| DSMZ Director Prof. Dr. Erko Stackebrandt |
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Professor Dr. Erko Stackebrandt is Director of the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig and has a chair in Systematics of Prokaryotes at the Technical University Braunschweig. He has been a postdoc with Carl Woese at the
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in 1978 and was a member of Karl
Schleifer’s research group at the Technical University, Munic from 1979-1983.
He was appointed head of the Departments of Microbiology at the University of
Kiel (1994-1990) and at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
(1990-1993). He is a trained microbiologist, involved in systematics, evolution
and molecular phylogeny of Archaea and Bacteria for more than 25 years. His
main interests are in the development and application of novel molecular tools
for the characterization and identification of prokaryotes. He has been
involved in many research project funded by the German Science Foundation,
Ministry for Science and Technology and the European Community, working on pure
cultures and microbial communities. Projects include work in German soil and
peat, Mediterranean coastal waters, North Sea and Baltic Sea, Antarctic lakes,
Australian soil and artesian wells, as well as giant ants, holothurians, rumen of cows
and the digestive tract of koalas. He has been involved in the description and taxonomic revision of more than 150 bacteria taxa (species, genera, families, orders and classes)
and he has supervised more than 100 diploma and Ph. D. students. He was a
Heisenberg stipend (1982-1983) and his work has been awarded by the Academy of
Science at Göttingen, Bergey’s Trust, the Technical University Munich, the
Australian Society for Microbiology and the American Society for Microbiology.
He has published more than 380 papers in refereed journals and he has written
more than 60 book chapters. He is an editor and associate editor of several
journals, including the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary
Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, “The Prokaryotes”, online version, and
Encyclopaedia of Life, Macmillan, London (1997-2000). At the OECD he serves as
a German delegate in issues related to Biological Resource Centres. He has
multiple functions in the International Committee on Systematics of
Prokaryotes.
Al-Musallam, A., Al-Zarban, S.S., Fasasi, Y.A., Kroppenstedt, R.M. & Stackebrandt, E. (2003) Amycolatopsis keratiniphila sp. nov., a novel keratinolytic soil actinomycete from Kuwait. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 871-874.
Bertasso, M., Holzenkämpfer, M., Zeek, A., Stackebrandt, E., Beil, W. & Fiedler, H. P. (2003) Ripromycin and other polycyclic mactrolactams from Streptomyces sp. Tü 6239: taxonomy, fermentation, isolation and biological properties. J Antibiotics 56, 364-371.
Gugliandolo, C., Maugeri, T., Caccamo, D., & Stackebrandt, E. (2003). Bacillus aeolius sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, halophilic marine Bacillus species from Eolian islands (Italy). System Appl Microbiol 26, 172-176.
Hippe, H., Vainshtein, M., Gogotova, G.I. & Stackebrandt, E. (2003). Reclassification of Desulfobacterium macestii as Desulfomicrobium macestii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1127-1130.
Kämpfer, P., Buczolits, S., Albrecht, A., Busse, H.-J. & Stackebrandt, E. (2003). Towards a standardized format for the description of a novel species (of an established genus): Ochrobactrum gallinifaecis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 893-896.
Kim, K.K., Lee, C.S., Kroppenstedt, R.M., Stackebrandt E. & Lee S.T. (2003). Gordonia sihwensis sp. nov., a novel nitrate-reducing bacterium isolated from a wastewater-treatment bioreactor. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1427-1433.
Li, W.-J., Tang, S.-K.,Stackebrandt, E., Kroppenstedt, R. M., Schumann, P., Xu, L.-H. & Jiang, C.-L. (2003). Saccharomonospora paurometabolica sp. nov., a moderately halophilic actinomycete isolated from soil in China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1591-1594.
Li, W. J., Zhang, L. P., Xu, P., Cui, X. L., Xu, L. H., Zhang, Z., Schumann, P., Stackebrandt, E. & Jiang, C. L. (2003). Agromyces aurantiacus sp. nov., isolated from a Chinese primeval forest. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 303-307.
Li, W.-J., Xu, P., Tang, S.-K., Xu, L.-H., Kroppenstedt, R.M., Stackebrandt E. & Jiang C.-L. (2003). Prauserella halophila sp. nov. and Prauserella alba sp. nov., moderately halophilic actinomycetes from saline soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1545-1549.
Li, W.-J., Xu, P., Zhang, L.-P., Tang, S.-K., Cui, X.-L., Mao, P.-H., Xu, L.-H., Schumann, P., Stackebrandt, E. & Jiang, C.-L. (2003). Streptomonospora alba sp. nov., a novel halophilic actinomycete, and emended description of the genus Streptomonospora Cui et al. 2001. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1421-1425.
Mechichi, T., Stackebrandt, E. & Fuchs, G. (2003). Alicycliphilus denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov., a cyclohexanol-degrading, nitrate-reducing beta-proteobacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 147-152.
Miroshnichenko, M. L., L'Haridon, S., Jeanthon, C., Antipov, A. N., Kostrikina, N. A., Tindall, B. J., Schumann, P., Spring, S., Stackebrandt, E. & Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A. (2003). Oceanithermus profundus gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, microaerophilic, facultatively chemolithoheterotrophic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 747-752.
Miroshnichenko, M. L., L'Haridon, S., Nercessian, O., Antipov, A. N., Kostrikina, N. A., Tindall, B. J., Schumann, P., Spring, S., Stackebrandt, E., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A. & Jeanthon, C. (2003). Vulcanithermus mediatlanticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Thermaceae from a deep-sea hot vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1143-1148.
