Selected Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2023

  • Journal Article

    • Karakurt-Fischer, Sema; Johnson, David R; Fenner, Kathrin; Hafner, Jasmin (2023). Making waves: Enhancing pollutant biodegradation via rational engineering of microbial consortia. Water research, 247:120756.
    • Coll, Claudia; Fenner, Kathrin; Screpanti, Claudio (2023). Early Assessment of Biodegradability of Small Molecules to Support the Chemical Design in Agro & Pharma R&D. Chimia, 77(11):742-749.
    • Hafner, Jasmin; Fenner, Kathrin; Scheidegger, Andreas (2023). Systematic Handling of Environmental Fate Data for Model Development─Illustrated for the Case of Biodegradation Half-Life Data. Environmental science & technology letters, 10(10):859-864.
    • Honti, Mark; Zsugyel, Márton; Seller, Carolin; Fenner, Kathrin (2023). Benchmarking the Persistence of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients in River Systems. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(39):14684-14693.
    • Varga, Laura; Fenner, Kathrin; Singer, Heinz; Honti, Mark (2023). From market to environment – consumption-normalised pharmaceutical emissions in the Rhine catchment. Water research, 239:120017.
    • Zhang, Kunyang; Fenner, Kathrin (2023). enviRule: an end-to-end system for automatic extraction of reaction patterns from environmental contaminant biotransformation pathways. Bioinformatics, 39(7):btad407.
    • Escher, Beate I; Altenburger, Rolf; Blüher, Matthias; Colbourne, John K; Ebinghaus, Ralf; Fantke, Peter; Hein, Michaela; Köck, Wolfgang; Kümmerer, Klaus; Leipold, Sina; Li, Xiaojing; Scheringer, Martin; Scholz, Stefan; Schloter, Michael; Schweizer, Pia-Johanna; Tal, Tamara; Tetko, Igor; Traidl-Hoffmann, Claudia; Wick, Lukas Y; Fenner, Kathrin (2023). Modernizing persistence–bioaccumulation–toxicity (PBT) assessment with high throughput animal-free methods. Archives of toxicology, 97(5):1267-1283.
    • Seller, Carolin; Varga, Laura; Börgardts, Elizabeth; Vogler, Bernadette; Janssen, Elisabeth; Singer, Heinz; Fenner, Kathrin; Honti, Mark (2023). Do biotransformation data from laboratory experiments reflect micropollutant degradation in a large river basin?. Water research, 235:119908.
    • Satoh, Hiroko; Hafner, Jasmin; Hutter, Jürg; Fenner, Kathrin (2023). Can AI Help Improve Water Quality? Towards the Prediction of Degradation of Micropollutants in Wastewater. Chimia, 77(1/2):48.
    • Tian, Run; Posselt, Malte; Fenner, Kathrin; McLachlan, Michael S (2023). Increasing the Environmental Relevance of Biodegradation Testing by Focusing on Initial Biodegradation Kinetics and Employing Low-Level Spiking. Environmental science & technology letters, 10(1):40-45.
    • Trostel, Leo; Coll, Claudia; Fenner, Kathrin; Hafner, Jasmin (2023). Combining predictive and analytical methods to elucidate pharmaceutical biotransformation in activated sludge. Environmental Science: Processes, 25(8):1322-1336.

• 2022

  • Journal Article

    • Davenport, Russell; Curtis‐Jackson, Pippa; Dalkmann, Philipp; Davies, Jordan; Fenner, Kathrin; Hand, Laurence; McDonough, Kathleen; Ott, Amelie; Ortega‐Calvo, Jose Julio; Parsons, John R; Schäffer, Andreas; Sweetlove, Cyril; Trapp, Stefan; Wang, Neil; Redman, Aaron (2022). Scientific concepts and methods for moving persistence assessments into the 21st century. Integrated environmental assessment and management, 18(6):1454-1487.
    • Riedo, Judith; Herzog, Chantal; Banerjee, Samiran; Fenner, Kathrin; Walder, Florian; van der Heijden, Marcel G A; Bucheli, Thomas D (2022). Concerted Evaluation of Pesticides in Soils of Extensive Grassland Sites and Organic and Conventional Vegetable Fields Facilitates the Identification of Major Input Processes. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(19):13686-13695.
    • Desiante, Werner L; Carles, Louis; Wullschleger, Simon; Joss, Adriano; Stamm, Christian; Fenner, Kathrin (2022). Wastewater microorganisms impact the micropollutant biotransformation potential of natural stream biofilms. Water research, 217:118413.
    • Anliker, Sabine; Santiago, Sergio; Fenner, Kathrin; Singer, Heinz (2022). Large-scale assessment of organic contaminant emissions from chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing into Swiss surface waters. Water research, 215:118221.
    • Athanasakoglou, Anastasia; Fenner, Kathrin (2022). Toward Characterizing the Genetic Basis of Trace Organic Contaminant Biotransformation in Activated Sludge: The Role of Multicopper Oxidases as a Case Study. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(1):313-324.

