Patrick C. Hallenbeck

Biography

Professor Patrick C. Hallenbeck obtained a PhD in Biophysics in 1978 (University of California, Berkeley). Named professor emeritus, he is currently adjunct professor at the University of Montreal and a visiting professor at the US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs. Professor Hallenbeck’s current main research focus is on microbial physiology and biofuels. He is the editor of 2 Books, the author of 37 Book Chapters/Review articles and over 60 Research Articles.  Dr. Hallenbeck has served as an ad hoc reviewer for many different journals (more than 150 completed to date) and has given numerous (over 100) conference presentations.  He is the President of the Biohydrogen Division of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy; Canadian Expert to Task 21 (Biohydrogen) of the Hydrogen Implementing Agreement of the International Energy Agency, and received an Outstanding Scientist award-IFIBiop 2012.  He is a member of the editorial boards of Bioresource Technology, Frontiers in Microbiology and Marine Biotechnology and is Section Editor for Biotechnology for Biofuels.  He has served on the organizing committees of numerous international conferences, was chair of ISPP2009 and of BioH2 2013.  His areas of expertise include microbial diversity, microbial physiology, biotechnology and biofuels.

Team 

• Khorcheska Batyrova, Ph.D.
• Carolina Lampol, Ph.D.
• Muhammad Maqossd, Ph.D.

Theme

• Microbiology

Research topics

• Biochemical, physiological and genetic aspects of microbial anaerobic metabolism :

Microbial biofuels production.

Microbial hydrogen metabolism. Fermentative hydrogen production as future energy source.

Nitrogen-fixation by photosynthetic prokaryotes: ammonia transport and regulation of nitrogenase.

Publications

• Leite, G.B. K. Paranjape, P.C. Hallenbeck, 2016. Breakfast of champions: Fast lipid accumulation by cultures of Chlorella and Scenedesmus induced by xylose, Algal Research, 16 (2016) 338-348.
• Kuniyoshi, T.M., Balan, A., Schenberg, A.C.G., Severino, D., Hallenbeck, P.C. 2015. Heterologous expression of proteorhodopsin enhances H2 production in Escherichia coli when endogenous Hyd-4 is overexpressed. Journal of biotechnology, 206, 52-57.
• Hallenbeck, P.C., Grogger, M., Mraz, M., Veverka, D. 2015. Building a better Mousetrap I: Using Design of Experiments with unconfounded ions to discover superior media for growth and lipid production by Chlorella sp. EN1234. Bioresource Technology, 184, 82-89.
• Hallenbeck, P.C., Grogger, M., Mraz, M., Veverka, D. 2015. The use of Design of Experiments and Response Surface Methodology to optimize biomass and lipid production by the oleaginous marine green alga, Nannochloropsis gaditana in response to light intensity, inoculum size and CO2. Bioresource Technology, 184, 161-168.
• Leite, G.B., Paranjape, K., Abdelaziz, A.E.M., Hallenbeck, P.C. 2015. Utilization of biodiesel-derived glycerol or xylose for increased growth and lipid production by indigenous microalgae. Bioresource Technology, 184, 123-130.