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Heribert Cypionka is affiliated with the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a notable focus on Ocean Engineering. Subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, and Environmental Engineering, demonstrating an interdisciplinary approach to scientific inquiry.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Offshore Engineering and Technologies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Heribert Cypionka has contributed to a number of publications, with recent papers including:

  • "Heterozygous, Polyploid, Giant Bacterium, Achromatium, Possesses an Identical Functional Inventory Worldwide across Drastically Different Ecosystems," 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "Heterozygous, polyploid, giant bacterium, Achromatium, possesses an identical functional inventory worldwide across drastically different ecosystems," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Recording and Simulating Proton-Related Metabolism in Bacterial Cell Suspensions," 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "ODP Leg 201, Hole 1230A - Well Logging Data," 2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "ODP Leg 201, Hole 1229A - Well Logging Data," 2021, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Bo Barker Jørgensen
  • Steven D'Hondt
  • D.J. Miller
  • Juana Luz Solis Acosta
  • Ivano W. Aiello

Heribert Cypionka's publications appear predominantly in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Distributions of Microbial Activities in Deep Subseafloor Sediments

    Steven D'Hondt;Bo Barker Jørgensen;D. Jay Miller;Anja Batzke

  • Life at the oxic-anoxic interface: microbial activities and adaptations.

    Andreas Brune;Peter Frenzel;Heribert Cypionka

  • Oxygen respiration by desulfovibrio species.

    Heribert Cypionka

  • An extremely low‐light adapted phototrophic sulfur bacterium from the Black Sea

    Jörg Overmann;Heribert Cypionka;Norbert Pfennig

  • Oxidation of H2, organic compounds and inorganic sulfur compounds coupled to reduction of O2 or nitrate by sulfate-reducing bacteria

    Simone Dannenberg;Michael Kroder;Waltraud Dilling;Heribert Cypionka

  • Cyclic AMP and acyl homoserine lactones increase the cultivation efficiency of heterotrophic bacteria from the central Baltic Sea.

    Alke Bruns;Heribert Cypionka;Jörg Overmann

  • The complete genome sequence of the algal symbiont Dinoroseobacter shibae: a hitchhiker's guide to life in the sea

    Irene Wagner-Döbler;Britta Ballhausen;Martine Berger;Thorsten Brinkhoff

  • A novel type of energy metabolism involving fermentation of inorganic sulphur compounds

    Friedhelm Bak;Heribert Cypionka

  • Survival of sulfate-reducing bacteria after oxygen stress, and growth in sulfate-free oxygen-sulfide gradients

    Heribert Cypionka;Friedrich Widdel;Norbert Pfennig

  • Microbial Diversity in Coastal Subsurface Sediments: a Cultivation Approach Using Various Electron Acceptors and Substrate Gradients

    Beate Köpke;Reinhard Wilms;Bert Engelen;Heribert Cypionka

  • Influence of oxygen on sulfate reduction and growth of sulfate-reducing bacteria

    Christoph Marschall;Peter Frenzel;Heribert Cypionka

  • Growth with hydrogen, and further physiological characteristics of Desulfotomaculum species

    Robert Klemps;Heribert Cypionka;Friedrich Widdel;Norbert Pfennig

  • Phospholipid analysis as a tool to study complex microbial communities in marine sediments

    Heike Rütters;Henrik Sass;Heribert Cypionka;Jürgen Rullkötter

  • Specific bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic communities in tidal-flat sediments along a vertical profile of several meters.

    Reinhard Wilms;Henrik Sass;Beate Köpke;Jürgen Köster

  • Microbial Communities in the Chemocline of a Hypersaline Deep-Sea Basin (Urania Basin, Mediterranean Sea)

    Andrea M. Sass;Henrik Sass;Marco J. L. Coolen;Heribert Cypionka

  • Vertical distribution of sulfate-reducing bacteria at the oxic-anoxic interface in sediments of the oligotrophic Lake Stechlin

    Henrik Sass;Heribert Cypionka;Hans-Dietrich Babenzien

  • Ongoing modification of Mediterranean Pleistocene sapropels mediated by prokaryotes.

    Marco J. L. Coolen;Heribert Cypionka;Andrea M. Sass;Henrik Sass

  • Methane and sulfate profiles within the subsurface of a tidal flat are reflected by the distribution of sulfate-reducing bacteria and methanogenic archaea

    Reinhard Wilms;Henrik Sass;Beate Köpke;Heribert Cypionka

  • Sulfate formation via ATP sulfurylase in thiosulfate- and sulfite-disproportionating bacteria

    Michael Krämer;Heribert Cypionka

  • Growth yields of Desulfotomaculum orientis with hydrogen in chemostat culture

    Heribert Cypionka;Norbert Pfennig

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert Engelen
Bert Engelen Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Jörg Overmann
Jörg Overmann Leibniz Association
Jürgen Rullkötter
Jürgen Rullkötter Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Michael E. Böttcher
Michael E. Böttcher Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Norbert Pfennig
Norbert Pfennig University of Konstanz
Irene Wagner-Döbler
Irene Wagner-Döbler Technische Universität Braunschweig
Helge Niemann
Helge Niemann Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Thorsten Brinkhoff
Thorsten Brinkhoff Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Andreas P Teske
Andreas P Teske University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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