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Biology and Biochemistry
Switzerland
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
21068
World Ranking
5294
National Ranking
104

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Thomas Egli is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with particular attention to subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Endocrinology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their recent scholarly contributions include two notable papers. The first, published in 2021 in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, is titled "Editorial: Recent Advances in Continuous Cultivation." The second, published in 2024 in Water Research, is titled "Domestic hot-water boilers harbour active thermophilic bacterial communities distinctly different from those in the cold-water supply."

Thomas Egli's research encompasses several main topics including:

  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Legionella and Acanthamoeba research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Their frequent collaboration network includes researchers such as:

  • G. Hamer
  • Manfred Zinn
  • Christoph Herwig
  • Atul Narang
  • Lena Campostrini

Thomas Egli has published in multiple venues, with recent papers appearing in:

  • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Water Research

Best Publications

  • Global Water Pollution and Human Health

    René P. Schwarzenbach;Thomas Egli;Thomas B. Hofstetter;Urs von Gunten

  • Assessment and interpretation of bacterial viability by using the LIVE/DEAD BacLight Kit in combination with flow cytometry.

    Michael Berney;Frederik Hammes;Franziska Bosshard;Franziska Bosshard;Hans Ulrich Weilenmann

  • Occurrence, synthesis and medical application of bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoate.

    Manfred Zinn;Bernard Witholt;Thomas Egli

  • Growth Kinetics of Suspended Microbial Cells: From Single-Substrate-Controlled Growth to Mixed-Substrate Kinetics

    Karin Kovárová-Kovar;Thomas Egli

  • Flow-cytometric total bacterial cell counts as a descriptive microbiological parameter for drinking water treatment processes.

    Frederik Hammes;Michael Berney;Yingying Wang;Yingying Wang;Marius Vital;Marius Vital

  • Environmental fate and microbial degradation of aminopolycarboxylic acids

    Margarete Bucheli-Witschel;Thomas Egli

  • Measurement and interpretation of microbial adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP) in aquatic environments.

    Frederik Hammes;Felix Goldschmidt;Marius Vital;Marius Vital;Yingying Wang;Yingying Wang

  • New method for assimilable organic carbon determination using flow-cytometric enumeration and a natural microbial consortium as inoculum

    Frederik A Hammes;Thomas Egli

  • Overnight stagnation of drinking water in household taps induces microbial growth and changes in community composition.

    Karin Lautenschlager;Nico Boon;Yingying Wang;Yingying Wang;Thomas Egli;Thomas Egli

  • Rapid, cultivation-independent assessment of microbial viability in drinking water.

    Michael Berney;Marius Vital;Marius Vital;Iris Hülshoff;Hans Ulrich Weilenmann

  • Mechanistic and kinetic evaluation of organic disinfection by-product and assimilable organic carbon (AOC) formation during the ozonation of drinking water.

    Frederik Hammes;Elisabeth Salhi;Oliver Köster;Hans-Peter Kaiser

  • Flow-cytometric study of vital cellular functions in Escherichia coli during solar disinfection (SODIS).

    Michael Berney;Hans Ulrich Weilenmann;Thomas Egli

  • The Ecological and Physiological Significance of the Growth of Heterotrophic Microorganisms with Mixtures of Substrates

    Thomas Egli

  • How to live at very low substrate concentration

    Thomas Egli

  • Specific Growth Rate Determines the Sensitivity of Escherichia coli to Thermal, UVA, and Solar Disinfection

    Michael Berney;Hans Ulrich Weilenmann;Julian Ihssen;Claudio Bassin

  • Rapid and direct estimation of active biomass on granular activated carbon through adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP) determination

    Silvana Velten;Frederik Hammes;Markus Boller;Thomas Egli

  • Efficacy of solar disinfection of Escherichia coli, Shigella flexneri, Salmonella Typhimurium and Vibrio cholerae

    M. Berney;H.-U. Weilenmann;A. Simonetti;T. Egli

  • Cytometric methods for measuring bacteria in water: advantages, pitfalls and applications

    Frederik Hammes;Thomas Egli;Thomas Egli

  • Abundance and composition of indigenous bacterial communities in a multi-step biofiltration-based drinking water treatment plant.

    Karin Lautenschlager;Chiachi Hwang;Fangqiong Ling;Wen Tso Liu

  • Isolation and characterization of low nucleic acid (LNA)-content bacteria.

    Yingying Wang;Frederik Hammes;Nico Boon;Mohamed Chami

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederik Hammes
Frederik Hammes Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Marius Vital
Marius Vital Hannover Medical School
Nico Boon
Nico Boon Ghent University
Urs von Gunten
Urs von Gunten Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Linda Thöny-Meyer
Linda Thöny-Meyer Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Hans-Jürgen Busse
Hans-Jürgen Busse University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Jan Roelof van der Meer
Jan Roelof van der Meer University of Lausanne

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