Rudolf Amann (microbiologist)

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Rudolf I. Amann (born June 3, 1961 in Rott am Inn ) is a German microbiologist , director at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPIMM) in Bremen and since 2001 Professor of Microbial Ecology at the University of Bremen .

Scientific career

Between 1980 and 1986 Amann studied biology and chemistry at the Technical University of Munich , after which he was a doctoral candidate at the Department of Microbiology there until 1988. In 1988 he did his doctorate under Karl-Heinz Schleifer on the subject of "The beta subunit of ATP synthase as a phylogenetic marker in eubacteria". After a postdoctoral stay at the Departments of Veterinary Pathobiology and Microbiology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA, with David A. Stahl, he became an assistant at the Chair of Microbiology at the Technical University of Munich in 1990. In 1995 Amann completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Munich to identify microorganisms that could not be cultivated before. Since then he has been researching the interface between ecology and taxonomy.

Between 1997 and 2001 he was head of a Max Planck research group at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen. In 2001 Amann became a "Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Society and Director at the MPI for Marine Microbiology. Since then he has headed the Department of Molecular Ecology. In the same year (2001) he was appointed professor for microbial ecology at the University of Bremen. Since 2002 he has also been the spokesman for the International Max Planck Research School for Marine Microbiology (IMPRS MarMic). From 2014 to 2017 he was Chairman of the Biological-Medical Section of the Max Planck Society.

Amann is a member of various specialist societies, including the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM), the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) and the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM). In 2007 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Amann is primarily active as a reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG, elected reviewer 2004–2012) and the European Research Council (ERC). He is co-editor of the journal "Systematic and Applied Microbiology".

Amann has received numerous scientific awards, including the Bergey's Award from the Bergey's Manual Trust, USA (2004), the Lecturer Award from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (1998) and the Körber Award for European Science from the Körber Foundation (1995).

Research priorities

Amann researches the diversity and ecology of microorganisms in marine habitats. To do this, he developed molecular techniques with which bacteria and archaea can be identified and quantified. His methods, for which he uses nucleic acid probes, have contributed to the discovery of new, previously uncultivated types of microorganisms. His research focuses on the role of microorganisms in global biogeochemical material cycles such as the carbon cycle . Amann is researching bacteria and archaea both in the sediments of the sea floor and in the water column. A current focus is on the interactions between phytoplankton and bacterioplankton , which are often controlled by algal polysaccharides as energy sources for heterotrophic bacteria.

In his working group, a detection method was optimized with which the bacterial composition of environmental samples can be determined - the so-called fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). This method identifies microorganisms based on the sequence of their ribosomal RNA. Specially colored nucleic acid probes only bind to bacteria with a specific RNA. These bacteria can then be identified and counted under the microscope.

As a researcher in the field of biodiversity , Rudolf Amann also advocates an integrative taxonomy that builds a bridge to other disciplines. Amann calls for a multidisciplinary approach in order to better understand and classify the connections between genes, organisms and ecosystems using the methods of modern genome research.

Publications

Rudolf Amann's complete list of publications can be found at ResearcherID . He is the author or co-author of more than 350 articles in peer-reviewed journals and numerous reviews and book chapters. According to the Web of Science , it has been cited more than 50,000 times by other authors, and its h-index is 112.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ https://www.mpi-bremen.de/Rudolf-Amann.html
  2. ↑ a b https://www.uni-bremen.de/research-alliance/forschung-und-wissenschaftlicher-nachwuchs/kooperationsprofessuren/
  3. ↑ a b Curriculum Vitae by R. Amann at Leopoldina. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ MarMic. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Amann, Rudolf at the MPG. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Directory of Members - VAAM. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  7. ^ List of members - Leopoldina. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Rudolf Amann in "Systematic and Applied Microbiology". Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  9. ^ About Bergey's Manual Trust. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  10. ^ List of the winners of the lecturer's award. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Körber Prize awarded for work on gene probes . In: The world . September 8, 1995.
  12. ^ List of the winners of the Körber Prize. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Amann, RI, BJ Binder, RJ Olson, SW Chisholm, R. Devereux, and DA Stahl. 1990. Combination of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes with flow cytometry for analyzing mixed microbial populations. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 56: 1919-1925.
  14. ↑ Amann, RI, W. Ludwig, and KH Schleifer. 1995. Phylogenetic identification and in situ detection of individual microbial cells without cultivation. Microbiol. Rev 59: 143-169.
  15. ↑ a b Teeling, H., BM Fuchs, D. Becher, [21 authors], T. Schweder, and R. Amann. 2012. Substrate-controlled succession of marine bacterioplankton populations induced by a phytoplankton bloom. Science 336: 608-611.
  16. ↑ Amann, R., and B. Fuchs. 2008. Single-cell identification in microbial communities by improved fluorescence in situ hybridization techniques. Nature Rev. Microbiol. 6: 339-348.
  17. ↑ Leopoldina statement 2014; ISBN 978-3-8047-3281-0 : detailed view. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  18. ↑ R. Amann at ResearcherID. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Amann, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amann, Rudolf I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German microbiologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Rott am Inn