Tübingen Structural Microscopy (TSM)

Dr. Stefan Fischer

Leiter der Tübingen Structural Microscopy Core Facility (TSM)

University of Tübingen
Center for Applied Geosciences
Schnarrenbergstrasse 94-96
72076 Tübingen
Office: Room 2I40
Phone: +49-(0)7071-29-78929

Email: st.fischer@uni-tuebingen.de

 

Short CV

since 2020
Head of the Tübingen Structural Microscopy Core Facility (TSM)
2014-2020
Assistant Professor, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

Department of Evolutionary Biology of Invertebrates

2013-2014
PostDoc, Dalhousie University Halifax (Canada)

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University Halifax

2009-2012
PhD, Jacobs University Bremen

"Structural and functional changes of insect eyes in cases of miniaturization"

2009

Teamleader Ichthyology group, IFAÖ Neu Broderstorf

2008

Research assistant, IFAÖ Neu Broderstorf

2007

Graduation, University Rostock

Publications

Chauhan, A., Patzner, M.S., Bhattacharyya, A., Borch, T., Fischer, S., Obst, M., ThomasArrigo, L.K., Kretzschmar, R., Mansor, M., Bryce, C., Kappler, A., Joshi, P. (2024) Interactions between iron and carbon in permafrost thaw ponds. Science of the Totel Environment, in press.

Runge, E.A., Mansor, M., Chiu, T.H., Shuster, J., Fischer, S., Kappler, A., Duda, J.P. (2024) Hydrothermal sulfidation of biogenic magnetite produces framboid-like pyrite. Communications Earth & Environment (in press).

Van Le, A., Muehe, E.M., Bone, S., Drabesch, S., Fischer, S., Kappler, A. (2023) Field and laboratory evidence for manganese redox cycling controlling iron and arsenic retention in household sand filters. Environmental Science & Technology Water, in press.

Eggs, B., Fischer, S., Csader, M., Mikó, I., Rack, A., Betz, O. (2023). Terebra steering in chalcidoid wasps. Frontiers in Zoology, accepted.

Bai, Y., Sun, T., Mansor, M., Joshi, P., Zhuang, Y., Haderlein, S.B., Fischer, S., Konhauser, K.O., Alessi, D.S. and Kappler, A., (2023) Networks of Dissolved Organic Matter and Organo-Mineral Associations Stimulate Electron Transfer over Centimeter Distances. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00172

Runge, E.A., Mansor, M., Shuster, J., Fischer, S., Kappler, A., Liu, Y., Lunter, D.J., Duda, J.P. (2023) Sulfidation of nano-magnetite to pyrite: implications for interpreting paleoenvironmental proxies and biosignature records in hydrothermal sulfide deposits. Earth & Planetary Science Letters. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118261

Fiskal, A., Shuster, J., Fischer, S., Joshi, P., Reddy, L.R., Wulf, S.E., Kappler, A., Fischer, HJ., Herrig, I., Meier, J. (2023) Microbially influenced corrosion and rust tubercle formation on sheet piles in freshwater systems. Environmental Microbiology. doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16393

Domingos, J.M., Runge, E., Dreher, C., Chiu, T.H., Shuster, J., Fischer, S., Kappler, A., Duda, J.P., Xu, J., Mansor, M. (2023) Inferred pyrite growth via the particle attachment pathway in the presence of trace metals. Geochemical Perspectives Letters. DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.2318

Chen, Q.,  Sasikala-Appukuttan, A.K., Husain, Z., Shrivastava, A., Spain,M.,  Sendler, E. D. , Daines,B., Fischer, S., Chen, R., Cook, T.A., Friedrich, M. (2022) Global gene expression analysis reveals complex cuticle organization of the Tribolium compound eye. Genome Biology and Evolution.  https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac181

Bronner, R., Thompson, K., Dreher, C., Runge, E., Voggenreiter, E., Shuster, J., Wan, B., Joshi, P., Fischer, S., Duda, J.P., Kappler, A., Mansor, M. (2022) Fe-S metabolisms of Geobacter species drive mineral formation and phosphate mobilization. Geochemical Perspectives Letters. DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.2301

Patzner, M.S., Kainz, N., Lundin, E., Barczok, M., Smith, C., Herndon, E., Kinsman-Costello, L., Fischer, S., Straub, D., Kleindienst, S., Kappler, A., Bryce, C. (2022) Seasonal fluctuations in iron cycling in thawing permafrost peatlands. Environmental Science and Technology https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c06937

