Dr. Chakkiath Paul Antony

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsMicrobial Ecology and Applied Microbiology,Metabolism, Biochemistry, and Genetics of Microorganisms
Keywordsmicrobial metabolism, marine symbioses, methanotrophs/extremophiles, aquatic microbiology, metagenomics

Current contact address

CountrySaudi Arabia
CityThuwal-Jeddah
InstitutionKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology
InstituteRed Sea Research Center (RSRC)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Nicole DubilierSymbiosis Group, Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie, Bremen
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2013

Program(s)

2013Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2019Rubin-Blum M, Antony CP, Sayavedra L, Martínez-Pérez C, Birgel D, Peckmann Jörn, Wu Yu-Chen, Cardenas P, MacDonald I, Marcon Y, Sahling H, Hentschel U, Dubilier N: Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts. In: The ISME journal, 2019, 1209-1225
2019Seah BKB, Antony CP, Huettel B, Zarzycki J, Schada von Borzyskowski L, Erb TJ, Kouris A, Kleiner M, Liebeke M, Dubilier N, Gruber-Vodicka HR.: Sulfur-Oxidizing Symbionts without Canonical Genes for Autotrophic CO2 Fixation. In: mBio, 2019, e01112-01119
2017Rubin-Blum M, Antony CP, Borowski C, Sayavedra L, Pape T, Sahling H, Bohrmann G, Kleiner M, Redmond MC, Valentine DL, Dubilier N: Short-chain alkanes fuel mussel and sponge Cycloclasticus symbionts from deep-sea gas and oil seeps. In: Nature Microbiology, 2017, 17093-17094
2017Tavormina PL, Kellermann MY, Antony CP, Tocheva EI, Dalleska NF, Jensen AJ, Valentine DL, Hinrichs KU, Jensen GJ, Dubilier N, Orphan VJ: Starvation and recovery in the deep-sea methanotroph Methyloprofundus sedimenti. In: Molecular Microbiology, 2017, 242-252
2016Petersen JM, Kemper A, Gruber-Vodicka H, Cardini U, van der Geest M, Kleiner M, Bulgheresi S, Mußmann M, Herbold C, Seah BK, Antony CP, Liu D, Belitz A, Weber M: Chemosynthetic symbionts of marine invertebrate animals are capable of nitrogen fixation. In: Nature Microbiology, 2016, 16195-16196