Wolfgang Buckel
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buckel
MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie
Karl-von-Frisch-Straße
D-35043 Marburg / Germany
Phone: +49 6421 282 2088
Fax: +49 6421 282 8979
Email:
buckel@biologie.uni-marburg.de
Research group members
Group leader:
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buckel
Secretary: Patricia Wagner
Postdocs:
Dr. Awad Amr Mohammed, Dr. Ivana Djurdjevic, Dr. Elamparithi Jayamani, Dr. Anutthaman Parthasarathy, Dr. Jin Zhang
PhD students: Marie Kim, Huan Li, Fredrick Edwin Lyatuu, Katja Schlien
Master/Bachelor students: Christof Baumbach, Dominik Haas
Technical assistant: Marco Hornung
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buckel
Curriculum Vitae
Wolfgang Buckel (born 1940)
Diplom (Chemistry), Universität München, 1965
Dr. rer. nat. (Biochemistry), Universität München, 1968
Akademischer Rat/Oberrat/Direktor, Universität Regensburg, 1969-1987
Postdoc (Microbiology), University of California, Berkeley, 1970-1971
Habilitation (Biochemistry), Universität Regensburg, 1975
Professor of Microbiology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 1987-2008
Max Planck Fellow at the MPI Marburg, since 04/2008
Research are: Unusual enzymes involved amino acid fermenting anaerobes
Members of the orders Clostridiales and Fusobacteriales have the unique ability to ferment amino acids for energy conserving purposes. Since there are twenty proteinogenous amino acids, each of which is fermented via at least one specific pathway, these microorganisms are among the biochemical most versatile Bacteria. The best-studied amino acid in this respect is glutamate, which is fermented by two different pathways to identical products: ammonia, CO2, acetate, butyrate and H2.
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