Dr. Annelie Wendeberg (formerly Pernthaler)
Contact
Dr. Annelie Wendeberg
Head of the Group
Department of Environmental Microbiology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany
Phone: +49 341 235 1377
Fax: +49 341 235 2791
annelie.pernthaler@ufz.de
Research
Since I was able to dig my own mudholes, I wanted to be a biologist, the extreme environmentalist version, you know. While studying biology I realized I better not work with birds and dolphins, but rather with microbes. They are so much more interesting! More than 90% of Earth's biomass is microbial and these little guys can grow on basically anything. Microbes can fix methane and carbon dioxide, two greenhouse gases that would otherwise speed up global warming tremendously. Microbes can even transform our toxic waste into less harmful substances.
My focus is the investigation of natural microbial communities, who they are and what they can do. Unfortunately, the field of microbial ecology is often method limited. So I end up developing methods that allow the identification and physiological characterization of microorganisms in situ.
Curriculum vitae
1993 - 1997
Studies of Biology at the Humboldt University, Berlin
1997 - 1998
Undergraduate studies at the Leibniz-Institute for Limnology and Inland Fisheries
Titel: Microbial communities in an acidic bog lake (Große Fuchskuhle). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. H.D. Babenzien
1998 - 2002
PhD at Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Department of Molecular Ecology.
Titel: Cytometric and Cytochemical Methods for the Investigation of Marine Picoplankton.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. R. Amann.
Awards
1995 - 1998
Stipend, Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
2004
O.K. Earl and Texaco Stipend, California Institute of Technology
Positions
2002 - 2005
Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Department of Molecular Ecology, Bremen, Germany
2005 - 2007
Postdoc at the California Institute of Technology, Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, USA
Seit 2007
Scientist at the UFZ in Leipzig
Referee
Ad hoc reviews for:
ESF - European Science Foundation
NSF - National Science Foundation, USA
PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
ISME-Journal - Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology
Aquatic Microbial Ecology
Artwork & Photomicrographs
Selected Publications
Pernthaler A., Dekas, A.E., Brown C.T., Goffredi S., Embaye T., Orphan V.J.(2008) Diverse syntrophic partnerships from deep-sea methane vents revealed by direct cell capture and metagenomics. PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (105): 7052-7057
Pernthaler A., Pernthaler J. (2005) Diurnal Variation of Cell Proliferation in Three Bacterial Taxa from Coastal North Sea Waters. Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 71 (8): 4638-4644
Herndl G.J., Reinthaler T., Teira E., van Aken H., Veth C., Pernthaler A., and Pernthaler J. (2005) Contribution of Archaea to total prokaryotic production in the deep Atlantic Ocean. Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 71 (5): 2303-230
Pernthaler A., Amann R. (2004) Simultaneous Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization of mRNA and rRNA in environmental Bacteria. Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 70 (9): 5426-5433.
Teira, E., T. Reinthaler, A. Pernthaler, J. Pernthaler, and G. J. Herndl. (2004) Combining Microautoradiography and Catalyzed Reporter Deposition Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (MICRO-CARD-FISH): A Method Applicable even to Meso- and Bathypelagic Prokaryotes. Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 70 (7): 4411-4414
Pernthaler A., Pernthaler J., Amann R. (2004) Sensitive multi-color fluorescence in situ hybridization for the identification of environmental microorganisms. In: Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual
Pernthaler J., Pernthaler A., Amann R. (2003) Automated Enumeration of Groups of Marine Picoplankton after Fluorescence in situ Hybridization. Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 69 (5): 2631-2637
Neretin L., Schippers A., Pernthaler A., Hamann K., Amann R., Jørgensen B. B. (2003). Quantification of Dissimilatory (Bi)Sulfite Reductase Gene Expression in Desulfobacterium autotrophicum using Real-Time RT-PCR. Environmental Microbiology 5 (8): 660-67
Pernthaler A., Pernthaler J., Schattenhofer M., Amann R. (2002). Identification of DNA-synthesizing Bacterial Cells in Coastal North Sea Plankton. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 68 (11): 5728-5736
Pernthaler A., Pernthaler J., Amann R. (2002). Fluorescence in situ Hybridization and Catalyzed Reporter Deposition for the Identification of Marine Bacteria. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 68 (6): 3094-3101
Pernthaler A., Preston C.M., Pernthaler J., DeLong E.F., Amann R. (2002). Comparison of Fluorescently Labeled Oligonucleotide and Polynucleotide Probes for the Detection of Pelagic Marine Bacteria and Archaea. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 68 (2): 661-667
Dubilier N., Mülders C., Ferdelman T., de Beer D., Pernthaler A., Klein M., Wagner M., Erseus C., Thiermann F., Krieger J., Giere O., Amann R. (2001). Endosymbiotic Sulphate-Reducing and Sulphide-Oxidizing Bacteria in an Oligochaete Worm. NATURE, 411 (6835): 298-302
