Publications

Chandni Sidhu*, Daniel Bartosik, Vaikhari Kale, Anke Trautwein-Schult, Dörte Becher, Thomas Schweder, Rudolf Amann, Hanno Teeling. “Resource partitioning in organosulfonate utilization by free-living heterotrophic bacteria during a North Sea microalgal bloom”. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.10.627767 (In-review) (*corresponding author)

Mariia Pavlovska, Andrii Zotov, Yevheniia Prekrasna-Kviatkovska, Chandni Sidhu, Artem Dzhulai, Marta Dzyndra and Evgen Dykyi. “Dynamics of microbial communities in Western Antarctic Peninsula waters, shaped primarily by the biological interactions” (submitted, under-review)

Gunjan Vasudeva, Chandni Sidhu, Kalyan Vaid, Pragya Priyadarshini, Vanish Kumar, Muthu Krishnan, Balvinder Singh, Anil Kumar Pinnaka. “Bioremediation of catecholic pollutants with novel oxygen-insensitive catechol 2,3-dioxygenase and its potential in biomonitoring of catechol in wastewater”. Environmental Pollution (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.125613

Joris Krull, Conor J Crawford, Chandni Sidhu, Vipul Solanki, Margot Bligh, Leonard Rößler, Rajat K Singh, Guoyin Huang, Craig S Robb, H Teeling, Peter H Seeberger, Thomas Schweder, Jan-Hendrik Hehemann. “Polyelectrolyte mannan from diatoms reshapes sunlit ocean microbiome”. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.03.601839 (In-review)

Feng-Qing Wang, Daniel Bartosik*, Chandni Sidhu*, Robin Siebers, De-Chen Lu, Anke Trautwein-Schult, Dörte Becher, Bruno Huettel, Johannes Rick, Inga V. Kirstein, Karen H. Wiltshire, Thomas Schweder, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Mia M. Bengtsson, Hanno Teeling & Rudolf I. Amann. “Particle-attached bacteria act as gatekeepers in the decomposition of complex phytoplankton polysaccharides”. Microbiome (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-024-01757-5  (*equal contribution)

Jan D Brüwer, Chandni Sidhu, Yanlin Zhao, Andreas Eich, Leonard Rößler, Luis H. Orellana, and Bernhard M. Fuchs. "Globally occurring pelagiphage infections create ribosome-deprived cells." Nature Communications (2024).

Irena Beidler, Nicola Steinke, Tim Schulze, Chandni Sidhu, Daniel Bartosik, Marie-Katherin Zühlke, Laura Torres Martin, Joris Krull, Theresa Dutschei, Borja Ferrero-Bordera, Julia Rielicke, Vaikhari Kale, Thomas Sura, Anke Trautwein-Schult, Inga V Kirstein, Karen H Wiltshire, Hanno Teeling, Dörte Becher, Mia Maria Bengtsson, Jan-Hendrik Hehemann, Uwe T Bornscheuer, Rudolf I Amann, Thomas Schweder. “Alpha-glucans from bacterial necromass indicate an intra-population loop within the marine carbon cycle”. Nature Communications (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48301-5

Chandni Sidhu, Inga V. Kirstei , Cédric L. Meunier, Johannes Rick, Vera Fofonova, Karen H. Wiltshire, Nicola Steinke, Silvia Vidal‐Melgosa, Jan‐Hendrik Hehemann, Bruno Huettel, Thomas Schweder, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Rudolf I. Amann and Hanno Teeling. "Dissolved storage glycans shaped the community composition of abundant bacterioplankton clades during a North Sea spring phytoplankton bloom". Microbiome (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01517-x

Luis H Orellana, Karen Krüger, Chandni Sidhu, Rudolf Amann. "Comparing genomes recovered from time-series metagenomes using long-and short-read sequencing technologies". Microbiome (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01557-3

Jan D Brüwer, Luis H Orellana, Chandni Sidhu, Helena CL Klip, Cédric L Meunier, Maarten Boersma, Karen H Wiltshire, Rudolf Amann, Bernhard M Fuchs. "In situ cell division and mortality rates of SAR11, SAR86, Bacteroidetes, and Aurantivirga during phytoplankton blooms reveal differences in population controls". mSystems (2023). 10.1128/msystems.01287-22#

Nevena Maslać, Chandni Sidhu, Hanno Teeling, Tristan Wagner. "Comparative Transcriptomics Sheds Light on Remodeling of Gene Expression during Diazotrophy in the Thermophilic Methanogen Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus". mBio (2022). 13(6), e02443-22

Gunjan Vasudeva, Chandni Sidhu, Nidhi Kalidas, Anil Kumar Pinnaka. "Shape-function of a novel metapyrocatechase, RW4-MPC: Metagenomics to SAXS data based insight into deciphering regulators of function". International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (2021), 1012-1024

Chandni Sidhu, Mohit Kumar Saini, Naga Radha Srinivas Tanuku, and Anil Kumar Pinnaka. "Arenibacter amylolyticus sp. nov., an amylase-producing bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from marine water in India". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2021), 71, no. 3: 004664.

Dipesh Kumar Verma, Gunjan Vasudeva, Chandni Sidhu, Anil K Pinnaka, Senthil E Prasad, Krishan Gopal Thakur. "Biochemical and taxonomic characterization of novel Haloarchaeal strains and purification of the recombinant halotolerant α-amylase discovered in the isolate". Frontiers in Microbiology (2020).

Dipesh Kumar Verma, Chetna Chaudhary, Latika Singh, Chandni Sidhu, Busi Siddhardha, Senthil Prasad, Krishan Gopal Thakur. "Isolation and taxonomic characterization of novel phototropic Haloarchaeal isolates from Indian solar saltern: A brief review on distribution of bacteriorhodopsins and V-type ATPases in Haloarchaea". Frontiers in Microbiology (2020).

Chandni Sidhu, Vipul Solanki, Anil Kumar Pinnaka, Krishan Gopal Thakur. "Structure Elucidation and Biochemical Characterization of Environmentally Relevant Novel Extradiol Dioxygenases Discovered by a Functional Metagenomics Approach". mSystems (2019).

Vasundhera Gupta, Shalley Singh, Chandni Sidhu, Vishakha Grover, Anil Kumar Pinnaka, Suresh Korpole. “Virgicin, a novel lanthipeptide from Virgibacillus sp. strain AK90 exhibits inhibitory activity against Gram-positive bacteria”. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology (2019).

Ramkrushna Ashok Salunke, Chandni Sidhu, Ashok Kumar, Anil Kumar Pinnaka, Baldev Raj Bansal, Manmohan Chhibber. "Enhanced Antibacterial Activity of Endo-nortropine Substituted (C-7) Fluoroquinolones Against V. cholerae, S. aureus and B. subtilis". Letters in Drug Design & Discovery (2018).

Chandni Sidhu, Surendra Vikram, and Anil Kumar Pinnaka. “Unraveling the microbial interactions and metabolic potentials in pre-and post-treated sludge from a wastewater treatment plant using metagenomic studies”. Frontiers in Microbiology (2017).

Chandni Sidhu, Suresh Thakur, Gunjan Sharma, Naga Radha Srinivas Tanuku, Anil Kumar Pinnaka. “Oceanospirillum sanctuarii sp. nov., isolated from a sediment sample”. IJSEM (2017). doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002132.

Ananya Mehta, Chandni Sidhu, Anil Kumar Pinnaka, Anirban Roy Choudhury. "Extracellular polysaccharide production by a novel osmotolerant marine strain of Alteromonas macleodii and its application towards biomineralization of silver”. PlosOne (2014).