• 2021

  • Journal Article

    • Seller, Carolin; Özel Duygan, Birge D; Honti, Mark; Fenner, Kathrin (2021). Biotransformation of Chemicals at the Water–Sediment Interface─Toward a Robust Simulation Study Setup. ACS Environmental Au, 1(1):46-57.
    • Fenner, Kathrin; Scheringer, Martin (2021). The Need for Chemical Simplification As a Logical Consequence of Ever-Increasing Chemical Pollution. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(21):14470-14472.
    • Özel Duygan, Birge D; Gaille, Caroline; Fenner, Kathrin; van der Meer, Jan R (2021). Assessing Antibiotics Biodegradation and Effects at Sub-inhibitory Concentrations by Quantitative Microbial Community Deconvolution. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9:737247.
    • Fenner, Kathrin; Men, Yujie (2021). Comment on “Role of Ammonia Oxidation in Organic Micropollutant Transformation during Wastewater Treatment”: Overlooked Evidence to the Contrary. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(17):12128-12129.
    • Chalifour, Annie; Walser, Jean-Claude; Pomati, Francesco; Fenner, Kathrin (2021). Temperature, phytoplankton density and bacteria diversity drive the biotransformation of micropollutants in a lake ecosystem. Water research, 202:117412.
    • Gallou, Fabrice; Fenner, Kathrin (2021). A Roadmap Towards Sustainable Chemical Products and Processes for Switzerland. Chimia, 75(7-8):697.
    • Hübner, Uwe; Wolff, David; Achermann, Stefan; Drewes, Jörg E; Wick, Arne; Fenner, Kathrin (2021). Analyzing (Initial) Biotransformation Reactions as an Organizing Principle for Unraveling the Extent of Trace Organic Chemical Biotransformation in Biofiltration Systems. Environmental science & technology letters, 1(8):1921-1931.
    • Kennes-Veiga, David M; Vogler, Bernadette; Fenner, Kathrin; Carballa, Marta; Lema, Juan M (2021). Heterotrophic enzymatic biotransformations of organic micropollutants in activated sludge. Science of the Total Environment, 780:146564.
    • Fenner, Kathrin; Elsner, Martin; Lueders, Tillmann; McLachlan, Michael S; Wackett, Lawrence P; Zimmermann, Michael; Drewes, Jörg E (2021). Methodological Advances to Study Contaminant Biotransformation: New Prospects for Understanding and Reducing Environmental Persistence?. ACS Sensors, 1(7):1541-1554.
    • Zumstein, Michael T; Fenner, Kathrin (2021). Towards more Sustainable Peptide-based Antibiotics: Stable in Human Blood, Enzymatically Hydrolyzed in Wastewater?. Chimia, 75(4):267.
    • Desiante, Werner L; Minas, Nora S; Fenner, Kathrin (2021). Micropollutant biotransformation and bioaccumulation in natural stream biofilms. Water research, 193:116846.

