Researcher
Kim Heylen
- Disciplines:Bacteriology, Phylogeny and comparative analysis, Genetic predisposition, Ecology not elsewhere classified, Animal immunology
Affiliations
- Department of Biochemistry and microbiology (Department)
Member
From1 Feb 2004 → 30 Sep 2016
Projects
1 - 4 of 4
- Benckmarking dissimilatory nitrate reduction: focus on nitrate partitioning and nitrous oxide production in Firmicutes.From1 Mar 2013 → 31 Jan 2017Funding: BOF - Bilateral scientific cooperation
- The role of photoheterotrophic and chemoautotrophic prokaryotes in the microbial food web in terrestrial Antarctica: a cultivation approach combined with functional analysisFrom1 Jan 2012 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Denitrification in FirmicutesFrom1 Oct 2011 → 31 Mar 2016Funding: FWO fellowships, BOF - Other initiatives
- Demonstration of yet undiscovered dentrification genes in Gram positive bacteria via whole genome sequencingFrom1 Jan 2011 → 31 Dec 2013Funding: FWO research grant KAN
Publications
1 - 10 of 49
- Improved enrichment culture technique for methane-oxidizing bacteria from marine ecosystems : the effect of adhesion material and gas composition(2017)
Authors: Bram Vekeman, Charles Dumolin, Paul De Vos, Kim Heylen
Pages: 281 - 289 - Genome characteristics of two novel type I methanotrophs enriched from North Sea sediments containing exclusively a lanthanide-dependent XoxF5-type methanol dehydrogenase(2016)
Authors: Bram Vekeman, Daan Speth, Jasper Wille, Geert Cremers, Paul De Vos, Huub J. M. Op den Camp, Kim Heylen
Pages: 503 - 509 - Highly diverse nirK genes comprise two major clades that harbour ammonium-producing denitrifiers(2016)
Authors: Helen Decleyre, Kim Heylen, Bjorn Tytgat
- Draft genome sequences of eight obligate methane oxidizers occupying distinct niches based on their nitrogen metabolism(2016)
Authors: Kim Heylen, Paul De Vos, Bram Vekeman
- New Methyloceanibacter diversity from North Sea sediments includes methanotroph containing solely the soluble methane monooxygenase(2016)
Authors: Bram Vekeman, Geert Cremers, Paul De Vos, Peter Vandamme, Huub JM Op den Camp, Kim Heylen
Pages: 4523 - 4536 - Enhancing microbial cryopreservation: from fastidious microbes to mixed communities(2015)Volume: 71
Authors: Bram Vekeman, Annelies Geirnaert, Emilie Courtens, Ramiro Vilchez Vargas, Adrian Ho, Kim Heylen, DM Rawson
Pages: 549 - 550 - A doubling of microphytobenthos biomass coincides with a tenfold increase in denitrifier and total bacterial abundances in intertidal sediments of a temperate estuary(2015)
Authors: Helen Decleyre, Kim Heylen, Koen Sabbe, Bjorn Tytgat, Dieter Deforce, Filip Van Nieuwerburgh, Carl Van Colen
- Microbial interdependencies in an enriched aerobic mixed methanotrophic community(2015)
Authors: Frederiek-Maarten Kerckhof, Adrian Ho, Michael SG Granitsiotis, Kim Heylen, Nico Boon
Number of pages: 1 - Dissimilatory nitrogen reduction in intertidal sediments of a temperate estuary: small scale heterogeneity and novel nitrate-to-ammonium reducers(2015)
Authors: Helen Decleyre, Kim Heylen, Carl Van Colen
- The more, the merrier: heterotroph richness stimulates methanotrophic activity(2014)
Authors: Adrian Ho, Karen De Roy, Jan De Neve, Sven Hoefman, Peter Vandamme, Kim Heylen
Pages: 1945 - 1948