Nils-Kåre Birkeland

Stilling: professor

Telefon: 55 58 26 57

E-post: Nils.Birkeland@bio.uib.no

Besøksadresse: Thormøhlensgt. 53 A/B

Romnummer: 3G20

Publikasjoner i Cristin

2011

Rahman MZ, Azmuda N, Hossain MJ, Sultana M, Khan SI, Birkeland NK (2011): Recovery and Characterization of Environmental Variants of Shigella flexneri from Surface Water in Bangladesh. Curr Microbiol 63: 372-376.

Moen MN, Knævelsrud I, Haugland GT, Grosvik K, Birkeland NK, Klungland A, Bjelland S (2011): Uracil-DNA Glycosylase of Thermoplasma acidophilum Directs Long-Patch Base Excision Repair, Which Is Promoted by Deoxynucleoside Triphosphates and ATP/ADP, into Short-Patch Repair. J Bacteriol 193:4495-4508.

Ishino S, Ogino H, Mayanagi K, Haugland GT, Birkeland NK, Yamagishi A, Ishino Y (2011): The GINS complex from the thermophilic archaeon, Thermoplasma acidophilum may function as a homotetramer in DNA replication. Extremophiles 15: 529-539.

2010

Jensen S, Duperron S, Birkeland NK, Hovland M. 2010. Intracellular Oceanospirillales bacteria inhabit gills of Acesta bivalves. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 74: 523-533.

Knævelsrud I, Moen MN, Grosvik K, Haugland GT, Birkeland NK, Klungland A, Leiros I, Bjelland S. 2010. The hyperthermophilic Euryarchaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus repairs uracil by single-nucleotide replacement. Journal of Bacteriology 192: 5755-5766.

Karlström M, Chiaraluce R, Giangiacomo L, Steen IH, Birkeland N-K, Ladenstein R, Consalvi V (2010): Thermodynamic and kinetic stability of a large multi-domain enzyme from the hyperthermophile Aeropyrum pernix. Extremophiles 14:213-223.

Bonny TS, Azmuda N, Khan SI, Birkeland NK, Rahman MZ (2010): Virulence of environmental Stenotrophomonas maltophilia serologically cross-reacting with Shigella-specific antisera. Pak J Biol Sci 13:937-945.

2009

Haugland GT, Rollor CR, Birkeland NK, Kelman Z (2009): Biochemical characterization of the minichromosome maintenance protein from the archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum. Extremophiles 13: 81-88.

O-Thong S, Prasertsan P, Birkeland NK (2009): Evaluation of methods for preparing hydrogen-producing seed inocula under thermophilic condition by process performance and microbial community analysis. Bioresource Technology, 100:909-918.

Nesbø CL, Bapteste E, Curtis B, Dahle H, Lopez P, Macleod D, Dlutek M, Bowman S, Lewis A, Zhaxybayeva O¹, Birkeland NK, Doolittle WF (2009): The genome of Thermosipho africanus TCF52B: lateral genetic connections to the Firmicutes and Archaea. J. Bacteriol. 191: 1974-1978.

Albers SV, Birkeland NK, Driessen AJM, Gertig S, Haferkamp P, Klenk HP, Kouril T, Manica A, Pham TK, Ruoff P, Schleper C, Schomburg D, Sharkey K, Siebers B, Sierocinski P, Steuer R, van der Oost J, Westerhoff HV, Wieloch P, Wright PC, Zaparty M (2009): SulfoSYS (Sulfolobus Systems Biology): towards a silicon cell model for the central carbohydrate metabolism of the Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus under temperature variation. Biochem. Soc. Transactions 37: 58-64  (Part 1).

Camp, Huub J.M. Op den, Islam T, Stott MB, Harhangi HR, Hynes A, Schouten S, Jetten MSM, Birkeland NK, Pol A, Dunfield PF (2009):  Environmental, genomic, and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia. Environ Microbiol. Reports 1: 293–306.

Prasertsan P, O-Thong S, Birkeland NK (2009): Optimization and microbial community analysis for production of biohydrogen from palm oil mill effluent by thermophilic fermentative process. Int J Hydrogen Energy. 34: 7448-7459.

DiPippo JL, Nesbø CL, Dahle H, Doolittle WF, Birkeland NK, Noll KM (2009): Kosmotoga olearia gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic heterotroph isolated from an oil production fluid.  Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 59: 2991-3000.

2008

Islam T, Jensen S, Reigstad LJ, Larsen Ø, Birkeland N-K (2008): Methane oxidation at 55^oC    and pH 2 by a thermoacidophilic bacterium belonging to the Verrucomicrobia phylum.  Proc Acad Sci USA, January 8, vol. 105:300-400.

Dahle H, Garshol F, Madsen M, Birkeland NK (2008): Microbial community structure analysis of produced water from a high-temperature North-Sea oil-field. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 93: 37-49.

