Patrick C. Hallenbeck
Professeur
titulaire
Département de
microbiologie et immunologie
Université de
Montréal
C.P. 6128,
succursale Centre-ville
Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7
Expertise
and
Interests
Microbial physiology, applied
microbiology and biotechnology, biological energy production, anaerobic
metabolism, nitrogen fixation, molecular genetics, and protein chemistry
Academic Career
BSc in Physics and PhD in Biophysics. Professor at
the Université de Montréal since 1987. Active in both fundamental
and applied research, and teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Publications
(last three years)
Hallenbeck, P.C.and
Ghosh, D. “Improvements in Fermentative
Biological Hydrogen Production through Metabolic Engineering” J Environ
Management, in press
Hallenbeck, P.C. “Fundamentals of dark hydrogen fermentations; multiple
pathways and enzymes” in State of the Art and Progress in Production of Biohydrogen, Azbar and Levin, eds. Bentham
Science Publishing, 2010 in press
Hallenbeck, P. C., Ghosh, D., Abo-Hashesh, M.,
and Wang, R. “Metabolic Engineering for Enhanced Biofuels Production with
Emphasis on the Biological Production of Hydrogen” in Advances in Chemistry
Research, vol
6, Nova Publishing, in press
Hallenbeck, P.C. “La verité sur la compostage; aussi
vert qu’on le croit?” Vecteur Environnement,
Nov 2010, 28-29, 2010
Hallenbeck, P.C., and Benemann, J.R. “Biohydrogen-
The Microbiological Production of Hydrogen Fuel” in EOLSS Encyclopedia: Biotechnology, vol. 7, Doelle, H. W. and Rokem, S. eds, ISBN: 978-1-84826-711-4, 2010
Masepohl, B., and Hallenbeck, P.C. “Nitrogen and Molybdenum Control of
Nitrogen Fixation in the Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus” in Recent Advances in Phototrophic
Prokaryotes, Hallenbeck, P.C., ed. Springer ISBN: 978-1-4419-1527-6, 2010
Ghosh, D. and Hallenbeck, P.C. “Response surface methodology for process
parameter optimization of hydrogen yield by the metabolically engineered strain
Escherichia coli DJT135” Bioresource Technology
101:1820-1825, 2010
Hallenbeck, P.C. and Ghosh, D. “Fermentative
hydrogen production: the way forward?” Trends Biotech. 27:287-297, 2009
Hallenbeck, P.C., D. Ghosh, M. T. Skonieczny,
and Yargeau, V. “Microbiological and engineering aspects of biohydrogen
production” Indian J Microbiol 49:48–59, 2009
Hallenbeck, P.C. “Fermentative hydrogen production: principles,
progress, and prognosis” Int J Hydrogen Energy 34: 7379–7389,
2009
Tremblay, P.L., and Hallenbeck, P.C. “Of blood, brains and bacteria,
the Amt/Rh transporter family: emerging role of Amt
as a unique microbial sensor” Molecular
Microbiology, 71: 12-22, 2009
Ghosh, D. and Hallenbeck, P.C. “Fermentative hydrogen yields from different
sugars by batch cultures of metabolically engineered Escherichia coli DJT135”
Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 34:7979–7982, 2009
Hallenbeck, P. C., George, G. N., Prince, R. C., and Thorneley,
R. N. F. “Characterization of a modified nitrogenase Fe protein from Klebsiella pneumoniae in which
the 4Fe4S cluster has been replaced by a 4Fe4Se cluster” J Biol Inorg Chem 14:673–682, 2009
Sabourin-Provost, G. and Hallenbeck, P.C. “High yield conversion
of a crude glycerol fraction from biodiesel production to hydrogen by photofermentation.” Bioresource Technology 100:3513-3517, 2009
Hallenbeck, P.C. and Sabourin-Provost, G. “Improvements
in biological hydrogen production by microbial fermentations” in Clean technology 2008: bioenergy,
renewables, green building, smart grid, storage, and
water; 54-57, 2008
Mansure, J.J., and Hallenbeck, P. C., “Desulfovibrio vulgaris
Hildenborough HydE and HydG interact with the HydA
subunit of the [FeFe] Hydrogenase” Biotechnology Lettters,
30:1765-1769, 2008
Turcot, J., Bisaillon, A., and Hallenbeck, P. C., “Hydrogen Production
by Continuous Cultures of Escherchia coli under Different Nutrient Regimes”,
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 33:1465-1470, 2008
Tremblay, P.-L., and Hallenbeck, P. C., “Ammonia-induced Formation of an
AmtB-GlnK Complex is not sufficient for Nitrogenase Regulation in the
photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus”, J. Bacteriology,
190:1588-1594, 2008
Tremblay, P.-L., Drepper,
T., Masepohl, B., and Hallenbeck, P.C. "Membrane sequestion of PII proteins and nitrogenase regulation in
the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus" J. Bacteriol.
189: 5850-5859, 2007