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Stephen H. Zinder

Stephen H. Zinder

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
19423
World Ranking
6277
National Ranking
2946

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Stephen H. Zinder is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with notable work spanning several subfields including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Building and Construction, and Atmospheric Science.

Their studies cover a range of topics, particularly in peatlands and wetlands ecology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, isotope analysis in ecology, methane hydrates and related phenomena, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, space science and extraterrestrial life, and the origins and evolution of life.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • FEMS Microbiology Letters
  • The ISME Journal
  • Astrobiology
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Collaborations are a consistent aspect of their research, with regular coauthors being:

  • Lisa Kaltenegger
  • Lígia F. Coelho
  • William Philpot
  • Jack Madden
  • M. Glória Esquível

Notable recent publications include:

  • Methanogenic archaea in peatlands, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Letters
  • Linking microbial Sphagnum degradation and acetate mineralization in acidic peat bogs: from global insights to a genome-centric case study, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Color Catalogue of Life in Ice: Surface Biosignatures on Icy Worlds, 2021, Astrobiology
  • Purple is the new green: biopigments and spectra of Earth-like purple worlds, 2024, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Microscale sulfur cycling in the phototrophic pink berry consortia of the Sippewissett Salt Marsh, 2020, UNC Libraries

Stephen H. Zinder has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1994.

Best Publications

  • Isolation of a Bacterium That Reductively Dechlorinates Tetrachloroethene to Ethene

    Xavier Maymó-Gatell;Yueh-tyng Chien;James M. Gossett;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Physiological Ecology of Methanogens

    Stephen H. Zinder

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

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

  • The Genome of M. Acetivorans Reveals Extensive Metabolic and Physiological Diversity

    James E. Galagan;Chad Nusbaum;Alice Roy;Matthew G. Endrizzi;Matthew G. Endrizzi;Matthew G. Endrizzi

  • Genome Sequence of the PCE-Dechlorinating Bacterium Dehalococcoides ethenogenes

    Rekha Seshadri;Lorenz Adrian;Derrick E. Fouts;Jonathan A. Eisen

  • Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi.

    Frank E. Löffler;Jun Yan;Kirsti M. Ritalahti;Kirsti M. Ritalahti;Lorenz Adrian

  • Comparison of Butyric Acid, Ethanol, Lactic Acid, and Propionic Acid as Hydrogen Donors for the Reductive Dechlorination of Tetrachloroethene

    Donna E. Fennell;James M. Gossett;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes and 1, 2-dichloroethane by "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes" 195.

    Xavier Maymó-Gatell;Timothy Anguish;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Non-aceticlastic methanogenesis from acetate: acetate oxidation by a thermophilic syntrophic coculture

    Stephen H. Zinder;Markus Koch

  • Reductive dechlorination of high concentrations of tetrachloroethene to ethene by an anaerobic enrichment culture in the absence of methanogenesis.

    T D DiStefano;J M Gossett;S H Zinder

  • Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195 reductively dechlorinates diverse chlorinated aromatic pollutants.

    Donna E. Fennell;Ivonne Nijenhuis;Susan F. Wilson;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Hydrogen as an electron donor for dechlorination of tetrachloroethene by an anaerobic mixed culture.

    T D DiStefano;J M Gossett;S H Zinder

  • Genome sequence of the chlorinated compound–respiring bacterium Dehalococcoides species strain CBDB1

    Michael Kube;Alfred Beck;Stephen H Zinder;Heiner Kuhl

  • Reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene to ethene by a two-component enzyme pathway.

    Jon K. Magnuson;Robert V. Stern;James M. Gossett;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Comparative Kinetics of Hydrogen Utilization for Reductive Dechlorination of Tetrachloroethene and Methanogenesis in an Anaerobic Enrichment Culture

    Concordia R. Smatlak;James M. Gossett;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Reductive dechlorination of cis-1,2-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride by "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes".

    Xavier Maymo-Gatell;Ivonne Nijenhuis;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Isolation and Characterization of a Thermophilic Strain of Methanosarcina Unable to Use H(2)-CO(2) for Methanogenesis.

    Stephen H. Zinder;Robert A. Mah

  • Methanogenesis in a Thermophilic (58°C) Anaerobic Digestor: Methanothrix sp. as an Important Aceticlastic Methanogen

    S. H. Zinder;S.C. Cardwell;T. Anguish;M. Lee

  • Isolation and Characterization of a Thermophilic Bacterium Which Oxidizes Acetate in Syntrophic Association with a Methanogen and Which Grows Acetogenically on H2-CO2

    Monica J. Lee;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated ethenes and halogenated ethanes by a high-rate anaerobic enrichment culture.

    Valter. Tandoi;Thomas D. DiStefano;Patrick A. Bowser;James M. Gossett

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen University of California, Berkeley
Joseph B. Yavitt
Joseph B. Yavitt Cornell University
Gary L. Andersen
Gary L. Andersen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute
Thomas D. Brock
Thomas D. Brock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tanja Woyke
Tanja Woyke Joint Genome Institute
Victoria J. Orphan
Victoria J. Orphan California Institute of Technology
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Hiroyuki Imachi
Hiroyuki Imachi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Lynne Goodwin
Lynne Goodwin Los Alamos National Laboratory

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