ThomasArrigo, L.K., Notini, L., Shuster, J., Nydegger, T., Vontobel, S., Fischer, S., Kappler, A., Kretzschmar, R. (2021) Mineral characterization and composition of Fe-rich flocs from wetlands of Iceland: Implications for Fe, C and trace element export. Science of the Total Environment  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151567

Danalache, M., Beutler K.R., Rolauffs, B., Wolfgart, J.M., Bonnaire, F.C., Fischer, S., Greving, I., Hofmann, U.K. (2021): Exploration of changes in spatial chondrocyte organisation in human osteoarthritic cartilage by means of 3D imaging. Scientific reports (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89582-w)

Csader, M., Mayer, K., Betz, O., Fischer, S., Eggs, B. (2021): The ovipositor of the braconid wasp Habrobracon hebetor: structural and functional aspects.  Journal of Hymenoptera Research 10.3897/jhr.83.64018).

Fischer, S., Laue, M., Müller, C.H.G., Meinertzhagen, I.A., Pohl, H.(2021): Ultrastructural 3D reconstruction of the smallest known insect photoreceptors: the stemmata of a first instar larva of Strepsiptera (Hexapoda). Arthropod Structure and Development (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2021.101055).

Mohr T., Fischer S. (2020) Ultrastructural evidence for the origin of the sub-retinal pigment shield in the compound eye of Drosophila melanogaster. J. Morph.281: 802-807. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21143

Mohr T., Meinertzhagen I.A., Fischer S. (2019) Novel type of sub‐retinal pigment shield in the miniaturized compound eye of Trichogramma evanescens. J Comp Neurol https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.24745 

Fischer S., Lu Z., Meinertzhagen I.A. (2019) Three-dimensional ultrastructural organization of the ommatidium of the minute parasitoid wasp Trichogramma evanescens. Arthropod Structure and Development 48:35-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2018.12.003

Qarony W., Hossain M.I., Dewan R., Fischer S., Meyer- Rochow V.B., Salleo A., Knipp D., Tsang Y.H. (2018) Approaching perfect light incoupling in perovskite and silicon thin film solar cells by moth eye surface textures. Advanced Thory and Simulations 1 (8) 1800030. https://doi.org/10.1002/adts.201800030

Fischer S., Lu Z., Meinertzhagen I.A. (2017) From two to three dimensions: The importance of the third dimension for evaluating the limits to neuronal miniaturization in insects. J Comp Neurol. (526 (4):653-662). https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.24358

Makarova A., Polilov A., Fischer S. (2015) Comparative morphological analysis of compound eye miniaturization in minute Hymenoptera. Arthropod Structure & Development 44(1):21-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2014.11.001

Kristensen N.P., Rota J., Fischer S. (2014) Notable plesiomorphies and notable specializations: Head structure of the primitive "tongue moth" Acanthopteroctetes unifascia (Lepidoptera: Acanthopteroctetidae). Journal of Morphology 275(2):153-72. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20205

Fischer S., Meyer-Rochow V.B., Müller C.H.G. (2013) Compound Eye Miniaturization in Lepidoptera: a comparative morphological analysis. Acta Zoologica https://doi.org/10.1111/azo.12041

Fischer S., Meyer-Rochow V.B., Müller C.H.G. (2012) Challenging limits: Ultrastructure and size-related functional constraints of the compound eye of Stigmella microtheriella (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae). Journal of Morphology 273 (9): 1064-1078. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20045

Fischer S., Müller C.H.G., Meyer-Rochow V.B. (2012) Neither apposition nor superposition: the compound eyes of the chestnut leafminer Cameraria ohridella. Zoomorphology 131: 37-55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-011-0141-0

Fischer S., Müller C.H.G., Meyer-Rochow V.B. (2011) How small can small be: The compound eye of the parasitoid wasp Trichogramma evanescens (Westwood, 1833) (Hymenoptera, Hexapoda), an insect of 0.3 to 0.4 mm total body size. Visual Neuroscience 28: 295–308. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952523810000192

Dewan R., Fischer S., Meyer-Rochow V.B., Özdemir Y., Hamraz S., Knipp D. (2011) Studying nano-structured nipple arrays of moth eye facets helps to design better thin film solar cells. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 7 016003, http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3182/7/1/016003

Fischer S., Patzner R.A., Müller C.H.G., Winkler H. (2007) Studies on the ichthyofauna in the coastal waters of Ibiza (Balearic Islands, Spain). Rostocker Meeresbiologische Beiträge 18: 30-62. PDF

