Alexander Prange, Ph.D.
Professor - Research (part-time)
Professor of Food-Microbiology and Feed Safety
South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany
prange@lsu.edu
Academic Preparation:
Ph.D. Agricultural Sciences
Ph.D. Biology (Microbiology)
Diploma Biology (=M.Sc.)
Selected recent publications:
Bovenkamp, G. L., Zanzen, U., Katla S. K., Hormes, J. & Prange, A. (2013). The interaction of interaction of silver ions with Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, and Escherichia coli – an X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy study. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79, 6385-6390.
Chitpirom, K., Akaracharanya, A., Tanasupawat, S., Leepipatpiboon, N., Kim, K.-W., Hormes, J., & Prange, A. (2017). Characterization of arsenic speciation using XANES spectroscopy in Comamonas terrae, an arsenite-oxidizing bacterium isolated from agricultural soil in Thailand. Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment 15, 44-47
Zanzen, U., Bovenkamp-Langlois, G. L., Klysubun, W., Hormes, J. & Prange, A. (2018). The interaction of interaction of cooper ions with Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli – an X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy study. Archives of Microbiology 200, 401-412.
Schlösser, I. & Prange, A. (2019). Effects of selected natural preservatives on the mycelial growth and ochratoxin A production of the food-related moulds Aspergillus westerdijkiae and Penicillium verrucosum. Food Additives and Contaminants Part A 36, 1411-1418.
Prange, A., Sari, M., Ameln von, S., Hajdu, C., Hambitzer, R., Ellinger, S. & Hormes, J. (2019). Characterization of selenium speciation in selenium-enriched button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) and selenized yeasts (dietary supplement) using X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology 51, 164-168.
Hormes, J., Klysubun, W., Göttert, J., Lichtenberg, H., Maximenko, A., Morris, K., Nita, P., Prange, A., Szade, J., Wagner, L. & Zajac, M. (2021). A new SOLARIS beamline optimized for X-ray spectroscopy in the tender energy range. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 489, 76-81.