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    Gilles van Wezel
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    Editor 700

    Contributions by subject area

    Microbiology 700
    Molecular-Biology 400
    Environmental-Sciences 300
    Biodiversity 200
    Evolutionary-Studies 200
    Bioinformatics 200
    Biochemistry 100
    Ecology 100
    Soil-Science 100
    Molecular-biology 100
    Genomics 100
    Computational-Biology 100
    Academic Editor

    Gilles P. van Wezel


    Summary

    Professor of Molecular Biotechnology. Director of the cluster Microbial Biotechnology & Health and vice-director of the Institute of Biology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Guest Professor at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Biotech entrepreneur. Chair of the board of the International Symposium for the Biology of Actinomycetes (ISBA).

    Biotechnology Developmental Biology Microbiology Molecular Biology Synthetic Biology

    Work details

    Professor of Microbial Biotechnology

    Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Institute of Biology

    Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands

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    • Edited 4

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    October 26, 2016
    Early evolution of polyisoprenol biosynthesis and the origin of cell walls
    3 citations
    432 downloads
    1,407 views
    Jonathan Lombard
    biochemistry
    evolutionary-studies
    genomics
    microbiology
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2626 PubMed 27812422
    February 25, 2016
    Comparison of three clustering approaches for detecting novel environmental microbial diversity
    10 citations
    410 downloads
    2,120 views
    Dominik Forster, Micah Dunthorn, Thorsten Stoeck, Frédéric Mahé
    biodiversity
    bioinformatics
    environmental-sciences
    microbiology
    molecular-biology
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1692 PubMed 26966652
    January 11, 2016
    Occurrence of ferredoxin:NAD+ oxidoreductase activity and its ion specificity in several Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria
    12 citations
    471 downloads
    1,384 views
    Verena Hess, Rene Gallegos, J Andrew Jones, Blanca Barquera, Michael H Malamy, Volker Müller
    microbiology
    molecular-biology
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1515 PubMed 26793417
    December 10, 2015
    Swarm v2: highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering
    83 citations
    762 downloads
    4,218 views
    Frédéric Mahé, Torbjørn Rognes, Christopher Quince, Colomban de Vargas, Micah Dunthorn
    biodiversity
    bioinformatics
    environmental-sciences
    microbiology
    molecular-biology
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1420 PubMed 26713226
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