Prof. dr. Laura Villanueva
Professor
Publications
2022
Scholarly publications
Villanueva, L., & Coolen, M. J. L. (2022). Contributions of Genomics to Lipid Biomarker Research: From Paleoclimatology to Evolution. Elements, 18(2), 87-92. https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.18.2.87
Sahonero-Canavesi, D. X., Siliakus, M. F., Asbun, A. A., Koenen, M., Von Meijenfeldt, F. A. B., Boeren, S., Bale, N. J., Engelman, J. C., Fiege, K., van Schijndel, L. S., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., & Villanueva, L. (2022). Disentangling the lipid divide: Identification of key enzymes for the biosynthesis of membrane-spanning and ether lipids in Bacteria. Science advances, 8(50), 1-15. [eabq8652]. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq8652
Suominen, S., Gomez-Saez, G. V., Dittmar, T., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., & Villanueva, L. (2022). Interplay between microbial community composition and chemodiversity of dissolved organic matter throughout the Black Sea water column redox gradient. Limnology and Oceanography, 67(2), 329-347. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11995
Kemenade, Z. R. V., Villanueva, L., Hopmans, E. C., Kraal, P., Witte, H. J., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., & Rush, D. (2022). Bacteriohopanetetrol-x: constraining its application as a lipid biomarker for marine anammox using the water column oxygen gradient of the Benguela upwelling system. Biogeosciences, 19(1), 201-221. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-201-2022
Sahonero-Canavesi, D. X., Villanueva, L., Bale, N. J., Bosviel, J., Koenen, M., Hopmans, E. C., & Sinninghe Damsté, J. S. (2022). Changes in the distribution of membrane lipids during growth of Thermotoga maritima at different temperatures: Indications for the potential mechanism of biosynthesis of ether-bound diabolic acid (membrane-spanning) lipids. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(2), 1-17. [e01763-21]. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01763-21
2021
Scholarly publications
Baxter, A. J., van Bree, L. G. J., Peterse, F., Hopmans, E. C., Villanueva, L., Verschuren, D., & Sinninghe Damsté, J. S. (2021). Seasonal and multi-annual variation in the abundance of isoprenoid GDGT membrane lipids and their producers in the water column of a meromictic equatorial crater lake (Lake Chala, East Africa). Quaternary Science Reviews, 273, 1-21. [107263]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107263
Grinsven, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Harrison, J., Polerecky, L., & Villanueva, L. (2021). Nitrate promotes the transfer of methane‐derived carbon from the methanotroph Methylobacter sp. to the methylotroph Methylotenera sp. in eutrophic lake water. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(3), 878-891. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11648
Suominen, S., Doorenspleet, K., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., & Villanueva, L. (2021). Microbial community development on model particles in the deep sulfidic waters of the Black Sea. Environmental Microbiology, 23(6), 2729-2746. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15024
Suominen, S., Dombrowski, N., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., & Villanueva, L. (2021). A diverse uncultivated microbial community is responsible for organic matter degradation in the Black Sea sulphidic zone. Environmental Microbiology, 23(6), 2709-2728. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14902
Smit, N. T., Villanueva, L., Rush, D., Grassa, F., Witkowski, C. R., Holzheimer, M., Minnaard, A. J., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., & Schouten, S. (2021). Novel hydrocarbon-utilizing soil mycobacteria synthesize unique mycocerosic acids at a Sicilian everlasting fire. Biogeosciences, 18(4), 1463-1479. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-1463-2021
van Vliet, D. M., von Meijenfeldt, F. A. B., Dutilh, B. E., Villanueva, L., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Stams, A. J. M., & Sánchez-Andrea, I. (2021). The bacterial sulfur cycle in expanding dysoxic and euxinic marine waters. Environmental Microbiology, 23(6), 2834-2857. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15265
Villanueva, L., von Meijenfeldt, F. A. B., Westbye, A. B., Yadav, S., Hopmans, E. C., Dutilh, B. E., & Damsté, J. S. S. (2021). Bridging the membrane lipid divide: bacteria of the FCB group superphylum have the potential to synthesize archaeal ether lipids. ISME Journal, 15(1), 168-182. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00772-2
2020
Scholarly publications
Yadav, S., Villanueva, L., Bale, N., Koenen, M., Hopmans, E. C., & Damsté, J. S. S. (2020). Physiological, chemotaxonomic and genomic characterization of two novel piezotolerant bacteria of the family Marinifilaceae isolated from sulfidic waters of the Black Sea. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 43(5), [126122]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126122
Besseling, M. A., Hopmans, E. C., Bale, N. J., Schouten, S., Damsté, J. S. S., & Villanueva, L. (2020). The absence of intact polar lipid-derived GDGTs in marine waters dominated by Marine Group II: Implications for lipid biosynthesis in Archaea. Scientific Reports, 10(1), [294]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57035-0
Bale, N. J., Koenen, M., Yadav, S., Hopmans, E. C., Villanueva, L., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., & Schouten, S. (2020). Diagnostic amide products of amino lipids detected in the microaerophilic bacteria Lutibacter during routine fatty acid analysis using gas chromatography. Organic Geochemistry, 144, [104027]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104027
van Bree, L. G. J., Peterse, F., Baxter, A. J., De Crop, W., Van Grinsven, S., Villanueva, L., Verschuren, D., & Sinninghe Damsté, J. S. (2020). Seasonal variability and sources of in situ brGDGT production in a permanently stratified African crater lake. Biogeosciences, 17(21), 5443-5463. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5443-2020