User:Sascha Krause

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Sascha Krause (an artistic interpretation)
  • Sascha Krause
  • Research Assistant Professor
  • Department of Microbiology
  • University of Washington
  • Benjamin Hall IRB, Room 440
  • Seattle, WA 98105
  • Email me through OpenWetWare

Education

  • Postdoc position at NIOO-KNAW
  • Title of project: Methanotrophic diversity and gene expression as a controlling factor of global methane consumption (2010-ongoing)
  • Doctoral Degree in Microbial Ecology
  • Title of Doctoral Thesis: Microbial ecology of methanotrophs in flooded rice field soils. Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany (2007-2010).
  • Research Assistant
  • Title of Project: Spatial heterogeneity of methanotrophs in rice fields. Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany (2006-2007).
  • Master of Science in Biology (Biology of Organisms)
  • Title of Master Thesis: Population trends of Orthoptera in northwestern Germany. University of Osnabrück, Germany (2004-2006).
  • Bachelor of Science in Biology (Biology of Organisms)
  • Title of the Bachelor Thesis: Habitat preferences of Cepero’s groundhopper, Tetrix ceperoi (BOLÍVAR, 1887). University of Osnabrück, Germany (2001-2004).

Research School

  • Associated member of The C.T. de Wit Graduate School for Production Ecology and Resource Conservation at Wageningen University (2010-Present)
  • IMPRS graduate of the International Max Planck Research School (2007-2010)


Conferences and workshops chair

  • Organizer of of the ESF Eurocores Ecological and Evolutionary Functional Genomics (EuroEEFG) workshop:”Annotation and analysis of microbial genomes using the MicroScope platform” in Noordwijkerhout, the *Netherlands, from 30-31 May 2013.
  • Organizing comittee of the ESF Eurocores Ecological and Evolutionary Functional Genomics (EuroEEFG) conference:”Frontiers in Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics” in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, from 26-30 *May 2013.
  • Organizer of the ESF Eurocores Ecological and Evolutionary Functional Genomics (EuroEEFG) workshop:”Understanding, managing and protecting microbial communities in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: “Exploring *the trait-based functional biodiversity approach” in Wageningen, the Netherlands (February, 2013).

Co-operation

  • Prof. Mette Svenning and Dr. Susanne Liebner. University of Tromsø, Norway.
  • Prof. Peter Frenzel, Max-Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany.
  • Dr. Claudia Lüke, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
  • Prof. Martin Schroth and Dr. Ruth Henneberger. ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Dr. Peter van Bodegom, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Dr. Will Cornwell, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Dr. Levente Bodrossy, Marine And Atmospheric Research, CSIRO, Hobart, Australia.
  • Dr. Pascal Niklaus, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Dr. Paul Bodelier, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, the Netherlands.
  • Dr. Xavier Le Roux, CNRS, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, UMR 5557, USC 1193, Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France.
  • Prof. Stefan Bertilsson, Uppsala University, SE-75236 Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Dr. Hans-Peter Grossart, Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany.
  • Dr. Jay T. Lennon, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
  • Dr. Laurent Philippot, UMR 1347 Agroecologie, Dijon, France
  • OMeGA Organization for Methanotroph Genome Analysis: Dr. Lisa Stein, University of Alberta, Canada and Stephane VUILLEUMIER, University of Strasbourg, France
  • Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative

If you want to learn more about the fascinating world of methane oxidizing bacteria just contact me. I am also always looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated students to work with me on small projects.

Research interests

  1. Microbial ecology
  2. Methane-oxidizing bacteria
  3. Spatial distribution of microbes
  4. Microbial networks
  5. Trait-based approaches

Publications

Krause, S., Le Roux, X., Niklaus, P.A., Bodegom, P.V., Lennon, J.T., Bertilsson, S., Grossart, H.-P., Philippot, L., and Bodelier, P. (2014). Trait-based approaches for understanding microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Frontiers in Microbiology 5. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00251.

Krause, S., Van Bodegom, P.M., Cornwell, W.K., and Bodelier, P.L.E. (2014). Weak phylogenetic signal in physiological traits of methane-oxidizing bacteria. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 7. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12401.

Krause, S., Meima-Franke, M., Hefting, M.M., Bodelier, P.L.E. (2013). Spatial patterns of methanotrophic communities along a hydrological gradient in a riparian floodplain. Online first doi: 10.1111/1574-6941.12091.

Ho, A., Kerckhof, F.-M., Lüke, C, Reim, A., Krause, S., Boon, N., Bodelier, P.L.E. (2012). Conceptualizing functional traits and ecological characteristics of methane-oxidizing bacteria as life strategies. Environ. Microbiol. Rep.: doi: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00370.x

Reim, A., Lüke, C., Krause, S., Pratcher, J., and Frenzel, P. (2012). One millimetre makes the difference: high resolution analysis of methane-oxidizing bacteria and their specific activity at the oxic-anoxic interface in a flooded paddy soil. ISME J. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2012.57

Wang, J., Krause, S., Muyzer, G., Meima-Franke, M., Laanbroek, HJ. and Bodelier, P.L.E. (2012). Spatial patterns of iron- and methane-oxidizing bacterial communities in an irregularly flooded, riparian wetland. Front. Microbio. 3:64. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00064

Krause, S., Lüke, C., and Frenzel, P. (2012). Methane source strength and energy flow shape methanotrophic communities in oxygen–methane counter-gradients. Environ. Microbiol. Rep. 4: 203-208. doi: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00322.x

Siljanen, H.M.P., Saari A., Krause S., Lensu A., Abell G, Bodrossy L., Bodelier P.L.E., Martikainen, P.J. (2011) Spatial heterogeneity in the functioning and community composition of methanotrophs in the littoral zone of a boreal lake. FEMS Microbio Ecol. 75: 430-445.

Pan, Y., Frenzel, P., Hestnes, AG., Krause, S., Lüke, C., Meima-Franke, M., Siljanen, H., Svenning, M.M., Bodelier, P.L.E. (2010). Impacts of Inter- and Intralaboratory Variations on the Reproducibility of Microbial Community Analyses. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76: 7451-7458.

Krause, S., Lüke, C., and Frenzel, P. (2010). Succession of methanotrophs in oxygen-methane counter-gradients of flooded rice paddies. ISME J. 4:1603–1607.

Lüke, C., Krause, S., and Frenzel, P. (2009). Biogeography of wetland rice methanotrophs. Environ. Microbiol. 12: 862 - 872.

Krause, S., Lüke, C., and Frenzel, P. (2009). Spatial heterogeneity of methanotrophs: a geostatistical analysis of pmoA-based T-RFLP patterns in a paddy soil. Environ. Micobiol. Rep. 1: 393-397.

Gröning J., Krause S., Hochkirch A. (2007). Habitat preferences of an endangered insect species, Cepero's Ground-hopper, Tetrix ceperoi. Ecol. Res. 22 (5): 767-773.

Hochkirch A., Gröning J., Krause S. (2007). Intersexual niche segregation in Cepero's Ground-hopper, Tetrix ceperoi. Evol. Ecol. 21: 727-738.

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