Senior Scientist at the Leibniz- Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende (IOW)
Title: Microplastics in the Ocean
| Title | PD Dr. | Position | WG leader |
| Given Name | Matthias | Professional background | Microbiologist |
| Surname | Labrenz | born | 24.07.1966 |
| Peer reviewed publications | 57 | h-index | 25 |
Education
| 1999 | Dissertation Dr. rer. nat., CAU Kiel |
| 1995 – 1999 | PhD-studies CAU Kiel, Germany |
| 1995 | Graduation Diploma in Biology, CAU Kiel |
| 1988 – 1995 | Studies at Christian Albrecht University (CAU), Kiel; biology, microbiology, biochemistry, botany |
Professional Career
| 2013 – 2014 | Speaker of IOW Research Focus 4 “Coastal Seas and Society” |
| 2012 | Head of working group “Environmental Microbiology” at the IOW |
| 2009 | Venia legendi in Microbiology at the University of Rostock |
| 2008 | Habilitation in Microbiology, University of Rostock |
| Since 2003 | Senior Scientist at the Leibniz- Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende (IOW) |
| 2001 – 2003 | PostDoc at the German Research Centre for Biotechnology (Braunschweig) |
| 1999 – 2001 | PostDoc at the University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Geomicrobiology, USA |
COORDINATION OF SOFT MONEY BASED RESEARCH PROJECTS SINCE 2010
Responsible for administration of multiple national and international research grants, amounting to a total of approximately 2 mio. EURO for his group.
| 2015 – 2018 | PI – BMBF, Diversity and abundances of marine Vibrio species and their phages in aquaculture systems and dispersal in coastal ecosystems (€ 171,200) |
| 2015 – 2018 | PI – DFG, Zooplankton associated methane production (€ 200,500) |
| 2015 – 2017 | Co-PI – Forschungsstiftung Ostsee, Habitats and diversities of potentially pathogenic Vibrios at the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (€ 80,000) |
| 2014 – 2018 | WP-Leader – BONUS, Biological lenses using gene prints (€ 330,000) |
| 2014 – 2017 |
PI - Leibniz Association SAW/PAKT Program, The role of microplastics as vector for microbial populations in the ecosystem of the Baltic Sea (€ 283,511) |
| 2014 – 2017 | PI – BMBF, Development of innovative instruments for the implementation of autonomus systems used for the analysis of microbial activities in pelagic aquatic habitats (€ 31,900) |
| 2014 – 2017 | PI – BONUS, Development of an autonomous multisampler system for the monitoring of biogeochemical processes (€ 300,000) |
| 2012 – 2015 |
PI – DFG, Bacterial diversity and function within the salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea (€ 43,000) |
| 2012 – 2015 |
Co-PI – BMBF, Responses and adaptations of heterotrophic and chemoautotrophic prokaryotic key players to a high CO2 world (€ 175,000) |
| 2008 – 2011 | Co-PI – BMBF, The role of microorganisms in marine biogeochemical cycles (€ 178,000) |
| 2008 – 2010 | PI – DFG, Distribution and activity of chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms in Baltic pelagic redoxclines (€ 213,000) |
ACADEMIC SERVICES
Editorial
• 2010 - 2012 German delegate at Marine Board Working Group on Marine Microbial Diversity (ESF)
• Since 2010 Scientific committee at Briese Forschungspreis für NachwuchsforscherInnen in der Meeresforschung (Reederei Briese)
• BioMed Research International
• International Scholarly Research Notices
• ISRN Microbiology
• Guest editor of “Microbial Ecology”
Review activities
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
More than 25 journals as The ISME Journal, Environmental Microbiology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Limnology & Oceanography
CRUISES
Baltic Sea. Since 2003 with RV Alexander von Humboldt, RV Alkor, RV Prof. Albrecht Penck, RV Maria S. Merian, RV Meteor
Atlantic. 2008, RV Maria S. Merian
Chief scientist: RV Alkor (21.02.-17.03.2009; 04.06.-19.06.2014), RV Meteor (29.05. – 10.06.2012), RV Poseidon (August 2015)
AWARDS
Description of Labrenzia gen. nov.
‘Labrenzia [Lab.ren’zi.a, N.L. fem. noun derived from the name Labrenz honoring Dr. Matthias Labrenz, a German marine microbiologist who described several remarkable new aerobic phototrophic species from Antarctica] ‘ (Biebl et al. 2007, Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57: 1095 – 1107)
10 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2005
Labrenz, M., Duckat, R., Thorn, M., Hollaender, K. (2014). Microplastics in the Sea. GAIA 23/3, 281– 283.
Bergen, B., Herlemann, D.P.R., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2014). Distribution of the verrucomicrobial clade Spartobacteria along a salinity gradient in the Baltic Sea. Environ Microbiol Reports 6, 625-630.
Labrenz, M., Grote, J., Mammitzsch, K., Boschker, H. T. S., Laue, M., Jost, G., Glaubitz, S. & Jürgens. K. (2013). Sulfurimonas gotlandica sp. nov., a chemoautotrophic and psychrotolerant epsilonproteobacterium isolated from a pelagic redoxcline, and an emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 63, 4141–4148.
Grote, J., Schott, T., Bruckner, C., Glöckner, F. O., Jost, G., Teeling, H., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2012). Genome and physiology of a model Epsilonproteobacterium responsible for sulfide detoxification in marine oxygen depletion zones. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109, 506–510.
Feike, J., Jürgens, K., Hollibaugh, J.T., Krüger, S., Jost, G., Labrenz, M. (2012). Measuring unbiased metatranscriptomics in suboxic waters of the central Baltic Sea using a new in situ fixation system. ISME J 6, 461–470.
Herlemann, D.P.R., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K., Bertilsson, S., Waniek, J.J., Andersson A.F. (2011). Transitions in bacterial communities along the 2000 km salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea. ISME J 5, 1571–1579.
Labrenz, M., Sintes, E., Toetzke, F., Zumsteg, A., Herndl, G. J., Seidler, M., Jürgens, K. (2010). Relevance of a crenarchaeotal subcluster related to Candidatus Nitrosopumilus maritimus to ammonia oxidation in the suboxic zone of the central Baltic Sea. ISME J 4, 1496-1508.
Jost, G., Martens-Habbena, W., Pollehne, F., Schnetger, B., & Labrenz, M. (2010). Anaerobic sulfur oxidation in the absence of oxygen and nitrate dominates microbial chemoautotrophy beneath the pelagic chemocline of the Eastern Gotland Basin, Baltic Sea. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 71, 226-236.
Glaubitz, S., Lueders, T., Abraham, W.-R., Jost, G., Jürgens, K. & Labrenz, M. (2009). 13C-isotope analyses reveal that chemolithoautotrophic Gamma- and Epsilonproteobacteria feed a microbial food web in a pelagic redoxcline of the central Baltic Sea. Environ Microbiol 11, 326-337.
Salka, I., Moulisová, V., Koblížek, M., Jost, G., Jürgens, K. & Labrenz, M. (2008). Abundance, depth distribution, and composition of aerobic bacteriochlorophyll a-producing bacteria in four basins of the central Baltic Sea. Appl Environ Microbiol 74, 4398-4404.