Christopher E. Lawson

2.9k citations

25 papers · 2.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 15

Impact in

Pollution top 0.5%
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
Catalysis top 5%
- Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction

Papers in ⓘ

Pollution 11
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal 10
Environmental Engineering 7
- Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation 7

Co-authors: Daniel R. Noguera (7 shared papers)Katherine D. McMahon (6 shared papers)Joshua J. Hamilton (2 shared papers)Ramesh Goel (2 shared papers)Ananda S. Bhattacharjee (2 shared papers)Sha Wu (2 shared papers)Sebastian Lücker (5 shared papers)Héctor García Martín (2 shared papers)
Journals: The ISME Journal (4 papers)mSystems (4 papers)Current Opinion in Biotechnology (3 papers)Nature Communications (2 papers)Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Canada Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Christopher E. Lawson

24 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes 2019 · 398 citations

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it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2017 Nature Communications

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1	Metabolic network analysis reveals microbial community interactions in anammox granules Nature Communications ·Christopher E. Lawson, Sha Wu, Ananda S. Bhattacharjee, Joshua J. Hamilton, Katherine D. McMahon, Ramesh Goel, Daniel R. Noguera Hit paper breakdown →	2017	613
2	Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Christopher E. Lawson, William R. Harcombe, Roland Hatzenpichler, Stephen R. Lindemann, Frank E. Löffler, Michelle O’Malley, Héctor García Martín, Brian F. Pfleger, Lutgarde Raskin, Ophelia S. Venturelli, David G. Weissbrodt, Daniel R. Noguera, Katherine D. McMahon Hit paper breakdown →	2019	398
3	The reductive glycine pathway allows autotrophic growth of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans Nature Communications ·Irene Sánchez‐Andrea, Iamê Alves Guedes, Bastian Hornung, Sjef Boeren, Christopher E. Lawson, Diana Z. Sousa, Arren Bar‐Even, Nico J. Claassens, Alfons J. M. Stams	2020	197
4	Machine learning for metabolic engineering: A review Metabolic Engineering ·Christopher E. Lawson, Jose Manuel Martí, Tijana Radivojević, Sai Vamshi R. Jonnalagadda, Reinhard Gentz, Nathan J. Hillson, Sean Peisert, Joonhoon Kim, Blake A. Simmons, Christopher J. Petzold, Steven W. Singer, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Deepti Tanjore, Joshua G. Dunn, Héctor García Martín	2020	191
5	Complete ammonia oxidation: an important control on nitrification in engineered ecosystems? Current Opinion in Biotechnology ·Christopher E. Lawson, Sebastian Lücker	2018	119
6	Whole-Community Metagenomics in Two Different Anammox Configurations: Process Performance and Community Structure Environmental Science & Technology ·Ananda S. Bhattacharjee, Sha Wu, Christopher E. Lawson, Mike S. M. Jetten, Vikram Kapoor, Jorge W. Santo Domingo, Katherine D. McMahon, Daniel R. Noguera, Ramesh Goel	2017	105
7	Autotrophic and mixotrophic metabolism of an anammox bacterium revealed by in vivo 13C and 2H metabolic network mapping The ISME Journal ·Christopher E. Lawson, Guylaine H. L. Nuijten, Rob M. de Graaf, Tyler B. Jacobson, Martin Pabst, David M. Stevenson, Mike S. M. Jetten, Daniel R. Noguera, Katherine D. McMahon, Daniel Amador‐Noguez, Sebastian Lücker	2020	98
8	Metatranscriptomic and Thermodynamic Insights into Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Production Using an Anaerobic Microbiome mSystems ·Matthew Scarborough, Christopher E. Lawson, Joshua J. Hamilton, Timothy J. Donohue, Daniel R. Noguera	2018	77
9	Rare taxa have potential to make metabolic contributions in enhanced biological phosphorus removal ecosystems Environmental Microbiology ·Christopher E. Lawson, Blake J. Strachan, Niels W. Hanson, Aria S Hahn, Eric R. Hall, Barry Rabinowitz, Donald S. Mavinic, William D. Ramey, Steven Hallam	2015	62
