Peter Frenzel
Prof. Dr. Peter Frenzel
MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie
Karl-von-Frisch-Straße
D-35043 Marburg / Germany
Phone: +49 6421 178820
Fax: +49 6421 178809
Email: frenzel@mpi-marburg.mpg.de
Research group members
Group leader: Prof. Dr. Peter Frenzel
Postdoctoral fellow: Dr. Claudia Lüke
Master student: Stephanie Hainbuch
PhD students: Adrian Kahwye Ho, Andreas Reim
Technical assistants: Alexandra Hahn, Bellinda Schneider
Prof. Dr. Peter Frenzel
Curriculum Vitae
Peter Frenzel (born 1949)
Diplom (Biology), University of Heidelberg, 1973
Dr. rer.nat. (Zoology), University of Heidelberg, 1975
Teacher, 1975-77
Research scientist, Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz Baden-Württemberg, 1977-81
Freelance limnologist, 1981-1986
Postdoc, University of Konstanz, 1986-91
Habilitation (Ecology), University of Marburg, 1993
Professor, University of Marburg, 2001
Group leader at the Department of Biogeochemistry at the MPI Marburg since 1991
Research Area: Biogeochemistry and microbiology of methane
Next to CO2, methane is the most important greenhouse gas contributing significantly to radiative forcing . The global source strength would even be higher if part of the produced methane would not be oxidized by methane oxidizing bacteria [MOB]. MOB are quantitatively most important in natural wetlands and rice paddies, where they attenuate methane emission significantly. Hence, atmospheric methane concentrations depend not only on production, but also on the factors controlling methane oxidation rates.
More about "Biogeochemistry and microbiology of methane"
Recent publications
Krause, Sascha, Lüke, Claudia, and Frenzel, Peter (2010) Succession of methanotrophs in oxygen-methane counter-gradients of flooded rice paddies. ISME J., in press
Kögel-Knabner, I., Amelung, W., Cao, Z., Fiedler, S., Frenzel, P., Jahn, R. et al. (2010) Biogeochemistry of paddy soils. Geoderma 157: 1-14.
Lüke, C., Krause, S., Cavigioli, S., Greppi, D., Lupotto, E., and Frenzel, P. (2010) Biogeography of wetland rice methanotrophs. Environ Microbiol 12: 862-872.