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  1. Potentiation of curing by a broad-host-range self-transmissible vector for displacing resistance plasmids to tackle AMR

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2020, PLOS

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  2. Damage Repair Versus Aging in Biofilms

    Article • January 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  3. Predation strategies of the bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus result in bottlenecks, overexploitation, minimal and optimal prey sizes

    Article • April 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  4. The Individual Microbe: Single-Cell Analysis and Agent-Based Modelling

    Article • January 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  5. Editorial: The Individual Microbe: Single-Cell Analysis and Agent-Based Modelling

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, November 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  6. Elucidating the impact of micro-scale heterogeneous bacterial distribution on biodegradation

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  7. Editorial: The microbiome as a source of new enterprises and job creation

    Article • Microbial Biotechnology, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  8. From Genes to Ecosystems in Microbiology: Modeling Approaches and the Importance of Individuality

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, November 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  9. Reducing discrepancies between 3D and 2D simulations due to cell packing density

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  10. Time-resolved toxicity study reveals the dynamic interactions between uncoated silver nanoparticles and bacteria

    Article • Nanotoxicology, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  11. New, rapid method to measure dissolved silver concentration in silver nanoparticle suspensions by aggregation combined with centrifugation

    Article • Journal of Nanoparticle Research, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  12. Advancing microbial sciences by individual-based modelling

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, June 2016, Nature

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

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

    Article • The ISME Journal, March 2016, Nature

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft, Dr Ottavio A Croze, Prof. Markus Ralser, Babak Momeni

  14. α-1-Antitrypsin variants and the proteinase/antiproteinase imbalance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Article • AJP Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, November 2014, American Physiological Society

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  15. Repair rather than segregation of damage is the optimal unicellular aging strategy

    Article • BMC Biology, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  16. Mathematical Modeling of Microbial Ecology: Spatial Dynamics of Interactions in Biofilms and Guts

    Article • April 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  17. Mathematical Modeling of Plasmid Dynamics

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  18. Mighty small: Observing and modeling individual microbes becomes big science

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  19. Bacterial colonies on plant leaves

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2013, PLOS

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  20. Exploiting additive and subtractive patterning for spatially controlled and robust bacterial co-cultures

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  21. Growth dependence of conjugation explains limited plasmid invasion in biofilms: an individual-based modelling study

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, September 2011, Wiley

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  22. A Multi-scale Agent-Based Distributed Simulation Framework for Groundwater Pollution Management

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  23. iDynoMiCS: next-generation individual-based modelling of biofilms

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, March 2011, Wiley

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  24. Protein Nanoarrays for High-Resolution Patterning of Bacteria on Gold Surfaces

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  25. Cooperation and cheating in microbial exoenzyme production - Theoretical analysis for biotechnological applications

    Article • Biotechnology Journal, June 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  26. Generalized Voronoi Tessellation as a Model of Two-dimensional Cell Tissue Dynamics

    Article • The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  27. Conditions for partial nitrification in biofilm reactors and a kinetic explanation

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, June 2009, Wiley

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  28. A mathematical model for growth and osmoregulation in halophilic bacteria

    Article • Microbiology, October 2008, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  29. Use of Game-Theoretical Methods in Biochemistry and Biophysics

    Article • Journal of Biological Physics, April 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  30. Microbial motility involvement in biofilm structure formation – a 3D modelling study

    Article • Water Science & Technology, April 2007, IWA Publishing

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  31. Does efficiency sensing unify diffusion and quorum sensing?

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, March 2007, Nature

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  32. Dynamics of development and dispersal in sessile microbial communities: examples from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pseudomonas putida model biofilms

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, August 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  33. Prediction of comammox, a complete ammonia oxidizing bacterium

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, May 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  34. Cell division theory and individual-based modeling of microbial lag

    Article • International Journal of Food Microbiology, June 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  35. Individual-based modelling of growth and migration of in hens' eggs

    Article • International Journal of Food Microbiology, April 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  36. The evolution of groups of cooperating bacteria and the growth rate versus yield trade-off

    Article • Microbiology, March 2005, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  37. Conflicts of interest in biofilms

    Article • Biofilms, October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  38. Biofilms promote altruism

    Article • Microbiology, August 2004, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  39. Particle-Based Multidimensional Multispecies Biofilm Model

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2004, ASM Journals

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  40. Article • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  41. Individual-based modelling of biofilms

    Article • Microbiology, November 2001, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft, Mark van loosdrecht

  42. BacSim, a simulator for individual-based modelling of bacterial colony growth

    Article • Microbiology, December 1998, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  43. Specificity of O -demethylation in extracts of the homoacetogenic Holophaga foetida and demethylation kinetics measured by a coupled photometric assay

    Article • Archives of Microbiology, May 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  44. Effects of alternative methyl group acceptors on the growth energetics of the O-demethylating anaerobe Holophaga foetida

    Article • Microbiology, April 1997, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  45. O -Demethylation by the Homoacetogenic Anaerobe Holophaga Foetida Studied by a New Photometric Methylation Assay Using Electrochemically Produced Cob(I)Alamin

    Article • European Journal of Biochemistry, December 1994, Wiley

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  46. Holophaga foetida gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, homoacetogenic bacterium degrading methoxylated aromatic compounds

    Article • Archives of Microbiology, July 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft

  47. Demethylation and degradation of phenylmethylethers by the sulfide-methylating homoacetogenic bacterium strain TMBS 4

    Article • Archives of Microbiology, April 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft