Publications

* Equal contribution.

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• Gropp J., Lloyd M., Stein R., Bill M., Nayak DD., Stolper DA., Modulation of methylcoenzyme-M reductase expression alters the isotopic composition of microbial methane, Science, 2025, DOI: 10.1126/science.adu2098

• Batther HK., Templeton AS., Hoehler T., Howells A., Bill M., Gropp J., Kopf S., The Stable Carbon Isotope Fractionation of Methanogenesis Products at Complete Carbon Consumption, Geochemical Perspective Letters, 2025, DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.2543

• Wang X., Han J., Liu J., Csernica T., Zhang N., Ding H., Gropp J., McIntosh J., Li SL., Xu S., Ellam RM., Clumped Isotopes Tracing Methane Cycle and Budget: A review, Earth-Science Reviews, 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105349

• Wang X., Chen B., Nai H., Liu CQ., Dong G, Zhang N., Li SL., Gropp J., McIntosh J., Ellam RM., Eiler JM., Xu S., Dual clumped isotopes identify thermogenic and secondary microbial methane in high thermal-maturity coal beds, 647, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119023

• Gropp J., Jin Q., Halevy I., Controls on the isotopic composition of microbial methane, 8/14, Science Advances, 2022, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm5713

• Wegener G.*, Gropp J.*;, Taubner H., Halevy I., Elvert M., Sulfate-dependent reversibility of intracellular reactions explains the opposing isotope effects in the anaerobic oxidation of methane, 7/19, Science Advances, 2021, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe4939 [Press release from MPI] [GitHub repository]

• Gropp, J., Iron MA., Halevy I., Theoretical Estimates of Equilibrium Carbon and Hydrogen Isotope Effects in Microbial Methane Production and Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane, 295, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.10.018 [GitHub repository]

• Iron MA., Gropp J.*, Cost-effective density functional theory (DFT) calculations of equilibrium isotopic fractionation in large organic molecules, 21, 17555, Physical Cemistry Chemical Physics, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C9CP02975C