National and International Contacts

Prof. Luciano F. Huergo

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Universidade Federal do Paraná
Setor Litoral
Rua Jaguariaíva, 512
Caiobá - Matinhos - Paraná - Brazil
CEP: 83260-000
Phone +55 41 96765856
luciano.huergospam prevention@gmail.com
http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4760025T2

Research interests

• Regulation of nitrogen and carbon metabolism in Bacteria

• Biological nitrogen fixation

• Microbial biodiversity and bioprospection

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Publications

Prof. Huergo publishes his results in peer reviewed internationally accepted journals.

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Université de Lille 1 UFR biologie
CNRS UMR8576 UGSF BAT C9
AV Mendeleiv
59655 VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ CEDEX
FRANCE
Office: +33320335915
Christophe.colleonispam prevention@univ-lille1.fr

Research interests

• Evolution of storage metabolism in photosynthetic algae and micro-organisms

• Primary endosymbiosis

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Publications

Dr. Colleoni publishes his results in peer reviewed internationally accepted journals.

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Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republik
Institute of Mikrobiology
Opatovicky mlyn
CZ-379 81 Trebon
Czech Republic
sobotkaspam prevention@alga.cz

Research interests
To elucidate how chlorophyll is made inside of the cell, how chlorophyll biosynthesis is regulated, what way chlorophyll is built into photosynthetic complexes and what is the fate of chlorophyll molecules once these complexes are degraded

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Publications

Dr. Sobotka publishes his results in peer reviewed internationally accepted journals.

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Prof. Michael L. Summers
Department of Biology
California State University Northridge
Northridge, CA 91330-8303
Michael.l.summers(at)csun.edu
http://www.csun.edu/~mls42367/


Cooperation with the RTG1708
Dr. Summers visited the RTG1708 in July 2015 and gave a lecture about “Identification and analysis of proteins involved in formation/function of cyanobacterial spores and lipid droplets”.

Research interests

• Physiology and genetics of cyanobacterial akinete formation

• Identifying the role of cyanobacterial lipid droplets using proteomic, transcriptomics, and traditional genetic approaches

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Dr. Summers graduated with a Bachelors degree in biology from Heidelberg College and earned a comprehensive science teaching credential. After teaching science at various positions in public junior high and high schools for 11 years, he entered into a PhD program at UC Davis in the laboratory of Jack Meeks where he used genetic methods to confirm the importance of the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway for dark heterotrophic growth and nitrogen fixation in filamentous cyanobacteria. After graduating in 1995 he did a three-year postdoc at Montana State University with Tim McDermott where he studied phosphate metabolism in rhizobia. Since 1998 Summers has continued his academic career as a microbiologist in the Department of Biology at California State University, located in the greater Los Angeles area.

Publications
Prof. Summers publishes his results in peer reviewed internationally accepted journals.

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Prof. Jeff Gralnick

Associate Professor

Department of Microbiology and BioTechnology Institute

University of Wisconsin, Madison

gralnicklspam prevention@umn.edu

http://gralnick.cbs.umn.edu//Home.html

Cooperation with the RTG1708

Prof. Gralnick visited the RTG in October 2014 and gave a lecture on "Alternative respiratory strategies for microbial survival under anoxic conditions".

Research interests

Prof. Gralnick and his coworkers are interested in bacteria of the global distributed species Shewanella. These bacteria are able to respire not only oxygen but toxic metals like uranium or arsenic, too. Additionally some isolates of Shewanella can grow at very low temperatures. Prof. Gralnick wants to understand the physiology of these bacteria by identifying and characterizing the molecular mechanisms which enable the bacteria to handle such conditions.

Publications

Prof. Gralnick published his results in several international accepted journals.

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Dr. Pia Killerich

Department of Biology

Ole Maaløes Vej 5

2200 København N

phone +45 35 33 01 89

pkillerichspam prevention@bio.ku.dk

Cooperation with the RTG1708

Dr. Killerich visited the RTG1708 in September 2014. She gave a lecture about "Next Generation Sequencing-based Analysis of Complex Bacterial Communities".

Research interests

Host and Microbiome Interactions

Metagenomics

Immunology

Metabolism

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Guest Researcher at:

Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USA

INRA-SCRIBE, Rennes, France

Department of Fisheries Schiences, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

Publications

Dr. Killerich published her results in various international accepted journals.

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Dr. Daniel Lopez

Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg

Institute for Molecular Infection Biology

Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Josef Schneider Str. 2/D15

97080 Würzburg

daniel.lopezspam prevention@uni-wuerzburg.de

Cooperation with the RTG1708

Dr. Lopez visited the RTG1708 in the course of the Summerschool "Microbes, Host and Infections" in July 2014. He gave a lecture about "Evolution of last resort antibiotic resistance in S.aureus via bacterial competition".

Research interests

• Biofilms and cell differentiation therein.
• Signals and signaling networks for cell differentiation and coordination of the subpopulations within communities of pathogenic bacteria.

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Publications

Dr. Lopez published his results in several international accepted journals.

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Prof. Dr. Melanie Blokesch

Global Health Institute

School of Life Sciences

Station 19/EPFL-SV-UPBLO

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

CH-1015 Lausanne

melanie.blokeschspam prevention@epfl.ch

http://blokesch-lab.epfl.ch

Cooperation with the RTG1708

Prof. Blokesch visited the RTG1708 in the course of the International Summerschool "Microbes, Host and Infection" in July 2014. She gave a lecture about "Visualizing the DNA Uptake Process in Naturally Competent Vibrio cholerae Cells".

Research interests

• Evolution of bacterial pathogens
• Horizontal gene transfer
• Environmental reservoirs of facultative pathogens

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Publications

Prof. Blokesch published her results in several international accepted journals.

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Prof. Yukako Hihara

Assistant Professor

Graduate School of Science and Engineering

Saitama University, Japan

hiharaspam prevention@molbiol.saitama-u.ac.jp

Cooperation with the RTG1708

Prof. Hihara visited the RTG1708 in July 2014 and gave a lecture about "High-light stress acclimation of cyanobacteria from the viewpoint of transcriptional regulation"

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Publications

Prof. Hihara published her results in several international accepted journals.

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Assaf Sukenik

assafspam prevention@ocean.org.il

Tel: 04 6721444 ext.201

Cooperation with the RTG1708

Prof. Sukenik visited the RTG1708 in July 2014 and gave a lecture about "Dormancy and germination in filamentous cyanobacteria".

Research interests

• Physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of fresh water and marine algae

• Development of biotechnological systems for unicellular mass cultivation of unicellular algae

• Cyanobacteria and algal toxins

• Algal productivity and competition among algal populations in lakes and fresh water reservoirs

• Applied limnology and water quality of freshwater ecosystems

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Assaf Sukenik studied biology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and performed his PhD studies at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa where he studied "the autoflocation of micro algae".

He spend his postdoc time at the renowned Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, NY, US in the group of Paul Falkowski. There he conducted further research on the physiology of micro-algae.

Since 1987 he is at the Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research where he was also for 10 years the director of the "Yigl Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory" research center.

Publications

Prof. Sukenik published his results in international accepted journals.