Talks

2024/02  DGZ-Perspektivforum | DGZ-Laborforum Online-Fokustreffen Forschung
Beyond the Basics: Fortschrittliche Anwendungen der Rasterelektronenmikroskopie

2021/09 Meeting of the german zoological association (digital)
Small eyes, large data: visual systems of tiniest insects in 3D ultrastructural resolution

2019/11 Symposium of the Network for Electron Microscopy Tuebingen (NET)
The challenge of upscaling 3D microscopy while preserving ultrastructural detail and time efficiency

2019/09  Visionarium (XVIII) meeting in Tvärminne (Finnland)
Spatial and functional constraints of compound eye miniaturization

2019/03 Department of Integrative Zoology, University Vienna (Austria)
Three-dimensional investigation of miniaturized insect visual systems

2019/01 Institute of Evolution and Ecology seminar, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany)
Small eyes and tiny brains: Miniaturization of visual systems in insects

2017/11 Symposium of the Network for Electron Microscopy Tuebingen (NET)
Serial section TEM image stack analysis pipelines using license free open source software

2017/09 Meeting of the german zoological association in Bielefeld (Germany)
From 2D to 3D: evaluating the limits to neuronal miniaturization in insects on ultrastructural level using 3D image information

2015/07 Zoological Colloquium at  Zoologisches Institut und Museum, Ernst-Moritz- Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Germany)
Miniaturisierungseffekte bei Arthropodenaugen (Miniaturization effects within compound eyes of arthropods)

2015/05 Symposium of the electron microscopy network Tübingen (NET)
3D reconstruction on ultrastructural level using ssTEM and TrakEM2

2015/04 Zoological Colloquium at Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany)
Miniaturization of the visual system in Hymenoptera

2014/12 Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany)
EvE Seminar talk: Why size matters: Consequences of insect body size miniaturization

2014/08 International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology (ICIM3) in Berlin (Germany)

First 3D reconstruction on EM level of a complete ommatidium of a miniaturized parasitic wasp

2013/08 International Conference on Invertebrate Vision in Bäckaskog (Sweden)

The challenge of being small: Miniaturization of the lepidopteran compound eye

2011/10 Visionarium X in Tvärminne (Finland)

Neither apposition nor superposition: Ultrastructural design of compound eyes in moths of small body size

2011/09 Meeting of the german zoological association in Saarbrücken (Germany)

Compound eyes with features of both apposition and superposition optics in moths of small body size

2010/10 Visionarium IX in Tvärminne (Finland)

Structural and functional changes of insect eyes in cases of miniaturization

2009/10 Microlepidoptera-Meeting in Mainz (Germany)

 Miniaturisierung von Superpositionsaugen bei Nachtfaltern

Poster

2019/09 Visionarium XVIII meeting in Tvärminne (Finland)
3D reconstruction of the smallest known insect photoreceptors: the stemmata of the first instar larvae of Stylops ovinae (Insecta, Strepsiptera)

2019/09 Meeting of the german zoological association in Jena
Rapid evaluation of ultrastructural features in epoxy resin embedded samples, using serial- and re-sectioning techniques

2019/08 International conference on invertebrate vision (ICIV) in Bäckaskog
3D reconstruction of the smallest known insect photoreceptors: the stemmata of the first instar larvae of Stylops ovinae (Insecta, Strepsiptera)

2018/09 Meeting of the german zoological association in Greifswald
3D reconstruction of the smallest known insect photoreceptors: the stemmata of the first instar larvae of Stylops ovinae (Insecta, Strepsiptera)

2017/10 Graduiertenforum der Fachgruppe Morphologie, Stuttgart
T. Mohr, S. Fischer: Larger numbers, less effort: time efficient analysis pipeline for measuring the volumes of pigment granules in insect eyes

2010/10 Visionarium IX in Tvärminne (Finland) 
Compound eyes in insects of small size: Ultrastructure of the eyes of the parasitoid wasp Trichogramma evanescens (Westwood, 1833)

2010/09 Meeting of the german zoological association in Hamburg (Germany)
Compound eyes in insects of small size: Ultrastructure of eyes of the parasitoid wasp Trichogramma evanescens (Westwood, 1833)

Memberships

German Zoological Association (DZG)
German BioImaging - Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse e.V. (GerBI-GMB, Society for Microscopy and Image Analysis)
International Society for Invertebrate Morphology (ISIM)
DGE Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektronenmikroskopie (German society for electron microscopy)
Core technologies for life sciences (CTLS)
Network for Electron Microscopy Tübingen (NET)