Johannes Gijsbrecht Kuenen (born 9 December 1940, Heemstede) is a Dutch microbiologist who is professor emeritus at the Delft University of Technology and a visiting scientist at the University of Southern California. His research is influenced by, and a contribution to, the scientific tradition of the Delft School of Microbiology.
Kuenen studied at the University of Groningen, where he received both his Doctorandus degree and in 1972 his Doctorate (PhD) under the supervision of Professor Dr. Hans Veldkamp. The title of his thesis was ‘‘Colourless sulphur bacteria from Dutch tidal mudflats’’. After a short post-doc at the University of California in Los Angeles (USA), he returned as a senior lecturer to Groningen. In 1980, he moved to Delft to become the 4th Professor of Microbiology (succeeding M.W. Beijerinck and A.J. Kluyver) at Delft University of Technology. Kuenen's initial research interests were (the application of) bacteria involved in the natural sulfur cycle and yeast physiology and metabolism. His later interest in the (eco)physiology of nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria has led a.o. to the discovery of the bacteria within the phylum Planctomycetota that perform the Anammox process. In addition, his research has been focussed on (halo) alkaliphilic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from soda lakes. Gijs Kuenen retired in 2005 but remains active in science.
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process (dubbed the anammox-process) was discovered in the 1980s by the GijsKuenen lab in a waste water treatment plant in Delft, Netherlands. Ammonium...
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van Niftrik, Laura A.; John A. Fuerst; Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté; J. GijsKuenen; Mike S. M. Jetten; Marc Strous (2004). "The anammoxosome: an intracytoplasmic...
1016/0168-6496(96)00038-4. ISSN 0168-6496. De Zwart, J., J. Sluis, and J. GijsKuenen. "Competition for Dimethyl Sulfide and Hydrogen Sulfide by Methylophaga...
within the formations. Dubininia, Galina A., Fred A. Rainey, and J. GiJsKuenen (1924). Genus VII. Macromonas Utermohl and Koppe in Koppe 1924. Vol. 2...
of National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science GijsKuenen, Dutch microbiologist Warner T. Koiter, Dutch mechanical engineer Heike...
Jetten, Mike S. M; Wagner, Michael; Fuerst, John; van Loosdrecht, Mark; Kuenen, Gijs; Strous, Marc (2001-06-01). "Microbiology and application of the anaerobic...
(help) Sorokina, Dimitry Yu; Govardus A.H de Jong; Lesley A. Robertson; Gijs J. Kuenen (1 May 1998). "Purification and characterization of sulfide dehydrogenase...
Schmid, Markus; Schmidt, Ingo; van Loosdrescht, Mark; Abma, Wiebe; Kuenen, J. Gijs; Mulder, Jan-Willem; Strous, Marc (2004). Biodiversity and application...
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