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Thomas Schweder is affiliated with the University of Greifswald in Germany. Their research spans several fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science, with a significant focus on molecular biology and ecology.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to microbial communities, biopolymer digestion, and environmental microbiology. Notable papers include:

  • "Verrucomicrobia use hundreds of enzymes to digest the algal polysaccharide fucoidan," 2020, published in Nature Microbiology
  • "Diatom fucan polysaccharide precipitates carbon during algal blooms," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "Changing expression patterns of TonB-dependent transporters suggest shifts in polysaccharide consumption over the course of a spring phytoplankton bloom," 2021, published in The ISME Journal
  • "Diverse events have transferred genes for edible seaweed digestion from marine to human gut bacteria," 2022, published in Cell Host & Microbe
  • "Genomic and proteomic profiles of biofilms on microplastics are decoupled from artificial surface properties," 2021, published in Environmental Microbiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Schweder include:

  • Dörte Becher
  • Daniel Bartosik
  • Jan-Hendrik Hehemann
  • Hanno Teeling
  • Rudolf Amann

Schweder has published regularly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Nature Communications
  • The ISME Journal

Their main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Science

Within these areas, key subfields covered are:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Ecology
  • Biotechnology
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Chemistry

The primary research topics investigated by Schweder involve:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Enzyme Production and Characterization
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Best Publications

  • Substrate-Controlled Succession of Marine Bacterioplankton Populations Induced by a Phytoplankton Bloom

    Hanno Teeling;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Dörte Becher;Christine Klockow;Christine Klockow

  • Physiological responses to mixing in large scale bioreactors

    Sven-Olof Enfors;M. Jahic;A. Rozkov;B. Xu

  • Regulation of Escherichia coli starvation sigma factor (sigma s) by ClpXP protease.

    T Schweder;K H Lee;O Lomovskaya;A Matin

  • Verrucomicrobia use hundreds of enzymes to digest the algal polysaccharide fucoidan.

    Andreas Sichert;Andreas Sichert;Christopher H. Corzett;Christopher H. Corzett;Matthew S. Schechter;Frank Unfried

  • Physiological proteomics of the uncultured endosymbiont of Riftia pachyptila.

    Stephanie Markert;Cordelia Arndt;Horst Felbeck;Dörte Becher

  • Functional Analysis of the Magnetosome Island in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense: The mamAB Operon Is Sufficient for Magnetite Biomineralization

    Anna Lohße;Susanne Ullrich;Emanuel Katzmann;Sarah Borg

  • Metaproteomics of a gutless marine worm and its symbiotic microbial community reveal unusual pathways for carbon and energy use

    Manuel Kleiner;Cecilia Wentrup;Christian Lott;Hanno Teeling

  • Functional characterization of polysaccharide utilization loci in the marine Bacteroidetes 'Gramella forsetii' KT0803.

    Antje Kabisch;Andreas Otto;Sten König;Dörte Becher

  • Niches of two polysaccharide-degrading Polaribacter isolates from the North Sea during a spring diatom bloom.

    Peng Xing;Richard L Hahnke;Frank Unfried;Stephanie Markert

  • In marine Bacteroidetes the bulk of glycan degradation during algae blooms is mediated by few clades using a restricted set of genes.

    Karen Krüger;Meghan Chafee;T. Ben Francis;Tijana Glavina del Rio

  • Polysaccharide utilization loci of North Sea Flavobacteriia as basis for using SusC/D-protein expression for predicting major phytoplankton glycans

    Lennart Kappelmann;Karen Krüger;Jan Hendrik Hehemann;Jens Harder

  • Automated detection and quantitation of bacterial RNA by using electrical microarrays.

    B Elsholz;R Wörl;L Blohm;J Albers

  • The genome of the obligate intracellular parasite Trachipleistophora hominis: new insights into microsporidian genome dynamics and reductive evolution.

    Eva Heinz;Tom A. Williams;Sirintra Nakjang;Christophe J. Noel

  • Monitoring of genes that respond to process-related stress in large-scale bioprocesses.

    Thomas Schweder;Elke Krüger;Bo Xu;Britta Jürgen

  • Monitoring of genes that respond to overproduction of an insoluble recombinant protein in Escherichia coli glucose‐limited fed‐batch fermentations

    Britta Jürgen;Hong Ying Lin;Stefan Riemschneider;Christian Scharf

  • Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of the Bacillus subtilis cold-shock response.

    Tanja Kaan;Georg Homuth;Ulrike Mäder;Julia Bandow

  • Metabolic and physiological interdependencies in the Bathymodiolus azoricus symbiosis

    Ruby Ponnudurai;Manuel Kleiner;Lizbeth Sayavedra;Jillian M. Petersen;Jillian M. Petersen

  • The extracellular proteome of Bacillus licheniformis grown in different media and under different nutrient starvation conditions

    Birgit Voigt;Thomas Schweder;Mark J. J. B. Sibbald;Dirk Albrecht

  • Staphylococcal serine protease–like proteins are pacemakers of allergic airway reactions to Staphylococcus aureus

    Sebastian Stentzel;Andrea Renate Teufelberger;Maria Nordengrün;Julia Kolata;Julia Kolata

  • Electric chips for rapid detection and quantification of nucleic acids.

    M Gabig-Ciminska;A Holmgren;H Andresen;K Bundvig Barken

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Hecker
Michael Hecker University of Greifswald
Dörte Becher
Dörte Becher University of Greifswald
Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Peter Neubauer
Peter Neubauer Technical University of Berlin
Michael Lalk
Michael Lalk University of Greifswald
Horst Felbeck
Horst Felbeck University of California, San Diego
Rolf Daniel
Rolf Daniel University of Göttingen
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Jacobs University
Nicole Dubilier
Nicole Dubilier Max Planck Society
Uwe T. Bornscheuer
Uwe T. Bornscheuer University of Greifswald

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