Alexander Prange, Ph.D.

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Title: Professor-Research (part-time)
Professor of Microbiology and Food Hygiene
Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Office Tel. : (225) 578-4665
Fax: (225) 578-6954

Academic preparation:

Ph.D. Agricultural Sciences
Ph.D. Biology (Microbiology)
Diploma Biology (=M.Sc.)

Selected recent publications:

Prange, A., Chauvistré, R., Modrow, H., Hormes J., Trüper, H. G. & Dahl, C. (2002). Quantitative speciation of sulfur in bacterial sulfur globules: X-ray absorption spectroscopy reveals at least three different species of sulfur. Microbiology 148, 267-276.

Prange, A. & Modrow, H. (2002). X-ray absorption spectroscopy and its application in biological, agricultural and environmental research. Re/Views Environ. Sci. Bio/Technol. 1, 259-276.

Prange, A., Birzele, B., Hormes, J. & Modrow, H. (2004). Investigation of different human pathogenic and food contaminating bacteria and moulds grown on selenite/selenate and tellurite/tellurate by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Food Control 16, 723-728.

Prange, A., Modrow, H., Hormes, J., Krämer, J. & Köhler, P. (2005). Influence of mycotoxin producing fungi (Fusarium, Aspergillus, Penicillium) on gluten proteins during suboptimal storage of wheat after harvest and competitive interactions between field and storage fungi. J. Agric. Food Chem. 53, 6930-6938.

Dahl, C. & Prange A. (2006). Bacterial sulfur globules: Occurrence, structure and metabolism. In Bacterial Inclusions, J. M. Shively. (Ed.) Series “Microbiology Monographs“, Springer, Berlin, pp. 21-51.

Saß, V., Milles, J., Krämer, J. & Prange, A. (2007). Competitive interactions of Fusarium graminearum and Alternaria alternata in vitro in relation to deoxynivalenol and zearalenone production. J. Food Agric. Environ. 5, 257-261.

Lichtenberg, H., Prange, A., Modrow, H. & Hormes, J. (2007). Characterization of sulfur compounds in coffee beans by sulfur K-XANES spectroscopy. Am. Inst. Phys. Proc. 882, 824-826.

Engel, A. S., Lichtenberg, H., Prange, A. & Hormes, J. (2007). Speciation of sulfur from naturally-occurring, filamentous microbial mats from sulfidic cave springs using X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 269, 54-62.

Franz, B., Lichtenberg, H., Hormes, J., Modrow, H., Dahl, C. & Prange, A. (2007). Utilization of solid ‘elemental’ sulfur by the phototrophic purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum: A sulfur Kedge X-ray absorption spectroscopy study. Microbiology 153, 1268-1274.

Lee, Y.-J., Dashti, M., Prange, A., Rainey, F. A., Rohde, M., Whitman, W. B. & Wiegel, J. (2007). Thermoanaerobacter sulfurigignens sp. nov., a novel anaerobic thermophilic bacterium reducing 1 M thiosulfate to elemental sulfur and tolerating 90 mM sulfite. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (in press).

Prange, A., Hormes, J. & Modrow, H. (2007). X-ray absorption spectroscopy as a tool for the detection and identification of sulfur compounds in photototrophic organisms. In Sulfur Metabolism in Phototrophic Organisms, R. Hell, C. Dahl, T. Leustek & D. Knaff, (Eds.) Series “Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration“, Springer, Berlin (in press)

Prange, A. (2007). Speciation analysis of microbiologically produced sulfur by X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. In: Microbial Sulfur Metabolism, C. Friedrich & C. Dahl (Eds.)., Springer, Berlin (in press)