• 2020

  • Journal Article

    • Anliker, Sabine; Patrick, Michael; Fenner, Kathrin; Singer, Heinz (2020). Quantification of Active Ingredient Losses from Formulating Pharmaceutical Industries and Contribution to Wastewater Treatment Plant Emissions. Environmental Science & Technology, 54(23):15046-15056.
    • Meynet, Paola; Davenport, Russell J; Fenner, Kathrin (2020). Understanding the Dependence of Micropollutant Biotransformation Rates on Short-Term Temperature Shifts. Environmental Science & Technology, 54(19):12214-12225.
    • Seller, Carolin; Honti, Mark; Singer, Heinz; Fenner, Kathrin (2020). Biotransformation of chemicals in water–sediment suspensions: influencing factors and implications for persistence assessment. Environmental science & technology letters, 7(11):854-860.
    • Anliker, Sabine; Loos, Martin; Comte, Rahel; Ruff, Matthias; Fenner, Kathrin; Singer, Heinz (2020). Assessing Emissions from Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Based on Temporal High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data. Environmental Science & Technology, 54(7):4110-4120.
    • Mansfeldt, Cresten; Deiner, Kristy; Mächler, Elvira; Fenner, Kathrin; Eggen, Rik I L; Stamm, Christian; Schönenberger, Urs; Walser, Jean-Claude; Altermatt, Florian (2020). Microbial community shifts in streams receiving treated wastewater effluent. Science of the Total Environment, 709:135727.
    • Fenner, Kathrin; Screpanti, Claudio; Renold, Peter; Rouchdi, Marwa; Vogler, Bernadette; Rich, Stephanie (2020). Comparison of Small Molecule Biotransformation Half-Lives between Activated Sludge and Soil: Opportunities for Read-Across?. Environmental Science & Technology, 54(6):3148-3158.
    • Wang, Yuxin; Fenner, Kathrin; Helbling, Damian E (2020). Clustering micropollutants based on initial biotransformations for improved prediction of micropollutant removal during conventional activated sludge treatment. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 6(3):554-565.
    • Achermann, Stefan; Mansfeldt, Cresten B; Müller, Marcel; Johnson, David R; Fenner, Kathrin (2020). Relating metatranscriptomic profiles to the micropollutant biotransformation potential of complex microbial communities. Environmental Science & Technology, 54(1):235-244.

• 2019

  • Journal Article

    • Mansfeldt, Cresten; Achermann, Stefan; Men, Yujie; Walser, Jean-Claude; Villez, Kris; Joss, Adriano; Johnson, David R; Fenner, Kathrin (2019). Microbial residence time is a controlling parameter of the taxonomic composition and functional profile of microbial communities. The ISME journal, 13(6):1589-1601.

• 2018

  • Journal Article

    • Honti, Mark; Bischoff, Fabian; Moser, Andreas; Stamm, Christian; Baranya, Sándor; Fenner, Kathrin (2018). Relating Degradation of Pharmaceutical Active Ingredients in a Stream Network to Degradation in Water-Sediment Simulation Tests. Water Resources Research, 54(11):9207-9223.
    • Wang, Yuxin; Lai, Adelene; Latino, Diogo; Fenner, Kathrin; Helbling, Damian E (2018). Evaluating the environmental parameters that determine aerobic biodegradation half-lives of pesticides in soil with a multivariable approach. Chemosphere, 209:430-438.
    • Achermann, Stefan; Falås, Per; Joss, Adriano; Mansfeldt, Cresten B; Men, Yujie; Vogler, Bernadette; Fenner, Kathrin (2018). Trends in Micropollutant Biotransformation along a Solids Retention Time Gradient. Environmental Science & Technology, 52(20):11601-11611.
    • Achermann, Stefan; Bianco, Valeria; Mansfeldt, Cresten B; Vogler, Bernadette; Kolvenbach, Boris A; Corvini, Philippe F X; Fenner, Kathrin (2018). Biotransformation of Sulfonamide Antibiotics in Activated Sludge: The Formation of Pterin-Conjugates Leads to Sustained Risk. Environmental Science & Technology, 52(11):6265-6274.
    • Gulde, Rebekka; Anliker, Sabine; Kohler, Hans-Peter E; Fenner, Kathrin (2018). Ion trapping of amines in protozoa: a novel removal mechanism for micropollutants in activated sludge. Environmental Science & Technology, 52(1):52-60.

• 2017

  • Journal Article

    • Riegraf, Carolin; Fenner, Kathrin; Werner, Inge; Kase, Robert (2017). Grenzwerte für Transformationsprodukte. Herleitung von ökotoxikologisch basierten Grenzwerten für TP von Pharmazeutika: eine Fallstudie. Aqua & Gas, 97(2):46-56.
    • Men, Yujie; Achermann, Stefan; Helbling, Damian E; Johnson, David R; Fenner, Kathrin (2017). Relative contribution of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and other members of nitrifying activated sludge communities to micropollutant biotransformation. Water research, 109:217-226.
    • Latino, Diogo A R S; Wicker, Jörg; Gütlein, Martin; Schmid, Emanuel; Kramer, Stefan; Fenner, Kathrin (2017). Eawag-Soil in enviPath: a new resource for exploring regulatory pesticide soil biodegradation pathways and half-life data. Environmental Science: Processes, 19(3):449-464.
    • Lee, Minju; Blum, Lorenz C; Schmid, Emanuel; Fenner, Kathrin; von Gunten, Urs (2017). A computer-based prediction platform for the reaction of ozone with organic compounds in aqueous solution: kinetics and mechanisms. Environmental Science: Processes, 19(3):465-476.