Microbial life in oil

Project Information

EcOILogy

Grant agreement ID: 666952

DOI 10.3030/666952

Project closed

EC signature date 23 July 2015

Start date 1 September 2015

End date 31 August 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 549 250,00

EU contribution € 2 549 250,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN
Germany

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Adaptation of Carbon Source Utilization Patterns of Geobacter metallireducens During Sessile Growth

Author(s): Sviatlana Marozava, Juliane Merl-Pham, Hubert Müller, Rainer U. Meckenstock
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 11, 2020, Page(s) 1271, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01271

Densely Populated Water Droplets in Heavy-Oil Seeps

Author(s): M. Pannekens, L. Voskuhl, A. Meier, H. Müller, S. Haque, J. Frösler, V. S. Brauer, R. U. Meckenstock
Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Issue 86/11, 2020, Page(s) e00164-20, ISSN 0099-2240
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/aem.00164-20

Anaerobic degradation of 1-methylnaphthalene by a member of the Thermoanaerobacteraceae contained in an iron-reducing enrichment culture

Author(s): Sviatlana Marozava, Housna Mouttaki, Hubert Müller, Nidal Abu Laban, Alexander J. Probst, Rainer U. Meckenstock
Published in: Biodegradation, Issue 29/1, 2018, Page(s) 23-39, ISSN 0923-9820
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10532-017-9811-z

Monitoring Microbial Mineralization Using Reverse Stable Isotope Labeling Analysis by Mid-Infrared Laser Spectroscopy

Author(s): Xiyang Dong, Maik A. Jochmann, Martin Elsner, Armin H. Meyer, Leonard E. Bäcker, Mona Rahmatullah, Daniel Schunk, Guido Lens, Rainer U. Meckenstock
Published in: Environmental Science & Technology, Issue 51/20, 2017, Page(s) 11876-11883, ISSN 0013-936X
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02909

Metabolic reconstruction of the genome of candidate Desulfatiglans TRIP_1 and identification of key candidate enzymes for anaerobic phenanthrene degradation

Author(s): Ivana Kraiselburd, Thomas Brüls, Geronimo Heilmann, Farnusch Kaschani, Markus Kaiser, Rainer U. Meckenstock
Published in: Environmental Microbiology, Issue 21/4, 2019, Page(s) 1267-1286, ISSN 1462-2912
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14527

Groundwater cable bacteria conserve energy by sulfur disproportionation

Author(s): Hubert Müller, Sviatlana Marozava, Alexander J. Probst, Rainer U. Meckenstock
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 14/2, 2020, Page(s) 623-634, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0554-1

Oil reservoirs, an exceptional habitat for microorganisms

Author(s): Mark Pannekens, Lisa Kroll, Hubert Müller, Fatou Tall Mbow, Rainer U. Meckenstock
Published in: New Biotechnology, Issue 49, 2019, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 1871-6784
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2018.11.006

Fermentative Spirochaetes mediate necromass recycling in anoxic hydrocarbon-contaminated habitats

Author(s): Xiyang Dong, Chris Greening, Thomas Brüls, Ralf Conrad, Kun Guo, Svenja Blaskowski, Farnusch Kaschani, Markus Kaiser, Nidal Abu Laban, Rainer U. Meckenstock
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 12/8, 2018, Page(s) 2039-2050, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0148-3

Anaerobic degradation of phenanthrene by a sulfate-reducing enrichment culture

Author(s): Anne M. Himmelberg, Thomas Brüls, Zahra Farmani, Philip Weyrauch, Gabriele Barthel, Wolfgang Schrader, Rainer U. Meckenstock
Published in: Environmental Microbiology, Issue 20/10, 2018, Page(s) 3589-3600, ISSN 1462-2912
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14335

The rhizosphere of aquatic plants is a habitat for cable bacteria

Author(s): Vincent V Scholz, Hubert Müller, Klaus Koren, Lars Peter Nielsen, Rainer U Meckenstock
Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Issue 95/6, 2019, ISSN 1574-6941
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiz062

Quantification of microbial degradation activities in biological activated carbon filters by reverse stable isotope labelling

Author(s): Xiyang Dong, Leonard E. Bäcker, Mona Rahmatullah, Daniel Schunk, Guido Lens, Rainer U. Meckenstock
Published in: AMB Express, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2191-0855
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1186/s13568-019-0827-0

Identification of naphthalene carboxylase subunits of the sulfate-reducing culture N47

Author(s): J. S. Koelschbach, H. Mouttaki, J. Merl-Pham, M. E. Arnold, R. U. Meckenstock
Published in: Biodegradation, Issue 30/2-3, 2019, Page(s) 147-160, ISSN 0923-9820
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10532-019-09872-z