Thomas Egli

portrait Prof. em. Thomas Egli
Former Department Head, retired

General Wille-Strasse 194
CH-8706 Feldmeilen
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 44 923 36 91
Phone2: +41 (0) 79 753 45 41
E-mail: thomas.egli(at)emeriti.eawag.ch


Key Publications of Thomas Egli (up to ten) :
Egli T. (1991) On Multiple Nutrient-Limited Growth of Microorganisms with Special Reference to Dual Limitation by Carbon and Nitrogen Substrates. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 60, 225-234.

Egli T. (1995) The Ecological and Physiological Significance of the Growth of Heterotrophic Microorganisms with Mixed Substrates. Advances in Microbial Ecology 14, 305-386.

Berney M., Weilenmann H.-U., and Egli T. (2006). A Flow Cytometric Study of Vital Cellular Functions in E. coli during Solar Disinfection (SODIS). Microbiology 152, 1719-1729.

Hammes F., Berney M., Wang Y., Vital M., Köster O., Egli T. (2008). Flow-cytometric Total Bacterial Cell Counts as a Descriptive Microbiological Parameter for Drinking Water Treatment Processes. Water Research 42, 269-277.

Wang Y., Hammes F., Egli T. (2008). The Impact of Industrial-scale Cartridge Filtration on the Native Microbial Communities from Groundwater. Water Research 42, 4319-4326.

Lautenschlager K., Boon N., Wang Y., Egli T., Hammes F. (2010). Overnight Stagnation of Drinking Water in Household Taps Induces Microbial Growth and Changes in Community Composition. Water Research 44, 4868-4877.

Bosshard F., Riedel K., Schneider T., Geiser C., Bucheli M., Egli T. (2010). Protein Oxidation and Aggregation in UVA-irradiated Escherichia coli Cells as Signs of Accelerated Cellular Senescence. Environmental Microbiology 12, 2931-2945.

Keserue H.A., Baumgartner A., Felleisen R., Egli T. (2012). Rapid Detection of Total and Viable Legionella pneumophila in Tap Water by Immunomagnetic Separation, Double Fluorescent Staining and Flow Cytometry. Microbial Biotechnology 5, 753-763.

Egli T., Kötzsch S. (2015). Flow Cytometry for Rapid Microbiological Analysis of Drinking Water: From Science to Practice, an Unfinished Story. In: Flow Cytometry in Microbiology, pp. 177-219, M. Wilkinson (ed.). Horizon Press, U.K.

Wen G., Kötzsch S., Vital M., Egli T., Ma J. (2015). “BioMig” – a method to evaluate the potential releas of compounds from, and the formation of biofilms on polymeric materials in contact with drining water. Environmental Science and Technology (DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02539).



Expertise of Thomas Egli:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeExpert Type
Scientific / Fundamental Research
Applied Sciences / Technologies / Engineering
ScopeScope
Impact of Change
Vulnerability to Change
Adaptation Measures to Change
Topic AtmosphereAtmosphere
Radiation
Topic HydrosphereHydrosphere
Fresh Water Systems / Rivers / Lakes
Water Pollution / Waste Water
Hydrogeology (Drinking water microbiology)
Topic PedosphereSoil Pollution and Restauration
Topic BiosphereBiosphere
Topic EcosystemsEcosystems
Topic Economy/ResourceUseEconomy / Resource Use
Water
Topic TechnologyTechnology
Topic HealthHealth
Infectious / Vector Borne Disease
Pollution Effects / Water Quality
Time FrameRecent / Today
MethodsData Collection - Measurement
Data Analysis
GeoForum Environmental-TechnologyWaste Storage and Management
Groundwater Protection
Biodiversity Convention Thematic AreasBiosafety
Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Inland Waters Biodiversity
Biodiversity Convention Cross Cutting IssuesEcosystem Approach
Indicators
Taxonomy
Environmental Impact Assessment
BiologieMikrobiologie
Technische WissAgrarwissenschaften
Biotechnologie
Ernährungs- und Lebensmittelwissensch.

Specialties of Thomas Egli:
Drinking water microbiology, disinfection with UVC, solar light and ozone, oligotrophic growth of microorganisms, ecophysiology

Adaptation of infastructure to climate change and impacts of climate change

Adaptation of infrastructure to floods, hailstorms, storms, debris flows, mud flows, slides, avalanches, rock falls, heat waves, bush fires


Last update: 11/8/19
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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