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Curriculum vitae
PD Dr. Werner Liesack
Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
35043 Marburg, Germany
Born
July 7th, 1956, in Flensburg
Academic Qualifications
1984
Diplom (Biology), University of Kiel
1988
Dr. rer. nat. (Microbiology), University of Kiel
1996
“Habilitation” (Microbiology), Philipps University Marburg (Bitte Titel und
Betreuer angeben)
1997
Privatdozent, Faculty of Biology, Philipps University Marburg (Bitte Titel und
Betreuer angeben)
Academic Appointments
1988
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Microbiology,
University of Kiel.
1990
ARC research fellow, Department of Microbiology,
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
since 1992
Group leader (Molecular phylogeny and ecology),
Department of Biogeochemistry,
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg.
TOP 10 Publikationen 2000 bis 2006
PD. Dr. Werner Liesack
Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
35043 Marburg
1.
Liesack W, Schnell S and Revsbech NP (2000) Microbiology of flooded rice paddies.
FEMS Microbiol Rev 24: 625-645.
2.
Derakshani M, Lukow T and Liesack W (2001) Novel bacterial lineages at the
(sub)division level as detected by signature nucleotide-targeted recovery of 16S rRNA genes
from bulk soil and rice roots of flooded rice microcosms. Appl Environ Microbiol 67: 623631.
3.
Dedysh SN, Derakshani M and Liesack W (2001) Detection and enumeration of
methanotrophs in acidic Sphagnum peat by 16S rRNA fluorescence in situ hybridization,
including the use of newly developed oligonucleotide probes for Methylocella palustris.
Appl Environ Microbiol 67: 4850-4857.
4.
Horz HP, Yimga MTand Liesack W (2001) Detection of methanotroph diversity on roots
of submerged rice plants by molecular retrieval of pmoA, mmoX, mxaF, and 16S rRNA and
ribosomal DNA, including pmoA-based terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism
profiling. Appl Environ Microbiol 67: 4177-4185.
5.
Dedysh SN, Dunfield PF, Derakshani M, Stubner S, Heyer J and Liesack W (2003)
Differential detection of type II methanotrophic bacteria in acidic peatlands using newly
developed 16S rRNA-targeted fluorescent oligonucleotide probes. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 43:
299-308.
6.
Yimga MT, Dunfield PF, Ricke P, Heyer J and Liesack W (2003) Wide distribution of a
novel pmoA-like gene copy among type II methanotrophs and its expression in Methylocystis
strain SC2. Appl Environ Microbiol 69: 5593-5602.
7.
Dedysh, SN, Ricke P and Liesack W (2004) NifH and NifD phylogenies: an evolutionary
basis for understanding nitrogen fixation capabilities of methanotrophic bacteria.
Microbiology (UK) 150: 1301-1313.
8.
Ricke, P, Erkel C, Kube M, Reinhardt R and Liesack W (2004) Comparative analysis of
the conventional and novel pmo (particulate methane monooxygenase) operons from
Methylocystis strain SC2. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 3055-3063.
9.
Noll M, Matthies D, Frenzel P, Derakshani M and Liesack W (2005) Succession of
bacterial community structure and diversity in a paddy soil oxygen gradient. Environ.
Microbiol. 7: 382-395.
10. Ricke, P, Kube M, Nakagawa S, Erkel C, Reinhardt R and Liesack, W (2005) First
genome data from uncultured upland soil cluster alpha methanotrophs provide further
evidence for a close phylogenetic relationship to Methylocapsa acidiphila B2 and for highaffinity methanotrophy involving pMMO. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71: 7472-7482.