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Largus T. Angenent

Largus T. Angenent

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
85
Citations
31927
World Ranking
3099
National Ranking
234

Overview

Largus T. Angenent is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields primarily focused on engineering, environmental science, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these areas, Angenent has contributed extensively to subfields such as molecular biology, biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, building and construction, and ecology.

Their scholarly work covers a variety of topics related to microbial processes and sustainable technologies. Prominent research themes include microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, biofuel production and bioconversion, advanced battery technologies research, membrane-based ion separation techniques, and agriculture sustainability and environmental impact.

Angenent has published numerous papers across well-regarded venues. Notable frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 26 publications, Bioresource Technology (6), Environmental Science & Technology (4), Chemical Engineering Journal (4), and Frontiers in Microbiology (3).

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on microbial interactions, biogeochemical frameworks, and medium chain carboxylic acid production. These include:

  • A biogeochemical-hydrological framework for the role of redox-active compounds in aquatic systems, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Syntrophy via Interspecies H 2 Transfer between Christensenella and Methanobrevibacter Underlies Their Global Cooccurrence in the Human Gut, 2020, mBio
  • AQDS and Redox-Active NOM Enables Microbial Fe(III)-Mineral Reduction at cm-Scales, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • The Isolate Caproiciproducens sp. 7D4C2 Produces n-Caproate at Mildly Acidic Conditions From Hexoses: Genome and rBOX Comparison With Related Strains and Chain-Elongating Bacteria, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Production and extraction of medium chain carboxylic acids at a semi-pilot scale, 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Angenent include Bastian Molitor, Joseph G. Usack, Byoung Seung Jeon, Daniel H. Huson, and Andrés E. Ortiz-Ardila, reflecting a network of interdisciplinary partnerships in related research areas.

Best Publications

  • Succession of microbial consortia in the developing infant gut microbiome

    Jeremy E. Koenig;Aymé Spor;Nicholas Scalfone;Ashwana D. Fricker

  • Host Remodeling of the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Changes during Pregnancy

    Omry Koren;Julia K. Goodrich;Tyler C. Cullender;Aymé Spor

  • Production of bioenergy and biochemicals from industrial and agricultural wastewater.

    Largus T. Angenent;Khursheed Karim;Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan;Brian A. Wrenn

  • Electricity Generation from Artificial Wastewater Using an Upflow Microbial Fuel Cell

    Zhen He;Shelley D. Minteer;Largus T. Angenent

  • Waste to bioproduct conversion with undefined mixed cultures: the carboxylate platform

    Matthew T. Agler;Brian A. Wrenn;Stephen H. Zinder;Largus T. Angenent

  • Application of Bacterial Biocathodes in Microbial Fuel Cells

    Zhen He;Largus T. Angenent

  • Biochemical methane potential and biodegradability of complex organic substrates

    Rodrigo A. Labatut;Largus T. Angenent;Norman R. Scott

  • An Upflow Microbial Fuel Cell with an Interior Cathode: Assessment of the Internal Resistance by Impedance Spectroscopy†

    Zhen He;Norbert Wagner;Shelley D. Minteer;Largus T. Angenent

  • Chain Elongation with Reactor Microbiomes: Open-Culture Biotechnology To Produce Biochemicals.

    Largus T. Angenent;Hanno Richter;Wolfgang Buckel;Catherine M. Spirito

  • Cathodes as electron donors for microbial metabolism: Which extracellular electron transfer mechanisms are involved?

    Miriam Rosenbaum;Federico Aulenta;Marianna Villano;Marianna Villano;Largus T. Angenent

  • Impact of training sets on classification of high-throughput bacterial 16s rRNA gene surveys.

    Jeffrey J Werner;Omry Koren;Philip Hugenholtz;Todd Z DeSantis

  • Bacterial community structures are unique and resilient in full-scale bioenergy systems

    Jeffrey J. Werner;Dan Knights;Dan Knights;Marcelo L. Garcia;Nicholas B. Scalfone

  • Microbial electrochemistry and technology: terminology and classification

    Uwe Schröder;Falk Harnisch;Largus T. Angenent

  • Getting a grip on things: how do communities of bacterial symbionts become established in our intestine?

    Justin L Sonnenburg;Largus T Angenent;Jeffrey I Gordon

  • Chain elongation in anaerobic reactor microbiomes to recover resources from waste.

    Catherine M. Spirito;Hanno Richter;Korneel Rabaey;Alfons Johannes Maria Stams

  • Rapid electron transfer by the carbon matrix in natural pyrogenic carbon

    Tianran Sun;Barnaby D. A. Levin;Juan J. L. Guzman;Akio Enders

  • Light energy to bioelectricity: photosynthetic microbial fuel cells.

    Miriam Rosenbaum;Zhen He;Largus T Angenent

  • Innate and adaptive immunity interact to quench microbiome flagellar motility in the gut

    Tyler C. Cullender;Benoit Chassaing;Anders Janzon;Krithika Kumar

  • Methanogenic population dynamics during startup of a full-scale anaerobic sequencing batch reactor treating swine waste

    Largus T Angenent;Shihwu Sung;Lutgarde Raskin

  • Chain elongation with reactor microbiomes: upgrading dilute ethanol to medium-chain carboxylates

    Matthew T. Agler;Catherine M. Spirito;Joseph G. Usack;Jeffrey J. Werner;Jeffrey J. Werner

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth E. Ley
Ruth E. Ley Max Planck Society
Shihwu Sung
Shihwu Sung University of Hawaii at Hilo
Lutgarde Raskin
Lutgarde Raskin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael A. Cotta
Michael A. Cotta National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Johannes Lehmann
Johannes Lehmann Cornell University
Zhen He
Zhen He Washington University in St. Louis
Jefferson W. Tester
Jefferson W. Tester Cornell University
Korneel Rabaey
Korneel Rabaey Ghent University
Andreas Kappler
Andreas Kappler University of Tübingen

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