Publikationen
2025
Becker, S., Dang, T.T., Wei, R., Kappler, A. (2025) Isolation of ‘Candidatus Ferrigenium straubiae’ – a microaerophilic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium and nitrate-reducing Fe(II)-oxidizer within the community of culture KS. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 75, 11. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006949
Višić, H., Duda, J.P., Fischer, S., Escudero, C., Şekerci, F., Kappler, A., Mansor, M. (2025) Experimental diagenesis reveals preservation of biosignatures in filamentous sulfur mats under hydrothermal conditions. accepted in Scientific Reports.
Kraft, R., Betz, O., Rack, A., Eggs, B. Structure and function of the ovipositor of the encyrtid wasp Microterys flavus. Front Zool 22, 24 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-025-00575-1
Dreher, C.L., Schad, M., Duda, J.P., Fischer, S., Shuster, J., Konhauser, K.O., Kappler, A. (2025) Impact of silica on the identity of minerals formed in Archean oceans during Fe cycling by cyanobacteria and iron(III)-reducing bacteria. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2025.07.023
Fink, P., Menzel, C., Kwon, JH. et al. (2025) A novel recombinant PHB production platform in filamentous cyanobacteria avoiding nitrogen starvation while preserving cell viability. Microb Cell Fact 24, 43 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-025-02650-y
Gruenert,U., Benda,J., Bossdorf,O., Raeder, U. (2025) Dissolved inorganic carbon driven dynamics of calcite shell formation in 12 strains of the freshwater algae Phacotus lenticularis (Chlorophyta) bioRxiv 2025.05.04.652085; https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.04.652085
Mansor, M., Duverger, A., Pasquier, V., Gorlas, A., Guyot, F., Berg, J. S., … Picard, A. (2025). Biogenic pyrite and metastable iron sulfides: Emerging formation pathways and geological and societal relevance. Geo-Bio Interfaces, 2, e6. doi:10.1180/gbi.2024.9
Runge, E.,Mansor, M., Pasquier, V., Bovay, T., Marin-Carbonne, J., Fichtner, V., Kappler, A., Duda, J.P. (2025) Early diagenetic versus hydrothermal signals in pyrite from ancient metamorphic sediment-hosted massive sulfides – implications for the stability of sulfur and iron isotope records in deep time. Chemical Geology 690, 122885.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.122885
Raisch, D., Staude, S., & Markl, G. (2025). Revisiting semi-massive Sulfides: Textures of sulfide-silicate interactions in magmatic sulfide deposits. Ore Geology Reviews, 106457.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2025.106457
Raisch, D., Staude, S., & Markl, G. (2025). Origin Of Euhedral Silicate Megacrysts In Magmaitic Sulfide Ore Ar The NOVA-BOLLINGER Ni-Cu-PGE Deposit. The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology.
Bongiovanni, M., Fusswinkel, T. & Marks, M.A.W. (2025): The behaviour of halogens in the magmatic-hydrothermal evolution of Sn-W systems and their potential as fluid source indicators. Lithos 516–517, 108233 (20 p.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108233
Binder, T., Marks, M. A., Fusswinkel, T., Walter, B. F., & Markl, G. (2025). Variable onset of magma segregation controls contrasting geochemical patterns of mineral assemblages in fractionating alkaline volcanic systems. Lithos, 108185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108185
Andrić‐Tomašević, N., Walter, B. F., Simić, V., Raza, M., Životić, D., Novković, Ž., ... & Beranoaguirre, A. (2025). Contributions of arid climate and hydrothermal fluid flow on sedimentation in saline‐alkaline lakes: Insight from the Ibar intramontane basin (Southern Serbia). The Depositional Record 11(4),1029-1062. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.70017
Ladisic, A., Marks, M. A., Walter, B. F., Giebel, R. J., Beranoaguirre, A., & Markl, G. (2025). Permo-Triassic magmatism in the Damaraland Igneous Province, NW Namibia: The Ondurakorume alkaline‑carbonatite complex. Geochemistry, 85(3), 126287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemer.2025.126287
Raza, M., Giebel, R. J., Staude, S., Beranoaguirre, A., Kolb, J., Markl, G., & Walter, B. F. (2025). The magmatic to post-magmatic evolution of the Nooitgedacht Carbonatite Complex, South Africa. Geochemistry, 85(1), 126249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemer.2025.126249
Sekerci, F., Fischer, S., Joshi, P., Peiffer, S., Kappler, A., Mansor, M. (2025) Sulfur Microenvironments as Hotspots for Biogenic Pyrite Formation. Sci Rep 15, 20148 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-05178-8
