Dr. Gorkhmaz Abbaszade
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Dr. Gorkhmaz Abbaszade
Microbiologist | Bioinformatician
Department of Applied Microbial Ecology
Working Group Flow Cytometry
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Phone 0341 6025 1368
gorkhmaz.abbaszade@ufz.de
Curriculum Vitae
05.2023 - present
Postdoctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Applied Microbial Ecology
2022 - 2023
Research Fellow at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
09.2017 - 02.2023
Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Title: Environmental contamination of potentially toxic elements (PTE) and its effect on soil microbial communities in former industrial cities of Northern Hungary (Salgótarján and Ózd)
2015 - 2017
Master studies in Environmental Biology, Baku State University, Azerbaijan
2008 - 2012
Bachelor studies in Biology, Baku State University, Azerbaijan
Research interests
single cell microbial analysis, identification of population heterogeneity and multicellularity with the methods: flow cytometry, bioinformatics analysis (metagenomics, scRNA-seq)Selected publications
Abbaszade
G, Stückrath K, Müller S. Bacterial colony biopsies:
spatial discrimination of heterogeneous cell types by cytometric
fingerprinting. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 00, 1–16 (2025). doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70022
Espinoza Miranda SS, Abbaszade G, Hess WR, Drescher K, Saliba A, Zaburdaev V, Chai L, Dreisewerd K, Grünberger A, Westendorf C, Müller S, Mascher T. Resolving spatiotemporal dynamics in bacterial multicellular populations: approaches and challenges. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 89:e00138-24 (2025). doi.org/10.1128/mmbr.00138-24
Abbaszade G, Toumi M, Farkas R, Vajna B, Krett G, Dobosy P, Szabó C. & Tóth E. Exploring the relationship between metal(loid) contamination rate, physicochemical conditions, and microbial community dynamics in industrially contaminated urban soils. Science of The Total Environment 897:166094, (2023). doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166094.
Farkas R, Mireisz T, Toumi M, Abbaszade G, Sztráda N, Tóth E. The Impact of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on the Prokaryotic Community Composition and Selected Bacterial Strains Based on Microcosm Experiments. Microorganisms 11, 1447 (2023). doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11061447
Abbaszade G, Tserendorj D, Volgyesi P, Zachary D, Tóth E, Szabo Cs. Lead and stable lead isotopes as tracers of soil pollution in industrial cities, Salgoatrjan and Ozd, Hungary. Applied Geochemistry 0883-2927 (2022). doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105397
Szuróczki S, Abbaszade G, Bóka K, Schumann P, Neumann-Schaal M, Tóth E. Szabonella alba gen. nov., sp. nov., a motile alkaliphilic bacterium of the family Rhodobacteraceae isolated from a soda lake. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 72(1), pp. 1–10 (2022). doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005219
Toumi M, Abbaszade G, Sbaoui Y, Farkas R, Ács É, Jurecska L, Tóth E. Cultivation and molecular studies to reveal the microbial communities of groundwaters discharge located in Hungary. Water (Switzerland), 13(11) (2021). doi.org/10.3390/w13111533
Szuróczki S, Abbaszade G, Buni D, Bóka K, Schumann P, Neumann-Schaal M, Vajna B, Tóth E. Fertoeibacter niger gen. Nov., sp. nov. a novel alkaliphilic bacterium of the family rhodobacteraceae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 71(3), pp. 1–8 (2021). doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004762
Abbaszade G, Szabó A, Vajna B, Farkas R, Szabó C, and Tóth E. Whole-genome sequence analysis of Cupriavidus campinensis S14E4C, a heavy metal resistant bacterium. Mol Biol Rep 47, 5:3973-3985 (2020). doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05490-8
Szuróczki S, Abbaszade G, Szabó A, Bóka K, Schumann P, and Tóth E. Phragmitibacter flavus gen. nov., sp. nov. a new member of the family Verrucomicrobiaceae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, pp. 2108-2114 (2020). doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004025