Andreas Brune
Prof. Dr. Andreas Brune
MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie
Karl-von-Frisch-Straße 10
D-35043 Marburg / Germany
Phone: +49 6421 178701
Fax: +49 6421 178709
Email: brune@mpi-marburg.mpg.de
Research group members
Group leader:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Brune
Postdoctoral fellows:
Dr. Jeff Rohland, Dr. Jürgen Strassert, Dr. Claire Thompson
Doctoral students:
Tim Köhler, Aram Mikaelyan, James Nonoh, Pinki Rani, Christine Schauer
Masters students and undergraduates:
Carsten Dietrich, Kristina Paul, Eugen Bauer, Rahel Vier
Technical assistant: Katja Meuser
Prof. Dr. Andreas Brune
Curriculum Vitae
Andreas Brune (born 1960)
Diplom (Biology), University of Marburg, 1986
Dr. rer. nat. (Microbiology), University of Tübingen, 1990
Postdoc (Microbiology), Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1991-1993
Research Associate and Group Leader (Microbial Ecology), University of Konstanz, 1993-2003
Habilitation (Microbiology and Microbial Ecology), University of Konstanz, 2000
Research Group Leader (C3), Department of Biogeochemistry, MPI Marburg, since 2003
Research Area: Insect gut microbiology and symbiosis
The guts of many insects are minute but complex bioreactors, where lignocellulosic matter is digested with the aid of prokaryotic and sometimes also eukaryotic symbionts. My group studies structure and function of the microbial communities in the intestinal tract of insects, the physicochemical gut environment, and intestinal metabolite gradients and metabolic fluxes under in-situ conditions. Our focus is presently on the intriguing symbioses between termite gut flagellates and their unique ectobionts and endobionts, and on the transformation and mineralization of organic matter in the gut of soil-feeding termites and humivorous scarab beetle larvae.
More about "Insect gut microbiology and symbiosis"
Recent publications
Ngugi, D.K., Ji, R. & Brune, A. (2011) Nitrogen mineralization, denitrification, and nitrate ammonification by soil-feeding termites – a 15N-based approach. Biogeochemistry 103, 355-369.
Wienemann, T., Schmitt-Wagner, D., Meuser, K., Segelbacher, G., Schink, B., Brune, A. & Berthold, P. (2011) The bacterial microbiota in the ceca of Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) differs between wild and captive birds. Syst. Appl. Microbiol., in press.