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Malte Hermansson

Malte Hermansson

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Biology and Biochemistry

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58
Citations
9338
World Ranking
13436
National Ranking
199

Overview

Malte Hermansson is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and is active in environmental science and molecular biology research. Their scholarly work primarily revolves around microbial community ecology and physiology, with specific interests in wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal processes.

The main fields of study of Malte Hermansson include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

The subfields connected to their research are:

  • Ecology
  • Pollution
  • Molecular Biology
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The major research topics covered by their work encompass:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Tracheal and airway disorders
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection

Malte Hermansson has contributed to the following recent papers:

  • Long-term stability of partial nitritation-anammox for treatment of municipal wastewater in a moving bed biofilm reactor pilot system, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Metagenomic evidence of a novel family of anammox bacteria in a subsea environment, 2022, Environmental Microbiology
  • Hill-based dissimilarity indices and null models for analysis of microbial community assembly, 2020, Microbiome
  • Biofilm colonization and succession in a full-scale partial nitritation-anammox moving bed biofilm reactor, 2024, Microbiome
  • Disturbance-based management of ecosystem services and disservices in partial nitritation-anammox biofilms, 2022, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Malte Hermansson include:

  • Frank Persson
  • Carolina Suarez
  • Oskar Modin
  • Britt-Marie Wilén
  • Raquel Liébana

The main publication venues where Malte Hermansson frequently publishes are:

  • Microbiome
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • The DLVO theory in microbial adhesion

    Malte Hermansson

  • The transient phase between growth and nongrowth of heterotrophic bacteria, with emphasis on the marine environment.

    S Kjelleberg;M Hermansson;P Mårdén;G W Jones

  • N-acetyl-L-cysteine affects growth, extracellular polysaccharide production, and bacterial biofilm formation on solid surfaces.

    Ann-Cathrin Olofsson;Malte Hermansson;Hans Elwing

  • Effects of ionic strength on bacterial adhesion and stability of flocs in a wastewater activated sludge system.

    Anna Zita;Malte Hermansson

  • Effects of bacterial cell surface structures and hydrophobicity on attachment to activated sludge flocs.

    A Zita;M Hermansson

  • Starvation-induced effects on bacterial surface characteristics.

    Staffan Kjelleberg;Malte Hermansson

  • The hydrophobicity of bacteria - an important factor in their initial adhesion at the air-water interface.

    Björn Dahlbäck;Malte Hermansson;Staffan Kjelleberg;Birgitta Norkrans

  • In Situ Detection of High Levels of Horizontal Plasmid Transfer in Marine Bacterial Communities.

    Cecilia Dahlberg;Maria Bergström;Malte Hermansson

  • The mechanisms of granulation of activated sludge in wastewater treatment, its optimization, and impact on effluent quality.

    Britt-Marie Wilén;Raquel Liébana;Frank Persson;Oskar Modin

  • Frequency of antibiotic and heavy metal resistance, pigmentation, and plasmids in bacteria of the marine air-water interface.

    M Hermansson;G W Jones;S Kjelleberg

  • Hydrophobic and electrostatic characterization of surface structures of bacteria and its relationship to adhesion to an air-water interface

    Malte Hermansson;Staffan Kjelleberg;Timo K. Korhonen;Thor-Axel Stenström

  • The Choice of PCR Primers Has Great Impact on Assessments of Bacterial Community Diversity and Dynamics in a Wastewater Treatment Plant

    Nils Johan Fredriksson;Malte Hermansson;Britt-Marie Wilén

  • Microbial community structure in activated sludge floc analysed by fluorescence in situ hybridization and its relation to floc stability

    Britt-Marie Wilen;Motoharu Onuki;Motoharu Onuki;Malte Hermansson;Dough Lumley

  • Adhesion of Type 1-Fimbriated Escherichia coli to Abiotic Surfaces Leads to Altered Composition of Outer Membrane Proteins

    Karen Otto;Joakim Norbeck;Thomas Larsson;Karl-Anders Karlsson

  • Effect of ionic strength on initial interactions of Escherichia coli with surfaces, studied on-line by a novel quartz crystal microbalance technique.

    Karen Otto;Hans Elwing;Malte Hermansson

  • Microbial Population Dynamics and Ecosystem Functions of Anoxic/Aerobic Granular Sludge in Sequencing Batch Reactors Operated at Different Organic Loading Rates.

    Enikö Barbara Szabo;Raquel Liebana;Malte Hermansson;Oskar Modin

  • Determination of bacterial cell surface hydrophobicity of single cells in cultures and in wastewater in situ

    Anna Zita;Malte Hermansson

  • Structure and composition of biofilm communities in a moving bed biofilm reactor for nitritation-anammox at low temperatures.

    Frank Persson;Razia Sultana;Marco Suarez;Malte Hermansson

  • The IncP-1 plasmid backbone adapts to different host bacterial species and evolves through homologous recombination

    Peter Norberg;Maria Bergström;Vinay Jethava;Devdatt Dubhashi

  • Floc stability and adhesion of green- fluorescent-protein-marked bacteria to flocs in activated sludge

    Ann-Cathrin Olofsson;Anna Zita;Malte Hermansson

Frequent Co-Authors

Staffan Kjelleberg
Staffan Kjelleberg Nanyang Technological University
Hans Elwing
Hans Elwing University of Gothenburg
Henrik Pavia
Henrik Pavia University of Gothenburg
Silke Langenheder
Silke Langenheder Uppsala University
Holger Daims
Holger Daims University of Vienna
Hans-Jürgen Busse
Hans-Jürgen Busse University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Enevold Falsen
Enevold Falsen University of Gothenburg
Peter Kämpfer
Peter Kämpfer University of Giessen
Ramon Rosselló-Móra
Ramon Rosselló-Móra Spanish National Research Council
Bo Liedberg
Bo Liedberg Nanyang Technological University

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