erb;Kenneth N. Timmis;Irene Wagner-Döbler

  • Crystal Structure of the Biphenyl-Cleaving Extradiol Dioxygenase from a PCB-Degrading Pseudomonad

    Seungil Han;Lindsay D. Eltis;Kenneth N. Timmis;Steven W. Muchmore

  • Polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading microbial communities in soils and sediments.

    Wolf Rainer Abraham;Balbina Nogales;Peter N Golyshin;Dietmar H Pieper

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter N. Golyshin
Peter N. Golyshin Bangor University
Manuel Ferrer
Manuel Ferrer Spanish National Research Council
Michail M. Yakimov
Michail M. Yakimov National Research Council (CNR)
Terry J. McGenity
Terry J. McGenity University of Essex
Edward R. B. Moore
Edward R. B. Moore University of Gothenburg
Dietmar H. Pieper
Dietmar H. Pieper Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Heinrich Lünsdorf
Heinrich Lünsdorf Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Wolf-Rainer Abraham
Wolf-Rainer Abraham Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Carlos A. Guzmán
Carlos A. Guzmán Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Mark J. Walker
Mark J. Walker University of Queensland

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