M. C. M. van Loosdrecht

The paper identifies a new nitrate-reducing iron-oxidizing bacterium in groundwater, demonstrating its lithoautotrophic growth and metabolic pathway.

The paper quantifies aerobic denitrification's contribution to N2O emissions in microbiomes with frequent oxic/anoxic transitions, showing it can respire a third of organic substrate with nitrate and produce up to a quarter of aerobically respired nitrate as N2O.

This study investigates how microbial selection influences extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) production in granular sludge, showing that slow-growing organisms enhance granulation and EPS formation.

This study identifies high molecular weight polysaccharides in Ca. Accumulibacter EPS as rich in NulOs and suggests their potential for sepsis treatment.

This study demonstrates that microorganisms in activated sludge can acquire synthetic plasmids via transformation under kanamycin pressure, using Hi-C sequencing to identify transformants.

The paper measures EPS turnover in a PAO-enriched microbial community and finds similar turnover rates for EPS proteins and intracellular proteins, with no preferential consumption by other microbes.

This study tracks antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) and mobile genetic element (MGE) transfer in a wastewater treatment plant, showing exDNA plays a significant role in AMR dissemination.

The paper investigates the production of nonulosonic acids (NulOs) in Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis biofilms using proteomic, mass spectrometry, and lectin-binding analyses, revealing their diversity and ecological significance.

This study examines how Escherichia coli adapts to repetitive substrate dynamics, finding increased substrate and oxygen consumption with reduced biomass yield and energy-spilling reactions.

This study investigates how anammox activity is affected by temperature and lipid composition in 14 anammox communities, finding that lipid structure and cold adaptation significantly influence performance at low temperatures.

The paper assesses DNA release from microbial cultures after sterilization and finds that current methods do not prevent DNA contamination, with autoclaving being the most DNA-damaging.