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. Martin Blaser, Dr. Philippe Constant, Dr. Marc Dumont, Dr. Fanghua Liu, Dr. Minitha Shrestha
PhD students: Roey Angel, Kathrin Botsch, Deeraj Kanaparthi, Xiubin Ke, Jörn Penger, Jennifer Pratscher, Judith Pump
Technical assistants: Peter Claus, Markus Drescher, Melanie Klose, Bianca Pommerenke
Prof. Dr. Ralf Conrad
Curriculum Vitae
Ralf Conrad (born 1949)
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
Chief Editor (until 2005) FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Research area: Structure and Function of Soil Microbial Communities
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 years as a model system for studying biogeochemistry and ecology of soil microbes.
More about "Structure and Function of Soil Microbial Communities"
Recent publications
Angel, R. and Conrad, R. (2009) In situ measurement of methane fluxes and analysis of transcribed particulate methane monooxygenase in desert soils. Environ.Microbiol. 11:2598-2610.
Conrad, R., Klose, M., and Noll, M. (2009) Functional and structural response of the methanogenic microbial community in rice field soil to temperature change. Environ.Microbiol. 11:1844-1853.
Constant, P., Chowdhury, S. P., Pratscher, J., and Conrad, R. (2010). Streptomycetes contributing to atmospheric molecular hydrogen soil uptake are widespread and are encoding for a putative high affinity [NiFe]-hydrogenase. Environ.Microbiol. 12:821-829.
Jia, Z. and Conrad, R. (2009). Bacteria rather than Archaea dominate microbial ammonia oxidation in an agricultural soil. Environ.Microbiol. 11:1658-1671.