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Melanie Duhamel
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 7
Citations - 1032
Melanie Duhamel is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dehalococcoides & Enrichment culture. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications receiving 972 citations.
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Comparison of anaerobic dechlorinating enrichment cultures maintained on tetrachloroethene, trichloroethene, cis-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride
Melanie Duhamel,Stephan D. Wehr,Lawrence Yu,Homa Rizvi,D. J. Seepersad,Sandra Dworatzek,E. Cox,Elizabeth A. Edwards +7 more
TL;DR: Differences in rates and community composition developed between the different subcultures, including the loss of the VC enrichment culture's ability to dechlorinate PCE, and it is apparent that significant mechanistic differences exist between each step of dechlorination from TCE to ethene, especially for the last important de chlorination step from VC to e thene.
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Characterization of a Highly Enriched Dehalococcoides-Containing Culture That Grows on Vinyl Chloride and Trichloroethene
TL;DR: It is clear that current 16S rRNA gene-based analyses do not provide sufficient information to distinguish between metabolically diverse members of the Dehalococcoides group as neither FL2 nor CBDB1 can dechlorinate VC to ethene in a growth-related fashion.
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Microbial composition of chlorinated ethene-degrading cultures dominated by Dehalococcoides.
TL;DR: Novel quantitative PCR methods were developed for several of these phylotypes affiliated with the putative dechlorinators Sulfurospirillum and Geobacter, and relative abundances of each phylotype in several individual cultures maintained on each chlorinated ethene were estimated.
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Growth and yields of dechlorinators, acetogens, and methanogens during reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes and dihaloelimination of 1 ,2-dichloroethane.
TL;DR: Understanding the functions of various populations in mixed communities may explain why Dehalococcoides spp.
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Chloroform respiration to dichloromethane by a Dehalobacter population
TL;DR: It is discovered that CF was rapidly and sustainably dechlorinated in the course of investigating anaerobic reductive dechlorination of 1,1,1-trichloroethane in a Dehalobacter-containing culture, with widespread implications for bioremediation.