Ralf Conrad
Prof. Dr. Ralf Conrad
MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie
Karl-von-Frisch-Straße 10
D-35043 Marburg / Germany
Phone: +49 6421 178801
Fax: +49 6421 178809
Email: conrad@mpi-marburg.mpg.de
Research group members
Group leader: Prof. Dr. Ralf Conrad
Secretary: Carmen Stubner
Postdoctoral fellows: Dr. Roey Angel, Dr. Martin Blaser, Dr. Marc Dumont, Dr. Marcela Hernández García, Dr. Guntars Martinson, Dr. Quan Yuan
Doctoral students: Franziska Brandt, Björn Breidenbach, Dheeraj Kanaparthi, Jörn Penger, Judith Pump
Technical assistants: Peter Claus, Markus Drescher, Melanie Klose, Bianca Pommerenke
Prof. Dr. Ralf Conrad
Curriculum Vitae
Diplom (Biology), University of Göttingen, 1973
Dr. rer.nat. (Microbiology), University of Göttingen, 1976
Postdoc (Air chemistry), Max-Planck-Institut Mainz, 1978-1985
Postdoc (Microbiology), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1983
Habilitation (Microbiology), University of Mainz, 1985
Professor (Microbiology), University of Konstanz, 1986-1990
Adjunct Professor (Microbiology), Philipps-University Marburg, since 1993
Director and Head of the Department of Biogeochemistry at the MPI Marburg, since 1991
Adjunct Professor, Chinese Agricultural University, Beijing, since 2006
Research area: Methanogenic Degradation and Microbial Metabolism of Trace Gases
We want to learn which groups of soil microorganisms are responsible for particular biogeochemical processes and to understand the reason why. For this purpose we investigate biogeochemical processes involved in the exchange of climatically relevant trace gases (CH4, N2O, H2) between soil and atmosphere. A particular focus is on processes in flooded rice fields, which we have used during the last twenty five years as a model system for studying biogeochemistry and ecology of soil microbes.
More about "Methanogenic Degradation and Microbial Metabolism of Trace Gases"
Our group also encompasses the project groups of Dr. Martin Blaser, Dr. Marc G. Dumont and Prof. Dr. Peter Frenzel
Recent publications
Angel, R., Matthies, D., Conrad, R., 2011, Activation of methanogenesis in arid biological soil crusts despite the presence of oxygen. PloS ONE 6, e20453-doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020453.
Constant, P., Chowdhury, S. P., Hesse, L., Pratscher, J., Conrad, R., 2011, Genome data mining and soil survey for the novel group 5 [NiFe]-hydrogenase to explore the diversity and ecological importance of presumptive high affinity H2-oxidizing bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 77, 6027-6035.
Ho, A., Lüke, C., Frenzel, P., 2011, Recovery of methanotrophs from disturbance: population dynamics, evenness and functioning. ISME J. 5, 750-758.
Pratscher, J., Dumont, M. G., Conrad, R., 2011, Ammonia oxidation coupled to CO2 fixation by Archaea and Bacteria in an agricultural soil. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 4170-4175.
Liu, F. and Conrad, R., 2010, Thermoanaerobacteriaceae oxidize acetate in methanogenic rice field soil at 50oC. Environ. Microbiol. 12, 2341-2364.