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Tillmann Lueders

Tillmann Lueders

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
12696
World Ranking
13756
National Ranking
979

Overview

Tillmann Lueders is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Pollution, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Plant Science, and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work covers a variety of topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Biodegradable microplastic increases CO2 emission and alters microbial biomass and bacterial community composition in different soil types (2022), Applied Soil Ecology
  • Methodological Advances to Study Contaminant Biotransformation: New Prospects for Understanding and Reducing Environmental Persistence? (2021), ACS ES&T Water
  • Structural Diversity in Early-Stage Biofilm Formation on Microplastics Depends on Environmental Medium and Polymer Properties (2020), Water
  • A novel Methylomirabilota methanotroph potentially couples methane oxidation to iodate reduction (2022), mLife
  • Nitrate Removal by a Novel Lithoautotrophic Nitrate-Reducing, Iron(II)-Oxidizing Culture Enriched from a Pyrite-Rich Limestone Aquifer (2021), Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Dheeraj Kanaparthi
  • Andreas Klingl
  • Johanna Pausch
  • Marko Lampe
  • Baoli Zhu

Publication venues in which Tillmann Lueders has frequently contributed include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Best Publications

  • Microbial biodiversity in groundwater ecosystems

    C. Griebler;T. Lueders

  • Enhanced sensitivity of DNA‐ and rRNA‐based stable isotope probing by fractionation and quantitative analysis of isopycnic centrifugation gradients

    Tillmann Lueders;Mike Manefield;Michael W. Friedrich

  • DNA stable-isotope probing

    Andrew S Whiteley;Bruce Thomson;Tillmann Lueders;Mike Manefield

  • Anaerobic Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons : from Enzymatic Reactions to the Environment

    Ralf Rabus;Matthias Boll;Johann Heider;Rainer U. Meckenstock

  • Evaluation of PCR amplification bias by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of small-subunit rRNA and mcrA genes by using defined template mixtures of methanogenic pure cultures and soil DNA extracts.

    Tillmann Lueders;Michael W. Friedrich

  • Molecular analyses of methyl-coenzyme M reductase alpha-subunit (mcrA) genes in rice field soil and enrichment cultures reveal the methanogenic phenotype of a novel archaeal lineage.

    Tillmann Lueders;Kuk-Jeong Chin;Ralf Conrad;Michael Friedrich

  • Archaeal population dynamics during sequential reduction processes in rice field soil.

    Tillmann Lueders;Michael Friedrich

  • Stable isotope probing of rRNA and DNA reveals a dynamic methylotroph community and trophic interactions with fungi and protozoa in oxic rice field soil.

    Tillmann Lueders;Bianca Wagner;Peter Claus;Michael W. Friedrich

  • Biodegradation: Updating the Concepts of Control for Microbial Cleanup in Contaminated Aquifers

    Rainer U. Meckenstock;Martin Elsner;Christian Griebler;Tillmann Lueders

  • Identification of bacterial micropredators distinctively active in a soil microbial food web.

    Tillmann Lueders;Reimo Kindler;Anja Miltner;Michael W. Friedrich

  • Stable-isotope probing of microorganisms thriving at thermodynamic limits: syntrophic propionate oxidation in flooded soil.

    Tillmann Lueders;Bianca Pommerenke;Michael W. Friedrich

  • Depth-resolved quantification of anaerobic toluene degraders and aquifer microbial community patterns in distinct redox zones of a tar oil contaminant plume

    Christian Winderl;Bettina Anneser;Christian Griebler;Rainer U. Meckenstock

  • Diverse sulfate-reducing bacteria of the Desulfosarcina/Desulfococcus clade are the key alkane degraders at marine seeps

    Sara Kleindienst;Florian-Alexander Herbst;Marion Stagars;Frederick von Netzer

  • Detection of anaerobic toluene and hydrocarbon degraders in contaminated aquifers using benzylsuccinate synthase (bssA) genes as a functional marker

    Christian Winderl;Sabine Schaefer;Tillmann Lueders

  • The use of stable isotope probing to identify key iron-reducing microorganisms involved in anaerobic benzene degradation.

    Umakanth Kunapuli;Tillmann Lueders;Rainer U Meckenstock

  • Effects of Amendment with Ferrihydrite and Gypsum on the Structure and Activity of Methanogenic Populations in Rice Field Soil

    Tillmann Lueders;Michael W. Friedrich

  • Effects of thermal energy discharge on shallow groundwater ecosystems

    Heike Brielmann;Christian Griebler;Susanne I. Schmidt;Rainer Michel

  • Vertical distribution of structure and function of the methanogenic archaeal community in Lake Dagow sediment

    On Chim Chan;Peter Claus;Peter Casper;Andreas Ulrich

  • Isolation and characterization of new strains of methanogens from cold terrestrial habitats.

    Maria V. Simankova;Oleg R. Kotsyurbenko;Tillmann Lueders;Alla N. Nozhevnikova

  • Testing the Limits of 454 Pyrotag Sequencing: Reproducibility, Quantitative Assessment and Comparison to T-RFLP Fingerprinting of Aquifer Microbes

    Giovanni Pilloni;Michael S. Granitsiotis;Marion Engel;Tillmann Lueders

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. Friedrich
Michael W. Friedrich University of Bremen
Rainer U. Meckenstock
Rainer U. Meckenstock University of Duisburg-Essen
Christian Griebler
Christian Griebler University of Vienna
Ralf Conrad
Ralf Conrad Max Planck Society
Michael Schloter
Michael Schloter Technical University of Munich
Martin von Bergen
Martin von Bergen Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Christine Stumpp
Christine Stumpp BOKU University
Franz Buegger
Franz Buegger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Jana Seifert
Jana Seifert University of Hohenheim
Tim Urich
Tim Urich University of Greifswald

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