QIBEBT International Expert Forum---Stable isotope fingerprinting of biogas for the assessment of methanogenesis in anaerobic digesters----Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences

Speaker:

Professor Hans H. Richnow, Department Isotope Biogeochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Time & Date:

14:30-, Oct.29, 2013, Tuesday

Title 1:

Stable isotope fingerprinting of biogas for the assessment of methanogenesis in anaerobic digesters

Abstract:

This is a presentation describing the use of stable isotopes for characterising methanogenesis and can be extended to characterization of methanogenesis in oil reservoirs if needed.

Title 2:

ProVIS – your partner for visualization of microbial-mediated biochemical processes

Abstract:

This is a presentation describing the new platform for correlative microscopy we are setting up in Leipzig and give an overview on work of my Department.

Speaker's CV:

Current	Head of the Department Isotope Biogeochemistry
1998	Habilitation in Biogeochemistry (Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry) at the University of Hamburg
1991	Ph.D. in Organic Geochemistry (Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry)
1986	Diploma in Geology (GPI, Faculty of Geoscience)

The research of the department of Isotope Biogeochemistry focuses on the application of stable isotope techniques to characterise the biogenic transformation of organic chemicals in soils and aquifers and to anaerobic biodegradation of organic contaminants.

Publications:

1. Zengler K, Richnow HH, et al. 1999. Methane formation from long-chain alkanes by anaerobic microorganisms. Nature 401:266-269.

2. Jehmlich N, Schmidt F, Taubert M, Seifert J, Bastida F, von Bergen M, Richnow HH, et al. (2010). Protein based stable-isotope probing. Nature Protocols, 5, 1957-1966.

3. Morris BEL, Herbst FA, Bastida F, Seifert J, von Bergen M, Richnow HH, et al. (2012) Microbial interactions during residual oil and n-fatty acid metabolism by a methanogenic consortium. Environ. Microbiol. Rep., 4, 297-306.

4. Jiménez N, Morris BEL, Cai M, Yao J, Gründger F, Richnow HH, et al. (2012) Evidence for in situ methanogenic oil degradation in the Dagang oil field. Org. Geochem., 52, 44-54.

5. Taubert M, Vogt C, Wubet T., Kleinsteuber S, Tarkka MT, Harms H, Buscot F, Richnow HH, et al. (2012). Protein-SIP enables time-resolved analysis of the carbon flux in a sulfate-reducing, benzene-degrading microbial consortium. ISME Journal, 6, 2291-2301.

6. von Bergen M, Jehmlich N, Taubert M, Vogt C, Bastida F, Herbst FA, Schmidt F, Richnow HH (2013). Insights from quantitative metaproteomics and protein-stable isotope probing into microbial ecology. The ISME Journal, doi: 10.1038/ismej.2013.78.