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Birgit Würz
Researcher at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Publications - 4
Citations - 272
Birgit Würz is an academic researcher from Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mycelium & Soil microbiology. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 221 citations.
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Effect of Fungal Hyphae on the Access of Bacteria to Phenanthrene in Soil
Lukas Y. Wick,Rita Remer,Birgit Würz,Jana Reichenbach,Sebastian Braun,Franziska Schäfer,Hauke Harms +6 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that the specific stimulation of indigenous fungi is a promising method to mobilize pollutant degrading bacteria and thereby improve soil bioremediation in-situ.
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First day of an oil spill on the open sea: early mass transfers of hydrocarbons to air and water.
Jonas Gros,Deedar Nabi,Birgit Würz,Lukas Y. Wick,Corina P. D. Brussaard,Johannes Huisman,Jan Roelof van der Meer,Christopher M. Reddy,J. Samuel Arey +8 more
TL;DR: This is the first report on the broad-spectrum compositional changes in oil during the first day of a spill at the sea surface and a mass transfer model was developed to describe the evolution of oil slick chemical composition and water column hydrocarbon concentrations.
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Adaptive response of Rhodococcus opacus PWD4 to salt and phenolic stress on the level of mycolic acids
Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho,Martin A. Fischer,Sandra Kirsten,Birgit Würz,Lukas Y. Wick,Hermann J. Heipieper +5 more
TL;DR: This study investigated the composition of mycolic acids during the response both to osmotic stress caused by NaCl and to 4-chlorophenol in Rhodococcus opacus PWD4, a potential biocatalyst in bioremediation as well as for biotechnological applications.
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Synthesis of short-chain diols and unsaturated alcohols from secondary alcohol substrates by the Rieske nonheme mononuclear iron oxygenase MdpJ.
Franziska Schäfer,Judith Schuster,Birgit Würz,Claus Härtig,Hauke Harms,Roland H. Müller,Thore Rohwerder +6 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that also short-chain secondary alcohols can be transformed by MDPJ, and the biotechnological potential of MdpJ for the synthesis of enantiopure short- chain alcohols and diols as building block chemicals is discussed.