Miroshnichenko, M. L., Kostrikina, N. A., Chernyh, N. A., Pimenov, N. V., Tourova, T. P., Antipov, A. N., Spring, S., Stackebrandt, E. & Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A. (2003). Caldithrix abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov., a nitrate-reducing, thermophilic, anaerobic bacterium isolated from a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent, represents a novel bacterial lineage. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 323-329.
Miroshnichenko, M. L., Slobodkin, A. I., Kostrikina, N. A., L'Haridon, S., Nercessian, O., Spring, S., Stackebrandt, E., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A., & Jeanthon, C. (2003). Deferribacter abyssi sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophile from deep-sea hydrothermal vents of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1637-1641
Pukall, R., Laroche, M., Kroppenstedt, R.M., Schumann, P., Stackebrandt, E. & Ulber, R. (2003). Paracoccus seriniphilus sp. nov., an L-serine-dehydratase producing coccus isolated from the marine bryozoan Bugula plumosa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 443-447.
Romanenko, L.A., Zhukova, N.V., Lysenko, A.M., Mikhailov, V.V., & Stackebrandt, E. (2003). Assignment of ‘Alteromonas marinoglutinosa’ NCIMB 1770 to Pseudoalteromonas mariniglutinosa sp. nov., nom. rev., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1105-1109.
Romanenko, L.A., Zhukova, N.V., Rohde, M., Lysenko, A.M., Mikhailov, V.V. & Stackebrandt, E. (2003). Glaciecola mesophila sp. nov., a novel marine agar-digesting bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 647-651.
Spring, S., Merkhoffer, B., Weiss, N., Kroppenstedt, R.M., Hippe, H., & Stackebrandt, E. (2003). Characterization of novel psychrophilic clostridia from an Antarctic microbial mat: description of Clostridium frigoris sp. nov., Clostridium lacusfryxellense sp. nov., Clostridium bowmanii sp. nov. and Clostridium psychrophilum sp. nov. and reclassification of Clostridium laramiense as Clostridium estheretheticum subsp. laramiense subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1019-1029.
Stackebrandt, E. (2003). The richness of prokaryotic diversity: there must be a species somewhere. Food Technol Biotechnol 41, 17-22.
Stackebrandt, E., Schumann, P., Schüler, E. & Hippe, H. (2003). Reclassification of Desulfotomaculum auripigmentum as Desulfosporosinus auripigmenti corrig., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1439-1443.Suihko, M-L., & Stackebrandt, E. (2003) Identification of aerobic mesophilic bacilli isolated from board and paper products containing recycled fibres. J Appl Microbiol 94, 25-34.
Uetananbaro, A.P., Wahrenburg, C., Hunger, W., Pukall, R., Spröer, C., Stackebrandt, E., de Canhos, V.P., Claus, D. & Fritze, D. (2003). Description of Paenibacillus agarexedens sp. nov. nom. rev. and Paenibacillus agardevorans sp. nov. Int J Syst Evolution Microbiol 53, 1051-1057
Wink, J. M., Kroppenstedt, R. M., Ganguli, B. N., Nadkarni, S. R., Schumann, P., Seibert, G. & Stackebrandt, E. (2003). Three new antibiotic producing species of the genus Amycolatopsis, Amycolatopsis balhimycina sp. nov., A. tolypomycina sp. nov., A. vancoresmycina sp. nov., and description of Amycolatopsis keratiniphila subsp. keratiniphila subsp. nov. and A. keratiniphila subsp. nogabecina subsp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 26, 38-46.
Wink, J., Kroppenstedt, R. M., Seibert, G. & Stackebrandt, E. (2003). Actinomadura namibiensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 721-724.
Zhang, L.P., Wang, H.Y, Fang, X.M., Stackebrandt, E., & Ding Y.B. (2003) Improved methods of isolation and purification of myxobacteria and development of fruiting body formation of two strains. J Microbiol Meth 54, 21-27.
Miroshnichenko, M. L., L'Haridon, S., Schumann, P., Spring, S., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A., Jeanthon, C. & Stackebrandt, E. (2004). Caminibacter profundus sp. nov., a novel thermophile of Nautiliales ord. nov. within the class 'Epsilonproteobacteria', isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54, 41-45.
Moussard, H., L'Haridon, S., Tindall, B. J., Banta, A., Schumann, P., Stackebrandt, E., Reysenbach, A.-L. & Jeanthon, C. (2004). Thermodesulfatator indicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic chemolithoautotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from the Central Indian Ridge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54, 227-233.
Stackebrandt, E., Kroppenstedt, R. M., Wink, J. M. & Schumann, P. (2004). Reclassification of Amycolatopsis orientalis subsp. lurida Lechevalier et al. 1986 as Amycolatopsis lurida sp. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54, 267-268.
Urzi, C., Salamone, P., Schumann, P., Rohde, M. & Stackebrandt, E. (2004). Blastococcus saxobsidens sp. nov., and emended descriptions of the genus Blastococcus Ahrens and Moll 1970 and Blastococcus aggregatus Ahrens and Moll 1970. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54, 253-259.
Verbarg, S., Rheims, H., Emus, S., Frühling, A., Kroppenstedt, R. M., Stackebrandt, E. & Schumann, P. (2004). Erysipelothrix inopinata sp. nov., isolated in the course of sterile filtration of vegetable peptone broth, and description of Erysipelothrixaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54, 221-225.
Wink, J. M., Gandhi, J., Kroppenstedt, R. M., Seibert, G., Schumann, P. & Stackebrandt, E. (2004). Amycolatopsis decaplanina sp. nov., a novel member of the genus with unusual morphology. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54, 235-239.