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Staff Profile
Dr Beate Christgen
Senior Researcher in Geomicrobiology
- Email: beate.christgen@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6620
- Address: School of Natural and Environmental Sciences
3rd Floor Devonshire Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK
Research
Research Interests
- Microbially influenced carbonate precipitation (MICP) in soils
- Biological influence on methane fluxes
- Antibiotic resistance genes in soils
- Bioelectrochemical Systems
- Biosynthesis
- Low cost wastewater treatment systems
- Environmental microbiology
- In situ methane oxidation
- Resource efficiency
Publications
- Christgen B, Suarez A, Milner E, Boghani H, Sadhukhan J, Shemfe M, Gadkari S, Kimber RL, Lloyd JR, Rabaey K, Feng Y, Premier GC, Curtis T, Scott K, Yu E, Head IM. Chapter 4: Metal Recovery Using Microbial Electrochemical Technologies. In: Resource Recovery from Wastes: Towards a Circular Economy. London: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020, pp.87-112.
- Velenturf APM, Archer SA, Gomes HI, Christgen B, Lag-Brotons AJ, Purnell P. Circular economy and the matter of integrated resources. Science of the Total Environment 2019, 689, 963-969.
- McCann CM, Christgen B, Roberts JA, Su J, Arnold KE, Gray ND, Zhu Y, Graham DW. Understanding drivers of antibiotic resistance genes in High Arctic soil ecosystems. Environment International 2019, 125, 497-504.
- Sherry A, Andrade L, Velenturf A, Christgen B, Gray ND, Head IM. How to access and exploit natural resources sustainably: petroleum biotechnology. Microbial Biotechnology 2017, 10(5), 1206–1211.
- Christgen B, Yang Y, Ahammad SZ, Li B, Rodriquez DC, Zhang T, Graham DW. Metagenomics shows low-energy anaerobic-aerobic treatment reactors reduce antibiotic resistance gene dissemination from domestic wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology 2015, 49(4), 2577-2584.
- Christgen B, Scott K, Dolfing J, Head IM, Curtis TP. An evaluation of the performance and economics of membranes and separators in single chamber microbial fuel cells treating domestic wastewater. PLoS ONE 2015, 10(8), e0136108.
- Galatioto F, Franco P, Bell MC, Christgen B. Can food waste feed UK waste collection fleets? A sustainable approach to waste Management. In: 47th Annual UTSG Conference. 2015, London, UK.
- Gray ND, McCann CM, Christgen B, Ahammad SZ, Roberts JA, Graham DW. Soil geochemistry confines microbial abundances across an Arctic landscape; Implications for net carbon exchange with the atmosphere. Biogeochemistry 2014, 120(1-3), 307-317.
- Giesen MJ, Ung A, Warke PA, Christgen B, Mazel AD, Graham DW. Condition assessment and preservation of open-air rock art panels during environmental change. Journal of Cultural Heritage 2014, 15(1), 49-56.
- Chi Fru E, Gray ND, McCann C, Baptista JDC, Christgen B, Talbot HM, El Ghazouani A, Dennison C, Graham DW. Effects of copper mineralogy and methanobactin on cell growth and sMMO activity in Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b. Biogeosciences 2011, 8, 2887-2894.