Rolf Daniel

Rolf Daniel (born September 20, 1963 in Kassel ) is a German microbiologist . Since February 2012 he has been Professor and Head of the Department for Genomic and Applied Microbiology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

Life

Rolf Daniel passed his Abitur at the Jacob-Grimm-Schule in Kassel in 1983 and then studied biology at the Georg-August-Universität. Under the guidance of Gerhard Gottschalk he attained "the isolation and characterization in 1991 with the work glycerin - dehydrogenase from Citrobacter freundii " his diploma , followed by up to 1994 ongoing promotion in which he deals with the glycerol fermentation in C. freundii employed.

A research grant from the German Research Foundation enabled him to stay in Randy Schekman's group at the Institute for Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley from 1995 to 1996 . In 2003 Daniel completed his habilitation at the Institute for Microbiology and Genetics at the University of Göttingen, where he finally took over the professorship for Genomic and Applied Microbiology in February 2012.

research

Daniel uses both metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analysis methods to study natural bacterial communities and to identify new enzymes that are used as biocatalysts in the chemical industry . The research in this department is made possible by the Göttingen Genomics Laboratory belonging to it, which has the necessary equipment for sequencing large amounts of DNA and, among other things, carried out a detailed analysis of the causative agent of the HUS epidemic in 2011 , Escherichia coli O104: H4 .

Societies and bodies

• since 2007: Member of the editorial board at Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• 2012–2016: Managing Director of the Institute for Microbiology and Genetics at the Georg-August University of Göttingen
• since 2012: Chairman of the Göttingen Genomics Laboratory
• since 2013: Spokesman for the Board of Directors of the North German Center for Microbial Genome Research
• since 2014: Member of the editorial board at PLOS ONE

Awards

• 2013: North German Science Award (as part of the North German Center for Microbial Genome Research)

Works

• with Ruth A. Schmitz , Uwe Deppenmeier and Gerhard Gottschalk: The Anaerobic Way of Life . Ed .: Eugene Rosenberg, Edward F. DeLong, Stephen Lory, Erko Stackebrandt , Fabiano Thompson (=  The Prokaryotes . Prokaryotic Communities and Ecophysiology). 4th edition. Springer Reference, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-30122-3 , chap. 13 , p. 259-273 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-30123-0 (English).
• with Wolfgang R. Streit (Ed.): Metagenomics - Methods and Protocols (=  Methods in Molecular Biology . Volume 1539 ). 2nd Edition. Humana Press, New York City 2017, ISBN 978-1-4939-6689-9 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4939-6691-2 (English).

Web links

• Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology, Göttingen
• Publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Prof. Dr. Rolf Daniel. Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics and Molecular Biosciences, accessed on April 25, 2016 (English). 
2. ^ Rolf Daniel: Glycerin fermentation by Citrobacter freundii: Sequencing and characterization of the dha regulons . 1st edition. Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-930340-69-0 .
3. ↑ Rolf Daniel: The microbial diversity as a source for novel biocatalysts: construction and screening of metagenomic banks . In: BIOspectrum . tape 9 , no. 5 . Springer Spectrum, October 2003, p. 605-606 ( biospektrum.de [PDF]).
4. ^ Rolf Daniel: The metagenomics of soil . In: Nature Reviews Microbiology . tape 3 , no. 6 , June 2005, ISSN  1740-1526 , pp. 470-478 , doi : 10.1038 / nrmicro1160 , PMID 15931165 ( nature.com ).
5. ↑ Elzbieta Brzuszkiewicz, Andrea Thürmer, Jörg Schuldes, Andreas Leimbach, Heiko Liesegang, Frauke-Dorothee Meyer, Jürgen Boelter, Heiko Petersen, Gerhard Gottschalk, Rolf Daniel: Genome sequence analyzes of two isolates from the recent Escherichia coli outbreak in Germany reveal the emergence of a new pathotype: Entero-Aggregative-Haemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EAHEC) . In: Archives of Microbiology . tape 193 , no. 12 , December 1, 2011, ISSN  1432-072X , p. 883-891 , doi : 10.1007 / s00203-011-0725-6 , PMID 21713444 .
6. ↑ Applied and Environmental Biology, Editorial Board. American Society for Microbiology , accessed April 25, 2016 . 
7. ^ ^{A b} History of the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics. Institute for Microbiology and Genetics of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, accessed on April 25, 2016 (English). 
8. ↑ structure of NZMG. North German Center for Microbial Genome Research, accessed April 25, 2016 . 
9. ↑ PLOS ONE, Editorial Board. Public Library of Science , accessed April 25, 2016 . 
10. ↑ 2nd North German Science Award goes to Göttingen and Greifswald. Press office of the Senate of the City of Bremen , accessed on April 25, 2016 .