Office address: 1141 Kraus Natural Science Building
Tel: +1 (734) 764 6481
E-mail V. Denef
First steps: University of Leuven, Belgium
Education/Employment
2012 - … : Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
2005 – 2011: Post-doctoral researcher, Banfield Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, USA.
2001 – 2005: Ph.D. in Applied Biological Sciences, LabMET, Universiteit Gent, Belgium.
2000 – 2005: Visiting Scholar at the Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, USA.
1996 – 2001: Bachelor/Master Bio-engineering, magna cum laude, University of Leuven, Belgium.
2008: Teaching assistant, NSF International Antarctic Biology Course, McMurdo Station,
Antarctica.
2003: Advanced Bacterial Genetics Summer Course (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY,
USA)
2002: Microbial Diversity Summer Course (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA,
USA).
Selected Publications
Denef V.J., J.F. Banfield. 2012. In situ evolutionary rate measurements show ecological success of recently emerged bacterial hybrids. Science 336(6080):462-6 Pubmed
Morowitz, M.J., V.J. Denef, E. Costello, B. Thomas, D.A. Relman, J.F. Banfield. 2011. Strain-resolved community genomic analysis of gut microbial colonization in a premature infant. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
108(3): 1128–1133 Pubmed
Denef, V.J., Mueller, R.S., and Banfield J.F. 2010. Winogradsky review: AMD biofilms: using model communities to study microbial evolution and ecological complexity in nature. ISME J. 4(5):599-610. Pubmed
Denef, V.J., L. Kalnejais, P., Mueller, R.S., Wilmes, B. Baker, Brian C. Thomas, N.C. VerBerkmoes, R.L. Hettich, and J.F. Banfield. 2010. Proteogenomic basis for ecological divergence of closely related bacteria in natural acidophilic microbial communities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107(6):2383-90. Pubmed
Denef, V.J., N.C. VerBerkmoes, M.B. Shah, P. Abraham, M. Lefsrud, R.L. Hettich, and J.F. Banfield. 2009. Proteomics-inferred genome typing (PIGT) demonstrates inter-population recombination as a strategy for environmental adaptation. Environ Microbiol. 11(2), 313-325. Pubmed
