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Biology and Biochemistry
Spain
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
18475
World Ranking
3961
National Ranking
46

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Manuel Ferrer is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has an extensive research record in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology. Their work interconnects with several subfields such as Ecology, Pollution, Materials Chemistry, and Physiology.

The scientist's research topics predominantly address areas related to enzyme catalysis and immobilization, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, microbial community ecology and physiology, enzyme structure and function, gut microbiota and health, protein hydrolysis and bioactive peptides, and microplastics and plastic pollution.

Manuel Ferrer has contributed to a range of research papers published in various venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • A Novel Polyester Hydrolase From the Marine Bacterium Pseudomonas aestusnigri - Structural and Functional Insights, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Symbiosis between nanohaloarchaeon and haloarchaeon is based on utilization of different polysaccharides, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Dissimilatory sulfate reduction in the archaeon 'Candidatus Vulcanisaeta moutnovskia' sheds light on the evolution of sulfur metabolism, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Sub-micro- and nano-sized polyethylene terephthalate deconstruction with engineered protein nanopores, 2023, Nature Catalysis
  • Tuning the Properties of Natural Promiscuous Enzymes by Engineering Their Nano-environment, 2020, ACS Nano

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Frontiers in Microbiology, and Nature Medicine.

Manuel Ferrer collaborates regularly with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including Laura Fernández-López, Cristina Coscolín, Peter N. Golyshin, Víctor Guallar, and Rafael Bargiela. These collaborations reflect the interdisciplinary and networked nature of their research activities.

Best Publications

  • Gut microbiota disturbance during antibiotic therapy: a multi-omic approach.

    Ana Elena Pérez-Cobas;María José Gosalbes;Anette K. Friedrichs;Henrik Knecht

  • Functional Redundancy-Induced Stability of Gut Microbiota Subjected to Disturbance

    Andrés Moya;Manuel Ferrer

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

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

  • Environmental biocatalysis: from remediation with enzymes to novel green processes

    Miguel Alcalde;Manuel Ferrer;Francisco J. Plou;Antonio Ballesteros

  • Understanding the antimicrobial mechanism of TiO 2 -based nanocomposite films in a pathogenic bacterium

    Anna Kubacka;María Suárez Diez;David Rojo;Rafael Bargiela

  • Microbial diversity and metabolic networks in acid mine drainage habitats.

    Celia Méndez-García;Ana I. Peláez;Victoria Mesa;Jesús Sánchez

  • Chaperonins govern growth of Escherichia coli at low temperatures.

    Manuel Ferrer;Tatyana N Chernikova;Michail M Yakimov;Peter N Golyshin

  • Synthesis of sugar esters in solvent mixtures by lipases from Thermomyces lanuginosus and Candida antarctica B, and their antimicrobial properties

    Manuel Ferrer;Juan Soliveri;Francisco J. Plou;Nieves López-Cortés

  • Novel hydrolase diversity retrieved from a metagenome library of bovine rumen microflora.

    Manuel Ferrer;Olga V. Golyshina;Tatyana N. Chernikova;Amit N. Khachane

  • Antibiotic use and microbiome function.

    Manuel Ferrer;Celia Méndez-García;David Rojo;Coral Barbas

  • A novel polyester hydrolase from the marine bacterium Pseudomonas aestusnigri -structural and functional insights

    Alexander Bollinger;Stephan Thies;Esther Knieps-Grünhagen;Christoph Gertzen

  • Metagenomics for mining new genetic resources of microbial communities.

    Manuel Ferrer;Ana Beloqui;Kenneth N. Timmis;Peter N. Golyshin

  • Microbiota from the distal guts of lean and obese adolescents exhibit partial functional redundancy besides clear differences in community structure.

    Manuel Ferrer;Alicia Ruiz;Francesca Lanza;Sven-Bastiaan Haange;Sven-Bastiaan Haange

  • Mining enzymes from extreme environments

    Manuel Ferrer;Olga Golyshina;Ana Beloqui;Peter N Golyshin

  • Enzymatic acylation of di- and trisaccharides with fatty acids: choosing the appropriate enzyme, support and solvent

    Francisco J. Plou;M.Angeles Cruces;Manuel Ferrer;Gloria Fuentes

  • Novel polyphenol oxidase mined from a metagenome expression library of bovine rumen: biochemical properties, structural analysis, and phylogenetic relationships.

    Ana Beloqui;Marcos Pita;Julio Polaina;Arturo Martínez-Arias

  • Discovery of extremely halophilic, methyl-reducing euryarchaea provides insights into the evolutionary origin of methanogenesis.

    Dimitry Y. Sorokin;Dimitry Y. Sorokin;Kira S. Makarova;Ben Abbas;Manuel Ferrer

  • Estimating the success of enzyme bioprospecting through metagenomics: current status and future trends.

    Manuel Ferrer;Mónica Martínez-Martínez;Rafael Bargiela;Wolfgang R. Streit

  • Metagenomics approaches in systems microbiology

    José M. Vieites;María Eugenia Guazzaroni;Ana Beloqui;Peter N. Golyshin;Peter N. Golyshin

  • Mining genomes and 'metagenomes' for novel catalysts.

    Manuel Ferrer;Francisco Martínez-Abarca;Peter N Golyshin

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter N. Golyshin
Peter N. Golyshin Bangor University
Michail M. Yakimov
Michail M. Yakimov National Research Council (CNR)
Kenneth N. Timmis
Kenneth N. Timmis Technische Universität Braunschweig
Francisco J. Plou
Francisco J. Plou Spanish National Research Council
Antonio O. Ballesteros
Antonio O. Ballesteros Spanish National Research Council
Coral Barbas
Coral Barbas CEU San Pablo University
Dimitry Y. Sorokin
Dimitry Y. Sorokin Delft University of Technology
Marcos Fernández-García
Marcos Fernández-García Spanish National Research Council
Karl-Erich Jaeger
Karl-Erich Jaeger Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Anna Kubacka
Anna Kubacka Spanish National Research Council

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