O-Thong S, Prasertsan P, Intrasungkhab N, Dhamwichukornc S, Birkeland NK (2008): Optimization of simultaneous thermophilic fermentative hydrogen production and COD reduction from palm oil mill effluent by Thermoanaerobacterium-rich sludge. Int J Hydrogen Energy 33: 1221-1231.

Miroshnichenko ML, Kublanov IV, Kostrikina NA, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Birkeland NK, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA (2008): Caldicellulosiruptor kronotskiensis sp. nov. and Caldicellulosiruptor hydrothermalis sp. nov., two extremely thermophilic, cellulolytic, anaerobic bacteria from Kamchatka thermal springs. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58: 1492-1496.

Jensen S, Neufeld JD, Birkeland NK, Hovland M, Murrell JC (2008): Methane assimilation and trophic interactions with marine Methylomicrobium in deep-water coral reef sediment off the coast of Norway. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol.  66: 320-330.

Haugland GT, Sakakibara N, Pey AL, Rollor CR, Birkeland NK, Kelman Z (2008): Thermoplasma acidophilum Cdc6 protein stimulates MCM helicase activity by regulating its ATPase activity.  Nucleic Acids Res 36: 5602-5609.

Haugland GT, Innselset M, Madern D, Birkeland NK (2008): Characterization of the Cdc6 Homologues from the Euryarchaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum. The Open Biochem J, 2: 129-134.

Jensen S, Neufeld JD, Birkeland NK, Hovland M, Murrell JC (2008): Insight into the microbial community structure of a Norwegian deep-water coral reef environment. Deep-Sea Research I. 55: 1554–1563.

Perevalova AA, Kolganova TV, Birkeland NK, Schleper C, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Lebedinsky AV (2008): Distribution of Crenarchaeota representatives in terrestrial hot springs of Russia and Iceland. Appl Env Microbiol  74: 7620-7628.

 

Current and previous projects, networks and funding for advanced equipment:

2011 - 2014: Cooperation with Armenia in microbiology of extreme environments. SIU/UD. 1.8 mill NOK.

2011-2014: Biological methane oxidation by methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia under  hot and acidic conditions; evolution of an ancient metabolic trait. NFR, 3.5 mill NOK.

2009-2012: Subsurface metagenomics, functional microbial diversity analysis and gene discovery in deep and hot petroleum reservoirs. VISTA. 2.5 mill NOK.

2010: Is methane oxidation an ancient metabolic trait? Centre for Geobiology, UiB. 180.000 NOK.

2007-2010: Metagenomics and gene discovery in Antarctic terrestrial habitats. The Research Council of Norway/The South-Africa programme. 898.000 NOK.

2009-2012: The Nordic Archaea Network. NordForsk.

2008: Comparative genomics of Archaeoglobus fulgidus strain 7324, a subsurface hyperthermophilic sulfate-reducing archaeon isolated from a hot North-Sea oil-well. University of Bergen/ Friforsk. 300.000 NOK.

2003-2011: Assessment of microbial pollution and diversity of Escherichia coli and Shigella in freshwater resources in Bangladesh. NUFU. 6.5 mill NOK.

2007-2010: Silicon Cell Model for the central carbohydrate metabolism of the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus under temperature variation. SysMo.

2004-2007: Metanspisende bakterier i havbunnsmiljø. VISTA. 1.5 millNOK.

2006-2007: Archaeoglobus fulgidus strain 7324: a unique archaeal sulfate reducer. The Research Council of Norway/ DAAD. 50.000 NOK.

2003-2007: Natural gas and biotechnology (NABI): bioprospecting of methane-oxidizing bacteria. The Norwegian Research Council/ Bioprospecting programme. 6.7 mill NOK.

2003-2007: Biological adaptations to extreme temperatures. The Norwegian Research Council/ Strategic university programme. 5.9 mill NOK.

2003-2007: Archaeal cell-cycle regulation. The Research Council of Norway. 1.7 mill NOK.

2006: Robot for automated picking of bacterial colonies (GenePix2xt). The Research Council of Norway. 1.7 mill NOK.

2002-2006: Biotechnology of intraterrestrial microorganisms. The Research Council of Norway/ Bioprospecting. 1.6 mill NOK.

2003-2005: Reduction of toxic metals and radionuclides by thermophilic prokaryotes. INTAS. 450.000 NOK.

2002-2004: Reduction of metals by thermophilic prokaryotes. NATO. 100.000 NOK.

1999-2003: Biology of Thermophiles. Nordic network. NorFA. 1.5 mill NOK.

1997-2001: VIRTUE: Bioaktive substanser. Wallenbergfondet. 475.000 NOK.

1997-1999: Termoresistens hos Archaeoglobus. The Research Council of Norway. 288.000 NOK.

1996-1999: Dissimilatorisk sulfitt reduktase fra oljebakterier. The Research Council of Norway. 1.2 mill NOK.

1995: Iso-sitronsyre dehydrogenase i Desulfobacter. The Research Council of Norway. 412.000 NOK.

1994: Generell drifts- og utstyrsbevilgning. The Research Council of Norway. 150.000 NOK.