10	Experimentally Validated Reconstruction and Analysis of a Genome-Scale Metabolic Model of an Anaerobic Neocallimastigomycota Fungus mSystems ·St. Elmo Wilken, Jonathan M. Monk, Patrick A. Leggieri, Christopher E. Lawson, Thomas S. Lankiewicz, Susanna Seppälä, Chris Daum, Jerry Jenkins, Anna Lipzen, Stephen J. Mondo, Kerrie Barry, Igor V. Grigoriev, John K. Henske, Michael K. Theodorou, Bernhard Ø. Palsson, Linda Petzold, Michelle O’Malley	2021	45
11	Ancestral genome reconstruction identifies the evolutionary basis for trait acquisition in polyphosphate accumulating bacteria The ISME Journal ·Ben O. Oyserman, Francisco Moya, Christopher E. Lawson, Antonio Luis Carballo García, Mark Vogt, Mitchell Heffernen, Daniel R. Noguera, Katherine D. McMahon	2016	32
12	Cultivation and Transcriptional Analysis of a Canonical Nitrospira Under Stable Growth Conditions Frontiers in Microbiology ·Aniela B. Mundinger, Christopher E. Lawson, Mike S. M. Jetten, Hanna Koch, Sebastian Lücker	2019	31
13	A general approach to explore prokaryotic protein glycosylation reveals the unique surface layer modulation of an anammox bacterium The ISME Journal ·Martin Pabst, Denis S. Grouzdev, Christopher E. Lawson, Hugo B.C. Kleikamp, Carol de Ram, Rogier Louwen, Yue Mei Lin, Sebastian Lücker, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Michele Laureni	2021	19
14	Patterns of Endemism and Habitat Selection in Coalbed Microbial Communities Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Christopher E. Lawson, Cameron Strachan, Dominique D. Williams, Susan Koziel, Steven Hallam, Karen Budwill	2015	18
15	Retooling Microbiome Engineering for a Sustainable Future mSystems ·Christopher E. Lawson	2021	16
16	Investigating the Chemolithoautotrophic and Formate Metabolism of Nitrospira moscoviensis by Constraint-Based Metabolic Modeling and ¹³ C-Tracer Analysis mSystems ·Christopher E. Lawson, Aniela B. Mundinger, Hanna Koch, Tyler B. Jacobson, Coty A. Weathersby, Mike S. M. Jetten, Martin Pabst, Daniel Amador‐Noguez, Daniel R. Noguera, Katherine D. McMahon, Sebastian Lücker	2021	12
17	Plant-wide systems microbiology for the wastewater industry Environmental Science Water Research & Technology ·Marta Cerruti, Bing Guo, Robert Delatolla, Nadieh de Jonge, Aleida Hommes - de Vos van Steenwijk, Paul Kadota, Christopher E. Lawson, Ted Mao, Margreet J. Oosterkamp, Fabrizio Sabba, Mikkel Stokholm-Bjerregaard, Ian C. Watson, Dominic Frigon, David G. Weissbrodt	2021	10
18	Microbiomes for sustainable biomanufacturing Current Opinion in Microbiology ·Matthew Scarborough, Christopher E. Lawson, Amy C. DeCola, Ian Mateus Gois	2021	9
19	Impact of cathodic pH and bioaugmentation on acetate and CH₄ production in a microbial electrosynthesis cell RSC Advances ·Emmanuel Onyekachi Nwanebu, Mara Jezernik, Christopher E. Lawson, Guillaume Bruant, B. Tartakovsky	2024	5
20	Advancing environmental biotechnology with microbial community modeling rooted in functional ‘omics Current Opinion in Biotechnology ·Pranav Sampara, Christopher E. Lawson, Matthew Scarborough, Ryan Ziels	2024	4

About Christopher E. Lawson

Christopher E. Lawson is a scholar working on Pollution, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Building and Construction and Molecular Biology, having authored 25 papers that have together received 2.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (10 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (7 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (6 papers), Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (4 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (1.0k citations), Catalysis (216 citations), Environmental Engineering (409 citations), Ecology (631 citations) and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (166 citations). Christopher E. Lawson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Daniel R. Noguera, Katherine D. McMahon, Joshua J. Hamilton, Ramesh Goel, Ananda S. Bhattacharjee, Sha Wu, Sebastian Lücker, Héctor García Martín, Michelle O’Malley and Lutgarde Raskin. Their work appears in journals such as The ISME Journal, mSystems, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Nature Communications and Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology.

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