Abdul Sheik
University of Luxembourg
14 Papers
36 Citations
Abdul Sheik is an academic researcher from University of Luxembourg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Metagenomics. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 9 publications. Previous affiliations of Abdul Sheik include Max Planck Society.
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Papers
A hundred years of activated sludge: time for a rethink
TL;DR: A bottom-up design approach is proposed, focused around the concept of a “wastewater biorefinery column”, which would rely on the engineering of distinct ecological niches into a BWWTP in order to guarantee the targeted enrichment of specific organismal groups which in turn will allow the harvest of high-value resources from wastewater.
Lipid-based biofuel production from wastewater
TL;DR: The current understanding of the genetic and functional basis for bacterial lipid accumulation and processing is reviewed, and this to lipid accumulating bacterial populations which occur naturally in BWWT plants are related.
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Integration of time-series meta-omics data reveals how microbial ecosystems respond to disturbance
Malte Herold,Susana Martinez Arbas,Shaman Narayanasamy,Abdul Sheik,Luise A. K. Kleine-Borgmann,Laura Lebrun,Benoit J. Kunath,Hugo Roume,Hugo Roume,Irina Bessarab,Rohan Benjamin Hugh Williams,John D. Gillece,James M. Schupp,Paul Keim,Christian Jäger,Michael R. Hoopmann,Robert L. Moritz,Yuzhen Ye,Sujun Li,Haixu Tang,Anna Heintz-Buschart,Anna Heintz-Buschart,Patrick May,Emilie E. L. Muller,Emilie E. L. Muller,Cedric Christian Laczny,Paul Wilmes +26 more
TL;DR: This work reveals extensive phenotypic plasticity and niche complementarity in oleaginous microbial populations from a biological wastewater treatment plant, and performs meta-omics analyses on in situ samples at weekly intervals to uncover four distinct fundamental niche types.
Responses of the coastal bacterial community to viral infection of the algae Phaeocystis globosa.
Abdul Sheik,Corina P. D. Brussaard,Gaute Lavik,Phyllis Lam,Niculina Musat,Andreas Krupke,Sten Littmann,Marc Strous,Marcel M. M. Kuypers +8 more
TL;DR: Findings reveal a novel role of viruses in the leakage or excretion of algal biomass upon infection, which provides an additional ecological niche for specific bacterial populations and potentially redirects carbon availability.
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Integrated omics for the identification of key functionalities in biological wastewater treatment microbial communities
TL;DR: In this opinion, integrated omics will become the future standard for large‐scale characterization of microbial consortia including those underpinning biological wastewater treatment processes, and will allow deconvolution of structure–function relationships by identifying key members and functions.