Maisch, M., Nikeleit, V., Lueder, U., Bryce, C., Kappler, A., Byrne, J.M. (2025) Oxidation of Fe(II)-carbonate minerals (siderite) by anoxygenic phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria. Geo-Bio-Interfaces 2, e9, 1-10, doi:10.1180/gbi.2025.4
Xu, X., Mansor, M., Li, G.X., Chiu, T.H., Haderlein, S., Kappler, A., Joshi, P. (2025) Size-dependent reduction kinetics of iron (oxyhydr)oxides in single and mixed mineral systems. Environ. Sci. Technol., https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c08032
Becker, S., Dang, T.T., Wei, R., Kappler, A. (2025) Thiobacillus denitrificans' sustainability in nitrate-reducing Fe(II) oxidation and the potential significance of Fe(II) as a growth-supporting reductant. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiaf024, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaf024
2024
Nikeleit, V., Maisch, M., Byrne, J.M., Harwood, C., Kappler, A., Bryce, C. (2024) Phototrophic Fe(II) oxidation by Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 in organic and Fe(II)-rich conditions. Environmental Microbiology 26:e16608. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16608
Bayer, T., Jakus, N., Kappler, A., Byrne, J.M. Magnetite nanoparticles are metastable biogeobatteries in consecutive redox cycles driven by microbial Fe oxidation and reduction. Geo-Bio Interfaces. 2024;1:e3. doi:10.1180/gbi.2024.2
Rohbohm, N., Lang, M., Erben, J., Gemeinhardt, K., Patel, N., Ilic, I.K.,Hafenbradl, D., Quejigo, J.R., Angenent, L.T. Performance Effects from Different Shutdown Methods of Three Electrode Materials for the Power-to-Gas Application with Electromethanogenesis. ChemElectroChem 11,21, e202400372 https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202400372
Valdez-Nuñez, L.F., Kappler, A., Ayala-Muñoz, D., Chávez, I.J. & Mansor, M. (2024) Acidophilic sulphate-reducing bacteria: Diversity, ecophysiology, and applications. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 16(5), e70019. https:// doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.70019
Müller García, I.d., Nebelsick, J.H. Morphology and taphonomy of the gastropod Terebralia palustris from an iron age site in the Arabian Peninsula. Facies 70, 13 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-024-00688-9
Grimm, H., Lorenz, J., Straub, D., Joshi, P., Shuster, J., Zarfl, C., Muehe, E.M., Kappler, A. (2024) Nitrous oxide is the main product during nitrate reduction by a novel lithoautotrophic iron(II)-oxidizing culture from an organic-rich paddy soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01262-24
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 Total Environment, 946. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174321
Spiessberger, E., Newton, A., Thayer, M.K., Betz, O. (2024): Comparative morphology of the feeding apparatus of Staphylinine beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 82, 267–303. DOI: 10.3897/asp.82.e114508
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. Commun Earth Environ 5, 252 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01400-z
Nikeleit, V., Roth, L., Maisch, M., Kappler, A., Bryce, C. (2024) Phototrophic Fe(II) oxidation benefits from light/dark cycles. Environmental Microbiology Reports 16, 2, e13239
Betz, O., Dieterich, A., Cloetens, P., Koerner, L., Lehnert, M.S. (2024). Element Sensitive Synchrotron-Based X-Ray Tomography as a Technique for Studying Transition Metals in the Cuticle of Insects. In: Lehnert, M.S. (eds) Metals and their Functional Role in the Structures of Invertebrates. Biologically-Inspired Systems, vol 18, 115-171. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68486-9_5
2023
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, 2024, 4, 1, 33–43, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.3c00245
Fink, C., Martinez-Cano, G., Shuster, J., Panzera, A., Rennhack, K.E., Rohbohm, N., Angenent, L.T., Molitor, B. (2023) The Targeted Deletion of Genes Responsible for Expression of the Mth60 Fimbriae Leads to Loss of Cell-Cell Connections in Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus ΔH. Applied and Environmental Microbiology Vol. 89, No. 7, https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00575-23
Rohbohm, N., Sun, T., Blasco-Gómez, R., Byrne, J. M., Kappler, A., & Angenent, L. T. (2023). Carbon oxidation with sacrificial anodes to inhibit O2 evolution in membrane-less bioelectrochemical systems for microbial electrosynthesis. EES Catalysis, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3EY00141E
