Research output per year
Research output per year
Bacterial respiration and bioenergetics
Denitrification and nitrous oxide emissions
Regulation and adaptive responses of bacterial regulatory networks
Bioenergetics of Mycobacteria; in search of novel drug targets
Microbial physiology
Systems Ecology
Bioremediation of contaminated soils; dioxins, oil and farmaceuticals
Microbial communities organization and function
Short description of research experience and interests
Rob van Spanning is Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He holds a PhD in microbial physiology and molecular microbiology from the same university. His research interests are i) in understanding versatility and adaptive responses of bacterial respiration (from gene to function and back), and ii) in a fundamental understanding of make up and activity of microbial communities and their succession upon changes in their environment. For i) he studies the genetic and metabolic regulation, cellular organisation, function and biochemistry of a range of aerobic and anaerobic electron transport systems. He has ample experience in cloning, (homologous and heterologous) expression and in functional analyses of bacterial redox enzymes. For ii) he correlates microbial community make up to their function using different types of metagenomics analyses. He is skilled in i) a variety of genetic and analytical methods concerned with the functional characterization of enzymes (spectroscopy, reporter gene fusions, redox titrations, quinone/quinol extractions, kinetics of substrate consumption/product formation, purification, up to date general genetic and biochemical procedures), in ii) a variety of culturing techniques (batch, fed batch, chemostats, auxostats, retentostats), and in iii) fluorescence spectroscopy (fluorimeters, confocal microscopy).
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Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review
Santos-Beneit, F. (Contributor), van Spanning, R. (Contributor) & Bordel, S. (Contributor), figshare Academic Research System, 1 Jan 2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.15139358.v1, https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_2_of_Imaging_and_modelling_of_poly_3-hydroxybutyrate_synthesis_in_Paracoccus_denitrificans/15139358/1
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