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Overview

Max Mergeay is affiliated with the Flemish Institute for Technological Research in Belgium. Their research spans multiple fields, focusing on engineering and environmental science with specific involvement in aerospace engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, and physiology.

Their work addresses topics related to chromium effects and bioremediation, metal extraction and bioleaching, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, spaceflight effects on biology, planetary science and exploration, light effects on plants, and spacecraft design and technology.

Max Mergeay has published in several scientific venues, notably including the Ecological Engineering and Environment Protection journal and FEMS Microbiology Ecology.

  • <i>Cupriavidus metallidurans</i> CH34, a historical perspective on its discovery, characterization and metal resistance, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • CURRENT AND FUTURE WAYS TO CLOSED LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS: VIRTUAL MELISSA CONFERENCE, GHENT (B) (3-5 /11/2020). A REVIEW, 2021, Ecological Engineering and Environment Protection
  • THE ATTEMPTS TO CLOSED LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT, THE EARLY CONTEXT OF MELISSA PROJECT, 2023, Ecological Engineering and Environment Protection

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Mergeay include Christophe Lasseur, Rob Van Houdt, Daniel I. Kaplan, and Chloé Audas.

Best Publications

  • Alcaligenes eutrophus CH34 is a facultative chemolithotroph with plasmid-bound resistance to heavy metals.

    M Mergeay;D Nies;H G Schlegel;J Gerits

  • Ralstonia taiwanensis sp. nov., isolated from root nodules of Mimosa species and sputum of a cystic fibrosis patient.

    W M Chen;S Laevens;T M Lee;T Coenye

  • Ralstonia metallidurans, a bacterium specifically adapted to toxic metals: towards a catalogue of metal-responsive genes

    Max Mergeay;Sébastien Monchy;Tatiana Vallaeys;Vanessa Auquier

  • Mechanisms of gold biomineralization in the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans

    Frank Reith;Barbara E Etschmann;Cornelia Grosse;Hugo Moors

  • Genetic engineering in the improvement of plants for phytoremediation of metal polluted soils.

    S. Kärenlampi;H. Schat;J. Vangronsveld;J.A.C. Verkleij

  • The Complete Genome Sequence of Cupriavidus metallidurans Strain CH34, a Master Survivalist in Harsh and Anthropogenic Environments

    Paul J. Janssen;Rob Van Houdt;Hugo Moors;Pieter Monsieurs

  • Survey of environmental biocontamination on board the International Space Station.

    Natalia Novikova;Patrick De Boever;Svetlana Poddubko;Elena Deshevaya

  • Classification of metal-resistant bacteria from industrial biotopes as Ralstonia campinensis sp. nov., Ralstonia metallidurans sp. nov. and Ralstonia basilensis Steinle et al. 1998 emend.

    J Goris;P De Vos;T Coenye;B Hoste

  • Plasmids pMOL28 and pMOL30 of Cupriavidus metallidurans Are Specialized in the Maximal Viable Response to Heavy Metals

    Sébastien Monchy;Mohammed Abderrafi Benotmane;Paul A.J.Paul Janssen;Tatiana Vallaeys

  • Cloning of plasmid genes encoding resistance to cadmium, zinc, and cobalt in Alcaligenes eutrophus CH34.

    D Nies;M Mergeay;B Friedrich;H G Schlegel

  • The czc operon of Alcaligenes eutrophus CH34: from resistance mechanism to the removal of heavy metals

    Ludo Diels;Qinghan Dong;Daniël van der Lelie;Wilfried Baeyens

  • DNA probe-mediated detection of resistant bacteria from soils highly polluted by heavy metals.

    Ludo Diels;Max Mergeay

  • Identification of a gene cluster, czr, involved in cadmium and zinc resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    M.T Hassan;D van der Lelie;Dirk Springael;U Romling

  • Microbial ecology of the closed artificial ecosystem MELiSSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative): reinventing and compartmentalizing the Earth's food and oxygen regeneration system for long-haul space exploration missions.

    Larissa Hendrickx;Heleen De Wever;Veronik Hermans;Felice Mastroleo

  • luxAB gene fusions with the arsenic and cadmium resistance operons of Staphylococcus aureus plasmid pI258

    P. Corbisier;G. Ji;G. Nuyts;M. Mergeay

  • Media Ion Composition Controls Regulatory and Virulence Response of Salmonella in Spaceflight

    James W. Wilson;C. Mark Ott;Laura Quick;Laura Quick;Richard Davis

  • Plasmids for heavy metal resistance in Alcaligenes eutrophus CH34: Mechanisms and applications

    J.M. Collard;P. Corbisier;L. Diels;Q. Dong

  • A microbial biosensor to predict bioavailable nickel in soil and its transfer to plants

    Caritas Tibazarwa;P. Corbisier;M. Mench;A. Bossus

  • Gene escape model: transfer of heavy metal resistance genes from Escherichia coli to Alcaligenes eutrophus on agar plates and in soil samples.

    E Top;M Mergeay;D Springael;W Verstraete

  • Identification of a catabolic transposon, Tn4371, carrying biphenyl and 4-chlorobiphenyl degradation genes in Alcaligenes eutrophus A5.

    D Springael;S Kreps;M Mergeay

Frequent Co-Authors

Ludo Diels
Ludo Diels Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Ruddy Wattiez
Ruddy Wattiez University of Mons
Eva M. Top
Eva M. Top University of Idaho
Philippe Thonart
Philippe Thonart University of Liège
Willy Verstraete
Willy Verstraete Ghent University
Daniel van der Lelie
Daniel van der Lelie Gusto Global LLC
Safiyh Taghavi
Safiyh Taghavi Research Triangle Park Foundation
Stefan Wuertz
Stefan Wuertz Nanyang Technological University
Dietrich H. Nies
Dietrich H. Nies Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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