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Peter Kämpfer is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany. Their research spans a range of topics within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, environmental science, and agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work covers key scientific topics including:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Identification and Quantification in Food

Peter Kämpfer has published extensively in areas such as molecular biology, ecology, plant science, pharmacology, and insect science. Their research includes 101 publications in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, along with 51 in environmental science and 46 in agricultural and biological sciences. The most frequent subfields of study include molecular biology with 69 publications and ecology with 38 publications.

The scientist has contributed many papers to several leading journals, with a notable number of publications in the following venues:

  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY (31 publications)
  • Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (13 publications)
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (8 publications)
  • Systematic and Applied Microbiology (8 publications)
  • Natural Product Research (3 publications)

Frequent collaborators include Stefanie P. Glaeser, Dominique Clermont, Alexis Criscuolo, Hans-Jürgen Busse, and John A. McInroy. These co-authors have contributed to a significant portion of Kämpfer's research output.

The scientist's recent papers reflect diverse microbial systematics and environmental microbiology topics. Selected papers include:

  • Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Division of the genus Chryseobacterium: Observation of discontinuities in amino acid identity values, a possible consequence of major extinction events, guides transfer of nine species to the genus Epilithonimonas, eleven species to the genus Kaistella, and three species to the genus Halpernia gen. nov., with description of Kaistella daneshvariae sp. nov. and Epilithonimonas vandammei sp. nov. derived from clinical specimens, 2020, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Insights into the impact of manure on the environmental antibiotic residues and resistance pool, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • The gut and feed residue microbiota changing during the rearing of Hermetia illucens larvae, 2020, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Corynebacterium silvaticum sp. nov., a unique group of NTTB corynebacteria in wild boar and roe deer, 2020, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Best Publications

  • Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology.

    Erko Stackebrandt;Wilhelm Frederiksen;George M Garrity;Patrick A D Grimont

  • Notes on the characterization of prokaryote strains for taxonomic purposes.

    Brian J. Tindall;Ramón Rosselló-Mora;Hans-Jürgen Busse;Wolfgang Ludwig

  • Numerical analysis of fatty acid patterns of coryneform bacteria and related taxa

    Peter Kämpfer;Reiner M. Kroppenstedt

  • Brucella microti sp. nov., isolated from the common vole Microtus arvalis.

    Holger C. Scholz;Zdenek Hubalek;Ivo Sedláček;Gilles Vergnaud

  • Proposed minimal standards for describing new taxa of aerobic, endospore-forming bacteria.

    N A Logan;O Berge;A H Bishop;H-J Busse

  • Extensive Diversity of Ionizing-Radiation-Resistant Bacteria Recovered from Sonoran Desert Soil and Description of Nine New Species of the Genus Deinococcus Obtained from a Single Soil Sample

    Fred A. Rainey;Keren Ray;Margarida Ferreira;Bridget Z. Gatz

  • Brucella inopinata sp. nov., isolated from a breast implant infection.

    Holger C. Scholz;Karsten Nöckler;Cornelia Göllner;Peter Bahn

  • Microbiological characterization of a fuel-oil contaminated site including numerical identification of heterotrophic water and soil bacteria.

    Peter Kämpfer;Martin Steiof;Wolfgang Dott

  • Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) in prokaryotic taxonomy

    Stefanie P. Glaeser;Peter Kämpfer

  • Taxonomic position of aromatic-degrading denitrifying pseudomonad strains K 172 and KB 740 and their description as new members of the genera Thauera, as Thauera aromatica sp. nov., and Azoarcus, as Azoarcus evansii sp. nov., respectively, members of the beta subclass of the Proteobacteria

    Hans-Joachim Anders;Anette Kaetzke;Peter Kämpfer;Wolfgang Ludwig

  • Chromosome-Encoded Ambler Class A β-Lactamase of Kluyvera georgiana, a Probable Progenitor of a Subgroup of CTX-M Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases

    Laurent Poirel;Peter Kämpfer;Patrice Nordmann

  • Identification and in situ Detection of Gram-negative Filamentous Bacteria in Activated Sludge

    Michael Wagner;Rudolf Amann;Peter Kämpfer;Bernhard Assmus

  • Pseudomonas knackmussii sp. nov.

    Andreas Stolz;Hans-Jürgen Busse;Peter Kämpfer

  • Wautersia gen. nov., a novel genus accommodating the phylogenetic lineage including Ralstonia eutropha and related species, and proposal of Ralstonia [Pseudomonas] syzygii (Roberts et al. 1990) comb. nov.

    Mario Vaneechoutte;Peter Kämpfer;Thierry De Baere;Enevold Falsen

  • Characterization of bacterial communities from activated sludge: Culture-dependent numerical identification versus in situ identification using group- and genus-specific rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes

    P. Kämpfer;R. Erhart;C. Beimfohr;J. Böhringer

  • Denitratisoma oestradiolicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a 17β-oestradiol-degrading, denitrifying betaproteobacterium

    Michael Fahrbach;Jan Kuever;Ruth Meinke;Peter Kämpfer

  • Sphingomonas aurantiaca sp. nov., Sphingomonas aerolata sp. nov. and Sphingomonas faeni sp. nov., air- and dustborne and Antarctic, orange-pigmented, psychrotolerant bacteria, and emended description of the genus Sphingomonas.

    Hans-Juergen Busse;Eawald Bm Denner;Sandra Buczolits;Mirja Sinikka Salkinoja-Salonen

  • Aerobic and facultatively anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria from the gut of the termite Zootermopsis angusticollis.

    M Wenzel;I Schönig;M Berchtold;P Kämpfer

  • Description of Bacillus toyonensis sp. nov., a novel species of the Bacillus cereus group, and pairwise genome comparisons of the species of the group by means of ANI calculations

    Guillermo Jiménez;Mercedes Urdiain;Ana Cifuentes;Aránzazu López-López

  • Toxigenic Strains of Bacillus licheniformis Related to Food Poisoning

    M. S. Salkinoja-Salonen;R. Vuorio;M. A. Andersson;P. Kämpfer

  • Bergey's Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology : Volume Five The Actinobacteria, Part A

    Michael Goodfellow;Peter Kämpfer;Hans-Jürgen Busse;Martha E Trujillo

  • Extensive Diversity of Ionizing-Radiation-Resistant Bacteria Recovered from Sonoran Desert Soil and Description of Nine New Species of the Genus Deinococcus Obtained from a Single Soil Sample. [Erratum: 2005 Nov., v. 71, no. 11, p. 7630.]

    Fred A. Rainey;Keren Ray;Margarida Ferreira;Bridget Z. Gatz

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Jürgen Busse
Hans-Jürgen Busse University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Enevold Falsen
Enevold Falsen University of Gothenburg
Peter Schumann
Peter Schumann Leibniz Association
Ramon Rosselló-Móra
Ramon Rosselló-Móra Spanish National Research Council
Holger C. Scholz
Holger C. Scholz Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology
Wen-Ming Chen
Wen-Ming Chen Fudan University
Jochen Blom
Jochen Blom University of Giessen
Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen
Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen University of Helsinki
Tobias Eisenberg
Tobias Eisenberg University of Graz
Ruben Avendaño-Herrera
Ruben Avendaño-Herrera Andrés Bello University

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