Eggs, B., Fischer, S., Csader, M., Mikó, I., Rack, A., Betz, O. (2023). Terebra steering in chalcidoid wasps. Frontiers in Zoology, 20, 26 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-023-00503-1
Zippel, A., Cao, Q., Betz, O. (2023) Morphology of the abdominal segmental glands and spinning behaviour of Stenus larvae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Arthropod Structure & Development Vol 75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2023.101286
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
Park, M., Mayer, U., Richter, S. et al. NSF/αSNAP2-mediated cis-SNARE complex disassembly precedes vesicle fusion in Arabidopsis cytokinesis. Nat. Plants 9, 889–897 (2023). DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01427-8
2022
- 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. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2301
- OP Missen, B Etschmann, SJ Mills, SK Sanyal, R Ram, J Shuster, MAD Rea, MJ Raudsepp, X Fang, ER Lausberg, E Melchiorre, J Dodsworth, Y Liu, SA Wilson, J Brugger (2022) Tellurium biogeochemical transformation and cycling in a metalliferous semi-arid environment. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Act 321, 265-292. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.12.024)
- O.P Missen, E.R. Lausberg, J. Brugger, B. Etschmann, S.J. Mills, K. Momma, R. Ram, M. Maruyama, X., Fang, E. Melchiorre, C.G. Ryan, E.E. Villalobos-Portillo, H. Castillo-Michel, K. Nitta, O. Sekizawa, J. Shuster, S.K. Sanyal, A. Frierdich, S. Hunt, Y. Tsui, Y. Takahashi, U. Michibata, S. Dwivedi & M.A.D. Rea. (2022) Natural nanoparticles of the Critical Element tellurium. Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters 100053. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2022.100053)
- Lueder, U., Maisch, M., Jørgensen, B. B., Druschel, G., Schmidt, C., & Kappler, A. (2022). Growth of microaerophilic Fe(II)‐oxidizing bacteria using Fe(II) produced by Fe (III) photoreduction. Geobiology.(https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12485)
- 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)
- Huang, Y-M., Jakus, N., Straub,D., Konstantinidis, K. T., Blackwell,N., Kappler, A., & Kleindienst, S. (2022) ‘Candidatus ferrigenium straubiae’ sp. nov., ‘Candidatus ferrigenium bremense’ sp. nov., ‘Candidatus ferrigenium altingense’ sp. nov., are autotrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria of the family Gallionellaceae Systematic and Applied Microbiology, Volume 45, Issue 3 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2022.126306)
- Monique S. Patzner, M.S., Kainz,N., Lundin,E., Barczok,M., Smith,C., Herndon,E., Kinsman-Costello,E., Fischer, S., Straub,D., Kleindienst,S., Kappler,A., & Bryce,C. (2022) Seasonal Fluctuations in Iron Cycling in Thawing Permafrost Peatlands, Environ. Sci. Technol. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c06937)
- Kieninger A.-K., Tokarz P., Janovié A., Pilhofer M., Weiss G.L. Maldener I.(2022) SenN is a septal junction component required for gated cell-cell communication in the filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc. Nat Commun 13, 7486 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34946-7
2021
- 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).
- Julian Sorwat, Adrian Mellage, Markus Maisch, Andreas Kappler, Olaf A. Cirpka, James M. Byrne (2021) Chromium (VI) removal kinetics by magnetite-coated sand: Small-scale flow-through column experiments, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 415 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125648).
- 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 (https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.83.64018).
- Springstein BL, Nürnberg DJ, Woehle C, Weissenbach J, Theune, ML, Helbig, AO, Maldener I, Dagan T, Stucken K. (2021) Two novel heteropolymer-forming proteins maintain the multicellular shape of the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. FEBS J. 2021 May;288(10):3197-3216. (doi:10.1111/febs.15630).
- Garg R, Maldener I. (2021) The Dual Role of the Glycolipid Envelope in Different Cell Types of the Multicellular Cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilisATCC 29413. Front Microbiol: 2021 Apr 9;12:645028. (doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.645028).
2020
- 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)