Erko Stackebrandt

Erko Stackebrandt (born June 9, 1944 in Hamburg ) is a German microbiologist .

Life

Stackebrandt studied biology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1966 to 1971 , where he was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. PhD in microbiology and habilitation in microbiology in 1982. In 1984 he took up the chair for microbiology at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel before moving to Brisbane , Australia, in 1990 , at the University of Queensland . Stackebrandt has been working at the chair for systematics of prokaryotes at the Technical University of Braunschweig since 1993 . Also in 1993 he became director of the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH (DSMZ). Stackebrandt's successor as managing director of the DSMZ was the microbiologist Jörg Overmann on February 1, 2010. From 2013 to 2017 Stackebrandt was the coordinator of the ESFRI project MIRRI.

His main research interests include: evolution , phylogeny , systematics and identification of prokaryotes , molecular diversity and molecular ecology of prokaryotic communities.

Stackebrandt wrote over 780 scientific publications in national and international journals and book chapters. He has received numerous national and international honors, including the Bergey Award (from the Bergey's Manual Trust Foundation in the USA) and the J. Roger Porter Award (USA). A publication analysis by the Lab Times puts him in 8th place among the 30 most cited evolutionary biologists in Europe. His Hirsch index is 110 (i10 index = 611) with 69449 citations (Scopus, November 2018). He is the first scientist in the world to receive both the Bergey Medal (2009) and the Bergey Award (1991).

In addition, the Stackebrandtia bacterial genus , which belongs to the Actinomycetales , was named after him. The species Planomicrobium stackebrandtii was named after him.

He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

The name Erko Stackebrandt is mentioned in an article in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit from 1967. The report describes a Hamburg student trainee who found a lifeless body on July 24, 1967 near the Friedenheimer Bridge in Munich.

Web links

Literature by and about Erko Stackebrandt in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Presentation as director of the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH on dsmz.de ( Memento from May 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

^ Winner of the Bergey Award ( Memento of July 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on bergeys.org
↑ Christine Böhringer: Microbiology. Discipline and order. in: The time. No. 20 of May 10, 2007, last accessed on October 16, 2009.
^ Members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen: Erko Stackebrandt. Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, accessed on August 20, 2016 .
^ Gerhard Bartels: The unknown dead from the 25th district. Grave number 187/450 - a child nobody knows. In: The time. November 17, 1967. Retrieved August 26, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Stackebrandt, Erko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German microbiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg

[1] Winner of the Bergey Award ( Memento of July 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on bergeys.org

[2] Christine Böhringer: Microbiology. Discipline and order. in: The time. No. 20 of May 10, 2007, last accessed on October 16, 2009.

[3] Members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen: Erko Stackebrandt. Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, accessed on August 20, 2016 .

[4] Gerhard Bartels: The unknown dead from the 25th district. Grave number 187/450 - a child nobody knows. In: The time. November 17, 1967. Retrieved August 26, 2018 .