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166

Overview

Thomas P. Curtis is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to pollution, molecular biology, ecology, environmental engineering, and water science and technology.

The scientist's key research themes encompass wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, microbial community ecology and physiology, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, membrane separation technologies, water treatment and disinfection, and membrane-based ion separation techniques.

Frequent coauthors with whom they have collaborated include Adeline Seak May Chua, Ben Allen, Irina Dana Ofiţeru, Per Halkjær Nielsen, and Jan Dolfing.

Their recent papers include:

  • MGnify: the microbiome sequence data analysis resource in 2023 (2022), published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • MiDAS 4: A global catalogue of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and taxonomy for studies of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • Nonlinear rheological characteristics of single species bacterial biofilms (2020), published in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
  • N-acyl-homoserine-lactones signaling as a critical control point for phosphorus entrapment by multi-species microbial aggregates (2021), published in Water Research
  • Global diversity and distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in human wastewater treatment systems (2025), published in Nature Communications

Thomas P. Curtis frequently publishes in venues such as Nature Communications, Water Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Microbiology, and Water.

Best Publications

  • Quantifying the roles of immigration and chance in shaping prokaryote community structure.

    William T. Sloan;Mary Lunn;Stephen Woodcock;Ian M. Head

  • Estimating prokaryotic diversity and its limits

    Thomas P. Curtis;William T. Sloan;Jack W. Scannell

  • Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data

    Christopher Quince;Anders Lanzén;Thomas P Curtis;Russell J Davenport

  • The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology

    James I. Prosser;Brendan J. M. Bohannan;Tom P. Curtis;Richard J. Ellis

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics

    Stefanie Widder;Rosalind J Allen;Thomas Pfeiffer;Thomas P Curtis

  • Combined niche and neutral effects in a microbial wastewater treatment community

    Irina Dana Ofiteru;Mary Lunn;Thomas P Curtis;George F Wells

  • Determination of the internal chemical energy of wastewater

    Elizabeth Heidrich;Thomas Curtis;Jan Dolfing

  • Influence of pH, Oxygen, and Humic Substances on Ability of Sunlight To Damage Fecal Coliforms in Waste Stabilization Pond Water

    Thomas P. Curtis;D. Duncan Mara;Salomao A. Silva

  • Microbial landscapes: new paths to biofilm research.

    Tom J. Battin;William T. Sloan;Staffan Kjelleberg;Holger Daims

  • Prokaryotic diversity and its limits: microbial community structure in nature and implications for microbial ecology

    Thomas P Curtis;William T Sloan

  • Energy from algae using microbial fuel cells.

    Sharon B. Velasquez-Orta;Tom P. Curtis;Bruce E. Logan

  • A single-chamber microbial fuel cell as a biosensor for wastewaters.

    Mirella Di Lorenzo;Tom P. Curtis;Ian M. Head;Keith Scott

  • Performance of a pilot scale microbial electrolysis cell fed on domestic wastewater at ambient temperatures for a 12 month period.

    Elizabeth S. Heidrich;Stephen R. Edwards;Jan Dolfing;Sarah E. Cotterill

  • Production of hydrogen from domestic wastewater in a pilot-scale microbial electrolysis cell.

    Elizabeth Heidrich;Jan Dolfing;Keith Scott;Stephen Edwards

  • Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities

    Maria Dornelas;Anne Magurran;Stephen Terrence Buckland;Anne Chao

  • Exploring microbial diversity: A vast below

    T. P. Curtis;W. T. Sloan

  • Photoelectrocatalytic and photocatalytic disinfection of E. coli suspensions by titanium dioxide

    Paul Christensen;Thomas Curtis;Terry Egerton;Samia Kosa

  • Uncoupling of metabolism to reduce biomass production in the activated sludge process

    Euan W. Low;Howard A. Chase;Michael G. Milner;Tom P. Curtis

  • Composition and diversity of ammonia-oxidising bacterial communities in wastewater treatment reactors of different design treating identical wastewater.

    Arlene K. Rowan;Jason R. Snape;David Fearnside;Michael R. Barer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian M. Head
Ian M. Head Newcastle University
Keith Scott
Keith Scott Newcastle University
Jan Dolfing
Jan Dolfing Northumbria University
Duncan Mara
Duncan Mara University of Leeds
Christopher Quince
Christopher Quince University of Warwick
Paul A. Christensen
Paul A. Christensen Newcastle University
Cristian Picioreanu
Cristian Picioreanu King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Barth F. Smets
Barth F. Smets Technical University of Denmark
Darren J. Wilkinson
Darren J. Wilkinson Durham University
David W. Graham
David W. Graham Newcastle University

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